Synthetic Benchmarks

As always I like to start my testing with a few synthetic benchmarks. 3DMark especially is one of my favorites because it is very optimized in both Nvidia and AMD drivers. It's nice to not have to worry about it being favored too much either way and the repeatability of the results makes it a nice chance to compare from card to card, especially when comparing with the same GPU. For the RTX 3050 XC Black with it being the first RTX 3050 to come in, I’m not comparing so much with the same GPUs but I am looking at how it compares with the GTX 1650, RTX 2060, and RTX 3060 on Nvidia’s side of things and the RX 5500 XT, RX 5600 XT, and RX 6600 from AMD. Sadly we never were able to get our hands on an RX 5600 and our new RX 6500 XT just came in today.

The first round of tests were done in the older Fire Strike benchmark which is a DX11 test. There are three detail levels, performance, extreme, and ultra. The RTX 3050 XC Black came in sitting between the 5500 XT and the older GTX 1070 in all three of these benchmarks. On the Fire Strike Ultra test, the RTX 3050 XC Black nearly matches the score of the RX 5500 XT.

 

 

 

The next two were both based on the Time Spy benchmark. One is the standard test and then there is the extreme detail level. Here the RTX 3050 XC Black did better, like the 2000 and 3000 series cards normally do with the DX12 based Time Spy. The RTX 3050 XC Black jumped up above the GTX 1070 on both tests and WAY ahead of the last generation XX50 series card with the GTX 1650.

 

 

The last test was using the Unigine based Superposition benchmark and I tested at 1080p with the extreme detail setting as well as the 4K optimized setting. In the extreme detail setting the RTX 3050 XC Black landed sitting between the GTX 1070 and the GTX 1080. The higher 4K resolution test on the other hand had the 1070 back out ahead with its higher memory bandwidth.