After being inserted by the GTX 16 series, probably because the light chasing performance test was not passed, the RTX 2050 was directly canceled and forced to withdraw from the Turing architecture of the light chasing camp. After disappearing an entire series, the "50" series is back, and as the goalkeeper between the entry and mid-range graphics cards, the RTX 3050 has come back with light.
More than half a month has passed since the official release of the RTX 3050 graphics card, and today the RTX 3050 performance is officially unblocked, and we can finally get a glimpse of the real strength of the new goalkeeper RTX 3050.
Many players may expect the RTX 3050 to leapfrog the RTX 2060, after all, the graphics card performance of the RTX 30 series that has been released is excellent: the RTX 3060 leapfrog challenge RTX 2070, RTX 3090 is twice the performance of the RTX 2080. So can the RTX 3050 leapfrog the RTX 2060? The answer is revealed below.
First, the test platform
The graphics card tested this time uses the three-fan Sotech RTX 3050 X-GAMING OC overclocking version, in order to more intuitively compare the performance positioning of the RTX 3050 graphics card, the comparison tested graphics cards RTX 3060, RTX 2060, GTX 1660 and GTX 1060 have also been added.
Without much nonsense, we officially entered the testing session and revealed the performance answers of the RTX 3050.
2. 3DMARK theoretical performance test
In terms of theoretical performance tests, there is a 43% difference between the RTX 3050 and RTX 3060, which is 22% different from the RTX 2060 and 11% stronger than the GTX 1660. Although the theoretical game performance test is not very ideal for the RTX 3050, but - in advance to preview the later game real test - RTX 3050 will stage a counter-kill, please do not walk away.
Because the RTX 3050 is positioned as an entry-level graphics card, this game test is conducted at a high resolution of 1080P resolution, and higher 2K and 4K resolutions are not necessary to test.
Third, non-light chasing game test
Without turning on light chase and DLSS, the RTX 3050 performs much better than the theoretical test, and the RTX 3050 can play all kinds of AAA game masterpieces at 1080P and high quality with a smooth frame rate of more than 60 frames, not to mention e-sports and online games.
Compared with the overall performance, the difference between the RTX 3050 and the RTX 3060 is 33%, the gap between the RTX 2060 and the RTX 2060 is reduced to 13%, and the gap between the GTX 1660 is not too wide.
Fourth, light chase + DLSS game test
Also performed at 1080P resolution and high image quality, the test results are as follows:
In the 4 games tested, after turning on light chase and DLSS, the RTX 3050 performed a bit of a Jedi counterattack, of course, the counterattack object is RTX 2060. The gap between the RTX 3050 and RTX 2060 narrowed to around 4%. Of course, compared with the big brother RTX 3060, which is also an ampere architecture, the performance gap is still around 30%. GTX 1660 itself does not support hardware light tracking, so after forcibly turning on light chase, the results are not so good, and the comparison is meaningless.
Fifth, comprehensive game performance comparison
Comprehensive game testing, the following comprehensive game performance comparison chart is given:
RTX 3050 actual comprehensive game performance compared to RTX 3060 difference of 31%, compared to RTX 2060 difference of about 8%, GTX 1660 and GTX 1060 do not support light tracking, so there is no need to compare comprehensive game performance.
Sixth, the graphics card temperature test
The oven is more than 30 minutes, and the heat dissipation performance is as follows:
This level of graphics chip heat and high-end graphics card compared to the much smaller, in the three fans of the blessing, the test of the RTX 3050 X-GAMING OC graphics card oven temperature is only 60 ° C, even in the heat dissipation conditions are not good enough in the mini chassis, the temperature will not be too high, want to use RTX 3050 graphics card to install a mini portable ITX chassis players, do not worry about the heat dissipation of the graphics card.
7. Summary
After 1, 50 disappeared a generation, players are still looking forward to the return of the RTX 3050, because this is the cheapest light chasing RTX series graphics card.
2, RTX 3050 as the entry to the high-end graphics card of the goalkeeper, basically to meet the players in 1080P resolution to experience the light chasing 3A game, but also can play the online game e-sports just needs, after all, the most active graphics card or GTX 1060, perhaps RTX 3050 in the future can become a replacement for GTX 1060, opening a real era of light chasing.
3, in view of the performance of the RTX 30 series is relatively excellent, players expect RTX 3050 to be able to cross the level of RTX 2060, but in fact, Lao Huang did not meet the players' wishes, somewhat regrettably.
4, the addition of RTX 3050, so that many players with a budget of about 5,000 yuan can form a PC host that can play light chasing games, which is also a blessing for players.