NVIDIA RTX 3060 GPU Review & Benchmarks: Aaand It's Gone
23,677This is a review of the EVGA RTX 3060 XC Blaaand it's gone. It's all gone. The RTX 3060 XC Black benchmark tests gaming performance vs. RTX 3060 Ti, 2060, 960, & more.
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Watch our RTX 3060 XC Black tear-down & disassembly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJFJ_clQT8U
The NVIDIA RTX 3060 GPU comes out today, and we're reviewing it with the EVGA RTX 3060 XC Black. Testing includes basically every modern card, but we primarily compare the RTX 3060 vs. the RTX 3060 Ti, RX 6800 & 5700 XT, RTX 2060, RTX 2060 Super, GTX 960, and GTX 1080 / 10-series cards. The RTX 3060 is a little bit disillusioning to review, if we're honest, and that's because we're all well aware at this point of the impossibility of meeting demand with any silicon product at launch. This isn't just NVIDIA: It's everyone, and not even just other PC part makers. Regardless, we'll review it from two perspectives: In the first, we're talking about today, and that means keeping perspective of availability and pricing. In the second, we're talking about the future -- hopefully helping someone at a time when cards are more readily available. Benchmarks for the RTX 3060 include power consumption, gaming (e.g. Cyberpunk 2077), thermals, and fan speed, alongside RTX game benchmarks for ray tracing.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Aaaaand... it's gone.
05:25 - Frequency Validation
07:03 - Thermals at Steady State
07:55 - Total War: Three Kingdoms (1080p, 1440p, & 4K)
10:37 - Strange Brigade (1080p, 1440p, & 4K)
12:40 - Rainbow Six: Siege (1080p, 1440p, & 4K)
15:00 - Red Dead Redemption 2 (1080p, 1440p, & 4K)
16:42 - Cyberpunk at 1080p
17:10 - Horizon Zero Dawn at 1080p
17:55 - Quake RTX (1080p, 1440p, & 4K)
18:59 - Shadow of the Tomb Raider RTX (1080p & 1440p)
19:41 - Control RTX at 1080p
20:21 - Minecraft RTX at 1080p
20:40 - Power Testing (FurMark & Total War)
21:44 - Conclusion At Launch
25:52 - Conclusion in the Future
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The EVGA RTX 3060 XC Black is theoretically on Amazon: https://geni.us/95BnPr
Find the AMD RX 6800 XT on Amazon, in theory: https://geni.us/DfaMM
Find the NVIDIA RTX 3080 cards on Amazon (also in theory): https://geni.us/ABpmb6I
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Testing, Lead, Writing: Steve Burke
RTX Testing: Patrick Lathan
Power Testing:
Video: Keegan Gallick, Andrew Coleman