Why did I buy an RTX 3060 in 2024?
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- Welcome to Nelly's Nerd Cave, your digital sanctuary for all things tech! I'm Neil, and today, we're diving into a decision that might raise some eyebrows - the purchase of an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 in 2024. Join me as I unravel the reasons behind this choice, what I'm using it for, and the exciting possibilities it brings to the Nerd Cave.
🎮 Why a 3060 in 2024?: The tech landscape is ever-evolving, and sometimes, the perfect piece for your setup isn't the latest and greatest. Discover the rationale behind my decision to acquire the RTX 3060 in 2024. Is it about performance-per-dollar, availability, or a unique use case scenario? Let's break it down together.
🔧 Tech Experiments: Nelly's Nerd Cave is a playground for tech enthusiasts, and the RTX 3060 is our latest experiment. From overclocking tests to pushing it to the limits in benchmark battles, we're going beyond the surface to see how far this GPU can go.
🌐 Future-Proofing: Dive into discussions on future-proofing strategies. In a world where tech advances rapidly, why does the RTX 3060 still hold its ground? Explore the concept of balanced performance and the factors that make this GPU a solid investment for the years to come.
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I'm very happy with my 3060. My upgrade was from a GTX 970. It runs smoothly, games look, and play great. For a 12gen CPU, 32GB Ram, and a Samsung 230Hz 1080p monitor, it's all I need right now.
I realized I got my Girlfriend a RTX 2060 12GB MSI Ventus OC, and that runs pretty well on 1080p.
upgrade from a 970!!!?? you finally witnessed the magic of high fidelity graphics 🙏
@@bluecobalt665 guess what, here I am using Gt-710. 😅😅
You mean 240hz 230 not divisible by 24, 30, 60 (frame rate of movies, video)
@@Physics072 Something like that Samsung Odyssey G4 240Hz , blah blahh and all that good stuff 🤷🏾♂️ 🤣🤣🤣
I have had a 3060 for the past few years. I will buy a more powerful card, mess with it for a bit, and sell it on. The 3060 is a great little card.
''little card'', ive had a 1060 for 6+ years and i was fine and now ive had a 6600 for months and you don't really need much more for 1080p, unless you are playing on a massive screen and you need some expensive card to tank its way through. But ive noticed that on the internet if you don't have a high end system or anything really you are like a peasent level which shows in your comment. Or maybe pc components are a lot cheaper where you are from.
@@Burago2k oops, should have added I have the evga xc model which is a small card.
I got an RTX 3060 a couple years ago for about $400. It's still a great card with Fallout 4, Skyrim, Tiny Tina's Wonderland, Subnautica, and Fallout 76 looking well. It pairs well with my Ryzen 3 3200 G with 16 gig 3200 ram, built in 2020. If you think my rig is old, the case is an alienware from 2005!
I have a 3060 too paired with a R5 3400g, I was already getting solid fps in games till I figured out how MUCH performance is getting wasted just because my CPU can't keep up with the GPU. There's a visible bottleneck happening in almost all perspectives.
Probably would pick a 5600 soon.
The 3060 12GB is a great card for under $300.00. I seen them as low as $239.99.
3060ti is better. Neither is good enough to make use of 12gb.
@@insertnamehere4419The 3060 12GB can be found in quantities everywhere, finding a new 3060TI 8GB is difficult and could cost a lot, then it all depends on the prices
Meh, just save 60 $ more and get a RX6800. Much better
Yep, I've seen it new for as low as $220 during black Friday and the holidays. Current prices are not worth it though. It should be $200 in 2024 given it's more like an entry level card if you plan on playing the latest
Yeah it's a great starting card, but it wasn't quite enough for me at 1440p. Got a 4070 now and it defo performs a lot better.
I bought a 3060 TI in November and have loved it so far. No issues with drivers or hiccups in games at all.
Depending on games, 3060 can be good enough. It also power efficient and 12 GB of RAM is good. If you play latest AAA titles on ultra it will not make it, but lower to high 1080p and you will be good to go, maybe sometimes with DLSS. It still a solid card, people who think otherwise just have not tried it.
I got MSI 3060 12GB with i5 13600k ... Absolutely loving it!
A reliable little 1080p card with no vram issues. You can even run it on 1440p and have some fun. Even 4k is possible but at low framerates around 30fps.
True native 1080p, 1440p native or quality mode DLSS and 4k balanced DLSS.
