Like the rest of the Nvidia RTX 3000 series graphics cards, the GeForce RTX 3060 is based on Nvidia’s new Ampere architecture. With the move from Turing to Ampere Nvidia brings more than just a higher product number to the table. But, the smaller amount of RT cores shouldn’t really be a problem, especially at 1080p. What’s more important than ray tracing here, though, is the DLSS. For a graphics card in this segment, the ability to squeeze out a little more performance at 1080p is going to be a win no matter how you look at it. It can genuinely mean the difference between 45 and 60 fps, even with ray tracing enabled in many games. The latest game in the popular Total Warsaga, Troywas given away free for its first 24 hours on the Epic Games Store, moving over 7.5 million copies before it went on proper sale. Total War: Troyis built using a modified version of the Total War: Warhammer 2engine, and this DX11 title looks stunning for a turn-based strategy game. We test the more intensive battle benchmark. Brad Chacos/IDG F1 2020 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.

Compared to Nvidia's previous offerings, the RTX 3060 looks a bit more impressive, offering 15% more performance than the two-year-old RTX 2060 Super which cost 18% less. Of course, Turing was never great value, but looking exclusively at Nvidia products, the 3060 is quite good. If your case has two expansion slots free and clearance for 242mm x 112mm (L x W) you’ll be able to fit a RTX 3060 Ti in. If I wanted to upgrade my current PC to an NVIDIA 3060 Ti, would it work with my current hardware? Here's a look at the 14 game average data running at 1080p. The RTX 3060 is just 6% faster than the RX 5700, which is not great considering the MSRP is ~6% lower. When compared to the two-year-old AMD GPU, you're getting on average 6% more performance for what should be a 6% price saving, amazing stuff. 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.

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. Now let's compare the RTX 4060 to its bigger brother, the RTX 4060 Ti. In spite of their outwardly similar names, the RTX 4060 and Ti make use of different GPUs. In my dream world, I'd prefer to think of the RTX 4060 as the RTX 4050 and the RTX 4060 Ti as the true RTX 4060, but alas, they are not. 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?? The 1440p data tells a similar story, where the RTX 3060 is on average 8% faster than the RX 5700 and 5% slower than the 5700 XT. It's also 17% faster than the RTX 2060 Super and 22% slower than the 3060 Ti. 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.

The RTX 4060 is the designated successor to the RTX 3060, at least if you go by name alone.Looking at the raw data alone, the RTX 4060 is the better card of the two, but not by every measure. Each SM contains 64 dedicated FP32 CUDA cores, plus 64 more FP32+INT32 CUDA cores — only FP32 or INT32 can be used for each cycle. The SMs also contain one second-gen RT core and four third-gen Tensor cores, each of which is up to twice the performance as the previous generation cores, and with sparsity the Tensor cores are potentially four times as fast as on Turing. Finally, there are six 32-bit memory interfaces, each one linked to a single 8Gb or 16Gb GDDR6 module — the latter is reserved for desktops at present, with the 8Gb modules used on laptops. There’s still no USB-C video output here, and we still think it’s a shame. With how important GPUs are becoming to creative professionals for everything from photo editing to 3D modeling, it’s a pity that the most recent Nvidia graphics cards have dropped support for USB-C video output. 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.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.

The RTX 3060 isn't particularly impressive in the power consumption front, using only slightly less power than the RTX 3060 Ti, or at least that was the case for the Gigabyte RTX 3060 Eagle model we used for testing. When compared to the RTX 3060 Ti, we're looking at a mere 2% reduction in total system power usage.Resizable BAR lets the CPU tap fully into the GPU’s memory, offering performance gains in some scenarios.

tot 4K in 12-bits HDR bij 240Hz met DP 1.4a + DSC. Tot 8k in 12-bits HDR bij 60Hz met DP 1.4a + DSC of HDMI 2.1 + DSC. Met dual DP 1.4a + DSC, tot 8K HDR bij 120Hz The RTX 4060 vs RTX 4060 Ti debate all comes down to money. Which card you go for depends on whether you're prepared to pay the extra money for an RTX 4060 Ti over an RTX 4060 for a 20% to 25% performance gain.In Watch Dogs Legion at 1440p, the RTX 3060 was good for just 62 fps on average at the native resolution. Enabling quality DLSS boosted the frame rate by 30% to 81 fps, a very nice performance upgrade. It's a tie when it comes to feature sets. Both the RTX 4060 and Ti are Ada Lovelace generation cards, which mean both come with support for DLSS 3, 3rd generation RT cores, 4th generation Tensor cores and an improved video engine. 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. 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.