MSI RTX 3050 Gaming X 8G Review

3DMark Firestrike

3DMark tests your system’s GPU and CPU performance by rendering extremely demanding game-like scenes in real-time. The faster the benchmark runs, the better your score. Now your quest begins. What can you do to get a better score?

3DMark is available on Steam here.

3DMark Firestrike

Firestrike is a benchmark designed to test the DirectX 11 performance of a system, typically at 1920×1080 resolutions and is a good performance test for low-to-mid performance hardware.

In Firestrike, we can see the MSI RTX 3050 taking the lead ahead of it’s fellow RTX 3050 cards with its graphics score, but dipping below the previous generations GTX 16 series of cards.

3DMark Firestrike Ultra

This is a much more demanding test that focuses on DirectX 11 performance at 4K resolution and is generally better suited to high-end hardware.

Our results do change when we move to Firestrike Ultra, where the GTX 16 series cards all fall behind, but compared to the other RTX 3050s, the results are very much the same, only trading blows with the Gigabyte RTX 3050, which saw slightly higher overall scores.