1440p can work for older games, but the 4070 is a lot better for 1440p if you can get that or 7800 XT.
Folks, don't use Steam hardware survey to buy GPUs.
... because it only says what is gamed on, not how good it actually performs. I mean you don't even know the system, display or settings used there.
Do people actually do that lol?
@@X_irtz I don't know, I only see the hobby from the enthusiast forums and such, but I think despite desktop sales continuing to contract, we're still getting lots of "new to PC from the consoles" users. For those folks, not familiar with hobby or it's quirks, Steam hardware survey might seem like a good metric for what folks that do know are using. If they watch this video that idea would only be re-enforced.
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Eh it's a very good card that's just overpriced
@@GameslordXY True, on both accounts. But my comment wasn't about the RTX 3060, just about using the Steam Survey as a reference to buy GPUs. ;-)
I am using a 3060 and I'm glad I got the card. In our country the card is still going new for over 300$ which is just absurd. I got mine during the whole crypto hype which was expensive but I still needed a good enough GPU for that time so I just had to make a decision. The card performs well with my R5 3600 delivering 60fps on native res on newly released ghost of tsushima title.
I got a new msi 3050 6gb. I'm working my house and cars. It's nice to see and play with the technology. Suits my needs for now, msi makes a great product.
You can just choose your fan curves on msi afterburner with any card can't you?
I bought a 3060 about 1 year ago to replace my 1650 that I bought during pandemic price times. I admit I sent back the 3060 within a week, and upgraded to the 3060ti. The ti version makes a pretty substantial difference. But, the 3060 is great for most users. I only upgraded to the ti because I wanted slightly better gaming performance.
*edit - To add, I play on a 1080 x 60 27" monitor. And even in 1080, I couldn't max out Hogwarts Legacy with a 5800x & 32gb ram. I can max almost all settings, but some I put down to high (to get a constant 60fps and never drop below). So, I'd say this isn't really a 1440 card, unless you plan to play on medium settings.
And, I would suggest setting your own fan settings.
The 3060 12GB (Specifically) is an amazing 1080p-1440p *NATIVE* Medium-Ultra Esports and well optimized AAA card. You can still play anything under the sun demanding or just plain not well optimized with balanced or quality DLSS. I am not a fan of DLSS and prefer native resolution and lower settings before using it, but it does work.
That is the highest intro quality-subscriber count ratio I've ever seen.
Because it will pay off via content you make about it and with it?
Pay off on such a small channel?
His Contect might improve.
Editing becomes a whole LOT faster.
Faster editing while also being at higher quality(picture)might attract viewers to stay.
To subscribe, perhaps even become patreons.
Also he might be using it for some kind of professional work away from his RUclips channel.
If so,he would recuperate his cost extremely quickly.
Be getting on of those early November, upgrading from a GTX 1660 Ti. Cost is the same overall paid about $450AUD for the 1660Ti (about 5 years ago) and it's ALMOST the same for a 3060!
The 3060 is a great card. I've had a 6600xt since launch and can't see any reason to upgrade it. I enjoy the efficiency of the 6600xt and the fact that it does what I need very well. I use it for photo editing and playing Battlefield 1. If a new game comes out that requires an upgrade I'll do it - but I've got zero interest in the current crop of games that are all graphics and zero soul or gameplay.
For 1080p@60Hz 3060 12G is more than adequate and budget solution even with max graphics settings. If you use DLSS and Frame Generation, of course. I mean it keep close to 60fps(dlss quality, FSR3 FG) in CP2077 path tracing enabled, and up to 100 fps in CitySample demo.
How do you enable path tracing on a 30xx series card?
@@postcardsandroses I presume you mean "frame generation"? Because path tracing is available even for 20XX generation.
Here on youtube already exist plenty of guides how to enable frame gen in Cyberpunk 2077(and other games) for ALL GPU's. As I wrote in discription I just dropped bunch of dlls from "FSR3 Frame Gen for Cyberpunk 2077 (DLSS Enabler 2077 Edition)" mod, I downloaded from "nexusmods" site, into .exe folder of coocked project. Whom, of course, must consist DLSS 3,5+
In other words anyone can enable frame generation(for all GPUs) in ALL games on UE5+, with DLSS+FG.
Olympiads made you famous, bro. Gz on the silver medal. Oh wait... wrong person.
