This is supposed to help reduce turbulence and noise, and the fans also halt at GPU temperatures below 42C, provided power draw is also "low" - though Asus doesn't say exactly what that means. There's also a quiet profile that drops the power limit and boost clock, if you're more interested in a near-silent PC.Īsus uses three axial fans, with the middle fan rotating clockwise while the outside fans rotate counterclockwise. The Strix card runs with a default boost clock of 1860 MHz, but if you install Asus' GPU Tweak III and enable the OC profile, you'll get an increased power limit and the boost clock gets a bump to 1890 MHz, which is what we used in our gaming tests. It's nice that Asus puts on that fifth port, which most modern GPUs skip. DisplayPort is still more common for PC monitors than HDMI 2.1, but that could change in the future, and HDMI 2.1 is widely used on modern TVs. The card weighs 1097g and measures 300x137x54 mm, compared to 1760g and 319x140x58 mm on the RTX 3070 ROG Strix - the length is a couple of centimeters less, but both cards require a relatively large case.Īsus provides some extras in other areas as well, for example video outputs consist of three DisplayPort 1.4 and two HDMI 2.1 ports. But the 3050 ROG Strix card is nearly as large as other Strix models, even if the underlying heatsink isn't quite as robust. The RTX 3050 on the other hand is neither extreme nor power hungry, with a TDP rating of just 130W. Large coolers are also necessary to keep up with the extreme power use of modern GPUs like the RTX 3080 Ti and RX 6900 XT.
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