Benchmarks for the RTX 3060 have leaked out online which show its performance on par with the RTX 2070. 3DMark and Superposition benchmark results for the RTX 3060 were leaked in which the card has similar performance to GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER or RTX 2070.
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.
In the leaked benchmarks, the RTX 3060 is on par with the RTX 2060 Super and RTX 2070 with a minimal performance difference of 1-3% in these cards. The RTX 3060 is slower than the RX 5700 XT so we can expect the card to be slower than the upcoming RX 6700 XT as well.
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NVIDIA has announced that will half the hashing capability of the RTX 3060 graphic card to limit its use in mining. This comes hand to hand with NVIDIA’s announcement of its CMP cards which have been specifically designed for mining purposes.
NVIDIA announced that the upcoming GeForce RTX 3060 will have a special driver that will automatically detect mining-specific algorithms, which will limit the hash rate by 50%. This would ensure that the RTX 3060 would be useful to gamers, not miners.
The RTX 3060 will retail for $329 and will be a brilliant budget card for gamers. NVIDIA also announced that RTX 3060 will be the first graphics card to support Resizable BAR, a feature so far exclusive to RDNA2 graphics cards.
