Nvidia RTX 3060 12GB review Zotac Twin Edge
Our Verdict
A healthy upgrade over the RTX 2060, but a little of the wow factor has worn off for Ampere’s cheapest. You can at least be confident that you won’t run out of memory, at least, and that feels like it will be important for gaming into 2021 and beyond, even if we’re not quite there yet.
For
- 12GB GDDR6 memory
- Cheaper than RTX 2060 at launch
- Performant Ampere architecture
Against
- Little off the pace for Ampere
- $70 gets you a much faster card in the RTX 3060 Ti
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At a time when graphics cards are a precious commodity, the Nvidia RTX 3060 12GB will arrive as the cheapest RTX 30-series graphics card to-date. It’s destined to swiftly become a best seller… and then sold out in an instant. I’d bet my bottom dollar on it. But while you might expect a cookie cutter launch from Nvidia’s fifth Ampere launch to date, you’d perhaps be surprised that the RTX 3060 12GB is something of a new beast altogether.
Perhaps the most newsworthy shake up for the Nvidia RTX 3060 came with the announcement of a hash rate limiter , which will keep the card from operating at its full capability while mining Ethereum, the crypto of choice for GPU mining. Nvidia hopes that’ll sway miners towards its new CMP line-up, built from off cut GPUs not fit for gaming consumption, while supposedly leaving more GeForce cards for gamers
But we’re not assessing the Nvidia RTX 3060 12GB’s mining capability in this review, even if that may have some impact on the eventual availability of these cards. No, we’re diving into its gaming prowess. There’s a whole new GPU to play with here, alongside a mighty memory loadout, so let’s get right to it.
Specifications
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What are the Nvidia RTX 3060 12GB specs?
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 12GB isn’t quite what we were first expecting at this price, but that’s more down to its engorged memory capacity than its GPU specs.
That 12GB of GDDR6 memory sticks out like a sore thumb from the crowd of RTX 30-series GPUs before it: The RTX 3070 and RTX 3060 Ti both come with 8GB of the stuff, while the RTX 3080 is fit with 10GB of GDDR6X. The chips denoted with that all-important ‘X’ are actually quite a bit faster than the standard GDDR6 silicon, though, so don’t make for direct comparison.
The RTX 3090 is the only RTX 30-series card to top the memory capacity of the RTX 3060, with 24GB of GDDR6X. Again, that’s all far quicker in practice. But you can already see why the cheapest Ampere card arriving with the second-highest memory capacity is enough to raise a few eyebrows.
RTX 3060 12GB specs
GPU: GA106
Lithograpy: Samsung 8nm
CUDA cores: 3,584
SMs: 28
RT Cores: 28
Tensor Cores: 112
GPU Boost clock: 1,777MHz
Memory bus: 192-bit
Memory capacity: 12GB GDDR6
Memory speed: 15Gbps
Memory bandwidth: 360GB/s
TGP: 170W
MSRP at launch: $329
That’s still limited to a 192-bit bus, however, and that means six 32-bit memory controllers on the die.
Those can be occupied in either 6GB or 12GB configurations with 8Gb or 16Gb GDDR6 modules from the likes of Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix.
An 8GB configuration would only be possible with a larger bus, such as the one on the GA104 GPU. That very GPU could be pared back to replace GA106, in theory. Nvidia has done something similar in the past, with the RTX 2060 actually incorporating some pared back TU104 GPUs, and perhaps could be a way to use up unsuitable silicon, but we’re far from more than tacit mention of any such configuration today .
I’m not too certain on the specifics of mixing 8Gb and 16Gb modules on the same package either, for an 8GB GA106 card, but that sounds pretty dicey for more than a handful of reasons. A question I need to follow up with an engineer, no doubt.
Let’s stick to what we know, and that’s 12GB of GDDR6 rated to 15Gbps over a 192-bit bus. That results in slimmer memory bandwidth compared to the other Ampere generation graphics cards at 360GB/s.
The RTX 3070 and 3060 Ti manage 448GB/s.
Yet 12GB of memory is welcome at a price of $329, especially considering the RTX 2060 launched for $349 and with just 6GB of GDDR6. And there’s plenty to like about the card when you get down to the metal, too.
