Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3050 Gaming OC

W1zzard · Jan 26, 2022

Gigabyte's GeForce RTX 3050 comes with a medium-sized overclock paired with a large triple-fan, dual-slot thermal solution that achieves good temperatures and lets some airflow through the card. Unlike many other RTX 3050s, Gigabyte includes a metal backplate with their card for added protection.

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usiname · Jan 26, 2022

The triple fan Gigabyte rtx 3050 is noisier and hotter than the single fan Palit one XD

Chaitanya · Jan 26, 2022

So a lot of unnecessary add ons for this card to bloat the price while performing worse than competing cards.

Selaya · Jan 26, 2022

i guess the fans, they're decorative here or something
~~:gigabyte:~~ :gagabytb:

Assimilator · Jan 26, 2022

Chaitanya said:
So a lot of unnecessary add ons for this card to bloat the price while performing worse than competing cards.

That's been the modus operandi for years, tart up the shitty low-end cards to look like high-end ones so you can charge high-end prices. I'm honestly surprised the board manufacturers haven't started putting fake PCIe power connectors on their boards to justify these completely unnecessary cooling solutions.

THU31 · Jan 26, 2022

Giant heatsink with three fans and no cooling performance. How did they achieve this?

Assimilator · Jan 26, 2022

THU31 said:
Giant heatsink with three fans and no cooling performance. How did they achieve this?

Reusing a HSF design for a different GPU and assuming it would either "just work", or that this GPU doesn't produce enough heat to make it a problem. And sadly, most buyers won't know or care.

Vecix6 · Jan 26, 2022

Second paragraph of this review (Gigabyte) and Asus:

This results in 2,560 CUDA cores, 20 RT cores, 80 Tensor Cores, 80 TMUs, and 48 ROPs

ROP count is 32 as we can see at chart below on this page... or the table is incorrect and GPU-Z v2.44 also shows 32 ROPs also incorrecty..

The other two RTX 3050 reviewed hasn't this typo.

Taraquin · Jan 26, 2022

usiname said:
The triple fan Gigabyte rtx 3050 is noisier and hotter than the single fan Palit one XD

OMG, this is embarrasing! Getting beaten by a card about half the size, weighing 300g less and only 1 fan. Ouch!

arni-gx · Jan 27, 2022

usiname said:
The triple fan Gigabyte rtx 3050 is noisier and hotter than the single fan Palit one XD

i thin there is something technical faulty with that design of triple fan on this rtx 3050 8gb......

Aimussage · Jan 27, 2022

arni-gx said:
i thin there is something technical faulty with that design of triple fan on this rtx 3050 8gb......

There can be a additional technical issues but if you look at the teardown of the card it should become clear why their cooling design performs poorly.

It's only got two heatpipes on a big fin array, in itself not an issue, but one heatpipe goes directly over the VRM cooling, where the fins also have to deal with that heat , thus reducing efficiency. The other heatpipe goes all the way around on the outside of the fin array, not able to dissipate any heat, until the end where it finally cuts into the fins where it finally dissipate some heat. The middle fan is essentially doing nothing, just there for looks, it might help cool the big aluminium block they have for the VRAM, but that's about it. The fin orientation and related heatpipe layout means a lot of cooling surface is under utilized. All around a bad design.

W1zzard · Jan 27, 2022

Vecix6 said:
Second paragraph of this review (Gigabyte) and Asus:

ROP count is 32 as we can see at chart below on this page... or the table is incorrect and GPU-Z v2.44 also shows 32 ROPs also incorrecty..

The other two RTX 3050 reviewed hasn't this typo.

Fixed. ROP count is 32, I confirmed this with NVIDIA. They've put the wrong number (48) in their reviewer's guide and several outlets picked that up

Assimilator · Jan 27, 2022

W1zzard said:
Fixed. ROP count is 32, I confirmed this with NVIDIA. They've put the wrong number (48) in their reviewer's guide and several outlets picked that up

Just goes to show how "important" this product is to therm...

ghazi · Jan 27, 2022

Amazing how you get this long heatsink, three fans, they even needed to give the PCB extra height just for the hell of it.. all for a terrible version of a card no better than the 1070 I bought for a lower price 5 years ago. What gives? Truly incredible.

Valantar · Jan 28, 2022

usiname said:
The triple fan Gigabyte rtx 3050 is noisier and hotter than the single fan Palit one XD

I was wondering about that, then I saw how that cooler is constructed ... oh man. Like half the heatsink is >5cm away from the nearest source of heat. That middle fan is essentially cooling nothing at all - noise/thermals might improve if you disconnec the middle fan. And the Palit has more heatpipes and a much more sensible layout. This cooler is just a waste of aluminium.

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