In autumn, the formal release of the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti video card with GDDR6X memory took place. It was expected to eventually replace the original model, but Nvidia’s AIB partners have been slow to bring it to market. In particular, the first full-fledged review of the novelty was published only this month – the Polish web resource ITHardware tested the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti G6X OC card from the KFA2 brand.
Recall that the configuration of the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti graphics processor in the version with GDDR6X memory does not differ from its predecessor. Both models operate with 4864 CUDA cores, 152 tensor cores, 38 RT cores and a 256-bit memory bus through which the GPU interacts with an 8-gigabyte video buffer. The transition to faster GDDR6X chips increased the throughput by more than a third: from 448 to 608 GB / s. Along with this, passport power consumption increased from 200 to 225 watts.
As tests have shown, the transition to GDDR6X memory did not provide the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti with a significant performance jump. In games, the superiority of the updated version amounted to a few percent. Here it is worth clarifying that the Polish colleagues compared the new KFA2 with the ASUS TUF Gaming OC model, which has a good factory overclocked GPU. At the same time, the GeForce RTX 3070 is about 13-14% faster than the updated GeForce RTX 3060 Ti.
Sources:
Tom’s Hardware
VideoCardz
