Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3060 GAMING OC 12GB Graphics Card

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The performance uplift offered by DLSS in Control is massive. The RTX 3060 was 61% faster with DLSS enabled, so medium quality ray tracing with DLSS enabled was able to match native resolution performance, though do keep in mind we're only testing the game using the medium quality preset. Which one should you choose? That's tough. I'd go for the RX 6700 XT but only if you can snag it for a great price. The extra memory, bandwidth and shading power give it the edge, particularly at 1440p. But then there's ray tracing, DLSS 3 and Frame Generation. They can easily put the RTX 4060 ahead of the RX 6700 XT. Nvidia is trying to combat the appeal to cryptocurrency miners with the RTX 3060, though, with a combination of hardware and software to cripple its hash rate. It remains to be seen whether or not this will help keep the price of the card low, but we hope it does. Once this card starts seeing its price rise closer to the RTX 3060 Ti, its value rapidly diminishes. For testing we're still using the Ryzen 9 3950X test system as we progress on updating everything to be tested under the R9 5950X. Expect all that data once we get through this latest round of product releases. The test system is configured with 32GB of dual-rank, dual-channel DDR4-3200 CL14 memory. The biggest change in Ampere is in the Streaming Multiprocessor’s (SM) datapath. Where previous generations had separate pipelines for Integer and Floating Point 32 (FP32) workloads, Nvidia has effectively doubled the amount of cores that can handle standard FP32 work – which just happens to be incredibly important for gaming performance. Because of this, the amount of CUDA cores per SM has doubled to 128, rather than the 64 found in something like card from our Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 review.

The minimum recommended PSU required for a RTX 3060 Ti is a 600W supply with 1x 8-pin PCIe connector, although we do recommend choosing a higher wattage power supply for a comfortable overhead. Will an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti fit in my case?? Which one should you go for? The RTX 4060 is cheaper, offers much better performance per watt and has the advantage of support for DLSS 3 and Frame Generation. Both have the same amount of VRAM. But the fact that we're even considering the RTX 3060 Ti over the RTX 4060 is damning in and of itself.The AD107 GPU powering the RTX 4060 is significantly smaller and uses much less power than the RTX 3060. It's got a better feature set that includes DLSS 3 with Frame Generation capability. Together, they give the RTX 4060 a healthy FPS boost in games that support the tech. Leaving that aside, the RTX 4060 still outperforms the RTX 3060 by a fair enough margin, and considering the relative launch prices of the two, the RTX 4060 is absolutely the better card of the two. Gaming PCs Liquid Series® PCs Video Editing PCs Pro Audio Computers Professional Workstations Desktop PCs

The 1440p data is mostly more of the same: 10% slower than the 5700 XT and now 20% slower than the 3060 Ti. It matches the RX 5700 again, so it was 9% faster than the RTX 2070. The margins are fairly similar at 1440p, at least relative to other GeForce GPUs such as the RTX 2070. The RTX 3060 manages to match the 5700 XT here, so that's certainly an improvement over what we saw at 1080p, but it's still 21% slower than the 3060 Ti. This means that while the RTX 3060 actually has fewer SMs at 28 than the RTX 2060 with 30, CUDA core count jumps to 3,584 on the RTX 3060 over the last generation’s 1,920. That’s a massive boost, and a major reason why the RTX 3060 sees such an increase in gaming workloads. Ondersteunt 4K 120 Hz HDR, 8K 60 Hz HDR en variabele refresh rate zoals gespecificeerd in HDMI 2.1.The margin remains much the same at 1440p, where the 3060 was 14% slower than the 3060 Ti and 15% slower than the 5700 XT. It does match the vanilla RX 5700 and that means it's just a few frames faster than the RTX 2070. The RTX 3060 like most modern GPUs performs well in Death Stranding at 1080p, hitting 129 fps on average to match the GTX 1080 Ti and RX 5700. That said it's 11% slower than the 5700 XT and 19% slower than the 3060 Ti. An 18% lead at 1080p and 16% lead at 1440p aren't bad, but we'd expect more from a generational upgrade.

The main advantage the RTX 4060 Ti has is a much greater shader count, at 4352 vs the 3072 of the RTX 4060. That's a big gap, and it shows up in the performance data, where the RTX 4060 Ti at least 19% faster than the RTX 4060. Assassin's Creed Valhalla is an AMD sponsored title and here the 5700 XT is well ahead of the RTX 3060 delivering 22% more frames. Again, the 3060 is comparable to the RTX 2070 and 8% slower than the 2070 Super. Relative to the 3060 Ti it does well a 13% deficit here, though we are only at 1080p. Gears Tacticsputs it own brutal, fast-paced spin on the XCOM-like genre. This Unreal Engine 4-powered game was built from the ground up for DirectX 12, and we love being able to work a tactics-style game into our benchmarking suite. Better yet, the game comes with a plethora of graphics options for PC snobs. More games should devote such loving care to explaining what flipping all these visual knobs mean. Shadow of the Tomb Raider only uses ray tracing for shadows and DLSS doesn't work nearly as well in this title, offering almost no performance uplift without ray tracing enabled. This time the RTX 3060 was 16-20% faster than the 2060 with ray tracing, while it was 11% faster for straight rasterization performance. If you own a GPU from a prior generation, like the GTX 1060 or even at GTX 1070, then the RTX 3060 is a decent upgrade in terms of performance, but you'd be better off spending a little more on the Ti version or waiting to see what AMD does at this price point.

Then at 1440p it roughly matches the 5700 XT and RTX 2070 with 32 fps on average. This is just playable in our opinion – certainly not good enough for a shooter-style game, but for this simulator it works. Nvidia also added a hashrate limiter that cuts the performance of Ethereum mining in half, which should hopefully discourage cryptocurrency miners from snatching this up in droves. We’ll see if it lasts. The RTX 4060 holds a power efficiency advantage, and a substantial one at that. The RTX 4060's efficiency is arguably the highlight of the card, while in the case of the RX 7600 it's a lowlight. A clear win to the RTX 4060 here.