Wow, love the way you talk, so peaceful. Subbed.
i have a rayzen 5600g and i think this is the best option to go with .. i mainly do 3d stuf and rendering .. and my budget dont allow to upgrade to a new cpu to pair it with better gpu ,, thanks for the video
Should have either bought a rx7600 in this price range, it slaughters the 3060 and 4060 OR paid the $100 price difference and picked up a 4060ti.
I had to buy the same card Ventus 3060 over my 1070ti as there just was no better option for the price for 1440p. nearly £300 for 3 year old card...
Isn't 3060 only 10% faster than 1070ti?
Eh? What on earth you thinking of lol
If you have 1080 ti , no reason to get this one as it's more or less the same performance. with less power draw. Get at least a 6800XT/7800XT/7900 GRE or 3080/4070.
Wouldn't you be better off with an amd card if you want a cheaper card with lot's of vram and a good price/performance? Unless you intend to run nvidia specific pro software or something... but for gaming.... not like either of them is going to be fast enough with ray tracing for that to matter
Yeah the RX 6700xt. However those GPU’s lack good encoding and DLSS is superior to FSR.
I bought one of these over a year ago, pre VENTUS and non over clock. It wouldn't recognise my 1440p 144Htz dual monitors, so nowhere near as capable as advertised. I now have an OC VENTUS 4070 which is serving me well.
This looks like a good little informative channel. Deserves way more subscribers. Loving the light-up Arc actor in a box BTW. :)
3060 12 GB is less than 5% slower than 4060, which has 8 GB, when Nvidia releases a 12 GB 5060 or 6060, with 12 GB minimum, I'll change my 3060.
I’m waiting for the rtx 5060 release for an upgrade. If rtx 5060 would be a joke like 4060 card I’ll wait for rtx 4070 Super price drop after 50xx release
I'm still using a 1080ti which is just like a 3060. Still a good card for 1080p
I have a friend that bougght a 3060 because he needed something with low power draw as well as a GPU that would run WoW at 4k well and didn't have a completely gimped memory bus and lane count when it came to running with a ryzen 3600 which is pcie 3.0.
He bought it in 2024 because there was pretty much nothing else except the 4070 which is more power than he wanted to draw as well as about twice as expensive for 90% more performance which means it's a bit less cost efficient for the performance.
No good options for him...
Got mine last year 12gb , way better than 4060
Frame gen lit tho
I just bought one too to replace mine. I just didn't want to lay out $700+ for a card that also has 12 gb. When this one is fine. It was $275 US dollars on sale. I just didn't feel the upgrade was worth the price right now.
I upgraded my wife's computer about a year ago from a 970 to a 3060 12gb model when I found it on sale for $270 US. I have to running two 1080 panels and it does great.
This card should be fairly good with the latest frame generation mod.
rtx3060 12gb vs rtx3060ti today is the 1st time i actually seen a rtx3060ti cheaper then the 12gb version,not by much but 10usd and thats great for the people in 1080p gaming i think.
So why was the rtx3060ti cheaper?? i really dont know and can only speculate that they have way to many in storage and thats it,but if that is true i dont know at all??
3060 also performs great at 1440p. It was the first card I got, everyone was saying don't but it was the most sensible option for me. It has exceeded all benchmarks I have ever seen. Never had a single issue aside from pushing it way harder than it had any business going lol no crashes though. Just minor stutters, some fuzziness trying to render textures it is not powerful enough to render.
People are buying the 3060 12gb because it’s access to DLSS and 12gbs of vram. If the 4060 had the same type of vram capacity and memory bandwidth it would be flying off store shelves.
I bought my son the Gainward Ghost 3060 12GB at the start of Covid for £500! Great card but then upgraded him to a Palit 3070 GAMING PRO which blew it out of the water… he’s now rocking a Asus 4070 TUF GAMING OC which was a decent upgrade but not the difference from 3060 to 3070. For £260 ish the 3060 for 1080p is a great deal.
I have a 1660 super, my cpu is 12th gen i9-12900K.
I had a 1050 ti with a Phenom II x 6. I moved that 1050 it over to my i9 12900K build when I built it. I just don't have the money for a GPU. That RTX 3060 would even be too much for me.
