GeForce RTX 3050 Review With EVGA: Potent, Mainstream PC Gaming
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy is an action-adventure game, where you play as Star-Lord and lead the rest of the Guardians from mission to mission. The game’s minimum requirements call for a Radeon RX 570 or GeForce GTX 1060-class GPU and the game also supports some of the latest graphics technologies, including DXR and DLSS.
Marvel's Guardians Of The Galaxy
GeForce RTX 3050 Details @ 1080p
The GeForce RTX 3050 just barely edges out the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti in Guardians at both resolutions, but it absolutely demolishes the GTX 1650 and clearly outperforms the Radeon RX 6500 XT.
GeForce RTX 3050 Details @ 1080p
Guardians Of The Galaxy also offers support for some DXR ray tracing effects, so we did some testing with them enabled as well. Despite trailing the Radeon RX 6600 in the earlier tests in this game, once you enable ray tracing, the GeForce RTX 3050 finishes out in front and trails only the RTX 3060.
Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker Benchmarks
Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker is due launch at the end of November, for a variety of platforms. The free benchmark utility that is available checks is approximately a 2.21GB download. It will test your PC's ability to run the game at various settings, and presents a final result with an overall rating upon its conclusion. We tested Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker at 1080p and 1440p, with maximum image quality settings.
Final Fantasy Endwalker
The GeForce RTX 3050 once again trades blows with the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, trailing ever so slightly at 1440p, but pulling ahead at 1080p. There's no contest versus the GTX 1650 and Radeon RX 6500 XT though. The GeForce RTX 3050 is clearly faster than those two cards here.
Gears 5 Benchmarks
The Coalition's newest Gears title, Gears 5, brings with it a whole host of new graphical effects and HDR lighting to both the console and PC alike, thanks to the latest iteration of Epic's Unreal Engine 4. We tested the game at a couple of resolutions, with its Ultra quality preset.
Gears 5
GeForce RTX 3050 Details @ 1080p
The GeForce RTX 3050 stumbled a bit in the Gears 5 benchmark and trades blows with the Radeon RX 6500 XT at both resolutions. It still offers over 70 FPS with Ultra Quality settings at 1080p, however.
Far Cry 6 Benchmarks
Next up, we’ve got some benchmark scores from Far Cry 6, the latest installment in the storied franchise. Like its predecessors, Far Cry New Dawn is a fast-action shooter set in an open world environment with lush visuals and high graphics fidelity. The game is set on the fictional Caribbean island of Yara, ruled by Giancarlo Esposito's dictator "El Presidente" Antón Castillo. We tested all of the graphics cards here at multiple resolutions using Ultra Quality settings to see how they handled this recently-released AAA title.
GeForce RTX 3050 Details @ 1080p
The GeForce RTX 3050 once again jumps up the charts, slightly edging out the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti at both resolutions, but clearly outperforming the GTX 1650 and AMD's Radeon RX 6500 XT.
GeForce RTX 3050 Details @ 1080p
F1 2021 Benchmarks
F1 2021 is Codemaster’s latest Formula One racing simulation, and like previous version of the game, it sports impressive visuals. This latest addition to the franchise supports DirectX 11 or DirectX 12, and it incorporates support for a number of AMD's FidelityFX and NVIDIA technologies (like DLSS), though we didn't enable any of them to keep the playing field level. We tested the game with its Ultra High graphics preset, but with Ray Tracing disabled and TAA enabled at a couple of resolutions to see what the graphics cards could do.
F1 2021
