XMG Focus 15: The difficult position of the RTX 3050 Ti

There is hardly any other graphics card that is as difficult to judge as Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3050 Ti. On one hand, the mid-range GPU is able to bring almost any current game smoothly to the screen at high to maximum detail levels.

On the other hand, even a version with a high TGP, such as in the XMG Focus 15 from Schenker Technologies, has no chance against a GeForce RTX 3060, which can often already be found in similarly expensive laptops, particularly since that includes raytracing.

Then there is also the meager storage of the RTX 3050 Ti. There are already some games that complain about 4 GB VRAM. 6 GB would have been much more appropriate for the graphics card and also more up-to-date. This is a complaint that clearly goes against Nvidia's product design (and even some of the more expensive Ampere GPUs have borderline limits in terms of the VRAM).

But there are also other reasons why the price-performance ratio of the XMG Focus 15 is not very convincing. For example, the cooling system of the Clevo Barebone is not very successful (high noise emissions, bad fan control). The sound and the battery capacity could also be better.

However, the case, the input devices, and the 144-Hz panel are to a large extent very attractive.

Find out in our review how the Focus 15 fares in our tests.