Got one of these aswell and I'm impressed absolutely.
i made a last update for my aged Ryzen System (R5 2600/x370!/GTX1050Ti)
So the 3060(regular) was set in my mind. 350€ for the FirstEdition sounded nice.
unfortunately the circumsdances with Bitcoinmining-Boom an the resulting scacity of GPUs lead to absurd higher prices that had their peak around 600€ for the same card.🤔
also rumors came up of a 12GB Model. Sounded cool but not in this pricerange.😭
meanwhile AMD came from 3xxx to 5xxx CPUs, and with that the rather more expensive X3D Model was release.... but wouldnt work on my vintage x370 Mainboard. Or???
well 12 moth ago things came all together in the way i liked it: 3060/12 has normal price (even if i speculated with a lowerage becaus of the announced 4060).
the BIOS/UEFI was updated for the R7 5800X3D 🤑and the price was double the same CPU without X3D, but almost have of the price it used to be. So, here we go.
I have the fastest Gaming CPU of its time.
I have a RTX3060/12 which does a good job in FullHD.
an i avoided the much more expensive AM5 Ryzen, the AM5 Boards and the (at that time) more expensive DDR5. crowned with a very OK Grafikcards (mostly in ARK survival Ascended with UE5).
Tests an Articels on computersites alwas talk about Top-of-the-Hill-Gear, which is irrelevant for 80% of the audience/users.
So im with you: 3060 is still a good choice.
"...yeaaa, but the 4060..." Moment, Smartheads. NVidia is in a similar situation as intel was 12 years ago: they have no real competitor. and therefore the 40xx series (exept the 4090-Monster) does not make much efforts to be innovative or progress in performance. And for that, the prices are still indecent.
So the mentioned System has to/is doing well for the next 2-3 years. and in this period a lot of interesting technical shit will happen, that it makes me(us/you) worth investing in.
have a nice one
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I am in dire situation, I need to upgrade my motherboard because I made a mistake of getting a motherboard that only had one M.2, Now I needs to upgrade my motherboard to one that got a few M.2, But all the motherboards now is DDR5, I only just put 32gb of DDR4 on my PC, lol, I can't find a DDR4 motherboard that is worth it when the DDR5 is the same price, And 16gb of DDR5 is as fast as 32gb of DDR4, So I guess I will have to get a motherboard that is DDR5, And get 16gb of DDR5, I can't afford the 32gb of DDR5.....
Is there any way I can keep my 32gb of DDR4 and still upgrade my motherboard with more than one M.2 slots, And still keep my PC future proof, DDR5 is the future, Why can't a motherboard run both DDR4 and DDR5, If a CPU can run both DDR4 and DDR5, Serious question, And can't really find an explanation why a motherboard can't be DDR4 and DDR5, It makes it confusing if a CPU can do DDR4 and DDR5, The i5 12600k I have currently is a fantastic CPU for the price point, I do Sim Racing, And since I put 32gb in the PC, I no longer have stutters when I am racing with a full track of cars, I do VR as well, AMS 2 is VR is again fantastic, I did notice the 12th gen i7 12700k is a lot cheaper than when I bought the 12600k, And I hear the i7 12700k is a fantastic CPU for creators and gamers, Still though the i5 12600k has delt with everything I through at it, And thee 12gb 3060 is a pretty good combo for the i5 12600k, Anything higher in the CPU would create bottle neck you might just notice, but for me the i5 12600k goes pretty well with the 12gb 3060, And with the 3060 being 12gb, It is not a slouch with VR, I find the 12gb helps the 3060 by a lot when it comes to gaming, I read it is the most popular GPU for gaming, After all it is the middle ground between crap and amazing, Making it good, lol....
Yeah I would say to anyone with a CPU that isn't an i9 by the way to grab a 12gb 3060, Don't bother with the 8gb 3060, You better off getting the 8gb 4060 at that point, But 8gb on a GPU in 2024 is insulting in all honesty, A 40 series GPU should not have 8gb or vRam, A waste of vRam at that point, My next GPU will have to be 16gb for me to call it an upgrade, Lets face it from medium to high in graphic settings isn't really noticeable, Even more so in VR, I bet an 8gb GPU struggles when gaming in VR, It would put a huge sweat on for the GPU, But yeah the 12gb 3060 is a fantastic GPU, Like I said it is the middle spot for everything, Even content creation as well as gaming, So the 12gb 3060 is the all rounder I guess.....
