I. Introduction
Recently, the price of graphics cards on the market has continued to fall, and many models that were previously high are now a bit of a touch. For the average player, waiting will definitely have a more suitable price, but for the player who just needs it, many times it is still necessary to start.
As the most entry-level model of the 30 series N card, the RTX3050 is still a good choice for many players who do not want to buy second-hand cards, after all, it has 8GB of video memory and supports light chase and Popeye. Of course, those high-priced non-public models, if the budget is sufficient, can be considered, the average user will try to consider this kind of pricing more appropriate models, such as Sotecet's RTX3050 X-Gaming OC.
Compared with some old cards, perhaps the RTX3050 does not have too obvious pure performance improvements, but it supports light chasing and Popeye, and the game can provide better picture quality and higher frame rates; in addition, in terms of productivity, due to its use of the latest architecture, its performance in AI, video editing, live broadcasting and so on is still very good.
Second, sotectide RTX3050 X-GAMING OC graphics card out of the box
▼ The packaging of the graphics card is still a familiar carton, and the side is familiar with Sotec yellow.
▼ The design of the front of the package is very interesting, a corridor with a purple color and a blue-green color, and the lower part is the model of the graphics card.
▼ The back of the package introduces the detailed parameters of the graphics card, power supply, heat dissipation, lighting effects and the like.
▼ Open the carton, the graphics card is placed in the antistatic bag, the outside is a complete foam wrapping, good protection.
▼ In addition to the graphics card, there is also a manual.
Third, sotecté RTX3050 X-GAMING OC graphics card appearance
▼ The appearance of the graphics card is very beautiful, the color of the fan cover on the front of the graphics card is very designed, and the colors such as green, pink, and light green are directly mixed together, which looks very beautiful.
▼ There are three cooling fans for the graphics card, 9 fan blades, and the angle of the fan blade is not large.
▼However, the three fans on the front of the graphics card are exactly the same, and there is no change in height and position.
▼ The tail of the graphics card fan cover, slightly wrapped design, there are three heat pipes at the tail of the heat dissipation fin, and the heat pipe has a nickel plating treatment.
▼ There is a metal backplane on the back of the graphics card, and the metal backplane is a half-pack design that covers the PCB part of the graphics card.
▼The heat dissipation fin at the tail of the graphics card is hollowed out, and the fan at the tail can directly blow through the heat dissipation fin to improve the heat dissipation efficiency.
▼ The top of the graphics card has the LOGO of Sotec in the middle.
▼ Look closely on the left side, the heat dissipation fins take care of the power supply part of the graphics card.
▼There is a single 8Pin auxiliary power supply interface on the right side, and the Sotime LOGO part in the middle has a light effect design.
▼The base of the heat dissipation module adopts a copper bottom design, and there is a thermal conductive pad around it, which takes care of the memory part.
▼ At the bottom of the graphics card, you can clearly see the two-stage heat dissipation fin.
▼The heat dissipation module of the graphics card is connected to the metal PCIe bezel through the metal parts to optimize the force of the graphics card and try to avoid bending the force of the graphics card PCB.
▼ Four video output interfaces at the tail of the graphics card, three DP interfaces, and one HDMI.
Fourth, Sotectide RTX3050 X-GAMING OC graphics card installed
▼ The installation of the graphics card is still very simple, mushroom here with a 12700K processor to test it.
▼ The video card defaults to horizontal installation, the weight of the RTX3050 graphics card of Sotai is not too exaggerated, and there is no problem with horizontal installation. However, if conditions permit, it will be more reasonable to install it with the graphics card bracket.
▼The color of the thermal module of the graphics card is very fresh, which is very conspicuous inside the chassis.
▼ Boot, light up at once, the whole machine effect is good.
▼ The SOTED LOGO part on the side of the graphics card has a light effect design, which supports RGB lighting effects, which can be controlled synchronously by software.
