Review and test NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti. Ampere anneals
This year, a revolution happened in the world of iron – we have not seen such a sharp drop in the price of one FPS, probably since GTX 1080. But if then it was about one manufacturer, then in 2020 literally everything shot. NVIDIA I presented it Ampere and sent the twentieth series RTX to the scrap. AMD not confused and almost caught up with Nvidia with RDNA 2 , losing only by Ray Tracing. At the same time, she also sent the processors to rest Intel , Having overtaken them in terms of gaming performance. Oil poured into the fire and Sony With Microsoft , launched unrealistically powerful for their price PlayStation 5 And Xbox Series X.
It is ridiculous that with such a number of different glands and, it would seem, the possibilities of choosing all the new products were in an incredible shortage. Well, it is still clear with the consoles: there each generation starts as if manufacturers do not hope to sell more than a dozen thousand prefixes in each country. But with video cards and processors, we saw such a shortage only in the mining boom.
Naturally, all this led to an uncontrollable increase in prices. And if the manufacturers of the consoles still somehow control the market, then in the world of iron no one is engaged in this. So RTX 3080, which should cost 64,000 rubles, is now sold for 100,000, and RTX 3070 is offered for 60,000 instead of 45,500.
Today on the tests there is another map, which in the near future exactly expects the same shortage and increase in prices, – Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti. Officially they want to sell it for 40,000 rubles – approximately in the middle between RTX 2060 Super and RTX 2070 – but in terms of performance it costs much higher and competes with RTX 2080 Super for 56,000 rubles.
Test sample
We got a real rarity for tests – version Founder’s Edition. Why rare? Because these cards are officially sold only in NVIDIA stores, and only an officially recommended price is held on them. In this regard, FE is sweeping literally in the first minutes after entering the warehouse, and then they already flow into Avito and to unscrupulous stores that resell them as part of very strange computers.
Although Fe is, in fact, the most affordable boards, they are made at the highest level. The card is supplied in a stylish black box with software coating. Under the lid – a small podium of velvety foamed polyethylene. Under the board-a cardboard penalty with all a complete set: this is a high-quality adapter for a new 12-Pin connector and two books on expensive glossy paper.
The card itself copies the design of the senior RTX 3070 and looks both stylishly and expensive at the same time. The bar of the fastening of gray, the radiator is painted in radically black, not covered and dissected in two curved plate of milled aluminum. The same black metal stiffness bar is behind. There is no backlight – of all decorations, only two milling inscriptions. GEFORCE RTX – on the side, and RTX 3060 Ti – on a back bar.
On the principle of cooling 3060 Ti adheres to a common scheme adopted in the 30th series. Since the printed circuit board itself is very short – only 15.5 cm – the back of the radiator literally hangs in the air. Moreover, it is through, and the turntable drives the heated air not to the input/output panel to throw it outside the case, but simply blows it inside the computer. Moreover, the flows go directly to RAM and, due to perpendicular to the ribs, in the PCIe slot area, where the manufacturers of maternal boards usually have connectors for SSD. The second part of the radiator works according to a more classic scheme: the ribs are already located in such a way that part of the hot air still goes beyond the computer.
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In general, such a cooling system is effective: for all the time of the tests, we not only did not see the temperature above 72 ° C, but the fans in the work almost did not hear. On the other hand, the fact that most of the hot air remains inside the case is not very good. In everyday life, of course, you can close your eyes to this, but if everything is done according to the mind, you need to strengthen the total blowing of the case and cooling the processor in order to already throw out unnecessary heat outside the computer.
As for the privileges, the radiator is based on the processor, memory and power system, it is based on a perfectly polished base with three heating tubes sealed in it. The turntables here are not particularly large – 85 mm each. Food to the board is supplied to the new 12-Pin Connector. Given the energy consumption of only 200 watts, it would be possible to do with standard forks – and are sure that many will put pressure on this in the reviews. To our taste, nvidia does everything right. If you have come up with a new and, by the way, a really convenient connector, then you need to promote it on all boards. So, you look, and manufacturers of power units will go to it.
Technical characteristics
Now let's talk about the chip itself. As expected, the RTX 3060 Ti is built on a cut processor RTX 3070 – GA104 with new architecture ampere. At the same time, he did not lose so much – only 17% of the blocks.
The number of SM sets that include CUDA-Jadra, tensor blocks of artificial intelligence and RT-yadra for processing ray trace, decreased from 46 to 38 pieces. Thus, the CUDA nuclear law here is 4864 versus 5888 in RTX 3070, texture blocks-152 versus 184, and the RT-yader-38 instead of 46. The official frequency in the boost has decreased slightly: 1665 MHz, not 1725. However, in practice, 3060 Ti, like 3070, calmly holds around 1875 MHz and periodically accelerates to 1980 and even 2000 MHz.