And the 12gb 3060 again is pretty good with the Quest 2 that I got, I use a PCVR cable that charges the Quest 2 while I play, I would say there is at least 10 hours of VR play before the Quest 2 battery is run out, It just slows down the power drain on the Quest but I can do 2 hours sim racing with 85% battery left, So yeah the PCVR charging cables are worth getting, INUI cable it is, Well worth getting to be honest if you do VR gaming on your PC, And get Virtual Desktop too, Knocks Steam VR out the window Virtual Desktop, And if you have fast ISP then Virtual Desktop on the meta store allows you to do PCVR wireless, Pretty good if your ISP is fast, Mine isn't I am still not able to have fiber, Good old Blighty we still have estates that isn't fiber, I had to get a TP-Link AX3000 Wifi-6 router to make my gaming better for VR, I will say the TP-Link AX3000 is pretty good as a router, I have it connected to a Sky modem, And the TP-Link have woke up my sky internet, When Sky said it would do nothing, Before I got the TP-Link router my VR gaming was bad, Stutters I was getting was making VR unplayable, But after I put the TP-Link AX3000 in my VR gaming is far better, Night and day type of difference too, I wrote this because there is probably people who is got bad internet connection, It is because the modems that ISP provides, Is dated technology, Old tech don't work very well with up to date tech, lol, We are on Wifi-7 now, And what ISP providers is giving you routers that is actually Wifi-7, I can't even get a Wifi-6 modem off Sky, Unless I was on fiber, But I can't get fiber, lol, It is wrong really for ISP providers to provide tech that seems to be poop, No offence but I read of so many people using 3rd party routers, People should not have to use 3rd party equipment for better or more stable internet connections, I can't wait until my area starts getting fiber, lol...
But yeah the 12gb 3060 is a flipping good GPU, Period, In medium to high settings I get fantastic VR sim racing on AMS 2.....
I got a 3060 12GB and its a great value card, its even better value for us that got it years ago. 👍
A thing about steam hardware survey is that its optional and doesnt include all steam accounts while some accounts are using the same computers respectively.
So its not a representative metric of the pc gaming world.
Dudes i just got a 1070 ti for 95 bucks and a 2600x for 45
I have the exact same card and model for the past 25 months. It's more of a 1080p card in 2024. Even then, newer games like avatar, alan wake 2, starfield etc require upscaling to get 60fps at 1080p. I also have really bad frame drops in helldivers 2 to 15-20fps so im worried I'll be needing a faster card if i hope to play newer games.
u do not need 60+ fps for SP titles but even a 40 series cards req upscaling for those games u mentioned
@@christonchev9762 I changed to a 7800 xt and the improvement was worth it. HD2 is finally not nearly as stuttery a mess and I can even game at 1440p now. in SP titles, yes, triple digit fps is not needed, but it's not a great experience for me when it dips below 60 fps which is a minimum to be enjoyable for me. HD2 also has no DLSS or FSR, so raw power is needed to run the game decently
The RTX 3060 12GB still is a pretty good card and pretty much the minimum requirement for a modern FullHD gaming PC if you buy new.
I'd check out the RX 6700 XT ( and possibly 6750 XT ) before buying though, because those are faster and actually can provide decent 4k gaming performance for the same price or less.
frame gen 💀
I'm running 1080s in SLI and have been looking at the 3060 evga XC as my next card. I want to see raytracing and I do some 3d stuff and could benefit quite well with such an upgrade... so, yep, you're right. TY.
Get a 4060... they are the same price new! The difference in ray tracing and DLSS performance is huge.
@@andremessado7659 Hmmm, I will look into that and thank you. Of course, I am a tad leery cos of all the issues with the power connectors burning up so many times with the 40 series. But ty :)
@@janedagger The power connector issue was only affecting 4090's and Nvidia solved that by lowering the voltage on the cards power voltage from a max of 1.1 to 1.07v.
@@andremessado7659 Oh, well then ! LOL! :)
I like the presentation video looks very clean, audio is good. But for some reason i am left wondering why you bought the 3060 at all. Yas it was a good "deal" (validation seeking possibly) But the WHY i feel is missing and the amount of waffle idk was just a bit much for my self. Not saying some wont enjoy it in fact i'm sure many will.
So the "why" i guess maybe would include what your coming from as a upgrade and since we are looking at tech stuffs maybe some comparison benchmarks would be welcome addition. I guess i just felt i would get to see something of interest other than you holding your new toy. But it never came. i feel sad lol. Also you say you got a 3060 but never talked about the rest of the system or what its use case would be. yes gaming at 1440p but all i can see in the video is a guy holding up a 280$ card with THREE i9's on the wall behind him. So why on earth do you need a 3060? on a budget? the longer i watched the more confused i became on the WHY did you buy the 3060? perhaps it was just too good of a deal to pass up? idk.
