Most other shoppers will be better served in gaming with a GeForce RTX 3060 Ti or even an RTX 2060 (on discount, if you can find one) instead. For PC builders obsessed with keeping their desktops compact, the compact profile of EVGA's card is its primary selling point. It does the job, but it doesn't wow us as much as the rest of the Ampere line. Our test card, focused squarely on the needs of gamers playing at either 1080p or 1440p, is a better successor to the GeForce RTX 2060 Founders Edition.

Cards like those bring the new GeForce RTX 3060 (tested here in the $329.99 EVGA GeForce RTX 3060 XC Black Gaming 12G) into some pretty tough company. With the launch of its new 'Ampere' GPU architecture, Nvidia has pushed a torrent of great new graphics card releases in recent months, from a rare five-star entry (the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition, last October) to the more recent, also stellar GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition.

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With the combination of the faster clock speed, faster boost clock speed, and more VRAM, you'd expect the Nvidia RTX 3060 to be faster than the RTX 3060 Ti-but that's not the case. The RTX 3060 has 12GB GDDR6, while the RTX 3060 Ti has 8GB GDDR6. The RTX 3060 contains 3,584 CUDA cores and a core clock performance of 1,320 MHz and a boost clock of 1,777 MHz, while the RTX 3060 Ti has 4,864 CUDA cores, a core clock performance of 1,410 MHz, and a boost clock of 1,665 MHz.Īnother noticeable difference between the two is memory size. The RTX 3060 Ti, on the other hand, is based on the physically bigger GA104 GPU die, which reduces heat concentration.

However, the RTX 3060, the slightly newer model, is built atop the Ampere GA106 GPU die. More transistors typically indicate a newer, faster processor. The RTX 3060 contains 13.25 billion transistors, while the RTX 3060 Ti has a transistor count of 17.4 billion. Both cards use Samsung's 8nm technology process, but the number of transistors differs.

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