Review: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition

by Tarinder Sandhu on 1 December 2020, 14:00

Tags: NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)

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Conclusion

...gaming performance is more than adequate for 90 per cent of gamers out there.

Nvidia extends the reach of its gaming Ampere architecture by releasing the best value model yet. GeForce RTX 3060 Ti takes much of the '70's goodness and distils it down to a £369 price point. Still not cheap, of course, but there's enough horsepower under the attractive hood to play the latest games at excellent framerates at a QHD resolution and also make a decent attempt at rendering 4K visuals with acceptable performance.

Crucial to Nvidia's ambitions with this GPU is that rival AMD presently has nothing new to counter it. RTX 3060 Ti is comfortably faster than last-gen RX 5700 XT and crushes even the latest Big Navi cards once ray tracing and DLSS are turned on.

The Founders Edition is barely discernible in a quiet chassis when full-on gaming, so Nvidia has set the bar very high for AIC partners building their own cards, presumably with a hefty price premium attached to them.

We come away impressed with the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti FE 8GB card because the gaming performance is more than adequate for 90 per cent of gamers out there. Building a £1,000-£1,500 base unit or upgrading from much older graphics and want to play with all the eye candy turned on at decent resolutions? It's hard to look past this card, and FE in particular, so we hope there is enough stock to sate what is sure to be significant demand.

The Good
  
The Bad
Good value if available at £369
Second-gen RT and DLSS
Attractive looks and solid build
Excellent at QHD, decent at UHD
Quiet dual-slot form factor
  
Stock shortages seem inevitable
12-pin causes untidy cabling



Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition

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The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition card will be available at Nvidia.com.

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Posted by Jonatron - Tue 01 Dec 2020 21:55
When there's some availability and third party cards without a silly connector, this is what I've been waiting for.
Posted by [GSV]Trig - Tue 01 Dec 2020 22:17
Unless the 6700/6700XT comes in under £400 and has decent performance thinking this might be my next card…
Posted by =assassin= - Tue 01 Dec 2020 23:58
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.
Posted by CAT-THE-FIFTH - Wed 02 Dec 2020 00:06
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.

'[GSV
Trig;4275731']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.
Posted by wazzickle - Wed 02 Dec 2020 00:53
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.

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