Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition Review

1. Introduction2. Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition Review3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy5. 3DMark DirectX Raytracing6. Borderlands 37. Control8. Death Stranding9. The Division 210. F1 202011. Far Cry New Dawn12. Gears 513. Ghost Recon: Breakpoint14. Metro Exodus15. Middle Earth: Shadow of War16. Red Dead Redemption 217. Shadow of the Tomb Raider18. Total War Saga: Troy19. Watch Dogs: Legion20. Performance Summary (14 Game Average)21. Cost Per Frame Analysis22. Ray Tracing - Control23. Ray Tracing - Shadow of the Tomb Raider24. Ray Tracing - Watch Dogs: Legion25. DLSS - Control & Death Stranding26. Productivity: Blender & Octane27. Productivity: SPECViewPerf & V-Ray28. Clock Speed29. Temperatures30. Acoustics31. Noise-Normalised Temperatures32. Power Consumption33. Performance Per Watt34. Overclocking35. Closing Thoughts36. View All Pages

Both Control and Death Stranding support DLSS 2.0, so we test both at 4K with and without DLSS (using the Quality mode). We tested Control with RT set to High, while Death Stranding does not support RT features.

DLSS performance is pretty much as expected for an Ampere GPU. In Control, we see a huge 89% performance uplift when enabling the technology in tandem with ray tracing. And then in Death Stranding, frame rates improve to the tune of 38%.

Both results show a relative performance boost that is slightly smaller than what we see with the RTX 2080 Super (that GPU gets a 100% and 43% uplift in Control and Death Stranding, respectively) but this is in line with what we have seen from Ampere GPUs as a whole.

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