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. In this case, I’ve already taken a look at the EVGA RTX 3050 XC Black which was a stock clicked 3050so it will be interesting to see how the extra clock speed helps the 3050 Gaming X. I also want to keep an eye out on the 6500 XT performance in comparison now that we have that coverage up and of course the 5500 XT and the GTX 1070.

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 3050 Gaming X is still close to the stock clocked 3050, but on all three tests it does come in higher in each test but not enough of a difference to put it up in the range of the 1070.

 

 

 

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’s jump up in performance, the RTX cards as a whole do better with the DX12 based time spy. The 3050 Gaming X itself gained 139 points on the stock clocked card on the base Time Spy. Then on the Time Spy extreme test, it came out ahead of the stock 3050 by 75 points.

 

 

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 3050 Gaming X didn’t gain much on the stock card being two points higher. This did still keep it out ahead of the GTX 1070. The 4k result saw a bigger improvement with the overclock going from 4846 to 4970 but it was still way behind the GTX 1070 at that resolution.