The GA106 GPU is at the heart of the RTX 3060. It’s a brand new chip, silicon not yet seen in our gaming PCs, and that means that the RTX 3060 is in some ways unlike any other Ampere GPU to date.
It touts three GPCs, each one with the potential for up to 10 SMs in total. There’s a little redundancy in the actual RTX 3060 chip, though, which comes with two fewer for a total of 28 SMs. Thanks to the advancements in the Ampere architecture, those SMs each carry 128 CUDA Cores, or more precisely 128 potential FP32 units, a piece. Making for an overall CUDA Core count of 3,584.
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That’s significantly higher than the 1,920 CUDA Cores of the RTX 2060 , which is our main point of comparison for this review, although it must be said that the way the Ampere generation works doesn’t make this a straightforward doubling of performance.
It’s the FP32 units that are effectively being doubled here, what Nvidia classes as CUDA Cores, while the remaining silicon remains at a close count to its Turing counterpart.
Even the doubling of FP32 units isn’t all that simple—the use of a mixed function path that can jump between either integer or floating point tasks is the key to the new core counts all-round. You can see it the Ampere SM diagram, a fixed FP32 unit besides a FP32/INT32 path within each of the four SM processing blocks. Since gaming workloads can vary wildly the flexibility must be there to offer both data paths in good amount, but there’s often a leaning towards greater FP32 operations and therefore a boon to performance by offering more capability to crunch those numbers.
So while the RTX 3060 is mightier by CUDA count, it actually has two fewer SMs than the RTX 2060. In terms of ROPs and Texture Units (TMUs), which are both awfully important in building performant graphics cards for today’s games, the RTX 3060 comes with 48 and 112, respectively.
The RTX 2060 is a match for ROPs but actually makes up a little ground here with 120 TMUs. It’s only a slight boon in writing, but it just goes to show that there’s not as much of a difference between the two chips in rendering silicon that the core count may suggest at first glance.
The RTX 3060 also has two fewer RT Cores than the RTX 2060 as a result, too. But don’t be mistaken, that does not make it any less capable in ray tracing workloads. In fact, it’s notably faster. That’s down to the improvements introduced with the second generation RT Cores and third generation Tensor Cores within the Ampere architecture, which have proven mighty for the high-end 30-series in partially negating the burden of ray tracing on frame times.
It’s also worth noting that there’s no Founders Edition RTX 3060 12GB. The Zotac Twin Edge that we’ve received for this review is a stock card, though, so you can be sure that you’re looking at the jumping off point for all other third-party and factory overclocked cards, of which there are sure to be many.
Benchmarks and performance
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How does the Nvidia RTX 3060 12GB perform?
With a few potentially governing factors in play for performance, you only know what to expect from this card across 1080p, 1440p, and 4K when you hit the graphs.
On the first two counts, 1440p and 1080p, I’m pleased to report that all is well in the green camp. These resolutions are easily within reach for the RTX 3060 across most of our gaming benchmarks, even at highest available graphics settings. We don’t expect anything less from even the more entry-level cards nowadays, and so a $329 GPU should absolutely score highly. That it does.
1080p gaming performance
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1440p gaming performance
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4K gaming performance
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Test rig
CPU: Intel Core i7 10700K
Motherboard: MSI MPG Z490 Gaming Carbon WiFi
RAM: Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro @ 3,200MHz
CPU cooler: Corsair h210i RGB Pro XT
PSU: NZXT 850W
Chassis: DimasTech Mini V2
Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey at ultra high continues to kill off hopes of a stable 60fps on a budget—there’s clearly more work to be done to trivialise that game at full whack.
That’s sure to be even more pronounced on a weaker CPU, which this title can be particularly punishing of.
Similarly, Metro Exodus appears a pain point for the RTX 3060, whereas the RTX 3060 Ti manages to retain slightly more optimistic performance at both 1080p and 1440p. In fact, if you look across our results you’ll find the RTX 3060 Ti dominating by 20-40%. Another reason why that card is a great buy at $399.
With no direct competitor from AMD just yet, it’s mostly Nvidia’s own Turing generation that we have to pit this card against.
The RTX 3060 12GB bounces around 10-15 percent improvement on the RTX 2060 across the board, though that can swing drastically on a per-game basis. In The Division 2 the RTX 3060 can be upwards of 20-40 percent quicker.
