Alongside immediately’s CES-centric announcement of their new GeForce RTX 30 sequence elements for laptops, NVIDIA additionally provided an in-depth reveal of their subsequent desktop graphics card, the GeForce RTX 3060. Reflected the continued development of the Ampere structure into smaller and cheaper video playing cards as NVIDIA continues its product stack rollout, the RTX 3060 marks the introduction of Ampere into their well-liked mainstream-enthusiast 60-series video card tier. Long the spine of NVIDIA’s desktop gross sales in North America and elsewhere, the 60-tier playing cards usually strike a stable stability between value and efficiency. And with costs set to start out at $329, at launch the RTX 3060 will turn out to be the most affordable RTX card that NVIDIA has ever provided.
Once it’s launched subsequent month, the GeForce RTX 3060 will mark the subsequent step within the development of NVIDIA’s Ampere-based desktop playing cards. Though the corporate already launched the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti final month – utilizing a cut-down GA104 GPU – the RTX 3060 is the true McCoy when it comes to being a 60-tier card. It’ll be the most affordable that NVIDIA has ever launched an RTX sequence card, and it is going to be the cardboard that they hope will entice homeowners of GTX 1060 sequence playing cards, one in all NVIDIA’s most profitable card sequence of all occasions, to lastly improve to an RTX card.
The launch of the RTX 3060 comes on the heels of what was a fragmented product lineup within the final technology. Owing largely to the numerous die area necessities for NVIDIA’s RTX household of options – ray tracing, tensor cores, and so on – NVIDIA bifurcated their lineup on the 60 degree. At $349 we had the RTX 2060, which was an honest card, however not particularly spectacular on a value/efficiency foundation. Alternative, the GTX 1660 sequence of playing cards provided a lot better pricing for under a small drop in efficiency, however these playing cards lacked the {hardware} RTX options that are actually changing into a baseline as a part of the DirectX 12 Ultimate specification.
As a outcome, NVIDIA is endeavor a reintegration of kinds with its GeForce lineup. While we don’t have any direct visibility into what comes after the RTX 3060, the smaller die sizes afforded by Samsung’s 8nm course of imply that NVIDIA isn’t going through the identical strain to bifurcate. So for the second, at the very least, the RTX 3060 is taking the mantle because the true successor to NVIDIA’s 60-tier of video playing cards. And with that comes the necessity to please each efficiency and price range fanatics, a tall order for a card that’s set to start out at $329.
| NVIDIA GeForce Specification Comparison | ||||||
| RTX 3060 | RTX 3060 Ti | RTX 2060 | GTX 1060 | |||
| CUDA Cores | 3584 | 4864 | 1920 | 1280 | ||
| ROPs | 64? | 80 | 48 | 48 | ||
| Boost Clock | 1.78GHz | 1.665GHz | 1.68GHz | 1.709GHz | ||
| Memory Clock | 14Gbps? GDDR6 | 14Gbps GDDR6 | 14Gbps GDDR6 | 8Gbps GDDR5 | ||
| Memory Bus Width | 192-bit | 256-bit | 192-bit | 192-bit | ||
| VRAM | 12GB | 8GB | 6GB | 6GB | ||
| Single Precision Perf. | 12.eight TFLOPS | 16.2 TFLOPS | 6.5 TFLOPS | 4.Four TFLOPS | ||
| Tensor Perf. (FP16) | 51.2 TFLOPS | 64.eight TFLOPS | 51.6 TFLOPS | N/A | ||
| Tensor Perf. (FP16-Sparse) | 102.Four TFLOPS | 129.6 TFLOPS | 51.6 TFLOPS | N/A | ||
| TDP | 170W | 200W | 160W | 120W | ||
| GPU | GA106 | GA104 | TU106 | GP106 | ||
| Transistor Count | ?B | 17.4B | 10.8B | 4.4B | ||
| Architecture | Ampere | Ampere | Turing | Pascal | ||
| Manufacturing Process | Samsung 8nm? | Samsung 8nm | TSMC 12nm “FFN” | TSMC 16nm | ||
| Launch Date | 02/2020 | 12/02/2020 | 01/15/2019 | 07/19/2016 | ||
| Launch Price | MSRP: $329 | MSRP: $399 | MSRP: $349 | MSRP: $249 Founders $299 |
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At this level I’m nonetheless chasing down extra detailed product specs from NVIDIA, because the press materials they’ve printed thus far isn’t solely complete. But at a excessive degree, NVIDIA is…
