- You don't know what this GPU
has been through to get here, nor do you know how many
of them didn't make it, but here it is, the GeForce
RTX 3060 Nvidia long awaited premium mid range Ampere architecture GPU. This, this is the one that's
destined to top SteamCharts for the most popular gaming
card on the freaking planet for at least as long as it's forefather or fore grandfather the GTX 1060 did. But that assumes a couple
of things doesn't it? One, that it's actually any good. And of course number two, that Nvidia can make enough of them. One thing we can always
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in the video description. (bright upbeat music) It's hard to believe that the GTX 1060 is nearly five years old at this point. That's how long it's been since
anything has even come close to the level of bang for the buck that this card represented. It beat out the contemporary
Polaris-based RX 480 and AMD's hey at least
you tried RX 580 Refresh, then Nvidia themselves tried to make the magic lightening strike again. First with the RTX 2060, then
with their GTX 1600 series. I mean those are both good
products, don't get me wrong, but the 1060 is still the top dog on Steam's Hardware Survey, so it's clear that mid range gamers were hungry for something better. That's why so much is
riding on the RTX 3060. Nvidia is explicitly targeting you, the nearly 10% of you out
there who are watching this on a 1060 and spoiler alert, this is it. This is going to be the
GPU to finally topple it. At least that's what I would say, if the replacement were coming
in at the same price point while the $329 US price
tag does make sense next to the GTX 1060 6 GB
Founders Edition at $299 at least after we adjusted for inflation there is no Founder's
Edition this time around just a reference design. So you are definitely
still paying an RTX tax. This may give AMD and in
with their tease there of what is almost certainly
there RX 6700 series. Get subscribed by the way so
you don't miss our coverage of those cards when they launch. Unlike the RTX 3060 TI which does have a Founder's Edition, the RTX 3060 comes with
50% more GDDR6 memory but that's constrained
to a slower 192 bit bus as for it's faster clocked CUDA Cores. Well they're faster clocks,
but they've been cut to just shy of three
quarters of its TI sibling. Compared to the GTX 1060 though, the RTX 3060 gets all the goodies that come with Nvidia's
latest Ampere architecture like Ray Tracing, HDMI 2.1 for
up to 4K 120 Hertz displays, Nvidia broadcast and
the Turing NVENC engine that's just so good for streaming. That means that as long
as performance is good the extra ask from Nvidia is likely to be more than worth it. So then here's our GPU bench and here's the cards we'll
be comparing against. We wish there were more but we really didn't have a lot of time. We got this via very unconventional means 'cause our other ones were
stuck, that thing we said before. Starting the Shadow of
the Tomb Raider then, it's no surprise that in
traditional rasterization the GTX 1060 falls way
behind the new RTX 3060. What is a little surprising? And this could be good news for you. Is that the RTX 2060 SUPER come so close. So if you did shell out
for last generation, well you shouldn't feel too
compelled to upgrade here. Back to those who didn't though, well this might finally be it the card that makes RTX mainstream. I mean check this out, with RTX on the 3060 managers higher
performance numbers at 1080p than the GTX 1060 gets with RTX off. As for the 1060 with
RTX on, well we tried it but it crashed out due
to a display driver reset that nearly took the
rest of the PC with it. F1 2020 sees the 3060
pulling further ahead of the RTX 2060 SUPER with a total improvement
entering the high 20% before dipping back down to the low 10s in Forza Horizon 4, as for the GTX 1060 well, it struggled to maintain a
frame rate much higher than 60. Then there's Wolfenstein: Youngblood. Youngblood is a highly
optimized Vulkan title and it shows in how much of
a performance chasm there is between the GTX 1060 and
the rest of the pack. And the 1060 straight
up refuses to even run Vulkan Ray Tracing since non RTX cards rely on
the DirectX 12 Fallback Layer. As for Microsoft Flight Simulator it's basically unplayable on the GTX 1060 unless you're willing to
reduce the graphics quality. And remember guys, this is at 1080p so you can't exactly just
keep dropping down the Rez and still have a great experience. The CUDA Grass for Pascal though really is CS: GO performance. And you might look at
these numbers and think what's the problem? But Nvidia's Frames Win Games,
motto isn't for nothing. The faster a frame can be rendered and pushed to your display. The more up-to-date the information that hits your eyes is going to be. And for a game like CS: GO
especially in a competitive match that makes a big difference. So the rule of thumb then is that you want minimum frame rates that are no lower than double the refresh rate of your display. That gives you optimal
frame pacing and input leg. So on a 60 Hertz display, hey,
you're good to go with this, don't even worry about it,
