The Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3050 8GB GDDR6 Gaming OC is aimed at gamers who are looking for an affordable and reliable solution for gaming in Full HD resolution.
With the help of Nvidia's Ray Tracing and DLSS technology, the card offers realistic images and higher frame rates in games.
The card features 2560 CUDA cores and 8GB GDDR6 memory, making it suitable for gaming in Full HD resolution with high graphics settings.
Ampere Architecture
The GeForce RTX 3050 is based on NVIDIA's advanced "Ampere" architecture and features 2,560 CUDA Cores, 80 Tensor Cores, and 20 RT Cores, and is accompanied by 8GB of GDDR6 memory (128-bit memory interface).
The graphics card is ideal for endless hours of entertainment and fun. Play the latest game titles in 1440p resolutions with high-quality graphics and comfortably run content creation applications.
Ray Tracing
The ray tracing technology simulates the way light behaves in the real world to produce the most realistic and immersive graphics for gamers and creators. The GeForce RTX 30 series features 2nd generation RT cores for maximum performance.
The exclusive 2nd generation RT (ray-tracing) cores offer double the real-time ray tracing performance and use AI technologies like DLSS 2.0 to further enhance the gaming experience.
Nvidia DLSS 2.0
DLSS 2.0 works on Nvidia RTX cards and uses a new AI and machine learning model to upgrade game resolution. According to Nvidia, the new AI model in DLSS 2.0 is twice as fast as the one in the previous version.
Nvidia Broadcast
The NVIDIA Broadcast application transforms any room into a home studio, taking your live streams, voice chats, and video calls to the next level with powerful artificial intelligence effects such as noise and room sound removal, virtual backgrounds, and much more.
Nvidia Ansel
Nvidia Ansel is a powerful program that allows you to take professional-level photos from your games.
Now, you can share your most brilliant gaming experiences with high-resolution, 360-degree photos as well as HDR.
Nvidia Reflex
Nvidia Reflex offers the ultimate competitive advantage. The lowest latency. The best response. It is supported by the GeForce RTX 30 series and Nvidia G-SYNC gaming monitors.
Get targets faster, react more quickly, and increase aiming accuracy through a revolutionary suite of technologies for measuring and optimizing system latency for competitive gaming.
Game Ready Drivers
GeForce Game Ready drivers offer the best possible experience for your favorite games. They are finely tuned in collaboration with developers and extensively tested on thousands of hardware configurations for maximum performance and reliability.
Nvidia Studio
Creativity with AI
Take your creative projects to the next level with Nvidia Studio. With new specialized hardware, the RTX 30 series unlocks unparalleled performance in 3D rendering, video editing, and graphic design. Enjoy rich feature accelerations with RTX in top creative applications, world-class Nvidia Studio drivers designed to provide maximum stability, and a suite of exclusive tools that leverage the power of RTX for creative workflows with AI support.
Nvidia Encoder
Take center stage with incredible graphics and smooth high-quality live streaming, without any lag. GeForce RTX GPUs feature advanced streaming capabilities thanks to the NVIDIA encoder (NVENC), designed to provide stunning performance and image quality. Additionally, exclusive optimizations for your favorite live streaming applications give your audience the best experience every time.
Nvidia Omniverse
Connect your creative worlds with a universe of possibilities
Nvidia Omniverse acts as a hub for connecting existing 3D workflows, replacing linear pipelines with real-time collaboration, allowing you to create like never before and at speeds you've never experienced before.
GeForce Experience
Record and share videos, screen captures and live streams with your friends. Keep your drivers up to date and optimize your game settings. GeForce Experience allows you to do all of these things. It is the essential companion to your GeForce graphics card.
Nvidia G-SYNC
This technology synchronizes the computer's monitor refresh rate with the game's frame rate, eliminating tearing, stuttering, and other issues related to unsynchronized graphics performance.
To use G-Sync, a compatible monitor that supports the technology is required.
Resizable Bar
Nvidia's Resizable BAR is an advanced PCI Express feature that allows the CPU to access the entire GPU control panel simultaneously, improving performance in many games.
Windforce 3X Cooling System
The Windforce 3X cooling system features 3 unique 80mm fans with reverse rotation, 3 composite copper heat pipes in direct contact with the GPU, and an active 3D fan, which together provide high performance heat dissipation.
Alternate Rotation
Alternate rotation can reduce the turbulence of adjacent fans and increase air pressure.
