Nvidia RTX 3050 Review ft. Gigabyte and Palit

Fire Strike is a showcase DirectX 11 benchmark for modern gaming PCs. Its ambitious real-time graphics are rendered with detail and complexity far beyond other DirectX 11 benchmarks and games. Fire Strike includes two graphics tests, a physics test and a combined test that stresses the CPU and GPU. (UL).

3DMark Time Spy is a DirectX 12 benchmark test for Windows 10 gaming PCs. Time Spy is one of the first DirectX 12 apps to be built the right way from the ground up to fully realize the performance gains that the new API offers. With its pure DirectX 12 engine, which supports new API features like asynchronous compute, explicit multi-adapter, and multi-threading, Time Spy is the ideal test for benchmarking the latest graphics cards. (UL).

Kicking off with our 3DMark testing, the RTX 3050 doesn't make the best of starts here. It's beaten by the GTX 1660 Super in Fire Strike and is only just ahead of the RX 580. Time Spy does look a bit better however, with the RTX 3050 now edging ahead of the GTX 1660 Super, but it's still well behind the RTX 2060.

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