Thank you for your video and i wish you luck in more videos, however maybe now you can have more info on things i would enjoy seeing/hearing about (possibly others too)
Best of luck, i hope you do not see this as negative feed back. but rather just someones point of view. And while others have down voted, i have not down or upvoted. but rather subscribed and look forward to seeing more even better content in the future!
that's an RTX not an atty X
Ah the 3060, the 12gbyte option that isn't too expensive. And yeah it has decent performance. So, not a bad card.I
I have found it is pretty good performing combined with 8th -9th generation pc hardware. Yeah as you said if your pc is a bit older, and you need SOMETHING powerful ENOUGH to go with your current CPU. These are a perfect slot in, and with 12Gbyte few games will complain.
3060 is a good gpu much better then the 3060ti yes the 3060ti is faster but only till the vram spitsover same at 4060 and 4060ti 8gb :D
i want at november 2023 too a 3060 but it was at german 60€ more expensive then a rx6700xt oc variation so i choose the rx6700 xt oc and undervolted and underclocked it in linux bcz. it gets really hot at my tiny itx pc, dont use intel cpu's its a bit cheaper sometimes but needs too much wattage pay more (sometimes much more or double) wattage for same power is bad :)
i use 1440p on my (really cheap, but good for a va panel) 39" monitor
I bought the same card recently. Great price and best decision I made. Love it. :)
I just upgraded from 3060 to 4070Ti because Gray Zone warfare was not performing well with 3060.
What are you talking about, most of tech youtubers and forums recommend 12GB 3060 over 4060 lol and it's basically the same price too so no, you're not saving any money here either 😆
3060 over 4060?
So 4060 is under?
@@BrickTextures-hm1uy yes, in most cases difference is negligible (literally few fps or few seconds of render time) and with tittles that are more vram hungry 3060 is a clear winner. With that being said 4060 is more energy efficient (110W peak) and subsequently very quiet, and if you need something for small factor build there is a cute low profile version :)
That original 4060 is such a failure. Yes it plays games, yes more FPS then the 3060 but... erm... it hardly felt like any improvement. Also goodby extra 4Gbyte of memory. Almost as if nvidia was like "oops 12Gbyte of memory that cheap is a mistake"
What did we end up now. A 4060 16Gbyte card... but only after people pointed out how STUPID it was.
I just bought mine last week
It was cheap???
Got a 3060ti for $245 used and is somewhat actually capable of 1440p
it's faster than 1080Ti which was very capable and still is capable 1440p card...
Medium settings or maximum settings with DLSS the 3060 Ti is still quite usable. May have to drop textures a bit sometimes due to the 8 GB VRAM
Nah more a 1080p card now. 4070 or 7800 XT is your 1440p cards.@@Ludak021
Before watching the video, my answer to the question would be, "Because you don't hate yourself enough to buy a 4060" 😂
1440p with 3060, damn 😅
The 3060 has the same amount of shaders as the flagship from 2011 , namely 3584 , and since its memory is half the buswidth , 192 , but twice the speed , it performs about the same as the 1080ti. How can it be a bad card. On the other side , the 1080ti is already 13 years old. But for 1080p gaming , rendering and video editing it is a great low budget choice.
1080Ti is from 2016, its 8 years old.
Probably just the wrong forums. 3060 is fine if the price is fine tbh
I dunno.
Why did you buy a 40 month old weak at launch 1080p card for 280 quid when today I can buy an rx 6750 xt xfx qick from ebuyer for £300?
The 6750 xt is 41% faster in Rasterisation (pick yr spelling) also has 12Gb vram and the chops to use it in 1440p AAA higher settings gaming. The 3060 'doesnt'.
The 3060 was so poor ncr4ppier put 12Gb on it but only 8gb on the 3060 t.i. which is 28% faster.
Everybody saw thru this price hiking ruse on the 3060 sh1t show. Generations ago card vendors used to add more ram to crap gpu's but no longer allowed even if possible.
So, what else we got?
Some utter b0ll0x about the fan blades being curved and higher static pressure? Like they arent on every s.k.u. graphics card? SERIOUSLY? The difference in same price tier gpu cards re noise and temps is minimal, this is not a new field of physics f.f.s.
