And so today will be the review of probably the most eagerly awaited graphics card from NVIDIA, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition. NVIDIA designed the RTX 3060 Ti to deliver smooth AAA gaming at 1440p, with extra power for ray tracing. The product should also serve as a gateway to 4K UHD without ray tracing or DLSS and should cater to the eSports crowd by offering 1080p at the highest refresh rates, such as 144Hz.
The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is based on the same 8nm "GA104" chip as the RTX 3070, but with fewer shaders involved. However, the RTX 3060 Ti still has more than twice as many CUDA cores as the RTX 2060 Super. NVIDIA claims the RTX 3060 Ti is faster than the previous generation RTX 2080 Super, which is a high-end graphics card that meets 1440p+ ray tracing requirements.
All of this was made possible by Ampere's design goal of making gameplay with RTX activated as fast as it was without it on the previous generation cards, given that ray tracing remains an extremely resource-intensive technology that greatly affects the final performance. The obvious dividend of this approach would be a significant performance improvement without ray tracing (purely raster 3D).
NVIDIA built the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti from "GA104" using 38 of the 48 streaming multiprocessors physically present on the chip, resulting in 4864 CUDA cores, 38 2nd generation RT cores, 152 3rd generation tensor cores, 152 TMUs and 80 ROPs. The number of CUDA cores was increased by 123% compared to the RTX 2060 Super!
The GPU clock speeds are roughly the same as the RTX 2060 Super, but the typical power of the board is not much higher, considering that NVIDIA estimates it at 200W. This should mean that custom graphics cards with a single 8-pin PCIe slot should be possible. The GPU is endowed with the same exact memory configuration as the RTX 3070: 8GB of GDDR6 memory running at 14Gbps over a 256-bit wide interface; providing a bandwidth of 448GB/s.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition is the perfect rendition of the RTX 3060 Ti from its creators. Graphics cards series Founders Edition from NVIDIA are not really designed to be used as a basis for the development of partner solutions (AIC), they rather set high standards in product design, which are actually partners and strive to achieve or exceed. In terms of design, the RTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition looks almost identical to the RTX 3070 Founders Edition, but the color of the metal cooler frame is still slightly different.
In their Founders Edition RTX 30 series RTX cards, NVIDIA has reduced the role of the cooler shroud to the actual frame and allowed the open heatsinks to make up most of the exterior design. The card is longer than the PCB underneath, so airflow from the second fan flows unobstructed through the heatsink and out through a large vent on the back panel.
The device uses the same 12-pin Molex MicroFit 3.0 power input as the other FE RTX 30 series cards, and it comes with an adapter to convert a single 8-pin PCIe connector. In this review, let's explore whether the RTX 3060 Ti is all you'll ever need if a gamer is set up for 1440p resolution or lower.
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