Compute Benchmarks

Now some people don’t need a video card for gaming, they need the processing power for rendering or 2D/3D production, or in some cases people who game also do work on the side. So it is also important to check out the compute performance on all of the video cards that come in. That includes doing a few different tests. My first test was a simple GPU Compute benchmark using Passmark’s Performance Test 10 and the RTX 3050 XC Black did well here with its 6991 score. That put it out ahead of the RTX 2060 with the RTX 2060 SUPER being the next card up. That’s also 2353 points ahead of the last generation GTX 1650.

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Blender is always my favorite compute benchmark because the open-source 3D rendering software is very popular and it isn’t a synthetic benchmark. Here I render all six scenes and combine the total time it takes in seconds using the provided Blender Benchmark on the 2.93.1 build. The RTX 3050 XC Black ended up taking 1813 seconds to run the full test which is just over 30 minutes. That put it right with the RTX 2060 as well as AMD's RX 6600. If you are doing rendering like this all of the time, you could save a LOT of time going with any of the higher-end cards. But That isn’t bad all things considering if you only need to do it from time to time. I also tested all of the Nvidia cards again using Optix to do the render rather than CUDA and Optix makes a huge difference. While Optix ran on the older GTX cards, it isn’t any faster unless you have tensor cores like the RTX cards have. You can also see the performance difference between the 3000 series cards and the 2000 series cards when you compare the RTX 3050 and the RTX 2060 where the 2060 is faster with CUDA but the RTX 3050 XC Black was faster with Optix than the 2060 and the 2060 SUPER. The RTX 3050 XC Black took half as long at 880 seconds or 14.6 minutes.

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For CUDA-based cards, I also check out OctaneRender performance using their OctaneBench 2060.1 benchmark which allows me to check out both RTX and non-RTX rendering performance. Here the RTX 3050 XC Black is right with the GTX 1080 when not utilizing RTX but it jumps up near the 1080 Ti when using RTX.

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