▼ Look closely, the lighting effect of the SOTEI LOGO part is OK, and the Sotai letter part in the middle has a milky white soft light design.
▼The three cooling fans on the front of the graphics card support low load stop rotation, which can effectively reduce standby noise in the case of daily standby.
▼ The appearance of the metal back panel and the fan cover of the graphics card is the same, and the overall appearance of the past is still very ok.
▼ The memory is used by Jinbaida's 16G DDR5 4800MHz bare stripe, the cost performance of this set of memory is still very high, and it belongs to the DDR5 memory that is more suitable for starting at a price.
▼ This set of memory of Jinbaida is a naked strip design, and the back is affixed with the label of Jinbaida, which has parameters such as voltage, frequency, and capacity of the memory.
▼ Although the appearance of the naked memory looks very ordinary, the compatibility performance of the daily installation is very good, and it is easy to install 4 pieces of memory, and the height has no impact.
▼ Jinbaida this set of memory, single-sided particle design, memory particles are all on the PCB near the side of the processor.
▼ Heat dissipation part, the mushroom uses MSI's God of War S360 integrated water cooling, this water-cooled cold head has a liquid crystal screen at the top, which can display parameters, text, pictures, time and weather, and the display content is very rich.
▼ MSI this God of War S360 water-cooled main mute, cold exhaust fans are the main mute design, all black no light effect. In the default silent mode, the cold exhaust fan supports full shutdown, further reducing standby noise.
▼ The motherboard is MSI's Z690 dark CARBON motherboard, the front of the motherboard is covered with a large area of metal heatsink, and in the IO trim part, there is MSI's Dragon Shield LOGO, which supports ARGB lighting effects and good looks.
▼MSI Z690 Dark CARBON is equipped with 5 M2 interfaces as standard, and all are covered with metal heat sinks to ensure stable operation of solid state.
▼ The power supply adopts MPG A1000G power supply of MSI, the face value of the side of the power supply is very beautiful, the surface of the silver aluminum alloy sheet is sandblasted, and the English LOGO of MSI is printed. The black aluminum alloy sheet is brushed and printed with MSI's Dragon Shield LOGO.
▼In the details, this power supply is equipped with three single 8Pin graphics card auxiliary power supply lines, which can easily meet the independent power supply needs of high-power graphics cards. In addition, the graphics card auxiliary power supply line designed by a single 8Pin can also effectively reduce the single-line load, and when the graphics card is highly loaded, the power supply line runs more stable.
▼ In addition to the power socket and switch at the end of the graphics card, there is also a ZeroFan button, which can stop the cooling fan under the condition of low load of the power supply, further reducing the standby noise of the power supply, which is praised.
▼The chassis is Antick's DF800 Flux, and the appearance and duct performance of this chassis are very good.
▼ The left side of the chassis is a metal punching mesh, the surface has a complex facet design, the shape is beautiful at the same time, but also can effectively ensure the air intake inside the chassis. The right part is a decorative design, mirror ARGB lighting effect, and an ANTITEC logo in the middle.
▼ There are also two chassis fan positions in the upper part of the chassis's power supply compartment, which are specifically responsible for taking care of the heat dissipation of the graphics card part, and the graphics card with some standby shutdown graphics card cooling fan will have a very good standby temperature.
V. Sotectez RTX3050 X-GAMING OC Graphics Card Review
▼ A simple look at the whole machine configuration, the processor is 12700K, the motherboard is MSI's Z690 Dark CARBON, and the graphics card is Sotax's RTX3050 X-Gaming OC.
▼ Simple run a test, the whole machine score of 170W, of which the processor 86.5W, graphics card 29.3W, the performance is good.
▼ A simple look at the hardware parameters, the core is GA106, the process process is 8nm, the stream processor is 2560, the memory is 8G, and the GDDR6 particles of magnesium light are visible.
▼ In daily standby, the core temperature of the graphics card is about 31.8 ° C, which is still quite low. During daily standby, the graphics card fan stops. In addition, the video card's cooling fans are three in a group and rotate together.
