Nvidia RTX 3050 Review ft. Gigabyte and Palit

We take our noise measurements with the sound meter positioned 1 foot from the graphics card. I measured the noise floor to be 32 dBA, thus anything above this level can be attributed to the graphics cards. The power supply is passive for the entire power output range we tested all graphics cards in, while all CPU and system fans were disabled. A reading under load comes from running Cyberpunk 2077 for 30 minutes.

The extra heatpipes seem to help the StormX OC run its single fan at a lower speed, too. We saw the fan hit 41%, or 1270rpm, where the Eagle ramped its fans up to 1910rpm (79%), resulting in slightly higher noise levels. Neither card is what I would describe as ‘loud', but the StormX OC is a couple of decibels quieter.

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