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you don't know what this GPU's been through to get here nor do you know how

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many of them didn't make it but

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here it is the GeForce rtx 3060 NVIDIA's

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long-awaited premium mid-range ampere

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architecture GPU this this is the one that's destined to top

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steam's charts for the most popular gaming card on the freaking planet for

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at least as long as its forefather or for grandfather the gtx 1060 did but

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that assumes a couple of things doesn't it one that it's actually any good and

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of course number two that NVIDIA can make enough of them one thing we can

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it's hard to believe that the gtx 1060 is nearly five years old at this point

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that's how long it's been since anything has even come close to the level of bang

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for the buck that this card represented it beat out the contemporary polaris

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based rx 480 and AMD's hey at least you

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tried rx 580 refresh then NVIDIA themselves tried to make the

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magic lightning strike again first with the rtx 2060 then with their gtx 1600

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series i mean those are both good products don't get me wrong but the 1060

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is still the top dog on steam's hardware survey so it's clear that mid-range

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gamers were hungry for something better that's why so much is riding on the rtx

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3060. NVIDIA is explicitly targeting you

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the nearly 10 of you out there who are watching this on a 1060 and spoiler

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alert this is it this is going to be the GPU to finally

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topple it at least that's what i would say if the

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replacement were coming in at the same price point while the 329 us price tag

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does make sense next to the gtx 1060 six

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gig founders edition at 299 at least after we adjust for inflation there is

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no founders edition this time around just a reference design so you are

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definitely still paying an rtx tax this

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may give AMD an in with their teas there of what is almost certainly their rx

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6700 series get subscribed by the way so you don't miss our coverage of those

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cards when they launch unlike the rtx 3060 ti which does have a

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founder's edition the rtx 3060 comes with 50

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more gddr6 memory but that's constrained

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to a slower 192-bit bus as for its

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faster clocked cuda cores well they're faster clocked but they've been cut to

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just shy of three quarters of its ti sibling compared to the gtx 1060 though

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the rtx 3060 gets all the goodies that come with NVIDIA's latest ampere

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architecture like ray tracing HDMI 2.1

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for up to 4k 120 hertz displays NVIDIA

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broadcast and the touring end bank engine that's just

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so good for streaming that means that as long as performance is good the extra

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ask from NVIDIA is likely to be more than worth it so then here's our GPU

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bench and here's the cards we'll be comparing against we wish there were

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more but we really didn't have a lot of time we got this via very unconventional

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means because our other ones were stuck that thing we said before

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starting with shadow of the tomb raider then it's no surprise that in

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traditional rasterization the gtx 1060 falls

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way behind the new rtx 3060. what is a

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little surprising and this could be good news for you is that the rtx 2060 super

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comes so close so if you did shell out for last generation well you shouldn't

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feel too compelled to upgrade here back to those who didn't though well this

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might finally be it the card that makes rtx mainstream i mean check this out

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with rtx on the 3060 manages higher

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performance numbers at 1080p than the gtx 1060 gets with rtx off as for the

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1060 with rtx on well we tried it but it

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crashed out due to a display driver reset that nearly took the rest of the

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pc with it f1 2020 sees the 3060 pulling

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further ahead of the rtx 2060 super with a total improvement entering the high 20

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before dipping back down to the low tens and forza horizon 4. as for the gtx 1060

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well it struggled to maintain a frame rate much higher than 60. then there's

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wolfenstein youngblood youngblood is a highly optimized vulcan title and it

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shows in how much of a performance chasm there is between the gtx 1060 and the

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rest of the pack and the 1060 straight up refuses to even

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run vulcan ray tracing since non-rtx cards rely on the directx 12 fallback

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layer as for microsoft flight simulator it's basically unplayable on the gtx

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1060 unless you're willing to reduce the graphics quality and remember guys this

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is at 1080p so you can't exactly just keep dropping down the res and still

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have a great experience the cuda grass for pascal though really is cs go

