Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition

[HEXUS]

Ampere under £400.

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[Jonatron]

When there's some availability and third party cards without a silly connector, this is what I've been waiting for.

[[GSV]Trig]

Unless the 6700/6700XT comes in under £400 and has decent performance thinking this might be my next card...

[=assassin=]

Thank-you for the review Hexus - glad you included the 1060 for comparison, unlike alot of other sites! If I could actually get a card for £369, then I'd love to get one, and have the money to, but not only will there be very few available, the non-founders cards will also cost more anyway, and even more important for me, I still need other components to go back in stock like AMD's 5000's series CPU's, so all these nice tech launches recently just make me even more depressed. "Here's this nice cool product we have.... but sorry, you can't have it, it's just for show". Ho hum.... maybe sometime next year.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

At the rate things are going with AMD CPU and GPU prices,and lack of availability,an Intel and Nvidia rig actually now makes more sense for a mainstream buyer.

Unless the 6700/6700XT comes in under £400 and has decent performance thinking this might be my next card...

AMD will price the 6700XT at £429 beause it has 12GB of VRAM,and is a few percent faster in rasterised performance,and consumes a bit less power.

[wazzickle]

I have a 1070, could you do the entire review again please but substituting the 1070 in for the 1060? :-D

Assuming it's actually available at under £400, I'd get this, were it not for the fact I don't have an income right now and I'm already not far from max settings on COD Warzone on my new 144 Hz / QHD LG. Think I'd need to spring for Black Ops to take advantage of ray tracing and DLSS as well.

[rave_alan]

It will be a hit if nvidia can deliver enough cards before Xmas.

[lumireleon]

unfortunately Hexus are not giving Flight sim 2020 benchmarks

[kalniel]

unfortunately Hexus are not giving Flight sim 2020 benchmarks

While I'd also like to see them, I can understand why - the time it apparently takes means you're adding a lot of cost to the review for not a huge amount of info since FS is being patched quite regularly and performance is changing. Once it's settled down though I'd definitely love to see FS benchmarks in there.

edit: techspot have one in the meantime, it performs the same as a 2080 super: https://www.techspot.com/review/2155...e-rtx-3060-ti/

[Tarinder]

New gaming suite coming in January/February 2021, run off the Ryzen 9 5950X.

Be happy to hear your comments in which games you would like to see in - Cyberpunk 2077 and Flight Sim are both favourites. We'll start a formal thread soon.

[kalniel]

New gaming suite coming in January/February 2021, run off the Ryzen 9 5950X.

Be happy to hear your comments in which games you would like to see in - Cyberpunk 2077 and Flight Sim are both favourites. We'll start a formal thread soon.

They would both be awesome!

[kalniel]

Operating the same test with DLSS technology active - something AMD's cards cannot do presently, so their scores remain the same - translates to a home run for Nvidia. In this context, RTX 3060 Ti crushes the nascent, dearer AMD competition and makes Control very playable at QHD. A fair comparison? We think so, given image quality is at least as good. It will be interesting to see how AMD's upcoming DLSS-like implementation fares, because it needs it.

Are you suggesting DLSS improves image quality over native? That's the first time I've heard that - it would be great to see some examples.

[Tarinder]

I make that comment from actually looking at scenes in-game, rather than relying on static screenshots that sometimes don't portray the experience as well as you might think. Even if you do the latter, DLSS on High is really good in Control. I'll dig out a series of screenshots when I have a bit of time. Right now, that's being spent on a certain big card launching early next week.

[Zhaoman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWIKzRhYZm4

In certain scenarios, for some objects such as static noticeboards with text, DLSS 2.0 can look sharper than native.
In other scenarios, during motion, or for smoke or other particle effects, it can be anything from blurry to plain wrong.

So I would still prefer native 4k but DLSS 2.0, in the handful of games that support it, seems to be almost there and looks great most of the time. Hexus claiming the image quality is "at least as good" as native is jumping the gun a bit imo.

[Tarinder]

We're not saying it's as good as 4K native as the resolution we're looking at is QHD. It is indeed a stretch to say it is as good as 4K.

[LSG501]

Been thinking this might be a nice card for my 4790k, yeah it will likely be bottlenecked by the cpu, but for 1080p it will be more than enough and it's got plenty of cuda cores for my usage at the moment.....assuming there is stock. It's not like I can build a full system like I was thinking about at the moment so that might be put off till next year at this rate lol.