For gamers who have been holding off on upgrading their graphics card because of the high cost, there is now a new option with the launch of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3060 Ti. With a price lower than all other RTX 30-Series cards previously released in 2020, this is sure to be a hot seller for those looking to upgrade their computer’s visual performance. However, is it over budget? More importantly, how does it compare to the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070, which is by far the cheapest card in the line?
As a leading seller of GPUs, Nvidia announced its GeForce RTX 30-Series cards on September 1, 2020. The series has attracted public attention in part due to its ability to mimic the physics of how light bounces off objects in real time. The result is a much more realistic 3D environment. At the time, the line included three cards, the budget RTX 3070, the mid-range RTX 3080, and the top-end RTX 3090, capable of 8K HDR gaming. The graphics cards proved to be quite popular, especially the RTX 3080, which sold out in record time on launch day.
Now the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti has been added to the mix. Starting at $399, it’s $100 cheaper than the RTX 3070 and has most of the same specs. For example, both have 8GB GDDR6 RAM with a 256-bit memory interface width. Like all other cards in the 30-Series, the RTX 3060 Ti uses Nvidia’s Ampere architecture, features third-generation tensor cores, second-generation ray tracing cores, a PCI Express Gen 4 bus, and Microsoft support. DirectX 12 Ultimate. It also has access to all the same tweaks as other cards through the Nvidia GeForce Experience app. So users can do many things, such as customize the look and feel of a game in real-time with Nvidia Freestyle, take high-quality screenshots with Nvidia Ansel, or record gameplay with Nvidia ShadowPlay. It also has Nvidia G-Sync support, which reduces screen latency when connected to a compatible display, with refresh rates up to 360Hz.
How are the two RTX cards different?
On the surface, it might seem like buying the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 doesn’t really make much sense since it’s mostly a more expensive version of the RTX 3060 Ti. However, there are some areas where the RTX 3070 excels. First, it has more Nvidia CUDA cores: 5,888 compared to the RTX 3060 Ti’s 4,864. CUDA stands for “Unified device architecture calculations” and it is Nvidia’s parallel computing platform. Like many specs, more cores result in better performance. Likewise, the RTX 3070 is the faster of the two cards. While the RTX 3060 Ti’s boost clock speed is 1.67 GHz, the RTX 3070 can run at 1.73 GHz. This is actually the fastest clock speed of any graphics card in the line, although the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 have advantages in other areas, such as more CUDA cores and more gigabytes of quality video RAM. better quality.
Ultimately, it’s a matter of whether these small differences make much of a difference to the average player. Overall, the RTX 3060 Ti will likely perform worse than the RTX 3070, but in everyday use, the difference between the two cards may not be noticeable. When it comes down to it, both cards are entry-level GPUs in the RTX 30-Series. Customers for whom performance is a primary concern will probably prefer to invest in the RTX 3080 or RTX 3090. For everyone else, Nvidia’s RTX 3060 Ti is probably the better buy, simply because it’s cheap than.
Source: Nvidia