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RTX 3060

Average Bench: 99.1% (45th of 683)

Based on 203,334 user benchmarks.  Devices: 10DE 2503, 10DE 2487, 10DE 2504 Model: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

The RTX 3060 is Nvidia’s latest 3000 series GPU. Even if it (ever…) comes into stock at $330 USD, it will struggle to match the groundbreaking 3060 Ti in terms of value for money. Nvidia’s new Ampere architecture, which supersedes Turing, offers both improved power efficiency and performance. The 3060 features 3,584 CUDA cores, 112 Tensor cores, it has a boost clock of 1.78 GHz, 12 GB of memory and a power draw of just 170 W. The 3060 offers similar performance to the previous generation’s 2060 Super at an 18% MSRP discount. 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 PC gamers 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 will probably lose considerable market share, for all the wrong reasons. [Feb '21 GPUPro]

Poor: 92%Average: 99.1% Great: 106%

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Excellent average bench

The Nvidia RTX 3060 averaged just 0.8% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This is an excellent result which ranks the Nvidia RTX 3060 near the top of the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 134fps
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 104fps

Very good consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia RTX 3060 is just 14.3%. This is a relatively narrow range which indicates that the Nvidia RTX 3060 performs reasonably consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 124fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 126fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 203,334 samples)
Rank 4599.1%
Min Avg Max
121 Lighting 134 146
112 Reflection 124 153
112 Parallax 126 140
108% 128 fps
Min Avg Max
134 MRender 142 149
97.5 Gravity 104 110
83.4 Splatting 90.2 99.3
88.5% 112 fps
User Benchmarks Bench 3D DX9 3D DX10 3D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Gigabyte(1458 407B) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 2190 MHz, MLim: 3750 MHz, Ram: 12GB, Driver: 512.15
104% Outstanding
Lighting 144
Reflection 132
Parallax 130
116% 135 fps
MRender 145
Gravity 104
Splatting 100
89% 116 fps
Asus(1043 87F7) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 2235 MHz, MLim: 3900 MHz, Ram: 12GB, Driver: 516.94
103% Outstanding
Lighting 139
Reflection 160
Parallax 131
113% 143 fps
MRender 147
Gravity 109
Splatting 95
92% 117 fps
MSI(1462 3976) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 3750 MHz, Ram: 12GB, Driver: 472.88
92.4% Outstanding
Lighting 123
Reflection 113
Parallax 116
100% 117 fps
MRender 135
Gravity 98.4
Splatting 85
84% 106 fps
Asus(1043 87F7) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 2115 MHz, MLim: 3750 MHz, Ram: 12GB, Driver: 516.59
90.2% Outstanding
Lighting 121
Reflection 114
Parallax 115
98% 117 fps
MRender 132
Gravity 94.9
Splatting 83.2
81% 103 fps
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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 54,251,365 GPUs tested.

 Popular Cards

Based on statistics from 203,334 user benchmarks.

Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price (MSRP ≈ $330 @ launch in Feb '21)
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Gigabyte(1458 4074) 10% 99% ± 4%
Gigabyte RTX 3060 12GB Gaming OC
GV-N3060GAMING OC-12GD REV2.0
AmazonUS $42018 mins
EbayUS $47022 mins
MSI(1462 397D) 9% 99% ± 3%
EVGA(3842 3656) 8% 99% ± 4%
Gigabyte(1458 4072) 6% 100% ± 4%
Gigabyte RTX 3060 12GB Eagle OC
GV-N3060EAGLE OC-12GD REV2.0
AmazonUS $43018 mins
EbayUS $50722 mins
Zotac(19DA 4630) 5% 99% ± 5%
Zotac RTX 3060 12GB Twin Edge OC
ZT-A30600H-10M
AmazonUS $42918 mins
EbayUS $43322 mins
Asus(1043 8818) 4% 101% ± 4%
MSI(1462 3976) 4% 98% ± 4%
Zotac(19DA 2630) 3% 98% ± 4%
Nvidia(10DE 2504) 3% 98% ± 4%
Gigabyte(1458 4073) 3% 100% ± 5%
Gigabyte(1458 407B) 3% 103% ± 4%
Asus(1043 881D) 3% 99% ± 2%
Asus(1043 8816) 3% 100% ± 5%
HP(103C 8903) 2% 100% ± 2%
MSI(1462 397B) 2% 99% ± 2%
Nvidia(10DE 1536) 2% 97% ± 3%
EVGA(3842 3657) 2% 100% ± 3%
EVGA RTX 3060 12GB XC Gaming
12G-P5-3657-KR
EbayUS $41622 mins
Asus(1043 8810) 2% 99% ± 2%
MSI(1462 3903) 2% 100% ± 5%
Gigabyte(1458 4071) 2% 98% ± 3%
Asus(1043 87F5) 1% 99% ± 3%
Asus RTX 3060 12GB Tuf OC
TUF-RTX3060-O12G-V2-GAMING
AmazonUS $44418 mins
EbayUS $61222 mins
EVGA(3842 3652) 1% 98% ± 3%
Nvidia(10DE 2503) 1% 99% ± 5%
Asus(1043 8811) 1% 99% ± 5%
Asus(1043 87F3) 1% 99% ± 5%
Device(7377 2000) 1% 96% ± 2%
MSI(1462 397E) 1% 98% ± 2%
PNY(196E 138E) 1% 97% ± 2%
Legend(17AA 2088) 1% 97% ± 3%
Nvidia(10DE 2487) 1% 98% ± 6%
Asus(1043 8866) 1% 99% ± 3%
EVGA(3842 3653) 1% 105% ± 5%
EVGA(3842 3658) 1% 102% ± 2%
Device(7377 150A) 1% 96% ± 1%
MSI(1462 8E90) 1% 103% ± 5%
Dell(1028 C973) 1% 98% ± 8%
Sapphire(174B A630) 1% 99% ± 1%
Asus(1043 8821) 1% 100% ± 3%
Asus(1043 8865) 1% 103% ± 1%
PNY(196E 138F) 1% 95% ± 3%
Asus(1043 87F8) 0% 89% ± 2%
Asus(1043 8868) 0% 103% ± 8%
Zotac(19DA B617) 0% 101% ± 3%
Nvidia(10DE 1530) 0% 100% ± 2%
Device(107D 2793) 0% 101% ± 0%
Asus(1043 87F7) 0% 98% ± 0%
Asus(1043 87F6) 0% 87% ± 0%
Asus(1043 87F9) 0% 110% ± 0%
Zotac(19DA 6617) 0% 97% ± 0%
Device(7377 1501) 0% 99% ± 0%
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Desktop 92%
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Workstation 91%
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Motherboard: Asus TUF GAMING X570-PLUS (WI-FI) - $199

