Review: Palit GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Dual OC

by Parm Mann on 10 December 2020, 14:01

Tags: Palit, NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)

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Conclusion

...the refined nature of Nvidia's £369 Founders Edition is such that dearer partner cards are tough to justify.

Promising new hardware continues to be beset by global stock shortages. RTX 3060 Ti is, in our estimation, an excellent forward-looking GPU that suits a wide range of gamers. Performance is really solid at QHD and decent at UHD, and with the Ampere architecture, you're guaranteed a best-in-class ray tracing experience and the undeniable potential of second-generation DLSS.

That's the good news, but there are a couple of caveats. Finding a card in stock has proven extremely difficult in the weeks following launch, and the refined nature of Nvidia's £369 Founders Edition is such that dearer partner cards are tough to justify. Palit doesn't get a whole lot wrong with its modest Dual OC, yet there's no escaping the fact that the Founders Edition is more affordable, practically as quick, noticeably quieter, and subjectively easier on the eye.

Fortunately for AIBs, ravenous consumer demand ensures that any and all RTX 3060 Tis will continue to sell well for the foreseeable future. In an ideal world, Nvidia's Founders Edition would be the RTX 3060 Ti to buy. In these strange times, most gamers will have to accept whichever card they can get their hands on.

The Good
  
The Bad
Excellent at QHD, decent at 4K UHD
Compact dual-slot form factor
Single eight-pin power connector
  
Stock hard to come by
Noisier than Founders Edition
Plasticky build quality



Palit GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Dual OC

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Posted by Corky34 - Thu 10 Dec 2020 18:57
I don't suppose AIB's are to happy with Nvidia, if you can't buy a basic partner card for less than an FE (not that you can really buy either of them currently) it makes the basic partner cards rather redundant.
Posted by edmundhonda - Thu 10 Dec 2020 20:44
I know it doesn't actually matter, but that's a supremely ugly card. That cheap-looking moulded black plastic shroud, the ‘Geforce RTX’ logo stuck awkwardly on top, the plastic backplate with a brushed aluminium finish… It's all really bad!
Posted by ik9000 - Thu 10 Dec 2020 23:26
edmundhonda
I know it doesn't actually matter, but that's a supremely ugly card. That cheap-looking moulded black plastic shroud, the ‘Geforce RTX’ logo stuck awkwardly on top, the plastic backplate with a brushed aluminium finish… It's all really bad!

it's like food I guess, you've already part decided taste based on what you think it looks like. It's how we're wired to work, so it does matter.
Posted by LSG501 - Thu 10 Dec 2020 23:28
Corky34
I don't suppose AIB's are to happy with Nvidia, if you can't buy a basic partner card for less than an FE (not that you can really buy either of them currently) it makes the basic partner cards rather redundant.
Considering we're struggling to buy ANY 3xxx series I think everyone wanting one is a little annoyed too lol.

There was a report of the cost of this board being so high that the AIB's were literally making a few quid on it so yeah I'd say they're a bit annoyed, especially with this price point being one of the more popular ones… I'd say nvidia have overpriced the part to them too. This Palit one literally looks like they've saved money on everything just to fit in some shiny lights…. personally I'd rather have a clean ‘minimalist’ design over rgb, hence why I'm after a founders card (which looks far better quality than most of the AIB ones too) even if I need to wait for it.

To be honest though I've kind of seen nvidia going down the route of being the only seller of their cards and with the way they've improved their gpu cooling this time round I don't think there will be many if any AIB partners soon. The ‘stock’ coolers on founders editions are in some cases boosting better than the AIB according to some of the reviews I've seen.
Posted by Dribble - Fri 11 Dec 2020 10:39
Corky34
I don't suppose AIB's are to happy with Nvidia, if you can't buy a basic partner card for less than an FE (not that you can really buy either of them currently) it makes the basic partner cards rather redundant.
I don't see why we have anything to complain about however. If Nvidia produce really nice reference cards at the RRP and keep them for the life of the card then it forces partners to up their game - as they can't really charge more then RRP unless the partner card is really special and they can't cut too many corners for an RRP card as the nvidia reference is so good. If they loose a few partners who weren't up to it and just wanted to sell cheap n nasty, or overpriced cards I don't see that as a great loss.

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