Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition Review

We measure system-wide power draw from the wall while running the 3DMark Time Spy stress test for 30 minutes.

In terms of total system power draw, with the RTX 3060 Ti the system pulled a little bit over 300W at the wall, putting this GPU between the RTX 2060 Super and RTX 2070 Super.

We also use Nvidia PCAT to measure power draw of the graphics card only, with readings from both the PCIe slot and the PCIe power cables combined into a single figure. This provides us with significantly more accurate data to work with as it is measuring only the GPU power, and not total system power which is a fundamentally imprecise measurement.

GPU-only testing, however, gives us a clearer picture and we saw average power draw for the 3060 Ti come in at 192W, which is just a little under the 200W TGP rating. This is 13W higher than the 2060 Super, but almost 50W less than the 2080 Super.

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