Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Performance Review

While some games have more powerful requirements than this GPU, the GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile is only really challenged by the most demanding games released today, but normally it is more than capable of running games with a stable frame rate at 1080p.

Capable of running games with up to a DirectX 12 requirement.

How well will the GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile run 2022 games? We will take a look at the biggest releases and frames per second analysis on Ultra graphics settings. In comparison to the game recommended requirements of the 1000 most demanding games played today this PC hardware can run 742.

A GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile card at 1080p is predicted to see a good frame rate when running Star Citizen on Ultra - 60 FPS. Lets look at the performance its getting on Resident Evil 8 which is 39 FPS. To add a bit more variety lets see how the popular Forza Horizon 5 performs on this hardware, which gets a playable 39 FPS.

We move on to 1440p, and predict that Star Citizen will deliver reasonable FPS results. Here are the graphic presets - Low: 121 FPS, Medium: 95 FPS, High: 64 FPS and Ultra: 46 FPS. Next we have Resident Evil 8 running on GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile which gets L: 78FPS, M: 61FPS, H: 41FPS, U: 29FPS. And for performance contrast the popular Forza Horizon 5 gets L: 78FPS, M: 61FPS, H: 41FPS, U: 29FPS at 1440p. In summary we feel the GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile running at 1440p is a reasonable choice for most modern games at 1440p, but you may encounter some need to adjust graphics settings down from Ultra to High in some cases to improve gaming stability.

How many years will the GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile in your PC? Upgrade time for this GPU is currently placed at 2 years

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile? A good choice when looking to upgrade the GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile would be the 20 Series GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q which meets 810 of the 1000 top game’s recommended system requirements and has 23% better performance.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q Performance Review

While some games have more powerful requirements than this GPU, the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q is only really challenged by the most demanding games released today, but normally it is more than capable of running games with a stable frame rate at 1080p.

Capable of running games with up to a DirectX 12 requirement.

Here we take a closer look at the various performances across 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions for the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q. In particular this is looking at the Ultra graphics settings to see what sort of FPS this graphics card can get across some of the more popular games played in 2022. When considering how well this graphics card can run the 1000 most demanding games available today it can best 741 of the games’ recommended graphics requirements.

With 1080p being the most common gaming resolution at the moment we explored how well the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q can run Back 4 Blood at 1080p and saw it return reasonable frame rates at the following graphics settings - Low: 156 FPS, Medium: 123 FPS, High: 83 FPS and Ultra: 59 FPS. For performance contrast we can see that FIFA 22 returns a strong 91 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

As the PC gaming masses explore larger screen resolutions we decided to run some game checks at 1440p across a few popular games. We discovered the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q ran Back 4 Blood to a reasonable performance level. Results across the graphics settings looked like this, Low: 119 FPS, Medium: 94 FPS, High: 63 FPS and Ultra: 45 FPS. Another game tested was FIFA 22, L: 183FPS, M: 144FPS, H: 97FPS, U: 69FPS. And then we researched potential graphics card performance on Star Citizen, wih estimates revealing L: 119FPS, M: 94FPS, H: 63FPS, U: 45FPS at 1440p. Running games at 1440p with a GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q is certainly capable of running larger monitor gaming at Ultra or High graphics settings.

How many years will the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q in your PC? No graphics card upgrade required for around 2 years

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q? A good choice when looking to upgrade the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q would be the 20 Series GeForce RTX 2070 Super Max-Q which meets 810 of the 1000 top game’s recommended system requirements and has 25% better performance.