Ray tracing and DLSS performance
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How much of an impact that 12GB of VRAM is having on 1080p and 1440p performance is nebulous and tough to track, but it appears to have had some impact at 4K, where frame rates look a little more favourably on the RTX 3060 12GB.
Power and thermals
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It’s at greater resolutions where the memory capacity will be tried and tested the most, and if it’s not Nvidia’s silicon then it’s that 12GB of memory that’s making the difference. We’re still not seeing a massive upheaval in every game, though, suggesting that gaming demands for memory still aren’t creakingly high for even a 6GB card like the RTX 2060.
Analysis
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What does the Nvidia RTX 3060 12GB mean today?
At first glance the Nvidia RTX 3060 12GB may appear off kilter, even top heavy, with a bulbous memory configuration and a slimline GPU. Yet the card delivers performance upwards of the RTX 2060 by a decent margin, while arriving cheaper, and with enough zeal at 4K to make me believe that 12GB of GDDR6 may have some effect even with limited bandwidth.
Questions regarding memory supply will no doubt be raised in response to the generous dollop of GDDR6 with the RTX 3060, but when we know very little of a supply chain that Nvidia has close command over, you can only assume it believes it to be a realistic goal.
Will the RTX 3060 12GB eventually give way to a 6GB version as the year stumbles on? It’s something to keep an eye on, at least.
I am sure that a sub-$300 card with less memory would be a welcome addition to the stack, however, even if 6GB does feel a little too meagre for even a mid-range graphics card by today’s standards.
That 12GB of GDDR6 certainly feels more comfortable for the ephemeral concept of future-proofing
Nvidia has priors in reducing core count alongside alternate memory configurations, though, even when two cards share the same name. Take the 6GB and 3GB GTX 1060 graphics cards, for example, the latter of which you could argue is hardly a GTX 1060 at all.
Another question that’s burning in the back of my mind is would the RTX 3060 have performed nearly as well with only 6GB of GDDR6? I dare say it probably would, for a while… that could well be underestimating how swiftly the tide may turn on VRAM demands in gaming, and the effect that little digit before ‘GB’ has on your average consumer’s purchasing habits.
Few games currently require large memory buffers at anything less than 4K resolution, but that may change rather rapidly. As we’re already beginning to experience even today.
While relatively few in number, there are some games today that do require more than 6GB of VRAM at high fidelity settings. Wolfenstein: Youngblood struggles to run at Mein Leben! (highest) quality on the RTX 2060’s 6GB of GDDR6. That’s not a problem I remember having in the past with older versions of the game, but it’s repeatable, so clearly something’s sent this card over the edge and into oblivion.
That’s a bit of a niche case, granted, and you could quite easily crank down the graphics fidelity for just as enjoyable a time. But is even one game rendered unplayable due to a lack of video memory enough to justify a 12GB card? For many, I would imagine it is.
It certainly will strike fear into anyone eyeing up a 6GB card in 2021. It’s almost impossible to say when and to what extent the shift to greater memory demands will come about, but be sure that memory demand will increase with every new cutting-edge game.
That 12GB of GDDR6 certainly feels more comfortable for the ephemeral concept of future-proofing.
It’s those of us rocking GTX 1060 and older graphics cards that Nvidia is hoping to get on board with the RTX 3060, and it certainly makes a lot of sense for those on Pascal or older to make the leap to Ampere.
As a short hop for an RTX 2060 owner? Perhaps not. There’s just not the upgrade there to warrant the investment. Even with improved performance across both rasterised and ray-traced workloads.
That is unless you’re prepared to sell off your second-hand card to a miner for something close to what you paid for it two years back. Stranger things have happened… but that all relies on you managing to snag an RTX 3060 first, and I have no doubts that, even with significant stock at hand, these cards will be hard to come by.
Nvidia hopes to ease the launch day scramble by taking this particular card off the table for Ethereum, which is by far the most popular cryptocurrency for GPU mining.
A three-way handshake between vBIOS, driver, and silicon ensures a halving of the hash rate when an Ethereum mining algorithm is detected, and it is confident that it’s not going to be circumvented.
That’s at least some heat off the RTX 3060’s availability, but I fear there’s nothing anyone can do to satiate the hungry GPU market today except keep the silicon pumps at full speed and chips flying out to retailers as fast as they can.
