The reviewer was surprised at how well the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 GPU handled 4K resolution in ultra settings. They expected it to struggle, but were pleasantly surprised.

However, when they compared the performance of the 3050 at 4K to a more powerful GPU, the RTX 3090 Ti, the difference was stark. The 3090 Ti outperformed the 3050 by a significant margin in every game tested, even at 4K resolution with ray tracing enabled.

The reviewer noted that the power draw of the 3050 was extremely high, exceeding 450 watts, which is considered "obscene". However, this did not seem to affect its performance.

When they added ray tracing to their 4K gaming experience on the 3090 Ti, they found that it introduced a significant performance hit compared to non-ray tracing at 1080P with the same GPU. In fact, the experience was similar to gaming at 4K without ray tracing, but with slightly blurred visuals.

The reviewer concluded that if you own an RTX 3050 and want to experience what it's like to game at 4K, you can essentially pretend you're gaming at 1080P and get a similar performance. However, if you want the full 4K experience with ray tracing enabled, you may need to consider upgrading to a more powerful GPU.

The reviewer also mentioned that they noticed a significant difference in performance between their 4K results on the 3050 and their 1080P results on the 3090 Ti. They found that even at 1 low settings, the 3090 Ti's 4K results were faster than the 3050's 1080P results.

Overall, the reviewer was impressed with the performance of the RTX 3050, but noted that it may not be sufficient for those who want to take full advantage of 4K resolution and ray tracing.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enToday we're doing another pointless comparison. The baby of the RTX range versus the Raid Boss.  To answer the age-old question: How much more gaming power do the oligarchs wield? But before thatIt's time for a word from today's video sponsor. Today's video is sponsored by Corsair  and their new K70 PRO RGB. Now in my opinion, the main upgrades to this new version of the K70, is  that it now comes with double shot PBT keycaps as standard - which is awesome - and the cable is  now detachable. Terminating in a Type-C connector. On the keyboard, which is very good - there's also a  bunch of RGB stuff for those of you that care. Now, this keyboard is available in a large selection  of Cherry MX switches. This one has Cherry MX RGB Speed Silvers in them - that sound like this,If this sounds good to you, use the link in  my description below to check out the new Corsair K70 PRO RGB.On paper the difference between the two GPUs is significant. The RTX 3090 ti  is a behemoth gpu with the kind of numbers that sound like something  shouted by a 12 year old to one of their friends. Although the two differences I find  the most impressive are the price and the TDP. I mean physically the two graphics cards are a  relatively similar size, if you don't take into account the 360 millimeter radiator  glued to the 3090 ti. Although, when you compare their nudes you can see there is a lot more  going on, on the more expensive graphics card - as you'd hope, right? That kind of seems about  right. But none of this really matters. We're all here to see a big graphics card beat up a small  graphics card, so let's drop them in a test-bed and see how it goes - at two very different resolutions.Okay, so this seems to be running at  pretty much the optimal GTA 5 frame rate. The frame rate seems to be just under that point  where GTA's engine starts having seizures, so this is about as good a 1080P gaming  experience as you can have in this game, before the stutters seep in. Which, that's pretty cool!Next, we have battlefield 5 running at 1080P ultra settings and this is a great gaming experience.  I think if you ran at 1080P high settings - which is a lot more reasonable - it would be even better.  But even with more stuff going on in the scene it still stays close to 100 frames per second.  So this is good! Okay, so at 1080P high settings, with the 3050 we have a very usable gaming  experience. We're not quite at 60 frames per second but it's fine. The game feels good  and it looks all pretty and stuff and if you want a slightly higher frame rate you can just drop the  settings a little bit, so this is not too bad. In terms of the temperatures on this little eagle  card, they land squarely in the 'meh' territory, although at least it's not a howler monkey so that's good.  But I think with that it's time to drop in something a bit more beefy, in this test bed.  GTA 5 at 1080P with a graphics card that probably wipes itself  with 1080P - yeah let's see what happens - oh stutters is what's gonna happen, uh because  the graphics card is too much for the engine to handle. Uh we did do this in a previous  video so I'm not gonna sit on this too long, but as you can see, this is not like - it's just no.Wow, it is using a whole lot more power than the RTX 3050, I can tell you that!  