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performance and you might look at these numbers and think what's the problem but

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NVIDIA's frames win games motto isn't

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for nothing the faster a frame can be rendered and pushed to your display the

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more up-to-date the information that hits your eyes is going to be and for a

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game like csgo especially in a competitive match that makes a big

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difference so the rule of thumb then is that you want minimum frame rates that

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are no lower than double the refresh rate of your display that gives you

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optimal frame pacing and input lag so on

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a 60 hertz display hey you're good to go with this don't even worry about it 187

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FPS minimum no problem as soon as you upgrade to a 120 hertz display though

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which is surprisingly affordable you are not

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gonna be doing so hot if you're cold by the way try this sweater from

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lttstore.com it's very warm moving on to productivity the gtx 1060 has an obvious

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disadvantage going in lacking both the touring and ampere generational

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performance improvements even knowing that though it is staggering to see just

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how badly it gets beaten here the rtx 3060 manages to significantly outpace

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the last gen rtx 2060 super let alone

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the geriatric 1060 where that card's rendering performance can charitably be

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described as adequate if you don't value your time

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the rtx 3060 easily doubles even the

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2060 super scores across the board up

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until we hit octane bench where the gap does narrow but then interestingly the

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rtx 3060 ti widens its lead specuperf

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meanwhile looks like it's largely a tie between the rtx 3060 and the 2060 super

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with a few wins here and there but nothing mind-blowing it's worth

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mentioning that the rtx 3060's narrower 192-bit memory bus puts it at a

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disadvantage in some of these tests but it still keeps well ahead of the 1060

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thanks to its higher speed gddr6 and

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everything else that's better about it as for our particular variant we were

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supposed to have an evga card then an ASUS one then a different evga one we

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ended up with an MSI ventus 2x it's got a pretty modest cooler compared to some

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of the top end variants of rtx 3060 but even this card peaked at temperatures of

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about 70 degrees throughout spec vue perf with a very similar cooling and

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noise profile to not only the rtx 3060 ti but also the 2060 super and even gtx

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1060. and all of this was while maintaining roughly our card's maximum

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boost clock of 1.9 gigahertz which suggests that this GPU has significant

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thermal headroom and may be able to be pushed much harder with the right board

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and cooler with an a-pin pci express power connector it goes without saying

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that the rtx 3060 draws more power than the 6-pin gtx 1060 and this is reflected

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in its official power rating at peak it drew a cool 40 watts less though than

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the more powerful rtx 360 ti with a peak

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of just over 160 watts that's good but

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what's more impressive is that it drew less power than even the rtx 2060 super

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which peaked at over 175 watts while the

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older gtx 1060 certainly did manage lower power consumption on average

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though it actually manages to spike to around the same maximum so rtx 3060 is

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looking pretty darn good as far as thermals and power consumption i mean

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overall there's very little to complain about in terms of performance it's just

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that and this is at risk of beating a dead horse here availability may be a

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different issue now it is possible that these cards will be more widely

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available than previous rtx 30 series launches but

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while NVIDIA seemed confident that there would be lots of supply a couple of

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retailers that we've spoken to locally have some doubts about that at least out

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of the gate so if that's true today could be yet another payday for filthy

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scalpers we can only hope then that supply is good enough that demand falls

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and those scalpers end up with a whole bunch of extra cards they have to liquidate into actual gamers as quickly

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as possible now you might have noticed that one thing we didn't talk about

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today is mining and the reason for that is that we've set our piece on it

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already and we only want to evaluate this product from a gaming perspective

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on its merits for gamers not the political decisions that NVIDIA makes so

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whatever we said before it's important for you guys to know we don't hate

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NVIDIA and we definitely don't hate this product it's just that when any company

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makes a boneheaded decision apple dell Intel AMD doesn't matter who it's our

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job to call them out and then by the same token it's our job to praise them

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when they get something right and they got a lot right with the rtx 3060 so

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that's it go upgrade your gtx 1060 or your rx 580. guys

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