#Nvidia geforce now rtx upgrades you 1080p#

It was also only 8% slower than the RTX 2060, a decent result overall. That made it 18% faster than the 6500 XT using PCIe 4.0, and 30% faster when compared to the PCIe 3.0 configuration. Starting with Assassin's Creed Valhalla, using the medium quality preset at 1080p, we find that the RTX 3050 is good for 79 fps on average, so here it's basically a GTX 1660 Super.

#Nvidia geforce now rtx upgrades you 1080p#

We've spent the last few weeks updating our mid-range GPU results for the 6500 XT and RTX 3050 reviews, and much of the testing has been done using dialed down quality settings at 1080p and 1440p, appropriate for these segment of GPUs. Since we're testing GPU performance and wish to avoid introducing a CPU bottleneck which would skew the data, a high-end CPU works well for this purpose.Īlso, all benchmark data for this review is fresh. With that out of the way, let's talk test system specs and then jump into the benchmark results.įor testing we're using our Ryzen 9 5950X GPU test system. All the stuff you'd just expect on a modern graphics card, but don't get with the 6500 XT.Īlthough Nvidia has cut the PCIe bandwidth in half, which we never like to see on GPUs priced over $200, with 8GB of VRAM and x8 bandwidth, the PCIe 3.0 performance will be the same as 4.0 in today's games, meaning the RTX 3050 won't be crippled on PCIe 3.0 systems like the 6500 XT was. So although the RTX 3050 will be more costly, it is also a significantly better product on paper than the budget Radeon, packing 8GB of VRAM, PCIe x8 bandwidth, four display outputs, AV1 decoding, and an actual hardware encoding engine. Now, when compared to the Radeon RX 6500 XT, the MSRP of the RTX 3050 is 25% higher at $250, but of course, we expect that it will retail for more than that which we'll discuss in more details in our conclusion. Couple that with the smaller 128-bit wide memory bus and we end up with a 38% drop in bandwidth.Īn advantage of this however is a 24% drop in power use to just 130 watts, meaning a basic 550-watt power supply will be more than sufficient to power an RTX 3050 gaming system. Although the core boost frequency remains the same at 1,777 MHz, the memory speed has been slightly reduced from 15 Gbps to 14 Gbps. Case in point, the core configuration has been reduced from 3584 cores to just 2560, a near 30% reduction, but interestingly the same 48 ROPs remain. The RTX 3050 drops the MSRP from $330 to $250, so you can expect a significant part of the die to be disabled. Even though this release adds a new low-end Ampere offering to the lineup, it's based on the same GA106 silicon used by the RTX 3060. Today we're checking out Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3050, a new budget GPU addition to the RTX 30 series.