IF you dont know this create a channel about something else.
(mowing lawns?)
Oh, you want perhaps to help all those people move from a gtx 1650 to an rtx 3060 for 1440p (most of those '50 cards are in o.e.m. boxes)
Well, that is going to require a power supply upgrade and once you move off the O.E.M. crap PSU that a 1650 will run on THEY will be spending £55 ish for a reliable gaming quality psu.. ALL. DAY. LONG.
(quick look on part picker)
Say, 550w for your sh1t heap 3060 card ( but once you get into 550 Watts GAMING quality unit, prices vary less . The cheapest 550 watt unit I trust today is the be quiet sys power 10 550w at £52..(trust long term open / hi flow case)
But the be quiet! System Power 10 650 W bronze for £58.. so suddenly a card that needs 650w PSU doesnt look like a deal breaker.
You move on to equate graphics card performance to vram, this is a real noob mistake.
A 4 Gb rx 4/570 / 80 (and 1060 3Gb if tweaked settings carefully)) will p1ss all over a 4Gb rx 4/ 560, gtx 1050 ti / 1650 in mmo's. And old AAA games @ 1080p.
Basically there are a dozen known popular tech tubers who are absolute experts at this
AND YOU SIR ARE NOT ONE OF THEM.
Lol, it is way too expensive.. sold my old Aorus 1080ti for €200, and got myself a Strix 2080ti for €250.. with a decent OC it's about 3080 performance, for less then half the price.. so a 3060 would have been a disastrous buy, absolutely overpaying the lack of performance 😅
Edit : I play at 1080p, BUT i use supersampling (1440p), and with everything maxed out i'm barely under 100fps in any game, all that with 85-90% gpu utilization..
278 quid for a 3060 hmmm 286 for a 4060 bud
before seeing vid: higher bus bandwidth and more vram than 4060 means almost same performance or some games, better. also, cheap.
i think the reason 30 series still exists is because nvidia is positioning 30 series for 1080p gaming, and 40 series for 1440p or 4k, and 50 series will be 4k and 8k gaming.
If you have PCIe 3.0 go for a RTX 3060 if you have PCIe 4.0 go for a RTX 4060
Why buy one instead of 4060 the price difference is 10 euros in my country.
cause the 4060 is DS with 8gb
@@christonchev9762 the 8GB isn't even that bad it never gets that high anyway
@@christonchev9762 i know 8GB is not enough for some games, what about 99% of other games, BTW Warzone 3 that have ridiculous memory requirements doesnt stutter at all on 8GB i own RTX4060 and i can discuss on behalf of RTX4060 its a damn solid card for brand new 260 bucks that got all new RTX technologies and top end drivers
@@MicahDaRhuler Yeah 12GB makes more sense on the 4070 since it has the speed to actually use all of it on 1440p etc.
So, why did you buy an RTX 3060 in 2024?
you could have bought a 6700xt 12gb for that, thats perfect for 2k.
I'm bought a 3070 ti last year, 40 series cards are still insanely pricey and who cares about tons of vram when most AAA games suck anyways. 9/10 games that run bad are not fun anyways.
for that u should get an 4060. if u have a old pc and what a cheap gpu upgrade, rx 580 is the answer
I've just been reading about the 3060 it's coming to an end of life. it's be decommissioned taken of thr shelves very shortly
I upgraded to a 4070 from the 3060, the 3060 was a really good card...
Same here, I needed the 4070 since I'm playing on 1440p and no intention of going back to 1080p ever again....
Because its better than the 4060?
only when the 4060's vram is maxed out, which happens mostly in video cutting/ai stuff and the newest, most unoptimized titles.
if you're on a budget and you wanna cut videos, the 3060 12gb will be a better choice than the 4060, arguably.
fps/watt - the 4060 easily wins - and frame generation can make a difference.
the 4060 is just not a great deal if you already have a 3060.
@@aboomination897 Agree with everything you said 👍
Lol I sell 3060 for Higher pruce than 3060ti because Newb gamers « OnLy WaNt a 12gB , CuZ wE ArE dUmb ».
Thats sums it up for me.
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you bear an uncanny resemblance to Sean Astin (the actor)
Yes
The MSI Ventus cards are always the worst in terms of cooling and overall build quality.
silence is golden
Mmm I think just becouse there is 13 and 14 gen Intel is out there doesn't mean you get top brute force prossor power go go Xeon already and nothing is a problem anymore with my 20 core 40 treads I eat everything for breakfast and then some so doe your research and profit ;)
Too bad these MSI variants have plastic back plates, br-r-r-r-r-....
