The previously rumored new wheel about Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti is really happening, with Asus revealing its new feature on the popular Ampere GPU.
Like VideoCardz (opens in a new tab) spotted, Asus has revealed a pair of new TUF GDDR6X models of the RTX 3060 Ti graphics cardone of them is the base card and the other one is the OC Edition.
The only difference from the existing TUF RTX 3060 Ti boards is the faster 8GB of VRAM. Instead of 14Gbps GDDR6 video RAM, the refreshed cards use 19Gbps GDDR6X memory, bringing the overall memory bandwidth essentially from 448GB/s to 608GB/s.
That’s the only change here, and otherwise the CUDA Core count, clock, and all other specs remain the same.
VideoCardz indicates that such an increase in memory bandwidth leads to around 7% to 10% better performance increase based on 3DMark scores.
Analysis: Would that VRAM make all that much difference in practice?
Of course, synthetic benchmarks are a useful metric, but what we’d really like to see is how much faster VRAM makes a difference to real-world gaming (across many casual titles). to get some overall perspective on the actual impact on price bracketing).
Obviously, there will be some performance improvement, but it’s probably a relatively small increase. However, depending on the price and exactly how much of a difference the new GDDR6X RAM makes – which of course the jury has yet to announce – this new spin on the RTX 3060 Ti could be a compelling buy. And we should remember that in recent times, vanilla 3060 Ti (finally) has begun to witness its some chunky discounts.
That said, with Nvidia pursues ‘layered’ launch strategy – rolling out next-gen RTX 4000 graphics cards slowly (and really reverse the process with one of them(“unlaunching” it) – it remains to be seen when the mid-range Lovelace will arrive, with rumors suggesting it might not be for a while. (Remember, Nvidia purposefully has a large amount of RTX 3000 inventory to free up.)
And in that case we could be stuck with the RTX 3060 and the Ti variant (including this new version of the second one, of course) for a while, so prices could become less is likely to fall a little more and perhaps level off as a result, at least for the time being.
