Tuesday, November 17th 2020
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Confirmed, Beats RTX 2080 SUPER
It looks like NVIDIA will launch its 4th GeForce RTX 30-series product ahead of Holiday 2020, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, with VideoCardz unearthing a leaked NVIDIA performance guidance slide, as well as pictures of custom-design RTX 3060 Ti cards surfacing on social media. The RTX 3060 Ti is reportedly based on the same 8 nm "GA104" silicon as the RTX 3070, but cut down further. It features 38 out of 48 streaming multiprocessors physically present on the "GA104," amounting to 4,864 "Ampere" CUDA cores, 152 tensor cores, and 38 "Ampere" RT cores. The memory configuration is unchanged from the RTX 3070, which means you get 8 GB of 14 Gbps GDDR6 memory across a 256-bit wide memory interface, with 448 GB/s of memory bandwidth.
According to a leaked NVIDIA performance guidance slide for the RTX 3060 Ti, the company claims the card to consistently beat the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER, a $700 high-end SKU from the previous "Turing" generation. The same slide also shows a roughly 40% performance gain over the previous generation RTX 2060 SUPER, which is probably the logical predecessor for this card. In related news, PC Master Race (OfficialPCMR) on its Facebook page posted pictures of boxes of an ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 Ti OC graphics cards, which confirms the existence of this SKU. The picture of the card on the box reveals a design similar to other TUF Gaming RTX 30-series cards launched by ASUS so far. As for price, VideoCardz predicts a $399 MSRP for the SKU, which should nearly double the price-performance for this card over the RTX 2080 SUPER at NVIDIA's performance numbers.
Sources:
VideoCardz, OfficialPCMR (Facebook)
According to a leaked NVIDIA performance guidance slide for the RTX 3060 Ti, the company claims the card to consistently beat the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER, a $700 high-end SKU from the previous "Turing" generation. The same slide also shows a roughly 40% performance gain over the previous generation RTX 2060 SUPER, which is probably the logical predecessor for this card. In related news, PC Master Race (OfficialPCMR) on its Facebook page posted pictures of boxes of an ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 Ti OC graphics cards, which confirms the existence of this SKU. The picture of the card on the box reveals a design similar to other TUF Gaming RTX 30-series cards launched by ASUS so far. As for price, VideoCardz predicts a $399 MSRP for the SKU, which should nearly double the price-performance for this card over the RTX 2080 SUPER at NVIDIA's performance numbers.
87 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Confirmed, Beats RTX 2080 SUPER
actually it is “dead” this time... a xbox 1 series X has 50% more CU’s than a rx5700xt... so in order to “beat” it you need at least a rx6800... (i will be getting a rx6800xt and a ps5 (a ps5, all about the games I have... a rx6800xt, because I am f**kn annoyed at Nvidia, ))
I see a custom HD6950 was 300$ in 2011.
In 2560x1600( for me it was "4K" back in the day) it got about 45 fps in STALKER 2 or Bad Company 2.
www.techpowerup.com/review/powercolor-radeon-rx-5600-xt-red-dragon/18.html
In 4K today with a 5600XT that is also about 300$ you get about the same frame rate in modern games.
I don't see a price hike comparing resolutions, games and GPUs from ten years ago to today.
Consoles are sold at a loss, PC parts aren't.
Consoles will look exactly the same 5 years from now, PC won't.
Comparing between the two is an exercise in futility.
I swear, for most people it's as if inflation weren't a thing.
They can both play games, movies and surf the net. Other than that, they live in different worlds.
So, back then i would have paid 1150 RON out of an average of 1400 RON and now i would pay 1500 RON out of 3100 average monthly wage/salary. Almost an average monthly salary 10 years ago or about half today.
Incidentally, goods tends to be more expensive in smaller/poorer markets, because they move fewer SKUs and don't benefit from economy of scale that much. But we're way off-topic now.
Apparently some people (referring to Anyone who is so easily offended) need to grow thicker skins, Eh ?
Back on Topic:
I paid $400 for my RTX 2060 Super and I am very happy with it.
It performs as well as most (and even better than some) 5700XT's / RTX 2070's in every benchmark I have run.
In a few years I will probably buy an RTX 3060 Ti or it's AMD equivalent and I'm pretty sure that I will be just as happy
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And that's disregarding a myriad of cards sold as even lower end.
Not only is it harder now to divide cards simply into low-, mid- and high-end, the x60 has obviously shifted its position in the lineup.
IMO, my gtx1660ti is remarkably “fast” so mush so, that i am really annoyed that my (once working) 2080 was only able to acheive 40 fps in 4k on a certain section of GTAV, when my Overclocked, watercooled gtx 1660ti (2115, 7000) can do the same, with the same settings!... at 30fps. (ok, i once noticed that the 2080 did 45, but it was not stable...) so a GTX2080 is only 50% “better” than a gtx1660ti? but it is/was almost three times more expensive, retail.
It would have been better priced at ~$350 or even ~$379 but IMO ~$399 is acceptable.
The reality on the ground will likely be that the scalpers will swarm and you won't be able to touch one of these cards for anything less then at least twice the price. So ~$800 to ~$1200 or wait until early to mid 2021. If not maybe we'll be able to buy one at MSRP once nVidia releases the RTX 4000 series,....maybe,...
two posts in, and you are insulting people already...
Nvidia has now proved with the 3080 launch that their pre-launch promises for this generation aren't true until you add a whole bunch of caveats that make them meaningless.
Sure, they're fast, but they're nowhere near as fast as people were expecting, based on the lofty claims. Is the 3060Ti going to be faster than a 2080S in general, or just when DLSS is enabled. What about popular games? Three of the four games chosen are console ports, and two of them have particulary quirky performance as a side of poor optimisation. I'm taking the performance slide with a huge pinch of salt and healthy dose of scepticism.
There's more than inflation at play here, they're not selling the same old product for higher prices.
So, having seen the gamut of ridiculousness for the 3070-3090, I don't expect anything differently for the 3060ti. I still want one, though. :D
You know, the agency that tracks U.S. inflation rates and such.