▼ A simple look at the BIOS of the graphics card, the default power consumption is 130W, and the maximum power consumption is 143W.
▼ Simple to run a load, the core frequency of the graphics card Turbo frequency 1957MHz.
▼ After stabilization, the core frequency of the graphics card is at 1965MHz, the core temperature is 54.6 ° C, and the graphics card fan does not turn, which is embarrassing. Sotech's heat dissipation module is still very sufficient for the RTX3050 core.
▼ 3Dmark theoretical performance test, RTX3050 performance and GTX1660 Super are basically in the same horizontal line, but the light tracking level is similar to RTX2060. This performance performance, placed at a price level of about 3000, may not be enough to see, but if it is in the price range of less than 2000, it is still worth buying.
▼ 3Dmark stress test, TS mode, frame rate stability rate of 99.4%, very stable.
▼ The core temperature of the graphics card is about 65 ° C, and the overall heat dissipation performance is not bad.
▼ Game actual measurement, LOL Smash Bros. mode, 2K resolution, full extremely high image quality, anti-aliasing, the frame number of spring water is about 661 frames, very smooth.
▼ In the case of daily team battles, the game frame number is about 253 frames, which is still very smooth.
▼ Overwatch, 2K resolution, full extreme high quality, team battle situation, game frame number of about 90 frames, relatively smooth.
▼ In the case of daily shopping, the game frame rate will be higher, about 108 frames.
▼ Eat chicken, 2K resolution high quality, outdoor game frames in about 76 frames, ok.
▼ The indoor game frame number is about 71 frames, if you want to play, you still need to reduce the special effects appropriately, and stabilize the game frame number to more than 100 frames.
▼ Tomb Raider test, 2K resolution, high image quality, the first test scene game frame number is about 167 frames.
▼ In the second test scene, the game frame rate is about 109 frames, which is still quite smooth.
▼ In the third test scene, the game frame rate is about 117 frames, which is quite smooth overall.
▼ The overall evaluation frame number is about 117 frames, and the game can be played with high image quality and 2K resolution.
▼ All sentient beings equal odyssey, 2K resolution, full extreme high quality, low volume cloud opening, corridor game frame number of about 68 frames, ok.
▼ The number of outdoor game frames is about 52 frames, which is barely smooth.
▼ The average frame of the overall game is about 55 frames, and you can still play it at a very high quality. If you want a higher frame rate, you can reduce the image quality appropriately.
▼ Cyberpunk 2077, 2K resolution, light chasing low effects.
▼ Popeye DLSS is set to Performance, the rest of the settings remain default.
▼ The indoor game frame number is about 48 frames, which is OK.
▼ The number of outdoor game frames is about 54 frames, and the overall ok. In addition, the game screen effect of light chase is very good, and the reflection of the waterhole is very clear.
▼ In the end, the overall average game frame number is about 51 frames, which is barely smooth and not bad.
6. Summary
Sotai this RTX3050 X-GAMING OC graphics card as a whole is still very good, the price is not exaggerated, it is one of the cheapest, the appearance of the appearance, Sotec's X-Gaming series graphics card has always been very good-looking, metal backplane also has. The heat dissipation module adopts three fans and heat pipes, which support low load stop rotation, and daily use is still very good.
In addition, the power consumption of sotecet's RTX3050 graphics card is not high, about 130W, especially suitable for some old users to upgrade, basically do not need to replace the power supply, you can easily cope with the power supply needs of this graphics card.
In terms of performance, it is basically at the same level as the GTX1660 Super, but it supports light chasing, supports Popeye DLSS, and supports some of Nvidia's latest productivity features, which is completely absent for some old cards. Light tracking and DLSS can effectively improve game picture quality and frame count, and 8GB of video memory can easily cope with the performance requirements of some productivity software.
Of course, if the price can be lowered a little, it may be more appropriate.
Thank you!
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