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Best Bench: 136% EVGA(3842 3667) ≥ 4GB
Worst Bench: 116% Gigabyte(1458 4097) ≥ 4GB

Poor: 116% Great: 136%

SPEED RANK: 37^th / 714

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Best Bench: 92% AMD(1002 6B76)
Worst Bench: 78% AMD(1002 6B76)

Poor: 78% Great: 92%

SPEED RANK: 83^rd / 714


Effective 3D Speed Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed		128 %	Much faster effective speed. +49%		86.4 %


Lighting Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	179 fps	Much better lighting effects. +61%	111 fps
Reflection Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	176 fps	Much better reflection handling. +74%	101 fps
MRender Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere)	183 fps	Hugely faster multi rendering. +108%	87.8 fps
Gravity Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy)	134 fps	Slightly faster NBody calculation. +10%	122 fps


Lighting Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	195 fps	Much better peak lighting effects. +64%	119 fps
Reflection High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	222 fps	Hugely better peak reflection handling. +104%	109 fps
MRender Render target array GShader (Sphere)	195 fps	Hugely faster peak multi rendering. +113%	91.6 fps
Gravity NBody particle system (Galaxy)	142 fps	Slightly faster peak NBody calculation. +8%	132 fps

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	2.48 %	Insanely higher market share. +∞%	0 %
Value Value For Money	89.5 %	Hugely better value. +337%	20.5 %
User Rating UBM User Rating	96 %	Hugely more popular. +81%	53 %
Price Price (score)	$340	Much cheaper. +66%	$1,000


Age Newest	40 Months	Much more recent. +51%	81 Months
Parallax Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	180 fps		189 fps	+5%
Splatting Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	123 fps		125 fps	+2%
Parallax Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	162 fps		173 fps	Slightly better texture detail. +7%
Splatting Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	115 fps	Much faster complex splatting. +42%	80.8 fps

The RTX 3060 Ti is Nvidia’s latest 3000 series GPU. Assuming it (ever…) comes into stock at $400 USD, it will take the crown as the best value for money graphics card. Nvidia’s new Ampere architecture, which supersedes Turing, offers both improved power efficiency and performance. The 3060 Ti features 4,864 CUDA cores, 152 Tensor cores, it has a boost clock of 1.665 GHz, 8 GB of memory and a power draw of just 200 W. Nvidia’s entire 3000 series lineup offers once in a decade price/performance improvements. The 3060 Ti beats the previous generation’s 2060 Super by 30% in terms of effective speed at the same MSRP. Given the widespread issues AMD users are facing with 5000 series GPUs (blue/black screens etc.), AMD’s 6000 series GPU’s will have to see substantial price cuts and a huge marketing effort in order to gain any traction. Meanwhile, Christmas has come early for PC gamers who can look forward to an unparalleled gaming experience in class leading titles such as Cyberpunk 2077. At ultra settings, with ray tracing enabled, Cyberpunk 2077 redefines the boundaries of immersive gaming. It makes GTA5 look like Tetris in comparison. The combination of RTX+DLSS delivers stunning graphics that are several tiers higher than both AMD's best discrete GPUs and the upcoming consoles. In terms of real world performance, Nvidia’s 3000 series has more or less put AMD’s Radeon group in checkmate. Nonetheless, AMD’s marketers are capable of delivering elaborate BS albeit whilst struggling to keep a straight face. Their marketing infrastructure outsold Intel in the CPU market despite a 15% performance deficit. Without an appropriate social media marketing strategy, Nvidia may lose considerable market share, for all the wrong reasons. ^{[Dec '20 GPUPro]}

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The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition GPU is AMD's first graphics card with the new Vega architecture which features next-generation compute units (nCUs). AMD have designed Vega to handle the increasing data and computational demands from game creation to rendering simulations to video processing to AI. The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition comes with 64 nCUs yielding 4096 stream processors with which it can process up to 13.1 TFLOPS. Also, it has a high-bandwidth cache controller and 16GB of ultra fast HBM2 RAM and supports an 8K display. This first Vega GPU is aimed at professional workstation users and although it is not a gaming card, its game performance benchmarks are underwhelming albeit good. It broadly matches the performance of NVIDIA's now year old GTX 1080, but at nearly twice the price ($550 for the 1080 versus a list price of $1000 for the air-cooled Vega Frontier Edition). There is also a water-cooled edition of the Vega Frontier which commands an additional $500 premium on the list price. There will be gaming variants of Vega based cards available shortly and, depending on their entry price, these may prove to be more interesting to the consumer/gamer market. ^{[Jul '17 GPUPro]}

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Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

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Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16

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