CPU
Ryzen 7 3700XAMD  $286Bench 84%, 779,952 samples26,520x
Ryzen 5 3600AMD  $143Bench 81%, 1,068,225 samples13,726x
Ryzen 9 3900XAMD  $420Bench 86%, 312,187 samples11,960x
GPU
RTX 3060Nvidia  $416Bench 99%, 203,334 samples1x
SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung  $105Bench 330%, 399,889 samples6,358x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung  $169Bench 299%, 321,590 samples4,933x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung  $59Bench 287%, 375,956 samples4,421x
RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair  $58Bench 86%, 616,718 samples4,040x
Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair  $73Bench 85%, 338,612 samples3,895x
Vengeance RGB PRO DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GBCorsair  $200Bench 88%, 141,007 samples3,572x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 77% - Very good Total price: $1,064

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 Comments

GPUPro
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Official site www.nvidia.com/...

Added 17 months ago.
USA-User
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Good (edit your comment) Add link

13 hrs ago.

Solid especially with a triple fan

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Even though it's not as good as the 3060 Ti, at least it is not AMD garbage—Feb '21

GBR-User
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5,286

Good

9 days ago.

amazing gpu even not overclocked this will last for years

CAN-User
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4,518

Good

15 hrs ago.

most overpriced graphics card in nvidias lineup. you might as well get an rtx 3060 ti as the rtx 3060 ti costs similarly to the price gouged rtx 3060 with a pretty big performance hike

IND-User
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4,176

Poor

7 days ago.

great for gaming and streaming

BGR-User
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2,608

Terrible

15 days ago.

good performance for the money

NOR-User
Avatar level
2,076

Good

17 days ago.

Just upgraded my setup from GTX1050Ti. Runs everything I need it to run, without issue. Paired with i5-12400F, 16gb RAM.

GPUPro
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1,576

Good

17 months ago.

IRL-User
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1,524

Good

12 days ago.

the 3060 fe looks great and hopefully can be a great budget/mid range card when the pc market calms down

BHR-User
Avatar level
592

Excellent

2 months ago.

good price for insane performance

Viper207
Avatar level
472

Good

10 months ago.

videocard has 12 gb of vram

Dariex
Avatar level
112

Excellent

9 months ago.

Basically a gtx 1080 with ray tracing

Darktanis
Avatar level
14

Excellent

2 months ago.

Excellent card. Amazing performance with a reasonable price.

20080511
Avatar level
12

Excellent

2 months ago.

Can run basically every single game out there with 100+ fps for only around $400 if you can get a good deal.

kabos
Avatar level
8

Excellent

15 days ago.

Nice heavr

gwennoryth
Avatar level
6

Good

6 months ago.

Honestly, this is my first legit graphics card on a custom rig, so I'm probably biased, but I'm really impressed with the RTX 3060! The Nvidia DLSS/DLAA anti-aliasing feature is a very nice luxury to have, and the Screen Space GI quality on this is nothing to sneeze at, either. Framerates are in the hundreds for almost all games I play too, and I've yet to overclock the GPU on my PC, so I'd consider this a huge hit!

GamingElliot19
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2

Average

17 months ago.

You're probably better off getting the 3060 Ti for a small price hike yet a big performance jump

31118945
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2

Excellent

16 months ago.

Great overclocking, very close to RTX 3060ti when overclocked!

Lucas007
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2

Average

15 months ago.

My gpu is 70 degrees standard i think it's not normal

pizzaface817
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2

Good

12 months ago.

Can handle most games at max settings at 1080p. Not as good value as a 3060 ti or 3070, but is your best bet to find a gpu at the moment.

Phanu
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2

Excellent

10 months ago.

Becuz i use it

ian41
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2

Poor

9 months ago.

Multiple failures of new GPU , not over-clocked. Sending back to company.

1232
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2

Excellent

7 months ago.

really good for the price

zero155115
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2

Excellent

4 months ago.

Great Graphic card.

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