But it's also much faster. We are well over 200 frames per second here  and it's - um - yeah this is crazy! I've not seen Battlefield 5 run like this. Granted, I have  only recently figured out how to unlock the frame rate so that also makes a difference.Last time we tried to run it at psycho settings on the 3090 TI and it didn't go  super well, but let's see let's see how it goes this time. Oh, considerably better! Okay.  That is by far the highest frame rate I've ever seen in Cyberpunk and actually Cyberpunk does  seem to scale relatively well at 1080P because we are pretty much getting the full GPU utilization  which is not something you can say for a lot of the other games  but that's that's pretty cool. That is a very high frame rate but again all  I can say is that I am very happy that we have 24 gigs of GDDR6x in this GPU because  we've clearly been using it. On the note of really using it, let's have a look at the benchmarks.  Clearly the RTX 3090 ti is a lot faster than the 3050 but the performance results were still  a bit of a mixed bag, which makes sense considering that in a lot of  cases, the GPU isn't even almost the bottleneck and this just shows again  if you buy one of these high-end graphics cards in 2022, but you still own a 1080P display - you  should probably stick some bamboo under your fingernails as punishment for your wasteful ways.  Having said that, let's move over from the RTX 3050s wheelhouse and step into the 3090s domain - 4KWe're getting a pretty stable 60-ish frames per second at 4K, very high settings in GTA 5  with the RTX 3050, which it's not too bad. It's pretty good - whoa - I am actually pretty  surprised at how well this GPU handles 4k. This is ultra settings and it's not a complete  slideshow. It's not a great performance but you shouldn't be running it at ultra and this is not  a GPU that you would reasonably expect to use at 4K, so no - it's pretty impressive little 3050.Ah now this is a lot more in line with what I was expecting 4K to look like on the little RTX 3050  Although again, considering that this is high settings on Cyberpunk  It's not a completely embarrassing showing. Like this is fine but let's  drop big daddy back in and see how it handles itself in its own backyard.Oh damn, okay, well at 4k we're getting about the same frame rate we did at 1080P with this  graphics card which, uh that's pretty crazy. It means that we still get the stutters which is  nice. It really adds to the GTA 5 experience at this point and um yeah it's pretty crazy.  Holy crap look at that power draw!  That is insane and then you look next to it and the temps are are still just 50.And it's not making any noise either. That is a pretty crazy cooling solution and aside from that,  I am pretty sure that this average is considerably higher  than the 3050's 1080P result. I feel like this kind of power draw,  for half an hour, is going to set fire to the oxygen in the room. Like, that is, that's madness!  Oh, well I may have some crazy power at my disposal but it clearly doesn't help me suck any less.  Now at 4K it's dipped substantially.Although I do think that again, it is still  running faster at 4K than the 3050 was running at 1080P. Oh, I just noticed the power draw...  That it's gone over 450 watts. That is - by a reasonable amount - the highest power draw  figure I've ever seen from a GPU. Obscene power draw aside - let's see how the benchmarks stack up.Now the most interesting part about these benchmarks for me, is that in every single  game I tested, the 3090 ti's 4k results are faster than the 3050s 1080P results....  In fact when it comes to Battlefield 5 at 4K, even big daddy's 1 lows are higher than  the little bebe's average at 1080P. Which got me thinking what happens if we add ray tracing  on top of 4k for the 3090 ti and see how it compares to non-ray trace 1080p on the 3050.  Okay so now I have high ray tracing settings on at 4k and we're getting what seems like a  very similar experience to what we were getting at 1080P non-ray tracing with the with the RTX  uh it's a bit slower, it's not as fast. There is a pretty big performance hit if I'm honest. So when  all said and done, if you own the baby of the RTX range and you want to know what it feels like to  game like an oil baron, then just pretend like you're gaming at 4k not 1080P. That's basically  the same experience, just a little bit blurrier.Anyway, if you enjoyed the video consider watching  another one. A suggestion will pop up in a second and don't forget to subscribe to the channel!  I've heard it reduces your chance of getting a urinary tract infection by 23% and considering  that it's free to do, that sounds like a hell of a deal to me! And yeah, until the next video bye-bye!