GeForce RTX™ 3060 GAMING OC 12G Review

GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3060 GAMING OC 12G Review from New-Egg Shuffle.

When the package NewEgg arrived at my place I got to install it into my PCIe slot the day of inserting the GPU card and installing NVIDIA drivers off on Windows 10 OS.  I’ll summarize over why I like Gigabyte Geforce RTX 3060 for Gaming and Content Creation. I’ll go over the main features this Graphics Card brings to the table.

GIGABYTE RTX 3060, a successor over RTX 2060 Series it runs 20% faster over the last 2060 GPU generation.  This GPU is currently installed onto my AMD MSI X570 Motherboard’s PCI-e 4.0 slot.  For one,   I’ll acknowledge this isn’t the best “GPU card release”  RTX 3060 best runs on 1080p gaming monitors.  Many will be disappointed which it will not run games on 4K.

As a mainstream card, the RTX 3060 primarily targets 1080p and 1440p gaming. Some lighter games may also run fine at 4K, or in some cases, you could shoot for 4K at medium settings. But despite having more VRAM than even the RTX 3080, frame rates definitely take a hit at the highest resolutions. We’ll start with our 1080p benchmarks, then move on to 1440p and 4K.

Hardware Design

Trio Fan Cooling 3X Cooling System comes with the RGB GIGABYTE logo.

Screen-cooling

Extended heatsink design allows airflow to pass through, providing better heat dissipation.  This GPU comes with copper heat-pipe bearings to enhance heat dissipation.

What’s RGB Fusion 2.0?

Fusion 2.0 comes with 16.7 M Customizable color options and numerous lighting effects, you can choose lighting effects or synchronize with other AORUS devices.

I/O

The basic input/output connection has two Display-Ports and two HDMI ports on the rear for High-Resolution display monitors.  60 FPS to match your monitor crisp-res up to 1440p displays. Beautiful-res Gaming all day!

GPU FEATURES

NVIDIA Ampere Streaming Multiprocessors
2nd Generation RT Cores
3rd Generation Tensor Cores
Powered by GeForce RTX™ 3060
Integrated with 12GB GDDR6 192-bit memory interface
WINDFORCE 3X Cooling System with alternate spinning fans
RGB Fusion 2.0
Protection metal back-plate

Minimum System Requirements

• PCI Express graphics slot required
• Internet connection and 2GB available disk space for driver installation required
• One 8-pin PCIe power connector required
• 550W system power supply required
• Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit or Linux 64 bit.

CORE CLOCK

1837 MHz (Reference Card: 1777 MHz)

Conclusion

Is this GPU worth your upgrade?  The answer: No.  While this is a good card, it isn’t exactly the best card to come to date.  The marketing for this GPU card attracted Crypto Miners more so than  “Gamers and Content creators”.  If you’re a crypto mining this card works for your needs.

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