The biggest change in Ampere is in the Streaming Multiprocessor’s (SM) datapath. With the move from Turing to Ampere Nvidia brings more than just a higher product number to the table. Like the rest of the Nvidia RTX 3000 series graphics cards, the GeForce RTX 3060 is based on Nvidia’s new Ampere architecture. Stream multiprocessors: 28 (128 CUDA per SM) Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060: Features and chipset Once this card starts seeing its price rise closer to the RTX 3060 Ti, its value rapidly diminishes. It remains to be seen whether or not this will help keep the price of the card low, but we hope it does. 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’s hard to nail down exactly who to recommend this graphics card to, especially since we assume Nvidia will be launching budget Ampere cards at some point – and everything will be sold out for a while still. That’s a pretty hefty price jump, but if you’re already breaking the $300 / £300 / AU$400 mark, you might as well get something that will give you the best experience you can get. Then, on the other side of it, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is an extra $70 (about £50, AU$90) at $399 (about £299, AU$540). Even before the GPU shortages that are ongoing at the time of writing, that’s a pretty massive price bump that some GTX 1060 users might not be able to justify. This makes sense, given that upgrading your graphics card with every other generation seems to be common, but prices have changed drastically since 2016. Nvidia is specifically aiming the RTX 3060 to gamers that have stuck to the Pascal-based GTX 1060 since its 2016 launch. Those cards will likely perform faster than the EVGA GeForce RTX 3060 Black XC, but only by a marginal amount – and may not be worth the added expense. There will be some RTX 3060 cards with elaborate cooler designs, boasting better overclocking capabilities and may even be overclocked out of the box. So, while the EVGA GeForce RTX 3060 Black XC we reviewed here will sell for $329 (about £240, AU$430), there will be a whole range of Nvidia RTX 3060 graphics cards. Unlike previous entries in the Nvidia Ampere lineup, Team Green is not releasing a Founder’s Edition of the RTX 3060 – much like what it did with the GTX 1660 Ti back with the Turing lineup. The pricing is a little bit complicated, though. The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 launched on February 25, 2021, starting at $329 (about £240, AU$430). More expensive than the RTX 2060 was when RTX 2060 Super launched.Cheaper than RTX 3060 Ti, but not as good of a value.The card measures 242 mm in length, 112 mm in width, and features a dual-slot cooling solution. GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB is connected to the rest of the system using a PCI-Express 4.0 x16 interface. Display outputs include: 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 1320 MHz, which can be boosted up to 1777 MHz, memory is running at 1875 MHz (15 Gbps effective).īeing a dual-slot card, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB draws power from 1x 12-pin power connector, with power draw rated at 170 W maximum. NVIDIA has paired 12 GB GDDR6 memory with the GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB, which are connected using a 192-bit memory interface. The card also has 28 raytracing acceleration cores. Also included are 112 tensor cores which help improve the speed of machine learning applications. It features 3584 shading units, 112 texture mapping units, and 48 ROPs. Unlike the fully unlocked GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP, which uses the same GPU but has all 3840 shaders enabled, NVIDIA has disabled some shading units on the GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB to reach the product's target shader count. The GA106 graphics processor is an average sized chip with a die area of 276 mm² and 12,000 million transistors. Additionally, the DirectX 12 Ultimate capability guarantees support for hardware-raytracing, variable-rate shading and more, in upcoming video games. This ensures that all modern games will run on GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB. Built on the 8 nm process, and based on the GA106 graphics processor, in its GA106-300-A1 variant, the card supports DirectX 12 Ultimate. The GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB is a performance-segment graphics card by NVIDIA, launched on January 12th, 2021.
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