Packaging

EVGA’s packaging takes a completely different approach than most other video cards. Rather than the large wide box that most cards have, they use a taller but skinny design. It shrinks the green Nvidia wrap-around size which gets the important information like this being an RTX card and the 3050 model number on without any wasted space. Then above that, they have the card peaking out and letting you see 2/3 of the card. The XC model name and the black are there as well with the EVGA logo being small and up in the corner out of the way next to the memory information. The back of the box just has a basic feature list that covers all of the standard Nvidia RTX features as well as the wrap-around which highlights GeForce platform features and Ampere architecture features. Nothing here is card-specific, which I do think a nice specification listing with the clock speed and card dimensions would be useful to help someone in a brick and mortar store to tell the difference between cards.

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When you get inside of the box, EVGA hasn’t skimped on protecting the card as well although most of this is just to fit the smaller card into a box designed to fit larger cards. The 3050 XC Black comes wrapped in a bubble wrap box then inside there is a thick black foam wrapped around everything. Then under that, the card itself sits in a static protective bag with the EVGA branding all over it. They also block off some of the height of the card with cardboard as well to keep everything inside of the box from moving around.

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