Smooth Airflow
Gigabyte directs the adjacent fans in opposite directions, so that the direction of airflow between the two fans is the same, reducing turbulence and enhancing the pressure of the airflow.
Active 3D Fan
The active 3D fan provides semi-passive cooling and the fans remain inactive when the GPU is in low load or low power consumption gaming.
Unique fan with blades
The airflow is diffused from the triangular edge of the fan and smoothly guided through the curved three-dimensional stripes on the surface of the fan.
Graphene Nanolubricant
The graphene nanolubricant can extend the lifespan of the fan with bearings by 2.1 times, close to the lifespan of a double bearing, and is quieter.
Screen Cooling
The extended design of the cooler allows for the flow of air, providing better heat dissipation.
Direct Contact Heat Pipes
The shape of the heat pipe made of pure copper maximizes the area of direct contact with the GPU.
RGB Fusion 2.0
With 16.7 million customizable color options and numerous lighting effects, you can choose lighting effects or synchronize with other Aorus devices.
Metal backplate protection
The metal backplate not only provides an aesthetic shape, but also reinforces the structure of the graphics card to provide complete protection.
Power Indicator
When there is any abnormality in the power supply, the indicator will notify gamers with a flashing light.
Extreme durability and overclocking
The graphics card uses the best power phase design that allows MOSFETs to operate at lower temperatures, as well as a protection design against overheating and load balancing for each MOSFET, as well as certified chokes and Ultra Durable capacitors, to provide exceptional performance and longer system life.
User-friendly PCB design
The fully automated production process ensures top quality circuit boards and eliminates sharp protrusions of solder joints that are observed on the conventional surface of circuit boards. This user-friendly design prevents your hands from getting cut or accidentally damaging the components during your construction.
Aorus Engine
The innovative intuitive interface allows you to adjust clock speed, voltage, fan performance, and power target in real-time according to your game requirements.
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It may be one of the worst cards for the price. 3050 with 16 gigs of RAM and AMD 7 5800X3D GTA V high settings 56 average fps. For 380 euros, it's better to get an rx 7600 or rtx 3060. I even found a 3060 ti for about the same price. The only positive thing is the size.
Now, temperatures, 72C while playing GTA V and when you're not doing anything, it stays at 47. However, it's not worth it...
Bought in April 2022 for 380 euros, NO complaints. A very good graphics card for its price. It plays almost everything at 100+ fps in 1080p! Unfortunately, it's not for 4k gaming, but for 380 euros, I didn't expect anything more than 1440p. The ONLY issue is the noise, but everything else is perfect for its price.
Nvidia's BUGDET KING! A great graphics card for its price. It performs perfectly at 1080p (100+ fps). I also tested it at 1440p, where it averaged 85-90 fps. I give it four stars because unfortunately, it's not suitable for 4k gaming. If you're interested in 4k gaming, I suggest not getting it. It may also struggle with over 165hz at 1440p (depending on how demanding the game is). Overall, the rtx 3050 does not disappoint!
Bought in April 2022 for €380, this card is not worth the money in terms of its efficiency. It has good temperatures overall, although when working at full load, the fans sound like a helicopter. However, for a card that is only marginally better than the 1660 and doesn't fully utilize its 8GB, I would say it's worth buying for around €250.
I have had this specific card in my possession for a month now and I have already formed a clear opinion about this implementation of the 3050. Firstly, I should mention that I only use it for gaming with an i5-11400 and 2 modules of G.Skill RAM at 3600MHz. I have been very satisfied as even after hours of gaming (Forza Horizon 5) at high and extreme settings, while the card usage is at 100%, the temperatures do not exceed 65 degrees and the FPS is between 88-100. Overall, I am very satisfied; it is quiet even when the fans are running at 100%. For anyone considering the price, they could find another implementation of the 3050 from another company, but I would recommend this one because of the 3 fans it has. I bought it for 450 euros and would definitely buy it again, but I would also look at the 3060, which has better performance as it has 12GB of VRAM and is not much more expensive. In short, I highly recommend it.
Edit: I would like to inform miners that it has LHR from Nvidia. However, NiceHash claims to have bypassed LHR and I tried it and got around 23MH/s, which is quite low. I haven't figured out if I'm doing something wrong to bypass it, but I don't think it's worth it for mining. Unless in the future there are programs that can bypass it, but be careful because a while ago there was a program that turned out to be a virus. I hope I covered all gamers, miners, and editors.
"Very good graphics card but at the moment I believe you should wait a little longer for prices to drop because the card is worth around 300 euros instead of the 500 I paid for it."