While AMD targeted a sub-$200 price point (with its MSRP at least), the Radeon RX 6500 XT failed to impress. The big two GPU makers both came out of CES 2022 gunning for mainstream gamers with 1080p displays. The fans on the card do spin up after prolonged use, but you'd be hard pressed to hear this thing over any ambient noise, when installed in a PC.ĮVGA GeForce RTX 3050 XC Summary And Verdict Under idle conditions, the EVGA GeForce RTX 3050 XC Black is silent and under a sustained, full load the card remains very quiet. In terms of noise, there's nothing really to discuss. The GeForce GTX 1650 used the least amount of power overall, and while the RTX 3050 used more peak power, if you factor in the newer card's significantly higher performance it still ends up being more power efficient than the 1650. Idle power was actually the best of the best by a couple of watts and load power in this game was only marginally higher than the Radeon RX 6500 XT. The EVGA GeForce RTX 3050 XC Black proved to be a relatively power friendly card. Even while overclocked though, the card never hit its power limit and didn't even come close to the target temperature - this thing runs nice and cool. With the EVGA GeForce RTX 3050 XC Black, the power target can be increased by 13% and the temperature target from 83☌ to 90☌. In lieu of using the NVIDIA Scanner, we kept things simple and used the frequency and voltage offsets, and the power and temperature target sliders, available in EVGA's latest Precision X utility, to manually push the EVGA GeForce RTX 3050 XC Black beyond stock.įirst, we cranked up the temperature and power targets, then we increased the GPU and memory clock offsets until the test system was no longer stable, showed on-screen artifacts, or performance peaked due to hitting the power limit. But, you can also overclock manually, which is what we did here. NVIDIA offers an automatic overclocking scanner tool should users want to generate a specifically tailored frequency and voltage curve for their card. EVGA GeForce RTX 3050 XC Hardware Health Data Overclocked

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