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Unboxing Review: Gigabyte’s GeForce RTX 3050 OC Low Profile 6G Graphics Card – Affordable Performance and Quality

Want to add or upgrade a standalone graphics card to your desktop computer without the powerful graphics performance of mid- to high-end graphics cards? Are you looking for specs with low power consumption and low noise? Come! In this article, you will find an unboxing review of the GeForce RTX 3050 OC Low Profile 6G graphics card launched by GIGABYTE Technology. It can be purchased for less than NT$6,000, but has comprehensive features and impressive performance. It is said to be a great solution. value!

Gigabyte’s GeForce RTX 3050 OC Low Profile 6G graphics card is a small but well-packaged graphics card. It supports NVIDIA’s second-generation RTX Ampere architecture and uses professional RT cores, AI Tensor cores, and fast GDDR6 graphics memory. It has excellent ray tracing. drawing technology and advanced DLSS artificial intelligence functions! Therefore, it can be said to meet the needs of PC gamers and many people for image editing, basic 3D rendering and CAD/CAM.

The length of the graphics card is only 18.1cm and the height is only 6.9cm. With the included half-height graphics card holder (low profile), it can be installed in various slim computer cases, so It is very suitable for gamers who like small computers or PC MODs. They choose.

Although this graphics card is cheap, the materials used are unambiguous: it uses Gigabyte’s unique cooling system, which uses dual fans and high-efficiency copper heat pipes to directly contact the surface of the GPU, which can quickly drive the heat source towards the cooling fins We actually made it high During the load performance test, you can feel that the temperature of the graphics card is very “cool” because it also uses ULTRA DURABLE certified components, which can continue to provide stable performance.

Since this graphics card has 4-screen output specifications and is configured with 2 DisplayPort and 2 HDMI outputs, it will take up two Slot spaces. However, it can meet the needs of multi-screen applications, high definition and extreme gaming performance – it is a rare configuration for a product with a graphics card at this price!

product feature

  • New AmpereSM Architecture
  • Second generation RT core
  • Third generation TENSOR core
  • Using the GeForce RTX 3050 graphics chip
  • Built-in 6GB 96-bit GDDR6 memory
  • 181mm half-height card design
  • Supports up to 4 screen outputs simultaneously
  • Coreclock: 1477 MHz (reference card: 1470 MHz)
  • CUDA colors:2304
  • Memory clock: 14000 MHz
  • Memory capacity: 6GB
  • Memory Specifications: GDDR6
  • Bus: PCI-E 4.0
  • Maximum digital resolution: 7680×4320
  • DirectX Support: 12 Ultimate
  • OpenGL support: 4.6
  • Recommended power: 300W (no power interface required)

The appearance of the packaging is as above ~ plus the OC icon means players can take a look!

There are some product specifications and features on the back ~

Comes with low profile bracket

Nicely designed decorative cover and two cooling fans~

The fan part is 45mm in diameter, so you won’t hear too much wind noise when working at high speed~

There are “big and spicy” words GIGABYE and GeForce RTX on the top of the graphics card ~ and you can also see a large area of ​​​​radiating fins ~

You can see two copper heat pipes extending from the side~

You can also directly see the internal heat dissipation fins at the bottom, as well as GPU-related heat conductors generating high heat~

I also took a photo of the back panel for everyone to see~

Looking at the densely packed electronic parts, they are basically full of materials. Gigabyte uses ultra-low resistance transistors to shorten the power switching time, complete charging and discharging actions more quickly, and relatively reduce heat generation.

High-quality ferrous salt core inductor reduces power loss and effectively reduces electromagnetic interference to improve system reliability. Compared with ordinary iron core inductors, ferrous salt core inductors can temporarily store more electrical energy! Ultra-low ESR solid capacitors can also ensure the operating quality of the graphics card, making it more stable and durable!

The display output part has 2 DisplayPort and 2 HDMI

Performance test:

Test the information on the platform

Processor: Intel Core i9-14900K
Motherboard: ROG MAXIMUS Z790 FORMULA
Memory: Crucial DDR5 Pro 6000 MT/s
Processor cooling system: ROG Strix water cooling system (360 mm)
Power supply: ASUS Strix 1000W
Operating system: WINDOWS 11 Professional Edition

Enter Device Manager and you can see the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 component name appears on the graphics card ~

GPU-Z information is provided for your reference. You can see that by using Hynix GDDR6 display memory, the GPU clock can be boosted up to 1477 MHz~

In the Speed ​​Way test the score reached 1091!

In Port Royal the score reached 2779 points

The score in Solar Bay reached 22436 points

Time Spy’s score has reached 5407 points!

In the Fire Strike benchmark test, the score reached 11,460 points!

How does 3D modeling work? Using the Mesh Shader test, the enabled feature was found to have 158.3 FPS and the difference was improved by 27.9%~

In the DLSS 2 test, 36.55 FPS was achieved with 4K resolution activated

On the bench in Final Fantasy XV. The score reaches 7300 and the performance is “High”; during testing, the game screen can also look very smooth, which means you can play FF ​​XV confidently with such specifications ~

How effective is such a platform system? We use the basic PCMARK10 test to tell you: what is the score? point!

GeekBench 6 also ran the scores for reference ~ Open CL score came in at 53218 ~

Summary of the user experience

Simply put, Gigabyte’s GeForce RTX 3050 OC Low Profile 6G is a small and powerful graphics card! Its performance can be said to be of very high C/P quality. If you don’t have many graphics-related performance requirements, but don’t want to succumb to the performance of the processor’s integrated graphics core and multi-screen output flexibility, then this graphics card is really fantastic!

In addition, it can also meet the needs of users with small computer cases, and they can purchase a graphics card with a lower budget. It can be said to be a great choice of “entry” desktop computer components to improve system performance !

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