Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 graphic card has finally released and the reviews for the card have also started to come out. The RTX 3060 is slated to be the new budget king and is aimed at gamers looking for the most bang for the buck performance.
The RTX 3060 is powered by the GA106-300 GPU which has 28 SM units enabled which makes a total of 3584 CUDA cores and 112 TMUs. It features a base clock of 1320 MHz and a boost clock of 1777 Mhz. With that CUDA core count, the RTX 3060 GPU can hit a peak horsepower of 12.7 TFLOPs – which is almost on par with the older Turing-based flagships.
The GeForce RTX 3060 comes packed with 12 GB of GDDR6 memory. The memory runs across a 192-bit bus wide interface and features an effective clock speed of 17.00 Gbps. NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3060 also comes packed with next-generation RT (Raytracing) cores, Tensor cores, and brand-new SM or streaming multi-processor units. The graphics card has a TDP of 170W.
Below we have rounded up the different reviews from different sources. Keep in mind that as there was no founder’s edition for the RTX 3060, so each reviewer may have used a card of a different brand for their review.
The Verge – EVGA RTX 3060
Rating: 7/10
GOOD STUFF
- Small, cool, and relatively quiet
- DLSS can bring ray tracing within reach
- Perhaps you’ll be able to find this one
BAD STUFF
- Not a great choice for 1440p
- Little headroom in the latest games
- How much will you actually pay?
“Even if it eventually winds up being easy to purchase, though, I’ve got to wonder if the 3060 is the affordable GPU that we’ve been waiting for.” The Verge sums up with this.
PC Gamer – Zotac Twin Edge RTX 3060
Rating: 84/100
PC Gamer sums up their review of the RTX 3060 Zotac Twin Edge as follows.
“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.”
Eurogamer.net – Zotac Twin Edge RTX 3060
Verdict: RTX 2070 performance for less, yet the 3060 Ti is better value.
While there’s a lot to like here, the RTX 3060 is undoubtedly not as strong a value as the RTX 3060 Ti. That card costs around 20 per cent more ($400 vs $330) yet provides a significant boost to frame-rates – especially at 1440p and 2160p.
Arstechnica.com — EVGA RTX 3060
Verdict: It’s fine! But…
Really, the worst thing I can say about the RTX 3060 is that it’s not as tantalizing a jump from the 2060 as other “plus-1,000” RTX cards have proven over the past six months. The powerful $799 RTX 3080 rendered the famously expensive RTX 2080 Ti moot, while the RTX 3070 showed up at a fair $499 price with a serious leg up on the 2070 Super (and was honestly comparable to the RTX 2080 Ti). Heck, the RTX 3060 Ti already compared well to the RTX 2060 Super, leaving this latest card in a funky comparison position.
Guru3d.com — ASUS GeForce RTX 3060 STRIX Gaming OC
Rating: 5/5
It has to be stated, ASUS really needs to do something about loin naming, holy moly. But yeah, meet the ASUS ROG STRIX GeForce RTX 3060 Gaming OC. The premium card comes with that NVIDIA GA106 GPU, this time the revision 300 GPU SKU; it a proper shader core count paired with 12GB GDDR6 graphics memory at 192-bit running at 15 Gbps. Muscled up with cooling, this card is equipped with a dual-bios design with performance and silent mode; the three fans start to spin and cool once the GPU warms up. The card has a single (6+2) pin power header.
Armed with a BIOS that offers an 1882 MHz Turbo (1780 MHz = reference) in the performance BIOS setting and a cooler that you’ll bow to. This card manages to produce 32 Dba noise levels at temperatures under 60 Degrees C in a Silent BIOS mode. These are incredibly silent acoustics when under load. The card is rated by us at 167 Watt power as a typical draw. Despite that we test the factory tweaked model, it still overclocks quite well bringing, and accumulated it makes this product a notch faster than founder edition specifications for the base model.
Are you looking forward to getting your hands on the newly released Nvidia RTX 3060 and what do you think of the reviews? Let us know in the comments section below.
