ASUS RTX 3050 TUF Gaming its First TUF Gaming VGA with RGB Lighting

[btarunr]

ASUS is giving final touches the to the TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3050 graphics card. This is the company's first TUF Gaming product based on the RTX 3050, which was, until now, given the ASUS ROG Strix and DUAL OC custom treatment. What's more interesting is its cooling solution, which appears to be the first TUF Gaming graphics card with RGB LED lighting—a change from the functional, industrial look of TUF Gaming graphics cards.

This is also the smallest iteration of the TUF Gaming cooling solution the company debuted with the RTX 30-series "Ampere," and features a dual-fan setup (compared to triple-fan on every other TUF Gaming product from this generation). The card comes with a strip of RGB LEDs lined along the top of the card, at the edge of the backplate. It's being reported that this RTX 3050 card is based on the smaller "GA107" silicon, instead of "GA106," and hence comes with a lower typical board power than GA106-based RTX 3050 cards, with no difference in performance.



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[dj-electric]

Right up there with the discovery of fire, cracking the atom and inventing penicillin medicine. Adding RGB to the RUF RTX 3050 has to be a human milestone well worthy of important titles.

For further human achievements.

 

[TheDeeGee]

That's terrible news, LEDs on the PCB itself like MSI.

Forced to use that garbage armor crate now to turn it off instead of simply unplugging a cable...

RIP, there goes my plan of getting a RTX 4060 Ti ROG Strix.

 

[looniam]

That's terrible news, LEDs on the PCB itself like MSI.

Forced to use that garbage armor crate now to turn it off instead of simply unplugging a cable...

i feel your pain until i found OpenRGB. i then immediately uninstalled Amory Crate.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Only good thing asus gave a bios option to disable installing armoury crate notice I said "option to disable" default is auto install
It's just asus forage peepware and yes complete crap.

Asus gpu's were never on my radar personally still bitter over the crappy 980 20th anniversary pos

 

[freeagent]

Asus gpu's were never on my radar personally still bitter over the crappy 980 20th anniversary pos

There was one for sale here in my town when I bought my 980 Classified.. I got the card for 250, and the guy wanted like 700 for the Asus.

What keeps me from buying an Asus GPU, especially their Matrix cards is GPU Tweak, I hate that program with a passion.

 

[Sodahorse93]

I mean I love rgb as much as the next millennial but this ain't news worthy chief.

 

[Ruru]

There was one for sale here in my town when I bought my 980 Classified.. I got the card for 250, and the guy wanted like 700 for the Asus.

What keeps me from buying an Asus GPU, especially their Matrix cards is GPU Tweak, I hate that program with a passion.

Hah, that's not THAT much a collector's edition that it would be like thrice the value than a Classy

Agree with the Matrix one, we talked about this on some other thread. Sucks that the voltage can't be bumped on my 7970 with Afterburner.