Zotac Gaming GeForce RTX 3050 Twin Edge OC GDDR6 Graphics Card

Zotac Gaming GeForce RTX 3050 Twin Edge OC GDDR6 Graphics Card

Get Amplified With The GeForce RTX 3050 Twin Series Based On The NVIDIA Ampere Architecture. Built With Enhanced RT Cores And Tensor Cores, New Streaming Multiprocessors, And High-Speed GDDR6 Memory, The ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3050 Twin Edge Gives Rise To Amplified Gaming.

NVIDIA AMPERE ARCHITECTURE

• 2ND GENERATION RT CORES – 2X Throughput
• 3rd GENERATION TENSOR CORES – Up To 2X Throughput
• NEW SM – 2X FP32 Throughput

RAY TRACING

Ray Tracing Is The Holy Grail Of Gaming Graphics, Simulating The Physical Behavior Of Light To Bring Real-Time, Cinematic-Quality Rendering To Even The Most Visually Intense Games.

MAX FPS. MAX QUALITY. POWERED BY AI.

NVIDIA DLSS Is Groundbreaking AI Rendering That Boosts Frame Rates With Uncompromising 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. The AI Revolution Has Arrived To Gaming.

11-BLADE FAN

GeForce RTX 3050 Twin All-New 11-Blade Fan Increases Airflow By Up To 10% (When Compared To The Previous Generation Design)

ACTIVE FAN CONTROL

Let Users Have More Control Over The Fans When Using The ZOTAC GAMING FireStorm Software. Adjust Fan Rotations Independently And Apply Increased Airflow Only To Where And When It’s Needed.

FREEZE FAN STOP

Automatically Enables Efficient And Quieter Cooling By Stopping The Fans When The GPU Is Idle, Whilst Reducing Wear And Tear On The Fan System.

WIDE ARRAY ALUMINIUM HEATSINK

Wide Aluminum Fin-Stack Array Heatsink Paired With Copper Heat Pipes Extract More Heat And Distribute It More Efficiently.

NEW & IMPROVED HEAT PIPE LAYOUT

A New And Improved Heat Pipe Layout Increases Direct GPU Contact In A More Densely Packed Space.

MORE RESILIENT

GeForce RTX 3050 Twin Design Underlines Durability With A Metal Backplate To Increase The Overall Card Rigidity.

TAKE CONTROL

With A Simple And Intuitive Minimal Interface, The ZOTAC GAMING FireStorm Utility Provides Simple Tools To Transform Fine-Tuning Your GPU Into A Simple Task. Monitor Your GPU, Control The Fan Speed, And Many More Options.

Zotac Gaming GeForce RTX 3050 Twin Edge OC GDDR6 Review

The GeForce RTX 3050 Twin Edge OC in today’s review is a mid-range graphics card for 1080p Full HD gaming. It is based on the recently announced RTX 3050 “Ampere.” This particular card builds on Zotac’s philosophy of simple, functional designs and targets those who simply want to plug and play a GeForce RTX 3050 and don’t really care about RGB or other frills. The RTX 3050 was announced at the 2022 International CES, as the most affordable (in relative terms) of the current generation of graphics cards from NVIDIA with all the features and technologies NVIDIA brings to the table, including support for ray tracing. It has no real predecessor as NVIDIA was selling the GTX 16-series below the RTX 2060—the closest parallel we could draw to this card is the GTX 1660 Super.

The GeForce RTX 3050 Twin shares its underlying silicon with the RTX 3060, the 8 nm GA106 graphics processor. While the latter almost maxes it out, theGeForce RTX 3050 Twin only enables two-thirds of the SMs (streaming multiprocessors) on the silicon, resulting in 2,560 out of 3,840 CUDA cores. What’s more, the RTX 3050 comes with 8 GB of GDDR6 memory across a 128-bit wide memory interface, even as the GA106 is capable of 192-bit. The memory chips are slower, too, running at 14 Gbps compared to 15 Gbps for the RTX 3060. Yet another interesting difference between the two cards is the PCI-Express bus width. The RTX 3050 uses the PCI-Express 4.0 x8 host interface, even as the RTX 3060 has the full x16 interface. Gen 4 x8 seems like plenty of bandwidth for a graphics card of this class. Even when it falls back to Gen 3 on older platform is the bus no wider than x8.

Another interesting fact about the RTX 3050 is that its specifications fit within what the smaller GA107 silicon offers (up to 3,072 CUDA cores, 128-bit memory bus), and a few RTX 3050 cards are in fact based on the smaller chip, albeit with slightly lower board power. The Zotac Twin Edge OC card in this review is based on the GA106 (we checked), but it’s possible that some cards from Zotac and others could be based on the GA107. We don’t expect any performance difference between the two since the SKU-level hardware specifications are the same.

The Zotac Gaming GeForce RTX 3050 Twin Edge OC GDDR6 Graphics Card has 2 Years of Warranty.