Verdict
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Conclusions
The RTX 3060 delivers a healthy performance gain over the RTX 2060 and a lower asking price on launch day.
That is admittedly more of a small hop compared to the generational leap we’ve come to expect from the Ampere RTX 30-series, and perhaps that’s why the RTX 3060 12GB release has not shaken my resolve on the RTX 3060 Ti being a great buy. For $70 more you get that greater memory bandwidth, that bounding performance gain we’ve come to expect, and all the net benefits of the Ampere architecture.
That’s also likely $70 that will be chewed up by premium third-party cards and factory overclocked RTX 3060s with a high sticker price.
For my money, then, I’m sticking with the RTX 3060 Ti as the mid-range champion. The Nvidia RTX 3060 strays a little too far from the pack of high-end Ampere to have the same impact generation on generation. But in that same breath it must be said that the RTX 3060 a fine upgrade for a 10-series or older card, especially if it stays anywhere close to MSRP, and one that will likely see you confidently through the next few years of major game releases.
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A healthy upgrade over the RTX 2060, but a little of the wow factor has worn off for Ampere’s cheapest.
You can at least be confident that you won’t run out of memory, at least, and that feels like it will be important for gaming into 2021 and beyond, even if we’re not quite there yet.
Jacob earned his first byline writing for his own tech blog from his hometown in Wales in 2017. From there, he graduated to professionally breaking things as hardware writer at PCGamesN, where he would later win command of the kit cupboard as hardware editor. Nowadays, as senior hardware editor at PC Gamer, he spends his days reporting on the latest developments in the technology and gaming industry. When he’s not writing about GPUs and CPUs, however, you’ll find him trying to get as far away from the modern world as possible by wild camping.
Best Graphics Cards (GPUs) for gaming in 2023
When building your next gaming PC or upgrading your current rig, the component that affects your gaming performance is your graphics card (GPU). Picking the right graphics card is the key to getting the best FPS in your favorite games.
In the olden days (anything pre-2018), picking a graphics card was simple. Have your choice from any graphics card in your budget, and you’re guaranteed good performance. Sure, there were a few differentiating factors between the two main GPU chip manufacturers, AMD and Nvidia, like G-Sync and Nvidia’s superior recording software Shadowplay. But, as for what you’d see in-game, it was basically identical.
But, with the advent of real-time raytracing, the differences between graphics cards have increased, and it can be confusing when you’re sifting through all the choices: GTX that, RX this, RTX! Don’t fret, wanderer, for this list is your savior. We at TechEngage have compiled a list of the best graphics cards to buy in 2023.
List of best graphics cards on Amazon in 2023
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| Price | $1,049.00 |
| Rating on Amazon | 4.6 out of 5 stars |
| Brand | MSI |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 features:
- Chipset: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
- TRI FROZR 2 Thermal Design
- Video Memory: 10GB GDDR6X
- Memory Interface: 320-bit
- Output: DisplayPort x 3 (v1.
4a) / HDMI 2.1 x 1
When Nvidia dropped their brand-new line of RTX 3000 series graphics cards, they lit the PC gaming world on fire. Whilst their top-of-the-line RTX 3090 made 8K gaming possible, it’s their mid-high tier 4K powerhouse that steals the show, in my humble opinion.
Bringing over 20-30% better performance than the previous gen’s highest-priced card, the RTX 3080Ti at $1200, the fact you can get true next-gen performance at only $699 makes the RTX 3080 an absolute steal.
The RTX 3080 is built on Nvidia’s brand new Ampere architecture with new ray-tracing cores delivering 2x throughput in performance.
Real-time raytracing is the cream of the crop when it comes to PC hardware, simulating the physical behavior of light to bring a realistic and cinematic gaming experience.
With dedicated tenor cores for AI deep learning, Nvidia’s propriety ai-accelerated super-sampler allows some insane leaps in FPS by using deep learning to upscale textures to higher resolutions to lighten the load on your GPU.
In Death Stranding, the use of DLSS sees a 37 FPS increase by switching on DLSS. This allows textures to be rendered at a lower resolution than native (for example, if you’re running at 4K, some textures may be 1440p or 1080p textures), and DLSS 2.0 uses AI to artificially “up” the resolution so that it’s imperceptible.
