Even the I/O is arranged to maximise airflow, with a single row of display outputs (three DisplayPort 1.4, one HDMI 2.1) sitting beneath a 16x5 grid of ventilation cutouts.Īs with other RTX 30-series cards, the 3060 Ti is a PCIe 4.0 device but works in PCIe 3.0 motherboards without any loss in performance in the vast majority of gaming workloads. We have two axial fans in a 'flow-through' configuration, with the small, pennant-shaped motherboard design and miniature 12-pin power connector allowing the final third of the card to be wholly used for cooling. We've covered Ampere in more detail in our earlier RTX 3070, 30 reviews, so let's move onto the card's physical design.Īs usual, we're testing the Founders Edition of the card, which comes with the same gorgeous industrial design and in the same compact dimensions as the RTX 3070. Looking further back, at the GTX 1060, and the multiplier is closer to 4x - with a corresponding increase to transistor count, courtesy of the shift from the 16nm with Pascal to 12nm with Turing and now 8nm with Ampere.Īs well as improvements to compute performance, all of the usual features of Nvidia's Ampere architecture are present and correct, including next-generation ray tracing and tensor cores, so we can expect more noticeable performance uplifts in RT and AI accelerated workloads. The 3060 Ti manages to more than double the number of graphics cores of the 2060 Super, in a smaller die that consumes only a tad more power.
The comparison against older generation cards is more interesting. It's good to see 8GB of VRAM becoming the new standard, with all next-gen cards from both teams providing at least that much thus far. The memory subsystems are unchanged however, with both cards sporting the same 8GB GDDR6 operating at 448GB/s. The card also operates at slightly slower clock speeds (1665MHz boost versus 1725MHz) to fit into a 20W lower TDP (200W vs 220W).
In terms of the specs and underlying architecture, the RTX 3060 Ti uses the same GA104 GPU as the RTX 3070, but with fewer CUDA cores - 4864 versus 5888. If the Green Team is able to actually produce these cards in volume - and sell them to actual customers rather than bot farms - they could be onto a winner. Nvidia promises RTX 2080 Super level performance in a smaller, cheaper and more efficient Ampere design, and - spoiler alert - that's exactly what our testing shows they've delivered.įor £370 in the UK, $400 in the US and around €399 in Europe, the 3060 Ti isn't quite in mainstream territory, but it's significantly faster than the RTX 2060 Super it replaces at the same price-point and AMD's competitive Big Navi architecture has yet to debut at anything below the $580/£530 price point of the RX 6800. The rumours were true: the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is a real graphics card, and we've been testing it for the past week.
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