Monday, November 21st 2022
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti with GDDR6X to Replace Standard Model with GDDR6
NVIDIA recently updated its product stack with an 8 GB 128-bit GDDR6 variant of the GeForce RTX 3060 (originally 12 GB 192-bit GDDR6), and the RTX 3060 Ti with faster 19 Gbps 256-bit GDDR6X memory (originally 14 Gbps 256-bit GDDR6). We're getting to learn that the new RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X variant is designed to replace the older GDDR6 variant. NVIDIA's add-in card (AIC) partners are reportedly winding down orders of the original RTX 3060 Ti in favor of the newer GDDR6X variant. Perhaps the most striking aspect of the GDDR6X variant isn't that its memory bandwidth is 35% higher than that of the original RTX 3060 Ti; but that it sells at the same price.
The new GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X is based on the 8 nm "GA104" silicon, and has the same core-configuration as the original RTX 3060 Ti, with 4,864 CUDA cores, 152 Tensor cores, 38 RT cores, 152 TMUs, and 80 ROPs; the same GPU boost frequency of 1665 MHz, and interestingly, the same typical board power of 200 W. What's changed is the switch to 19 Gbps GDDR6X memory compared to the original's 14 Gbps GDDR6, which results in a memory bandwidth of 608 GB/s, compared to the original's 448 GB/s.
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MyDrivers, VideoCardz
The new GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X is based on the 8 nm "GA104" silicon, and has the same core-configuration as the original RTX 3060 Ti, with 4,864 CUDA cores, 152 Tensor cores, 38 RT cores, 152 TMUs, and 80 ROPs; the same GPU boost frequency of 1665 MHz, and interestingly, the same typical board power of 200 W. What's changed is the switch to 19 Gbps GDDR6X memory compared to the original's 14 Gbps GDDR6, which results in a memory bandwidth of 608 GB/s, compared to the original's 448 GB/s.
31 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti with GDDR6X to Replace Standard Model with GDDR6
You either don't know or care and get whatever and be happy, or you do know and care and just pick the better one.
Actually the GTX 1650 became more genuinely confusing when they released models based on cut down TU106/116 chips, which featured the Turing encoder instead of the Volta one used in TU117, you had to check this bit in the specs sheet, it wasn't mentioned on the box.
more performance/features: clearly visible mention in the box
less performance/features: forget to put it visible in the box
mistakes happen :D
IMHO this is very telling of what their marketing and product strategy and with that you are not going to see any FANTASTIC video cards coming from them. Just refreshes and expensive video cards.
Let me put it to you this way.... DOES THE 4090 @$2400 (S/H) does 8 times the performance in 1080p and 1440p of my 5700XT which I bought NEW for $300.00??? HELL NO! The majority of the world runs on 1080/1440p. And those are the facts.
The Ngreedia Greenie Meenies will buy them. Smart people won't and I hope the investors start shaking Leather God Lord Gonzo's tree for this failure of managing a corporation at this time period.
That's all that I see. Expensive Video cards that are way overpriced for what you get
2)If we invoke a recent example, 1650 gddr6 non-S comes with slightly lower clocks compared to the initial gddr5 version (probably to retain the same consumption) and the memory type is usually obvious on the box.
Unless you are downloading all the big titty mods for Skyrim. That requires a lot of vram.