The main issue with the RTX 3080 is that, at least at the time of writing, which is early January 2021, it is virtually impossible to buy one of these coveted cards.
It’s a poor mixture of low supply caused by manufacturing shortages due to Covid-19 disruption and insanely high demand due to the true generational leap in performance over the RTX 2000 Turing cards.
But, when the RTX 3080 comes back into stock, get your hands on it and get it fast! This is truly the best card for gaming and is currently available for $1,049.00 on Amazon.
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| Price | $798. 68 |
| Rating on Amazon | 4.6 out of 5 stars |
| Brand | MSI |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 features:
- Chipset: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
- Video Memory: 8GB GDDR6
- Memory Interface: 256-bit
- Output: DisplayPort x 3 (v1.4a) / HDMI 2.1 x 1
- Digital maximum resolution – 7680 x 4320
I’ve been covering graphics cards for 7 years now, ever since the GTX 700 series launch back in 2013, and I can wholeheartedly say I’ve never come across a graphics card that has a better bang for your buck than the RTX 3070. Exploding onto the scene in the latter half of 2020, Nvidia boasted performances matching, if not beating, the top-of-the-line RTX 2080ti and beating out the Titan RTX in FPS performance.
Look! The RTX 3070 only trails the 3080 by a little bit when it comes to 1440p performance, and the RTX 3080 only breaks a sweat and pulls ahead when you crank up to 4K when it can flex the extra 2GB of VRAM out of the box.
The card’s ray tracing performance certainly matches, if not beats, the previous generation powerhorses, with Eurogamer’s Control raytracing benchmark seeing an average of 43.9 FPS on ultra 1440p for the RTX 3070, versus 43.2 on the RTX 2080 Ti.
All this performance at an MSRP of $499! It’s nearly a third the price of the 2080Ti with matching performance. Holy smokes!
But, as with its older brother, good luck getting your hands on one of these bad boys. They’re currently out of stock, but if you find any RTX 3070 on the market by any aftermarket reseller and you’re looking for a bang-for-the-buck GPU, get it.
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| Rating on Amazon | 3.3 out of 5 stars |
| Brand | Sapphire Technology |
Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT features:
- Game Clock: Up to 2015 MHz
- Boost Clock: Up to 2250 MHz
- 128 MB Infinity Cache
- 72 Compute Units
- 300 Watts Total Board Power
The mighty RTX 3080.
This GPU is based on the Big Navi GPU architecture and represents a departure from AMD’s previous strategy of focusing on mid-tier budget graphics cards.
With an MSRP of $649, the RX 6800 XT has a $50 upper hand on the RTX 3080, and especially if you can’t get your hands on team green’s powerhorse, the RX 6800 XT is a compelling deal.
In some games, without ray-tracing, the AMD RX 6800 XT beats out even Nvidia’s highest-priced 3000 series offering the RTX 3090. For example, at 1440p, you can expect to see similar if not better performance.
The RX 6800 XT falls behind at 4K, though, where the added VRAM and DLSS kick in for Nvidia to allow the RTX 3000 series cards to edge ever so ahead. In Death Stranding, the RTX 3080 beats out the 6800 by a mere 5fps. Not bad, AMD, not bad.
The RX 6800 XT, rather than moving to a 5nm process like Nvidia for 2020, has chosen to stick to its 7nm process and instead focus on efficiency improvements and extra features.
One of these grand new features includes Infinity Cache, a global cache that speeds up GPU memory access.
This helps give AMD a ‘leg up’ in performance to make up for the lost headway against Nvidia due to the RX 6800 XT rocking the slower GDDR6 memory compared to the RTX 3000 series GPUs’ GDDR6X memory.
The biggest addition, however, is the inclusion of dedicated computes cores to act as ray-tracing acceleration. Whilst AMD’s real-time hardware accelerated ray-tracing doesn’t quite match RTX + DLSS, the Direct 12 Ultimate compliant offering from team red is more than enough for forays into the world of ray tracing.
