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Inno3D's RTX 3050 Twin X2 OC ships in a black packaging, with cyberpunk-themed box art visible on the front. On the back, various key features of the card are highlighted in multi-lingual text.
The card's shroud is made of a grey plastic, though it feels solid to the touch. The design isn't over the top but it's certainly more visually interesting than a plain slab of plastic – there's plenty of angles and ridges built into the shroud here.
We can also note two 90mm fans, each with 15 fan blades densely packed together.
The Twin X2 OC isn't a small card, measuring in at 240 x 120 x 40mm, but it's not a monster either. Still, smaller RTX 3050s are available – including both the Gigabyte Eagle and Palit StormX.
On the side of the shroud, we can find both the Inno3D and GeForce RTX logos, while a black metal backplate protects the rear of the PCB. There's plenty of cut-outs in the metal though, allowing direct airflow through the heatsink.
Power is supplied by a single 8-pin PCIe connector. Display outputs are also standard, with 3x DisplayPort 1.4 and 1x HDMI 2.1.
Looking now at the PCB, the first thing to note is just how small it is – it extends just as far as the PCIe retention clip, with the Twin X2 OC's cooler and backplate stretching another 10cm beyond the PCB itself.
Actual componentry is near enough identical to the two RTX 3050s we looked at on launch – we find a 4-phase VRM for the GPU and a single phase for the memory. 14Gbps memory modules from Micron are used, carrying the D9ZPM model code.
As for the heatsink design, Inno3D uses three finstacks, connected by two copper heatpipes. These make direct contact with the GPU die, while the memory modules contact with a baseplate. Inno3D claims the two heatpipes have a total length of 543mm, while the heatsink has a total surface area of 360477mm2.
