Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition Review

Following on from our stock thermal and acoustic testing, here we re-test the operating temperature of the GPU, but with noise levels normalised to 40dBa. This allows us to measure the efficiency of the overall cooling solution as varying noise levels as a result of more aggressive fan curves are no longer a factor.

Noise-normalising to 40dba required the RTX 3060 Ti's fans to spin at 1980rpm – an increase of 450rpm over stock behaviour. This resulted in GPU thermals dropping by 5C, and while we haven’t tested any AIB cards yet, we will use this result as a baseline to see how Nvidia’s partners can improve on the Founders Edition cooler.

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