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| Price | $399.95 |
| Rating on Amazon | 4.4 out of 5 stars |
| Brand | Gigabyte |
Gigabyte Radeon RX 5700 XT features:
- Powered by 7nm Radeon RDNA architecture
- Accelerated Game Fidelity with Radeon Image Sharpening & FidelityFX
- Immersive Gaming Experience with FreeSync & FreeSync 2 HDR technology
- WINDFORCE 3X with Alternate Spinning Fans & Direct Touch Copper Heatpipes
- Intuitive Controls with AORUS Engine
With the current GPU shortages, it may be very difficult to find any of the 2020 cards in stock on Amazon.
I wouldn’t usually recommend last-gen hardware, as the leaps in generational performance warrant the added cost. However, if you need a GPU now, your best bet may be to look at older GPUs. This is where the last-gen AMD offering the AMD RX 5700 XT comes in.
For example, Cyberpunk 2077, even at 1440p, makes even the most expensive GPUs sweat, but at Ultra 1080p, the RX 5700 XT delivers a perfectly playable experience. For most AAA games, you’ll expect to see at least a solid 60 FPS maxed out, though the card, with its limited VRAM and slower memory, will begin to struggle at 4K.
However, the biggest deficiency with the RX 5700 XT is the lack of any dedicated horsepower for real-time hardware accelerated raytracing. Unlike the comparable RTX offerings, there currently exists no raytracing support, and we’re unlikely to see any support for it as AMD has moved its focus to their RX 6000 series GPUs. If you’re looking for a last-gen ray tracing card, this isn’t your choice. But, if you’re instead looking for a solid 1440p ultra graphics card, the RX 5700 XT is worth checking out.
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| Price | $327.85 |
| Rating on Amazon | 4.7 out of 5 stars |
| Brand | ASUS |
ASUS GeForce RTX 2070 features:
- Powered by NVIDIA Turing with 1845 MHz Boost Clock (OC Mode), 2560 CUDA Cores, and overclocked 8GB GDDR6 memory
- Supports up to 4 Monitors with 3x DisplayPort 1. 4 and 1x HDMI 2. 0 port
- Triple Axial-Tech 0db Fans increase airflow through the heatsink and boast IP5X dust resistance.
- Protective Backplate features a durable aluminum construction to prevent PCB flex and trace damage
- GPU Tweak II makes monitoring performance and streaming in real-time easier than ever, and includes additional software like Game Booster, XSplit Gamecaster, WTFast, and QuantumCloud
And that brings us to team green’s last-gen offering.
Even though this card was released in the latter half of 2018, the RTX 2070 Super still packs a ridiculous punch, and you may still be able to get your hands on one. If you’re unable to get the 2020 beasts on offering, the RTX 2000 series is your only choice if you really want ray-tracing.
Using Nvidia’s 7nm Turing architecture, the utilization of more RT and Tensor Cores brings superior ray-tracing performance over the non-super RTX 2070. All this, with only a small increase in power consumption with a rated TDP of 250 watts.
All this only delivers a ~30 FPS deficit when compared to the next-gen RTX 3070, making the 2070 Super an attractive deal when it comes to RTX performance.
The RTX 2070 Super may start to struggle when it comes to 4K performance, especially if you decide to crank RTX on. DLSS 1.0 isn’t as seamless as the RTX 3000 variant DLSS 2.0, so the upscaling can look a little janky compared to what you’d get on an RTX 3070 GPU. Therefore, this card positions itself as a stellar raytracing performer at 1440p and not 4K.
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| Price | $358.54 |
| Rating on Amazon | 4.6 out of 5 stars |
| Brand | ZOTAC |
ZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 features:
- NVIDIA Ampere architecture, 2nd Gen Ray Tracing Cores, 3rd Gen Tensor Cores
- 12GB 192-bit GDDR6, 15 Gbps, PCIE 4.0; Boost Clock 1807 MHz
- IceStorm 2.0 Cooling, Active Fan Control, Freeze Fan Stop, Metal Backplate
- 8K Ready, 4 Display Ready, HDCP 2.3, VR Ready. (Avoid using unofficial software)
- 3 x DisplayPort 1.4a, 1 x HDMI 2.1, DirectX 12 Ultimate, Vulkan RT API, OpenGL 4.6
The ZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 is a powerful graphics card that features the latest NVIDIA Ampere architecture. This architecture includes 2nd Gen Ray Tracing Cores and 3rd Gen Tensor Cores, which make it one of the most advanced GPUs on the market today.
