NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition Graphics Card Review

Overclocking The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti For 1440p Gaming

Overclocking the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti went quite a bit as it did for the RTX 3070. But this time we managed to squeeze out +100MHz out of the core resulting in a steady clock just over 2000MHz where the stock clock stayed in the 1920MHz range. Memory fared much much better with us being able to see upwards of +1250Mhz to the memory but settling on a much more comfortable +1000Mhz making the effective speed 16Gbps with a memory bandwidth of 512GB/s over the stock 14Gbps and 448GB/s.

The biggest ask of this overclock was to see how much it could close the gap between the $399 RTX 3060 Ti and the $499 RTX 3070.

Firestrike

Firestrike is running the DX11 API and is still a good measure of GPU scaling performance, in this test we ran the Ultra version of Firestrike which runs at 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.

Rainbow 6 Siege

Rainbow 6 Siege has maintained a massive following since its launch and it consistently in Steams Top Ten highest player count game.  In a title where the higher the framerate the better in a tactical yet fast-paced competitive landscape is essential, we include this title despite its ludicrously high framerates.  We use the Vulkan Ultra preset with the High Defenition Texture Pack as well and gather our results from the built-in benchmarking tool.

Horizon Zero Dawn

Horizon Zero Dawn is one of the two major PS4 exclusives that rocked their way onto the PC scene with massive acceptance and sales. Horizon Zero Dawn is powered by the Decima Engine and has been ported to DX12. We used the in-game benchmark to account for performance.

 

 

 

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