Tuesday, January 12th 2021
NVIDIA Announces the GeForce RTX 3060, $330, 12 GB of GDDR6
NVIDIA today announced that it is bringing the NVIDIA Ampere architecture to millions more PC gamers with the new GeForce RTX 3060 GPU. With its efficient, high-performance architecture and the second generation of NVIDIA RTX, the RTX 3060 brings amazing hardware raytracing capabilities and support for NVIDIA DLSS and other technologies, and is priced at $329.
NVIDIA's 60-class GPUs have traditionally been the single most popular cards for gamers on Steam, with the GTX 1060 long at the top of the GPU gaming charts since its introduction in 2016. An estimated 90 percent of GeForce gamers currently play with a GTX-class GPU. "There's unstoppable momentum behind raytracing, which has quickly redefined the new standard of gaming," said Matt Wuebbling, vice president of global GeForce marketing at NVIDIA. "The NVIDIA Ampere architecture has been our fastest-selling ever, and the RTX 3060 brings the strengths of the RTX 30 Series to millions more gamers everywhere."
With newer gaming titles come bigger worlds with cinematic graphics and real-time raytracing — these are gaming workloads that only RTX-powered platforms are suited to handle. The GeForce RTX 3060 has twice the raster performance and 10x the raytracing performance of the GTX 1060, making it a formidable upgrade opportunity and the foundation of a gaming PC platform powerful enough to handle cutting-edge titles such as Cyberpunk 2077 and Fortnite with RTX On at 60 frames per second.
The RTX 3060's key specifications include:
Like all RTX 30 Series GPUs, the RTX 3060 supports the trifecta of GeForce gaming innovations: NVIDIA DLSS, NVIDIA Reflex and NVIDIA Broadcast, which accelerate performance and enhance image quality. Together with real-time ray tracing, these technologies are the foundation of the GeForce gaming platform, which brings unparalleled performance and features to games and gamers everywhere.
NVIDIA DLSS: The AI Gift That Gamers Love
AI is revolutionizing gaming — from in-game physics and animation simulation to real-time rendering and AI-assisted broadcasting features. Powered by dedicated AI processors on GeForce RTX GPUs called Tensor Cores, NVIDIA DLSS boosts frame rates while generating beautiful, crisp game images and gives gamers the performance headroom to maximize raytracing settings and increase output resolutions. DLSS is available in more than 25 games, with more added every month.
NVIDIA Reflex and Broadcast: The Ultimate Play
NVIDIA Reflex technology reduces system latency (or input lag), making games more responsive and giving players in competitive multiplayer titles an edge over the opposition. NVIDIA Broadcast is a suite of audio and video AI enhancements, including virtual backgrounds, motion capture and advanced noise removal, that users can apply to chats, Skype calls and video conferences.
Advanced GeForce Experience Features
All NVIDIA GeForce GPUs benefit from GeForce Experience, a tool used by tens of millions of gamers to optimize game settings, record and upload gameplay, stream gameplay, take screenshots, and download and install Game Ready Drivers. The latest features include:
One-click automatic GPU Tuning: GeForce Experience now supports GPU Tuning, which can automatically create overclocking profiles by using an advanced scanning algorithm.
Enhanced in-game monitoring overlay: GeForce Experience's already robust in-game overlay now adds performance stats, temperatures and latency metrics, including NVIDIA Reflex Latency Analyzer stats.
Where to Buy
The GeForce RTX 3060 will be available in late February, starting at $329, as custom boards — including stock-clocked and factory-overclocked models — from top add-in card providers such as ASUS, Colorful, EVGA, Gainward, Galaxy, Gigabyte, Innovision 3D, MSI, Palit, PNY and Zotac. Look for GeForce RTX 3060 GPUs at major retailers and etailers, as well as in gaming systems by major manufacturers and leading system builders worldwide.
NVIDIA's 60-class GPUs have traditionally been the single most popular cards for gamers on Steam, with the GTX 1060 long at the top of the GPU gaming charts since its introduction in 2016. An estimated 90 percent of GeForce gamers currently play with a GTX-class GPU. "There's unstoppable momentum behind raytracing, which has quickly redefined the new standard of gaming," said Matt Wuebbling, vice president of global GeForce marketing at NVIDIA. "The NVIDIA Ampere architecture has been our fastest-selling ever, and the RTX 3060 brings the strengths of the RTX 30 Series to millions more gamers everywhere."
The RTX 3060's key specifications include:
- 13 shader-TFLOPs
- 25 RT-TFLOPs for raytracing
- 101 tensor-TFLOPs to power NVIDIA DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling)
- 192-bit memory interface
- 12 GB of GDDR6 memory
Like all RTX 30 Series GPUs, the RTX 3060 supports the trifecta of GeForce gaming innovations: NVIDIA DLSS, NVIDIA Reflex and NVIDIA Broadcast, which accelerate performance and enhance image quality. Together with real-time ray tracing, these technologies are the foundation of the GeForce gaming platform, which brings unparalleled performance and features to games and gamers everywhere.
NVIDIA DLSS: The AI Gift That Gamers Love
AI is revolutionizing gaming — from in-game physics and animation simulation to real-time rendering and AI-assisted broadcasting features. Powered by dedicated AI processors on GeForce RTX GPUs called Tensor Cores, NVIDIA DLSS boosts frame rates while generating beautiful, crisp game images and gives gamers the performance headroom to maximize raytracing settings and increase output resolutions. DLSS is available in more than 25 games, with more added every month.
NVIDIA Reflex and Broadcast: The Ultimate Play
NVIDIA Reflex technology reduces system latency (or input lag), making games more responsive and giving players in competitive multiplayer titles an edge over the opposition. NVIDIA Broadcast is a suite of audio and video AI enhancements, including virtual backgrounds, motion capture and advanced noise removal, that users can apply to chats, Skype calls and video conferences.