Waste too much time! When will he give the answer?
The rtx 3060 is a great card, even now.
12GB is pretty good for generating high res big tiddy waifus in stable diffusion. But in games (latest AAA mostly) GPU itself just too slow to utilize the VRAM, other than smoothing out frame-times at ultra settings and low fps. BUT You can play latest AAA with DLSS-FG to FSR3 mod and get smoother experience. i've been doing that on my 3070ti.
Do you play 4K? Because otherwise there's no reason for DLL/FG on a 3070 Ti, it handles everything at 1440p quite well still
278 pounds for a 3yo card?! 🤨 No. Not "good value" at all. Are you kidding me?
The 3060Ti was closer to a 3070 than previous 60Ti's. But it only comes with 8GB VRAM. Same thing even with the 3070 and 3070Ti - which are perfectly capable cards, but they both have 8GB! 😐 Nvidia done fucked up. Consoles released in 2020 have 16GB (albeit "shared" memory - shared with the CPU - technically APU).
16GB should have been standard by now. We've had 8GB in 2016 (GTX 1070 and RX 480). Nvidia went backwards with the 4060, with 8GB, not forwards. 😠
i own a 3060 myself
are your subscribers invited only?
Rtx 3060= rx 6600
well the 4060/4070 are crap and anything above that is good but its expencive so if we take the 30 series the 3060(12gb) ain't the best out of the 30 series casue the 3080/90 are outperforming it however they are again more expencive and if u are gonna drop that amount of $$$ better add few more $$$ and buy a 4080
4060 is faster than 3060 in majority of games
I had 3060ti for 4 years and it was a really good card for full HD.
Correction, still is.
What is "full HD"??
@@undefinedxx55 technically 720p, but at this point most people mean 1080p, which is still true in this case.
720p is HD Ready not Full HD (1080p). There are also tricky 1080i...
3060 better than 4060 for sureeee.
I use to own a INNO3d 3060ti, it performed in games better than the 3060 12gb even with only 8gb VRAM in benchmarks the 3060TI came out at 128% where as non TI was only 100%, but in todays times I'd rather have a video card with least 12GB so I upgraded to a 4070 Super.
Warning about new Nvidia 4090 scam just hit the market
just like what they did on the rtx 2000 series cards, I cant never trust them again.
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nice video, tbh The 3060 is not bad but I would recommend a GTX 1080ti over it, or even an rx6600 and above! but overall price performance is good, especially for 1080p
The Rtx 3060 is faster than both the 1080 Ti and rx 6600.. And has better RT and has DLSS. Yeah the 1080 Ti was a great Gpu but buying that over the 3060 is a waste of money unless you can find one for $$150 or less. Not to mention it has better power efficiency and has more Vram. You comment actually makes zero sense as a consumer. My rtx 3060 overclocks to 2160mhz and can get almost 18gbps out of the memory, which makes it over 15% faster than a stock 3060.
@@LegionGamingTV fr? thx. Also, would u recommend a Rtx 2030/2070 for budget builds?
And even RX 580
@@SaraevKS1985 oh yea, that is very good for 1080p. especially if you're on a budget
He keeps saying 4k gaming. This is NOT a 4k gaming card. That is why he is not testing it in 4k.
no its not but its the entry for the RT mode and it can run games ez at 1440p/1080p
I play ONI at 4k, no problem. 😁
ya can get a 4060 for under 300 so really makes no sence getting a 3060 really
Who cares?
I would have recommended the 6750XT 12GB. It's cheaper, FAR faster, 4GB more VRAM and it's AMD.
Get the 6700XT/6750XT to compare to this card. The XFX Qick 319 is a 3x fan cooler, has zero RPM, too, when not under load and is just an overall better card.
The reason that card is at the top is because people fall for Nvidia advertising. I mean, congrats on your new purchase, but it doesn't compare at all to the 6700XT/6750XT in price, performance, reliability, etc.
You pay less and get more. You can run most 1440p games at max without upscaling whereas the 3060 runs out of VRAM, needs upscaling and... yeah. Congrats either way.. but AMD is the way to go. CONSTANT driver improvements. It also has Smart Access Memory which Nvidia doesn't have.