NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Launched on 2020-11-30, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is an end-of-life GeForce 30-series card built on Samsung’s 8 nm process. The GA104 die contains 17,400 million transistors on a 392 mm² area, for a transistor density of 44.4M per mm². It belongs to the Ampere architecture, sits between the GeForce 20 and GeForce 40 generations, and carries 4864 shading units, 152 TMUs, 80 ROPs, 38 RT cores, and 152 tensor cores. The launch MSRP was 399 USD.

Benchmark Performance

The RTX 3060 Ti’s average benchmark score is 25120, which places it in the 69th percentile of all GPUs in the database. That aggregate score is almost exactly level with its four nearest rivals. The AMD Radeon RX 6700M averages 25180, which is 0.2% higher; the AMD Radeon RX 6600 averages 25235, 0.5% higher; the AMD Radeon 890M averages 25246, 0.5% higher; and the AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP averages 25287, 0.7% higher. In practical terms, these are effectively tied aggregate results.

Looking at individual workloads, the card scores 2626 in 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12. In Geekbench, the OpenCL score is 109075 and the Vulkan score is 107543, a small difference that suggests the GPU delivers broadly similar compute throughput across those two API paths. The Passmark suite shows a different picture. Its G3D score is 20349, while the GPU compute score is 10006. The older API subtests are 234 in DirectX 9, 132 in DirectX 10, 163 in DirectX 11, and 78 in DirectX 12, while the 2D test produces 989. The spread between the DirectX sub-scores is a reminder that these are workload-specific numbers rather than a single ranking. Across the whole benchmark set, the 25120 average and 69th percentile position place the RTX 3060 Ti in the upper-middle tier of the database, but not at the top.

Memory Subsystem

The RTX 3060 Ti uses 8 GB of GDDR6 on a 256-bit bus. Memory clock is 1750 MHz, listed as 14 Gbps effective, and the resulting bandwidth is 448.0 GB/s. This bandwidth is supplied by the combination of the 256-bit bus and effective 14 Gbps signaling. For high resolutions, bandwidth matters because larger frame buffers and higher resolution textures require more data movement per frame. The 448.0 GB/s figure is the ceiling for that movement. The 8 GB capacity is the other boundary: workloads that need more than 8 GB of video memory will have to spill over or reduce asset quality. The memory subsystem is thus well suited to high-resolution work within an 8 GB envelope, but it is not a card for extreme frame buffer demand.

Ray Tracing and Feature Set

The Ampere architecture provides hardware ray tracing through 38 RT cores and tensor-heavy compute through 152 tensor cores. For standard rasterization, the card has 4864 shading units, 152 TMUs, and 80 ROPs. The resulting rates are 133.2 GPixel/s for pixels and 253.1 GTexel/s for textures. FP32 compute is 16.20 TFLOPS, and FP16 is also 16.20 TFLOPS with a 1:1 ratio. API support includes DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4, so the card can run modern DX12 Ultimate titles and Vulkan releases. Display outputs are one HDMI 2.1 and three DisplayPort 1.4a. The bus interface is PCIe 4.0 x16.

Who Should Consider It

This card makes sense when the target is the performance bracket around a 25120 average score and the 69th-percentile position. It is not a top-tier GPU, but it has a complete feature set and a balanced memory configuration. For high-resolution gaming with high-quality textures, 8 GB is the likely constraint rather than the 448.0 GB/s bandwidth. For games and applications that lean on DirectX 12, the 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 2626 is the relevant data point. For older DirectX 11 or DirectX 9 code, the Passmark sub-scores of 163 and 234 are more indicative of what to expect.

Users who need more than 8 GB of VRAM or who want substantially more raw compute should look elsewhere. The 16.20 TFLOPS FP32 and 16.20 TFLOPS FP16 numbers define the compute class of this card. The 38 RT cores and 152 tensor cores make it a capable ray tracing and tensor-based workload candidate within that class. Because production status is end-of-life, it is a mature, well-understood part rather than a new release.

How It Compares

Against the AMD Radeon RX 6700M, the RTX 3060 Ti averages 25120 versus 25180, a 0.2% gap. In aggregate, the two cards are statistically inseparable, and the 3060 Ti should be judged on other features rather than this difference.

Against the AMD Radeon RX 6600, the RTX 3060 Ti trails by 0.5%: 25120 versus 25235. That is a negligible aggregate gap. The 3060 Ti’s memory configuration and API feature set are more meaningful differentiators than the benchmark average.

Against the AMD Radeon 890M, the RTX 3060 Ti averages 25120 versus 25246, again 0.5% behind. The 890M holds a slight edge in this database, but the delta is small enough that real-world workload mix will determine the better choice.

Against the AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP, the RTX 3060 Ti’s 25120 average is 0.7% behind the 25287 average, the largest gap in this rival group. Even so, a 0.7% aggregate difference is not enough to separate the cards on average score alone.

Power and Cooling

The RTX 3060 Ti is rated at 200 W TDP. The suggested power supply is 550 W, and the card requires one 12-pin power connector. It is a dual-slot card with a length of 242 mm, or 9.5 inches, and a height of 112 mm, or 4.4 inches. These figures mean the physical fit is straightforward in a standard dual-slot chassis that can accommodate a 242 mm card and a 550 W PSU. The PCIe 4.0 x16 interface is present, and cooling needs are covered by the dual-slot form factor.