ASUS today announced five versions of the new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 graphics card, bringing the NVIDIA Ampere architecture to a wider audience than ever before. Armed with 8GB of VRAM, robust cooling and exceptional durability, the new ROG Strix GeForce RTX 3050 8GB, ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3050 8GB, and ASUS Phoenix GeForce RTX 3050 8GB stand ready to upgrade gaming rigs around the world.
The GeForce RTX 3050 is the first 50-class desktop GPU to power the latest ray-traced games at over 60 fps. The RTX 3050 comes equipped with 2nd generation RT cores for ray tracing and 3rd generation Tensor cores for DLSS and AI. Ray tracing is the new standard in gaming, and the RTX 3050 makes it more accessible than ever before.
ROG Strix leads the way
Built on the DNA of the NVIDIA Ampere architecture stablemates that came before it, the ROG Strix GeForce RTX 3050 8GB delivers potent gaming performance, cool temperatures, and whisper-quiet noise levels for those who dare. Chiseled cutouts, angular lines, and metallic accents lend the shroud an air of mastery, while an addressable RGB LED ROG logo on the backplate and a full-length light strip let users coordinate the look of their build through Aura Sync.
This aggressively-styled shroud wraps a beefy 2.7-slot heatsink built to wick heat away from the GPU’s hotspots through a baseplate finished with our MaxContact process. This finish improves contact with the GPU chip itself, increasing heat transfer into the heatpipes and fin stack above. The baseplate also covers the card’s GDDR6 memory modules to keep them running at optimal temperatures.
A trio of nine-blade Axial-tech fans keep a steady stream of cooling air moving through the high-surface-area fin stack so that the GPU can sustain its highest level of performance throughout a gaming session. To minimize turbulence and focus the air stream on the heat-producing components, the side fans spin counterclockwise. The vented backplate offers a key assist in the cooling process by allowing hot air from the heatsink to easily enter a case’s natural airflow path, and a pair of FanConnect II headers lets users dedicate case fans to the control of the GPU so that they get the cooling performance they need while gaming. When the graphics card is idle or under light loads, its fans can drop into 0dB mode for silent operation.
ROG Strix GeForce RTX 3050 is built from the ground up to maintain a high level of performance over the long term. Extra-durable SAP II capacitors are ready to stand up to heavy loads in tandem with premium chokes and MOSFETs. The Auto-Extreme assembly technology — used across the ASUS GeForce RTX 3050 lineup — picks, places and solders each component to the card’s PCB without any human interaction for maximum precision and reliability.
Compact ASUS Dual and ASUS Phoenix cards deliver outsized performance
The triple-fan cooling solution of the ROG Strix GeForce RTX 3050 8GB offers supreme cooling power, but a microATX or Mini-ITX case might not have the dimensions to contain it. For smaller builds, the ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3050 8GB and ASUS Phoenix GeForce RTX 3050 8GB pack GeForce RTX gaming prowess and great cooling performance into slimmed-down, compact packages.
Dual GeForce RTX 3050 8GB harnesses a pair of fans with the proven ASUS Axial-tech design to maintain airflow on a dense array of heatpipes and fins. 0dB lets those fans drop down into silent operation when loads and temperatures permit. Subtle lighting cues and a minimalist design make this graphics card an unobtrusive addition to any build.
For something even more tightly packed, ASUS Phoenix GeForce RTX 3050 8GB offers the power of NVIDIA Ampere architecture as a great fit for machines of all sizes. Armed with a sturdy aluminum backplate and an Axial-tech fan, this graphics card offers the gaming and cooling performance that users demand in a slim, stout package.
As with ROG Strix GeForce RTX 3050 8GB, the ASUS Dual and ASUS Phoenix cards employ the ASUS Auto-Extreme assembly technology to ensure long-term reliability. A special protective conformal coating on the PCBs of the Phoenix cards goes a step further by protecting them against any potential short-circuits caused by moisture, dust, and debris. ASUS also subjects these graphics cards to a grueling 144-hour validation process to ensure that each one is built to go the distance.
More options for GeForce RTX
The latest generation of NVIDIA graphics cards brings a wealth of new technologies to amp up gaming experiences. If gamers are still on the sidelines looking in at everything that GeForce RTX 30-series GPUs have to offer, now is a great time to upgrade with an ROG Strix GeForce RTX 3050 8GB, ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3050 8GB, or ASUS Phoenix GeForce RTX 3050 8GB.