187 FPS minimum, no problem. As soon as you upgrade to
a 120 Hertz display though, which is surprisingly affordable you are not gonna be doing so hot. If you're cold, by the way try this sweater from
ittstore.com, it's very warm. Moving on to productivity, the GTX 1060 has an obvious
disadvantage going in lacking both the Turing and Ampere generational
performance improvements. Even knowing that though it is staggering to see just how badly it gets beaten here. The RTX 3060 manages to
significantly outpace the last gen RTX 2060 SUPER,
let alone the geriatric 1060 where that card it's rendering performance can charitably be described as adequate if you don't value your time. The RTX 3060 easily doubles
even the 2060 SUPER scores across the board up
until we hit OctaneBench where the gap does narrow but then interestingly, the
RTX 3060 TI widens its lead. SPECviewperf meanwhile looks
like it's largely a tie between the RTX 3060 and the 2060 SUPER with a few wins here and there
but nothing mind blowing. It's worth mentioning that the RTX 3060 narrower
192 bit memory bus puts it at a disadvantage
in some of these tests but it still keeps well ahead of the 1060 thanks to its higher speed GDDR6 and everything else it's better about it. As for our particular variant we were supposed to have an
EVGA card, then a Asus one, then a different EVGA one, we ended up with a MSI VENTUS 2X. It's got a pretty modest cool compared to some of the top
end variants of RTX 3060 but even this card peaked at temperatures of about 70 degrees
throughout SPECviewperf, with a very similar
cooling and noise profile to not only the RTX 3060 TI but also the 2060 SUPER and even GTX 1060. And all of this was while maintaining roughly our cards maximum
boost clock of 1.9 gigahertz, which suggests that this GPU has significant thermal headroom and may be able to be pushed much harder with the right board and cooler. With an 8-Pin PCI Express power connector. It goes without saying that
the RTX 3060 draws more power than the 6-Pin GTX 1060, and this is reflected in
its official power rating. At peak, it drew a cool
40-watts less though than the more powerful RTX 3060 TI with a peak of just over 160-watts. That's good, but what's more impressive is that it drew less power
than even the RTX 2060 SUPER which peaked it over 175-watts. While the older GTX 1060
certainly did manage lower power consumption on average though, it actually manages to spike
to around the same maximum. So RTX 3060 is looking pretty darn good as far as thermals and power consumption. I mean overall there's
very little to complain about in terms of performance. It's just that, and this at risk of
beating a dead horse here. Availability may be a different issue. Now it is possible that these
will be more widely available than previous RTX 30 series launches but while Nvidia seemed confident that there would be lots of supply, a couple of retailers that
we've spoken to locally have some doubts about that,
at least out of the gate. So if that's true, today
could be yet another payday for filthy scalpers. We can only hope then
that supply is good enough that demand falls and
those scalpers end up with a whole bunch of extra
cards they have to liquidate into actual gamers as quickly as possible. Now you might've noticed that one thing we didn't
talk about today is mining. And the reason for that is that we've set our peace on it already. And we only want to evaluate this product from a gaming perspective
on its merits for gamers not the political decisions
that Nvidia makes. So whatever we said before, it's important for you guys
to know we don't hate Nvidia and we definitely don't hate this product. It's just that when any company
makes a boneheaded decision Apple, Dell, Intel, AMD doesn't matter who it's our job to call them out. And then by the same token,
it's our job to praise them when they get something right. And they got a lot
right with the RTX 3060. So that's it, go upgrade
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about the mining angle of this go check out our recent video, exploring why we think Nvidia
limiting this card's hash rate and introducing dedicated mining GPUs is not as good as it
might seem on the surface. It's a little more complicated
than you might think.
The 3060Ti is just so much better, and the FE is cheaper than any of the MSRPs that the AIBs have slapped on the regular 3060.
It's just going to be that much harder to get lucky and score a 3060Ti on a Best Buy drop now. And I wouldn't be surprised at all if Nvidia just quietly stops making 3060Ti FEs altogether.
Damn the 3060ti looks like an absolute BEAST in comparison
Man, i see no reason to get this card at all. The fact they didnt even make a FE edition should tell everything
This card makes no sense at its 329$ msrp. Specially when comparing the 399$ 3060ti which is a lot better.
it isn't more powerful, or power efficient than the card it's replacing (2060 Super)
this is by definition not progress
Trash card that in reality should have been the RTX 3050 Ti for 160$
I just wanna finish my first build man...
he Verge sums it up well:
these irritating youtube thumbnails with people pulling stupid faces.