Why Everyone Should STOP Buying the RTX 3060!

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PC gamers all across the internet will say that price to performance is everything when it comes to hardware. In that case, why is the RTX 3060 the third most popular graphics card in the world, when the RX 6650 XT is both higher performing and cheaper?

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[DSCOURGED]

If you have the money to spend, the RX 6700 XT is another amazing option! Can usually be found for $320-$350, offers excellent performance, and to the folks out there who are worried about VRAM and longevity, it comes with 12GB of VRAM! It may be an option worth looking into. 👍

[blazetownsend]

You can get the better RX 6700 (Non-XT) for around $280 right now as well. It performs better than the 6650xt as it has more ram, 10gb @ 160bit vs 8gb & 128bit, and more CUs, 36 CUs vs 32 CUs or 256 more stream processors. Both use the same power, but one is obviously more. It is a deal on new egg, but this has been the case from Sapphire for a few weeks now. I bought one last week.

[pclabllc]

Finally, someone agrees with me. I’ve been saying this for so long. AMD is better value all around

[biskitpagla]

Title is kinda sorta misleading. You should replace 'everyone' with 'gamers'. Cuda and 12gb VRAM is a damn nice deal if you're an entry level machine learning researcher or basically anyone who does things other than gaming with their GPU. In any case, this was enlightening and thanks for the decent content. Subbed.

[noodlez]

6:26 Even though the TDP of the RX 6650 XT is 180w, don’t be too worried about it, as I have the same exact variant of the card shown in this video and it draws about 143w under full load at stock.

[oguzhanakdogan]

I built a budget PC using 2nd hand parts couple months ago. For GPU, I was going to go with a used RX 5700XT however my master's work would require to learn ai/ml. So sadly, I had to hunt a 2nd hand 3060 12 gb. Thankfully, I got it around 190$. I would recommend it to anyone doing cuda/ml related work on a budget.

[Gamepalooza]

Would you consider a comparison of the RTX 3060-12GB with the RX 6700xt-12GB which have very similar prices recently?

[FertileHippo]

dunno whats going on but the 3060 12gb is $290 rn

[LordsOfSalem]

I'd sooner have the 12GB 3060. Here in the UK there's a £30 difference between the two cards which is a negligible amount. Plus, I've currently got a GTX 1070 and going from 8GB to 8GB in 2023 seems crazy, especially when the aforementioned card is 7 years old.

[ivaniliev]

we buy Nvidia, because we are NOT teenagers that are using PC only for games. Productivity wise even 6850 score is similar to 3060 and my 2070 in some GPU accelerated workflows. Without proper support for productivity applications, no matter how great is this card for gaming it could be not just slow, but could be completely useless if it is not supported at all.

[thseed]

RX 6800 has been incredible for gaming. Crushes all the Ultra/High settings. RT is fine, but I almost never notice massive improvements in reflections and lighting enhancing the gaming experience because I'm too busy playing the game.

[唐唯剛]

The problem is 6650 XT only has 8GB of vram. I know the 12G on 3060 is kind of excessive, but between excessive and not enough, I choose excessive when it comes to vram.

[frenchfryyt]

As other people said, the 6700 10gb is $280 right now, much cheaper than the 3060. For $10 more or so, the 6700 XT 12gb is also a MUCH better performer

[xEF]

I have both AMD and Nvidia cards. I can explain very quickly why Nvidia is better. 1 The future is not for dumb performance, but for technologies like DLSS 3, soon we will reach the ceiling of simple performance and we will need technologies. Nvidia is investing heavily in their development. Their application is more convenient, useful and simpler. RTX 3060 in many years will be relevant thanks to future technologies, and AMD will turn into a pumpkin.

[leviegames]

I bought my RTX 3060 around the time that it came out. It's a somewhat decent card, However, I only bought it because it was the only one I could find back during the GPU shortage. I honestly just want a GPU that was better than my old 9800 GT

[MindsMouth]

The 3060 12 gb going for as cheap as $280 on Amazon, I am think I'm going with that option instead of the week 8gb the 6700 has.

[chungusbek]

1 minute 20 seconds into video and I finally get to learn what THIS CARD is.

[grumpyoldnord]

My only real issue with switching from Nvidia to AMD for GPU is the lack of encoding for streaming with OBS.

[plsdont]

Well i bought rtx 3060 last year for 450 eur. Its much cheaper today yes, but before that i've used gtx 1050 ti and after upgrading to rtx 3060 my pc gaming experience got tremendously better. I wish i could save a few bucks by not overpaying for Nvidia card and buying AMD's variant but at the time gpu shortage was active and 3060 was just the only option. Still i'm happy with my card anyways.

[MoontariReacts]

The thing is outside of US Amd cards are way expensive