Advanced GeForce Experience Features
All NVIDIA GeForce GPUs benefit from GeForce Experience, a tool used by tens of millions of gamers to optimize game settings, record and upload gameplay, stream gameplay, take screenshots, and download and install Game Ready Drivers. The latest features include:
One-click automatic GPU Tuning: GeForce Experience now supports GPU Tuning, which can automatically create overclocking profiles by using an advanced scanning algorithm.
Enhanced in-game monitoring overlay: GeForce Experience's already robust in-game overlay now adds performance stats, temperatures and latency metrics, including NVIDIA Reflex Latency Analyzer stats.
Where to Buy
The GeForce RTX 3060 will be available in late February, starting at $329, as custom boards — including stock-clocked and factory-overclocked models — from top add-in card providers such as ASUS, Colorful, EVGA, Gainward, Galaxy, Gigabyte, Innovision 3D, MSI, Palit, PNY and Zotac. Look for GeForce RTX 3060 GPUs at major retailers and etailers, as well as in gaming systems by major manufacturers and leading system builders worldwide.
100 Comments on NVIDIA Announces the GeForce RTX 3060, $330, 12 GB of GDDR6
I bought my 2060 on performance/Watt alone, not caring about RTX at all. I ditched my 2060 because it ran out of VRAM for the third game in a row. Everything I tried with RTX ran like garbage and required me to accept serious resolution, image quality, and framerate drops. No thanks! As a 6GB raster-perfomance card, the 2060 is fine but the RTX tax was never worth it, even at $299 when the price was reduced it still couldn't justify it's almost $100 premium over the 1660S, and at the original 2060 price of $350 it was borderline obscene.
Steam survey is honestly the best representation of the market right now and the median gamer is running an Intel quad core and a GTX 1060. Like it or not, it's going to stay that way for a while because there's nothing available on store shelves for 1060 owners to upgrade to even if they want to.
Saying who , someone who is not biased but realistic.
Rtx is here, new dawn and all that ,meanwhile the earth wasn't shattered and the sun didn't park itself up Nvidia's ass.
Calm the FF down I played all the same Rtx game's in 1080 and 4k and I'm Still not that bothered in some cases it's good in others hard to tell in play and in others a total nothing burger.
Essential it very much isn't.
And I can't see that changing until 2022 at the earliest though that's my opinion that last bit.
Yeah I saw no real reason to pony up on the 20 series so vaporware 30 series lol yeah maybe in about 12 months they might be around for a better price.
1080ti and titan Xp are doing just fine.
videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-ad102-lovelace-gpu-rumored-to-offer-up-to-18432-cuda-cores
What's crazy is that the 1060's market share in the #1 spot is actually increasing.
I can only guess that's because cards that miners have held onto for 3 years are being sold and bought by gamers now.
Thanks for the heads-up! :) I'll keep that in mind. ;)
videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3060-listed-early-for-almost-as-much-as-rtx-3060ti
www.jonpeddie.com/press-releases/pandemic-distorts-global-gpu-market-results
Those numbers are just different numbers.
market share is based on the sales in a specific time frame (usually a quarter, but could be yearly ...).
Steam hardware survey is speaking about hardware maybe sold 3/4 years ago.
You are speaking about two different things.
According to Steam survey, GTX 1060 is the most used Nvidia GPU. Nvidia hardly sold ANY 1060 in the last 2 or 3 quarters ...
Do you see the difference ?
Quoting from the comment above:
What's crazy is that the 1060's market share in the #1 spot is actually increasing.
JPR is showing market share.
Steam isn’t showing market share.
I’m not denying Nvidia has 80% market share at all.
I was just agreeing with the other customer how Steam hardware survey isn’t showing market share.
Next time before accusing, read the whole discussion.My fault.
Arguing with someone who thinks Nvidia was selling many GTX 1060 in 2020 (a product discontinued years ago) clearly was a waste of my time.
BTW it doesn’t seems you actually read the discussion.
It started with:
What's crazy is that the 1060's market share in the #1 spot is actually increasing.
post #82
and we just pointed out that IS NOT market share, because Steam surveys are not about sales.
Then you kicked in with a pointless link about a market share research not related to Steam hardware survey...
*****yes... AMD will release other products with very poor RT performance and customers will still buy Geforce cards...*****
It was that phrase which i replied.
My point was amd's "poor" rt performance is irrelevant at this point, because the only game where it is noticeable (cp2077) not even the 3090 (which 99% of people can't or won't buy) is able to max it out. So, for the vast majority of people RIGHT NOW rt doesn't matter, so that "advantage" of nvidia is pointless. If i for example buy a rtx 2060, 2060 super, 3060, 3060ti, which are not cheap gpus by any means, i know i won't be able to play cp2077 at a respectable fps with rt on.
That's one thing, the other thing is, who tf buys a gpu to play 1 game?, like 99% of the games right now don't use rt, or at least in a meaningful way.
Yes, i would like to play with rt on, hell yeah, BUT when it is available in a lot of games and the performance hit is less than half of what it is now. But right now to say rt is the shit!, i'm sorry, but imho, it is irrelevant at this stage.
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Do not report the problem... and, then post a retaliatory post to continue the drama you just reported.
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I think RT performance are A MUST today, but as I said above, now I was just speaking about the difference between market share and Steam survey.
www.techpowerup.com/277856/amd-files-patent-for-chiplet-machine-learning-accelerator-to-be-paired-with-gpu-cache-chiplets
And with Jay saying that Ampere is using some kind of HT, this launch (both AMD and Nvidia) is getting less and less interesting to me.