But the memory on the map is the same: this is GDDR6 at 8 GB with a frequency of 14,000 MHz. It is believed that such a volume for 2020 is small. The appetites of the games are growing every year, and after a couple of years the board will face the same problems as the GTX 980: when the chip is still ready to cope with increased loads, but memory leads to constant frost.
How true such predictions are – do not take guess. For Full HD and QHD a set of 8 GB today is enough with a margin. In 4K – already back, however, running ahead, let's say that 4K on RTX 3060 Ti will not like far from everyone.
In all other, RTX 3060 Ti does not differ from the rest of the series cards. It is produced in factories Samsung On 8 Nm, the process, which allowed almost twice the amount of CUDA Jader by increasing the stock of FP32 blocks. The tensor nuclei, which are the load on the DLSS, also changed. Firstly, there were half of them, but they began to work twice as fast. Secondly, they can now work in parallel with RT blocks. The latter, by the way, also learned new tricks. If earlier they first disassembled the structure of the landfills, and then engaged in the calculation of a particular light beam, now they do it in parallel. According to NVIDIA, due to this, the performance of reitreing has doubled. Also, by the way, RT blocks learned to calculate Motion Blur, but this does not concern games-only 3D modeling work programs.
Naturally supports RTX 3060 Ti and new NVIDIA technologies. The most important and interesting for us is RTX I/O. In fact, this is an analogue of what should now be used in consoles: gaming data with SSD is loaded directly into the memory of the video card, bypassing the processor. However, so far this technology of the future, since for its implementation you need to wait for instructions Microsoft Direct Storage In DirectX.
The next item is the presence of a video encoder AV-1. He will be prophesied by a great future in working with direct broadcasts. At the same time, the emphasis is usually made that this codec is doing perfectly with 8K permits, but, it seems to us, Nvidia adds it due to its complete free, as well as with an eye on the cloud broadcast of games in 4K.
Another pleasant moment from the entire RTX 3000 series is the support of the program Reflex. To our taste, its benefit is quite doubtful for an ordinary player, but will definitely interest those who try their strength in e -sports. Actually, with the help of Reflex in Nvidia they want to reduce the input lag – the time from pressing the key to the result on the display. This is technically implemented through a reduction in the queue of personnel on the processor, however, in order for the system to work, Reflex support is necessary from the game. We are familiar with technology today Fortnite , Apex Legends , Valorant , Call of Duty: Modern Warfare And Warzone.
Performance
In the load, we managed to raise the temperature of the chip to 72 ° C – this Metro : Exodus and at a constant frequency of 1875 MHz. There is practically no noise from the fans. At least, from the general background of the turntables of the processor and power supply, RTX 3060 Ti Fe does not stand out.
But by performance, the card is amazing. Moreover, so much that we even double-checked the settings of the test stand-if there is a re-scatter or any errors in the settings. The fact is that 3060 Ti is really faster than RTX 2080 Super. Not much-as a rule, we are talking about 2-4 FPS-but against the background of a rupture at a price, this seems incredible. Recall that now 2080 Super costs 55,000 rubles. RTX 3060 Ti – officially 40,000 rubles. And for this money we get a quiet compact fee, which pulls on maximums Richy Fox Casino absolutely all games.
Moreover, in Full HD below 80 fps fell only Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and Metro: Exodus, which showed 77 and 79 frames per second. Everyone else easily overcame this mark. Horizon Zero Dawn I took 116 frames, Watch Dogs: Legion – 81, Total War: Three Kingdoms – 93, Borderlands 3 – 98. They feel normally in Full HD. Watch Dogs: Legion is on 50 frames with subsidence up to 35, Metro: Exodus – 61 at 38 fps 0.1%.
The FPS remains absolutely stable with the transition to QHD. Yes, this is not 80 frames per second, but the card issues 60, and in all projects, starting with Metro: Exodus and ending with Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. But only those who are ready to sacrifice the ideal framrameite in favor of a beautiful picture are already included in the reiteraining. In the same Watch Dogs Legion and Metro: Exodus the number of personnel drops to 32 and 45. And if Metro still remains comfortable 0.1%, then Legion begins to sin with frequent microfrisis. However, it may well help here DLSS , which increases the frame of about 50%.
Similar situation and with 4K. Those who are ready to play with the minimum 35-40 fps for the sake of high quality pictures will be satisfied. Below 3060 Ti practically does not fall, and where it falls – there often helps either a small rollback on graphics settings, or DLSS, which is practically no different from the present 4K. But for those who cannot live without 60 FPS, for 4K you need to look at something more powerful-well, or pointwise select the settings for each game, so as not to lose it very much, and get the forensel higher.
As a result, it turns out that before the exit of an adequate response from the AMD, the RTX 3060 Ti card is the best offer for your money. We are sure that she will drag Full HD on maximums for more than one year. QHD should hold out for some time. But taking this card with an sight at 4K, probably not worth. Let the chip now more or less copes with this resolution, but it will be enough for a short time, and it is possible that the current 35 FPS will turn into non-granular 25 in a year.
