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

For our temperature testing, we measure the peak GPU core temperature under load. A reading under load comes from running the 3DMark Time Spy stress test for 30 minutes.

Given that the RTX 3060 Ti uses the same cooler as the RTX 3070 Founders Edition, it’s not a surprise to see the 3060 Ti running fractionally cooler, as it’s using the same heatsink but with a lower power GPU. We saw the GPU peak at 69C during our testing, with a steady state result of 68C, so it’s 1-2C cooler than the RTX 3070 Founders Edition.

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