With 12GB of 192-bit GDDR6 memory and a boost clock of 1807 MHz, this card is capable of delivering smooth performance even in demanding games and applications. The PCIE 4.0 interface ensures fast data transfer, while the 15 Gbps memory speed provides quick access to data.
ZOTAC has also incorporated its IceStorm 2.0 cooling system into the RTX 3060, which features Active Fan Control, Freeze Fan Stop, and a metal backplate for improved heat dissipation. These cooling features ensure stable performance and minimize the risk of thermal throttling, even during intense gaming sessions.
The RTX 3060 is also 8K ready and can drive up to 4 displays simultaneously, making it an ideal choice for gamers who want to create a multi-screen setup. It is also HDCP 2.3 compatible, VR-ready, and supports DirectX 12 Ultimate, Vulkan RT API, and OpenGL 4.6 for optimal compatibility with the latest games and applications.
It is important to note that the RTX 3060 is designed to work optimally with official software and drivers only.
Using unofficial software and drivers may affect performance and stability. The RTX 3060 comes with three DisplayPort 1.4a ports and one HDMI 2.1 port, providing ample connectivity options for multiple displays.
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Best graphics cards (GPUs) of 2022-2023
True game fans know how valuable a graphics card (GPU) is for quality video. It is this component that determines how quickly and efficiently the images visible on the screen will be generated. The question of which graphics card to choose can be quite difficult, but if you pay attention to the most popular and most common models of them, the decision will certainly not be so difficult. Which graphics cards are among the best in 2022-2023?
Gigabyte GeForce GT 730
This graphics card is ideal for high definition video playback or light games with lower definition. The GDDR5 memory processing technology ensures that information will be processed very quickly, so there should be no problems even when working with higher data rates.
The video card has HDMI, DVI and VGA connections, therefore, it will be easy to combine it with the technology used. Also can choose the same 9 series graphics card0038 Gigabyte GeForce GT 730 2GB . It will offer slightly less memory (64bit instead of 128bit), but will also be slightly shorter.
PALIT GeForce GTX 1650 GamingPro OC
This is one of the most popular gaming graphics cards that can offer many solid benefits. The fans only turn on when the load is higher, so can enjoy the quiet environment of in everyday life. The graphics card will speed up creative programs and provide fast gaming and offer greater energy efficiency than previous models in this series.
Zotac GeForce GT 730 Zone Edition 4 GB DDR3 (64 bit)
High-definition images and performance will become commonplace with this graphics card.
«Blu-ray 3D» lets you play incredible stereoscopic high-definition videos, while «Dolby TrueHD» and «DTS-HD Audio» technologies provide rich sound to match beautiful visual content. Meanwhile, «NVIDIA Surround» technology with triple screen support guarantees an unforgettable gaming experience. ASUS GeForce GT 730 2GB GDDR5 (64 bit) D-Sub
For those who love efficiency and thoughtful solutions, this video card should impress. Quiet passive cooling does not make any noise , therefore, it is a great choice for your home theater computer or multimedia centers. Auto-Extreme technology delivers lower environmental impact and even greater reliability, while ASUS GPU Tweak II takes graphics card tuning to the next level, making it even easier to tweak all key parameters.
Afox Radeon R5 220
Less power consumption, a more efficient transistor, faster daily functions, an observation of the strength of the graphics — after a list of such advantages, there is no question why this video card is mentioned among the best.
However, if you want even more useful features, it is worth mentioning AMD ZeroCore Power energy saving technology and compatibility with the Microsoft Windows 8.1 operating system. MSI GeForce GT 730 DDR3 N730K-2GD3H/LP
The low profile design saves a lot of space, allowing you to create a thinner or smaller system. This graphics card also supports game video recording, wireless control and built-in «DX12» effect test. Meanwhile, «NVIDIA 3D Vision» support will provide an immersive stereoscopic 3D experience.
Gigabyte GV-N2060D6-6GD 2.0
This graphics card should impress gamers because of its unique technology, lighting, reflections, shadows and general images are much more realistic whether you play action games or want to experience the benefits of VR. It’s also worth highlighting the unique 3D fans that provide semi-passive cooling and an exceptionally durable graphics card design that allows you to enjoy years of exceptional performance.
