EVGA GeForce RTX 3060 XC Black – Built For MSRP When Very Few Are

EVGA GeForce RTX 3060 XC Black Overclocking

Overclocking the EVGA GeForce RTX 3060 XC Black was a surprisingly fun affair. Loading up MSI Afterburner and cranking the Power Limit to the max at 111% we were easily able to hit +150MHz on the core resulting in a gaming frequency of ~2050MHz up from the ~1920-1950 at stock and the memory we were able to add an additional +1400 for a maximum bandwidth boost to 427GB/s from 360GB/s. It's clear the memory is going to play a bigger benefactor in the performance boost so it might be worth it to relegate the power from the core OC and let it keep the memory fed for maximum boost and minimal power impact.

Firestrike

Firestrike is running the DX11 API and is still a good measure of GPU scaling performance, in this test we ran the Extreme and Ultra versions of Firestrike which runs at 1440p and 4K and we recorded the Graphics Score only since the Physics and combined are not pertinent to this review.

Time Spy

Time Spy is running the DX12 API and we used it in the same manner as Firestrike Extreme where we only recorded the Graphics Score as the Physics score is recording the CPU performance and isn't important to the testing we are doing here.

Forza Horizon 4

Forza Horizon 4 carries on the open-world racing tradition of the Horizon series.  The latest DX12 powered entry is beautifully crafted and amazingly well executed and is a great showcase of DX12 games.  We use the benchmark run while having all of the settings set to non-dynamic with an uncapped framerate to gather these results.

Watchdogs Legions sees a return of the Disrupt Engine they've been using since the early days with the original Watchdogs but this time it has been updated to next-generation feature support. Dropping DX11 for DX12 we see much better utilization than in the past. Being one of the recent top sellers it earned a place in our test suite.

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