NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition Review: Gaming, Thermals, Noise, & Power Benchmarks

Our review of the NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition video card comes out after the AMD RX 6800, 6800 XT, and NVIDIA RTX 3070 (among others). Gaming benchmarks, noise, power, & more.

Our review of the NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti GPU is now live, in the form of the RTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition. We have cards in from EVGA, ASUS, and other partners, but due to tight timelines for end of year content, we're not sure when or if we'll get to all of them. We have a number of RX 6800 GPUs that we're interested in reviewing first. Either way, today, we need to test the NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti. Our benchmarks include some light thermal testing with auto VBIOS settings on the FE card, overclocking, gaming tests for "standard" graphics, hybrid rendering and ray tracing performance, power consumption testing, and more. We kept this review much simpler than some of our other video card reviews recently, but it still covers just about everything. If you're curious about Smart Access Memory performance on the AMD cards, check out our RX 6800 XT review.

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00:00 - NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti GPU vs. RX 6800, RTX 3070, & More
04:47 - GPU Frequency Testing on NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti
05:22 - RTX 3060 Ti vs. 3070, 3080 Frequency
06:16 - Thermal & Fan RPM Response
07:29 - Noise Levels & Fan Speeds
08:03 - Overclock Stepping Table
09:58 - Shadow of the Tomb Raider (4K, 1440p, 1080p)
12:18 - Red Dead Redemption 2 GPU Benchmarks (3060 Ti, 3070, 6800, et al.)
14:17 - Vulkan vs. DirectX 12 Scaling on 3060 Ti
14:50 - Three Kingdoms Dx12 (4K, 1440p, 1080p)
17:14 - Horizon Zero Dawn (4K, 1080p)
18:03 - GTA V
18:39 - Even More Game Benchmarks
18:52 - RT Games - Tomb Raider
20:26 - RT Games - Control
21:58 - RT Games - Minecraft
23:52 - RT Games - Quake II
24:45 - Power Benchmarks
26:17 - Conclusion

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Editorial, Testing: Steve Burke
Additional Testing: Patrick Lathan, Keegan Gallick
Video: Keegan Gallick, Andrew Coleman

[GamersNexus]

This card theoretically goes up on retailers tomorrow, 12/2. ERRATA: Chart at 23:19 has a typo in it. The 3070 outperforms the 3060 Ti, obviously. Sorry about that typo. That's it for now! We'll work on the 6900XT soon enough. Sleep for now.

[SteelSkin]

"Steve, we heard you spent one whole day working on something that's not a silicon product review. Included is our new RTX 3060 Ti graphics cards, review embargo is December 1st. XOXO, Jensen"

[iTzFarmy]

Steve: "We're gonna keep this review simple"
*Uploads 32 min review*

Never change fellas.

[RandomGaminginHD]

Out of stock before I finished thinking "wait, the 3060Ti exists?"

[auxityne]

3060 is probably the year you'll be able to actually buy one, too.

[emceeunderdogrising]

The fact the 3060 Ti performs just as good as the 2080 S is actually really impressive.

[anonymouscommentator]

Cant wait to see more "currently not available" buttons in shops🔥

[chrisdebruin]

"The prices are all made up and don't matter" - Whose GPU is it anyway.

[apricotmadness]

I didn’t even know this was coming out yet. This is all so fast. I thought people were still having rumors about it.

[dafarii]

"If you are on an older card 10 series, 900 series and its starting to show its age...." *Looks at his 670GTX*. You've been a good boy.

[joshualee]

The more I watch these videos the more I pay attention to the parts I used to skip and begin to appreciate and learn from the depth you guys go in to when testing

[oneofmanyjames-es]

I see we're back to the "Kill me now" stage of the GPU review cycle

[hlm]

Steve and GN team, just wanted to say thanks for including RT performance and not completely focusing on it or brushing it off. It's easier for a viewer to ignore data that doesn't interest them than it is for someone to have to search down other reviews to find missing data they are interested in. I understand it is more work for you guys though so thanks again, appreciate the effort.

[oldskl]

LTT: Merry Christmas Scalpers

GN: The prices are made up and don't matter.

No chill, lol, love it.

[BigAppsMedia]

RTX 3060 Ti is AMAZING! I love it so much. This performance is surprising actually. Nvidia did a great job!

[Matt_Duke]

A moment of silence for Steve's sleep schedule, this man works way more hours than we deserve,

[RAykkonennn]

Artic Liquid Freezer II 420 review waiting room

[mitchellbartolo]

Man Steve is so level headed when it comes to upgrading. It's so refreshing to hear.

[N.S.A.]

It’s understandable the cards being scarce. Mithrill is a hard substance to work with in modern GPUs.

[LePepo]

Welcome back to another episode of “things you cant buy”