That's also 4GB more than the RTX 3060 Ti, and, on the drawing board, this should give the RTX 3060 a viable lead over its predecessors in more intensive titles running at resolutions of 1440p or higher. The RTX 3060 GPU comes with twice the available VRAM of its predecessor, doubling the 6GB from the RTX 2060 Founders Edition to 12GB in the newer card. Why has Nvidia decided to split a card tier in half by using different dies? We can't say, but regardless of the reasoning, the end result is two very different RTX 3060s, one Ti and one not, that might as well have been released years apart, as far as benchmarks go. While the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 is based on the GA106 die, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is based on GA104 (the same die in the RTX 3070 and RTX 3080). Second, there's the difference in underlying GPU dies. But the RTX 3060 Ti indeed debuted first, at the end of 2020. Sure, 2020 was a crazy year, but with the Patriots failing to make the Super Bowl and Nvidia releasing its first ho-hum RTX 30 Series card, could this be a harbinger of an even more topsy-turvy 2021?įirst, the obvious: aren't these two cards issued out of order? Save for a fringe case or two over the years, Nvidia releases the 'Ti' variant of its various GPUs in their stack after the original model goes on sale, not the other way around. 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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