NVIDIA officially said that today, 75% of players are still using GTX GPUs, and in the case of many current AAA games with increasing performance requirements for graphics cards and a large number of applications of ray tracing in games, entry-level graphics cards need more powerful performance to drive a smooth gaming experience. With the entry-level 3050 series having the "RTX" prefix, the NVIDIA GEFORCE 3000 series graphics card has achieved the small goal of full light chase, and it is precisely because of this that the RTX 3050 has become a popular graphics card for players recently.
As the main model in the Gigabyte graphics series, the appearance of the GIGABYTE GEFORCE RTX 3050 Magic Eagle continues the family design of the Magic Eagle series: the low-key and simple light gray color scheme, sharp groove lines, through-brushed texture embellishment, and the Gigabyte logo with a brushed texture on the fan, the familiar design can make people recognize at a glance that this is Gigabyte's Magic Eagle series graphics cards. The graphics card is designed for three fans, with dimensions of 282mm x 117mm x 41mm, after a lightweight design, the weight and size of the graphics card are relatively light and compact in the three-fan graphics card, and the compatibility for different chassis is also wider.
Gigabyte's GEFORCE RTX 3050 Magic Eagle is equipped with three 80mm blade-edged fans with deflector grooves and air ducts on the fan blades for higher air intake. The fan uses positive reverse rotation, which can reduce the turbulent flow between adjacent fans, so that all three fans can obtain uniform wind pressure. The high-strength integrated metal backplane also adopts a large-area skeletonized design at the tail end, which is designed to enable the air duct to run directly through the radiator, and the air sucked in by the fan directly passes through the fins and is quickly discharged to the outside of the graphics card.
The side of the graphics card is equipped with a GIGABYTE RGB Logo, which supports RGB Fusion 2.0 light synchronization, and is equipped with an 8 Pin external power supply interface next to it, which is powered by PCIe to effectively meet the performance release requirements of the RTX 3050.
The external power supply interface is also equipped with a power supply DEBUG indicator, when the 8Pin power supply line is not inserted, the indicator light will always turn on white (indicating abnormality), when the 8Pin power supply line is plugged in, the indicator light is not lit (indicating normal), if the 8Pin power supply line is plugged in, the indicator light also flashes white light (indicating that the power supply is unstable).
After the performance test, we disassembled the graphics card, the RTX 3050 continues to use the same PCB of the RTX 3060, like the RTX 3050, which has a large shipment of entry cards, and the use of existing PCBs can improve production efficiency and facilitate a large number of stockpiles, so this can also explain why the RTX 3050 does not directly use the full-blood GA107 core.
After a series of tests, the performance of the RTX 3050 can be summed up to exceed the performance level of the previous generation of dessert card GTX 1660 SUPER, and it is also the first time that hardware-level ray tracing and DLSS technology support has been added to the entry-level graphics card, which is not so much the successor of GTX 1650, but rather to make up for the regret that the GTX 16 series can only be software to chase the scenery, and now beginner users can finally experience a smooth light chasing game.