ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 5050 SOLO Video Card Review

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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle was released to PC in December of 2024 and is based on the Motor (id Tech 7) engine. This is another game that runs with ‘ray tracing’ enabled at all times by default. This game features ray-traced global illumination, sun shadows, and reflections, and has additional full path tracing options on supported video cards. The game also features NVIDIA DLSS, frame generation, textures, shadows, environments, and lighting. For this game, we are using an in-game manual run-through in an open outdoor area of The Stolen Cat Mummy: The Vatican mission with bright sunlight.

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ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 5050 SOLO 1080p Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Medium Quality Preset Graph

In Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, we could not run above the “Medium” graphics quality on any of these 8GB video cards; even at 1080p, the game would refuse to work due to limited VRAM capacity for higher settings. At “Medium”, the ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 5050 SOLO plays this game very smoothly at 100FPS average; there is no need to enable DLSS Upscaling at this quality level.

The ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 5050 SOLO is also the fastest video card in this game. The ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 5050 SOLO is 59% faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 and 123% faster than the Radeon RX 7600, which does poorly in this game. The ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 5050 SOLO even edges out the GeForce RTX 4060 by 1%. Overclocking adds 6% more to performance, the highest we saw.

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REVIEW OVERVIEW

The FPS Review Score
8.5

SUMMARY

The ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 5050 SOLO is a great entry-level gaming card for a small form factor, ITX, or otherwise efficient size and power demand PC build. It provided a good uplift from the previous GeForce RTX 3050 for modern gaming at 1080p, though with some game quality sacrifices. It supports the latest NVIDIA RTX 50 Series Blackwell features, DLSS 4, and Frame Generation, as well as NVENC encoding/decoding. The ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 5050 SOLO gets you in the door to modern features, and game support, in a small compact form that is well cooled, quiet, and at MSRP.
Brent Justicehttps://www.thefpsreview.com
Former managing editor of GPUs at HardOCP for 18 years, Brent Justice has been reviewing computer components since the late 90s, educated in the art and method of the computer hardware review, he brings experience, knowledge, and hands-on testing with a gamer-oriented and hardware enthusiast perspective. You can follow him on Twitter - @Brent_Justice You can sub to his YouTube channel - Justice Gaming https://www.youtube.com/c/JusticeGamingChannel You can check out his computer builds on KIT - @BrentJustice https://kit.co/BrentJustice

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