Packaging

The Card

The Gigabyte RTX 3050 Gaming OC is instantly recognizable as a recent Gigabyte card, sharing the design theme of their latest AMD and NVIDIA cards. A high quality metal backplate is installed, too.


Dimensions of the card are 28.0 x 12.0 cm, and it weighs 707 g.


Installation requires two slots in your system.


Display connectivity options include two HDMI 2.1 and two DisplayPort 1.4a ports.


The card has one 8-pin power input. This configuration is rated for up to 225 W of power draw.


The GeForce RTX 3050 does not support SLI.

Teardown

Gigabyte's thermal solution uses two heatpipes that make direct contact with the GPU core. The main cooling assembly also provides cooling for the memory chips and VRM circuitry.


Once the main cooler is removed, you can clearly see how the PCB is shorter than the actual cooler.