EVGA GeForce RTX 3050 XC GAMING
The Ultimate Play
The GeForce RTX 3050 is a 50-class graphics card that delivers 60+ FPS ray tracing gaming experience at a budget-friendly price. It's powered by NVIDIA Ampere architecture, and comes with a suite of exclusive innovations for optimized performance in live streaming, content creation, and more.
This EVGA XC GAMING model supports 1845 MHz Boost Clock (1780 MHz for reference card), is cooled by dual quiet, efficient fans, and protected by a metal backplate. All these are carefully packaged in a short, two-slot form factor for maximum compatibility with all types of gaming cases.
Air-through PCB
Carefully placed cut-outs in the PCB and backplate improve airflow and decrease exhaust recovery.
Take control
EVGA Precision X1 gives you full control over your fans, overclocking, and monitoring.
Pros: Every game on Max Ultra settings 1920x1080p and I'm still getting around 45 FPS + and around a low of 25fps (barely noticeable). The RTX showcases some amazing lighting capabilities in this card, even for such a small package, this thing is putting out some phenomenal next gen graphics. It can keep up with my 3060 Ti and 980 Ti pretty easily. I'm surprised at how efficient this card is, sometimes only drawing 60 watts under load in a 1080p game. Max draw I've seen was around 140 watts.
Cons: - no RGB or LED lights.
Overall Review: Make sure you leave the NVIDIA control panel, 3d Settings, power management mode to "Normal" and don't run this card on "Prefer maximum performance" or you will have immediate performance issues with the 511.79 drivers.