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

The Wccftech Test Bench

We used the following test system for comparison between the different graphics cards. The latest drivers that were available at the time of testing were used from AMD and NVIDIA on an updated version of Windows 10. All games that were tested were patched to the latest version for better performance optimization for NVIDIA and AMD GPUs.

*Note on Resizable BAR. The GeForce RTX 3060 marks the beginning of the rollout for NVIDIA with Resizable BAR support. With Radeon supporting it through Smart Access Memory and my test bench is fully compliant with both, going forward this feature will be enabled through the testings. So in this review and future reviews, it will be noted that the results are with that feature enabled.

Test System

Components	X570
CPU	Ryzen 9 5900X (stock)
Memory	32GB Hyper X Predator DDR4 3600
Motherboard	ASUS TUF Gaming X570 Plus-WiFi
Storage	TeamGroup Cardea 1TB NVMe PCIe 4.0
PSU	Cooler Master V1200 Platinum
Windows Version	Latest verion of windows at the time of testing
Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling	On if supported by GPU and driver.
Smart Access Memory/Resizable BAR	Enabled.

Graphics Cards Tested:

GPU	Architecture	Core Count	Clock Speed	Memory Capacity	Memory Speed
NVIDIA RTX 3070 FE	Ampere	5888	1500/1730	8 GB GDDR6	14Gbps
NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti FE	Ampere	4864	1410/1665	8 GB GDDR6	14Gbps
EVGA RTX 3060 XC Black	Ampere	3584	1320/1780	12 GB GDDR6	15Gbps
AMD Radeon RX 5700XT	Navi 10	2560	1605/1755/1905	8 GB GDDR6	14Gbps
NVIDIA RTX 2060 SUPER	Turing	2176	1470/1650	8GB GDDR6	14Gbps
NVIDIA RTX 2060 FE	Turing	1904	1365/1688	6GB GDDR6	14Gbps

Drivers Used

Drivers
Radeon Settings	21.2.3
GeForce	461.72

• All games were tested at 1080p, UW 1080p, and 1440p resolutions for traditional rasterized games and 1080p and  2560x1440 (QHD) for Ray Traced gaming tests.
• Image Quality and graphics configurations are provided with each game description.
• The "reference" cards are the stock configs.

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