Nvidia‘s newest GeForce RTX 30-Series graphics card, the RTX 3060 Ti, became available on December 2, 2020. This $399 graphics card is best pitted against the previous generation RTX 2080 Super, which is listed for $699 and was second only to the top-of the line RTX 2080 Ti for most of 2020. Now that the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is official, it is a good time to check specifications and benchmarks to find out by how much it surpasses the older GPUs.

Nvidia launched the GeForce GTX 2080 Super in July of 2019. This was a minor improvement over the RTX 2080, which was the top Nvidia GPU in 2018. Nvidia had a significant lead over AMD with its RTX real-time ray tracing and it was enough to make an incremental push in 2019. With the threat of Big Navi looming in 2020, Nvidia set a high standard again with the announcement of the RTX 30-Series, starting with the $499 RTX 3070, which outclassed the 2080 Ti. Two higher-level cards were announced at the same time, at $799 and $1499, but many were eager to learn more about the then-rumored 3060 Ti graphics card.

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Just as the RTX 3070 compared favorably to the more expensive 2080 Ti, the 3060 Ti bests the more expensive RTX 2080 Super graphics card in benchmarks that are already available from early reviewers. Nvidia details the core components of the RTX 3060 Ti, with 4,864 CUDA cores, a 1.41 GHz clock speed (boost 1.67), 8-gigabytes of GDDR6 memory, and a bus width of 256-bit. It is made with an 8-nanometer manufacturing process so it automatically gets speed and efficiency benefits from a more tightly packed chip. In comparison, the RTX 2080 Super has 3,072 CUDA cores, a higher 1.65 GHz clock speed (with 1.82 boost), but the same amount/type of RAM and bus width. One significant difference is the older RTX 2080 Super was made with a 12-nanometer process, meaning spacing of components was 50-percent further, slowing performance and requiring more power to perform the same tasks. However, that not the only reason why the RTX 3060 Ti beats the far more expensive RTX 2080 Super.

Benchmarks & Turing Versus Ampere

Benchmarks of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 2080 Super were posted by TechSpot, showing an average frame rate of 114 frames per second (FPS) with 1440p resolution at high-quality settings, with a minimum of 92 FPS. This places it almost exactly between the RTX 2080 Super (107/87 FPS) and the RTX 2080 Ti (125/101 FPS). There were no direct comparison benchmarks between these two cards, but Nvidia indicates the $399 RTX 3060 Ti matches or beats the RTX 2080 Super in ray tracing on Watch Dogs Legion, Control, Minecraft and Wolfenstein Youngblood.

With the launch of the Ampere architecture, Nvidia made huge gains over the previous generation Turing system. This is second-generation Nvidia ray tracing and often the biggest gains with new technology comes after the first has been thoroughly tested and new directions for improvement explored. Floating-point units were doubled and DLSS was greatly improved in the GeForce RTX 30-Series, with the result being the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti at 1440 resolution offers a nice improvement over the RTX 2080 Super, and at nearly half the price.

Source: Nvidia

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