Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3050 Gaming OC 8GB GDDR6 Graphics Card

Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3050 Gaming OC 8GB GDDR6 Graphics Card

The Gigabyte RTX 3050 Gaming OC 8GB Graphics Card comes with some special features. It comes with NVIDIA Ampere Streaming Multiprocessors, 2nd Generation RT Cores, 3rd Generation Tensor Cores, Powered by GeForce RTX 3050, Integrated with 8GB GDDR6 128 bit memory interface, WINDFORCE 3X Cooling System with alternate spinning fans, RGB Fusion 2.0, Protection metal backplate. The all-new NVIDIA Ampere architecture delivers the ultimate play, featuring advanced 2nd generation Ray Tracing Cores and 3rd generation Tensor Cores with greater throughput. Experience today’s biggest blockbusters like never before with the visual fidelity of real-time ray tracing and the ultimate performance of AI-powered DLSS. NVIDIA DLSS is groundbreaking AI rendering that boosts frame rates with uncompromised image quality using the dedicated AI processing Tensor Cores on GeForce RTX. This gives you the performance headroom to crank up settings and resolutions for an incredible visual experience. Gigabyte RTX 3050 Gaming OC AI revolution has come to gaming. NVIDIA Reflex delivers the ultimate competitive advantage. The lowest latency. Gigabyte RTX 3050 Gaming OC best responsiveness. Powered by GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs and NVIDIA® G-SYNC monitors. Acquire targets faster, react quicker, and increase aim precision through a revolutionary suite of technologies to measure and optimize system latency for competitive games.

Take your creative projects to a new level with GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs. Delivering AI-acceleration in top creative apps. Backed by the NVIDIA Studio platform of dedicated drivers and exclusive tools. And built to perform in record time. Whether you’re rendering complex 3D scenes, editing 8K video, or live streaming with the best encoding and image quality, GeForce RTX GPUs give you the performance to create your best. Steal the show with incredible graphics and smooth, stutter-free live streaming. Next-generation hardware encoding and decoding combine to show off all your best moments in exquisite detail. And the all-new NVIDIA Broadcast app gives you powerful AI capabilities to improve audio and video quality with effects like virtual background, webcam auto frame, and microphone noise removal. So you can give your audience your best—every time. Developers can now add even more amazing graphics effects to Microsoft Windows-based PC games. Gigabyte RTX 3050 Gaming OC  graphics cards deliver advanced DX12 features like ray tracing and variable-rate shading, bringing games to life with ultra-realistic visual effects and faster frame rates.Gigabyte RTX 3050 Gaming OC Graphics Card comes with 3 Years of warranty.

Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3050 Gaming OC 8GB GDDR6 Review

Gigabyte today released the Gigabyte RTX 3050 Gaming OC, its top custom-design graphics card powered by the RTX 3050 Ampere GPU, which NVIDIA is debuting today. The Gigabyte RTX 3050 Gaming OC is an entry-mainstream product for 1080p gaming with fairly high details, or with moderate details and ray tracing enabled, with DLSS to keep frame-rates high. For most others, the appeal is in it being the most affordable RTX 30-series card, meant for 1080p e-sports gaming. Gigabyte is giving the chip an elaborate cooler and a factory-overclock.

The Gigabyte RTX 3050 Gaming OC is based on the same 8 nm GA106 silicon as the RTX 3060, although heavily cut down. While the RTX 3060 features 28 out of 30 streaming multiprocessors (SM) present on the chip, the RTX 3050 only has 20 out of 30. This results in 2,560 CUDA cores, 20 RT cores, 80 Tensor cores, 80 TMUs, and 32 ROPs. Gigabyte RTX 3050 Gaming OC card features 8 GB of GDDR6 memory across a 128-bit wide memory bus, compared to 12 GB across 192-bit for the RTX 3060. The memory clock is lowered, too, at 14 Gbps vs. 15 Gbps, resulting in a memory bandwidth of 224 GB/s, as opposed to 360 GB/s on the RTX 3060.

A key piece of specification that sets the RTX 3050 apart from the RTX 3060 is the PCI-Express bus width of just 8 lanes, that’s PCI-Express 4.0 x8, compared to x16 on the RTX 3060 even though the GA106 is perfectly capable of x16, and all the custom-design boards we’re testing today reuse PCB designs from RTX 3060 products with PCB traces for all 16 lanes in place. NVIDIA offers this explanation: “Dropping to 8 PCIe lanes improves supply. It allows us to source a wider variety of chips for the life of the product.” In other words, NVIDIA is currently harvesting GA106 chips that didn’t make the cut for RTX 3060, but could in the future switch to the smaller GA107 silicon, which physically has 24 SMs (3,072 CUDA cores) and a 128-bit GDDR6 memory bus, along with a PCI-Express 4.0 x8 bus. This switch would come with no difference in performance.

Enthusiasts familiar with the mainstream Gigabyte graphics card range will instantly be at home when viewing the RTX 3050 model. Plying cooling by way of the Gaming OC sub-brand, design hallmarks include a triple-fan cooler, two-tone colour scheme, and strict dual-slot form factor.

From what we can gather, the cooler assembly is identical to the RTX 3060 model. This means dimensions of 282mm long, 117mm tall and 41mm thick.

Gaming OC has the central fan rotate clockwise whilst the outer pair go in the opposite direction, at the same rpm. The thinking behind this is to reduce turbulence that would normally arise at the edges of the middle fan if all three spun in the same direction.

There’s little reason for the card to be 11in long, but we don’t have a problem with that as there’s ample room in most mid-sized chassis.

First championed by premium Founders Edition cards from Nvidia, partners have taken small-sized PCBs and through-the-board cooling inspiration. Gigabyte calls this Screen Cooling, and it is in evidence on the left-hand side; the fan blows air through the heatsink and out of the rear. It can do this because the PCB finishes some way to the right.

Writing may look odd in this orientation but makes sense when the card is in a machine. Being a mid-pack RTX solution, Gaming OC eschews cost-adding extras such as dual BIOSes and all-round RGB lighting.

RGB, meanwhile, is present behind the Gigabyte logo and the small strip directly on top. It’s done well and projects a soft glow into the chassis. Configured by the company’s Fusion 2.0 software, endless lighting opportunities exist.

Being somewhat critical, aesthetics could be improved. The juxtaposition of copper heatpipes, grey-and-black shroud, and silver heatsink doesn’t work well to our eyes.

With a name like Gaming OC it is reasonable to expect a factory-applied overclock. This model takes the 1,777MHz boost speed of the reference GPU and increases to 1,822MHz. Real-world implications are more favourable because the sample card locks on to a 1,965MHz boost clock and doesn’t waver at all.

Very few add-in card partners dabble with out-the-box memory overclocking. The same is true of the Gaming OC, and the reason has to do with the inability to frequency-screen GDDR6 modules at the factory. No-one wants to increase the base 14Gbps speed and cause heightened RMAs.

RTX 3050 Gaming OC carries dual DisplayPort and a dual HDMI, which is a departure from the usual three DisplayPort and single HDMI we normally see on partner cards.

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