MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Gaming X Trio Review 63

MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Gaming X Trio Review

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NVIDIA today launched its GeForce RTX 3060 "Ampere" graphics card, and the new MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Gaming X Trio is the company's premium interpretation of the new midrange offering. Historically, NVIDIA made the bulk of its sales to gamers of a new graphics architecture from its xx60 middle-of-the-market series, starting all the way back with the 9600 GT, which NVIDIA refers to as the "sweetspot." Cards from this segment are fast enough to let you max out a game at mainstream resolutions, or game at higher resolutions with reduced settings.



The new GeForce RTX 3060 retains the "sweetspot" entry price of $329, or roughly that of the Xbox Series S. It debuts the new 8 nm "GA106" silicon on the desktop platform and allows NVIDIA's custom board partners enormous headroom to either beef up the chip, as is the case with this MSI Gaming X Trio card, or keep costs low to come up with simple designs that skirt the baseline price. It is also designed to offer a significant performance uplift from the GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB "Pascal," another very popular card from the NVIDIA stable. The card is designed to offer 1440p gaming with fairly high details, or 1080p gaming with maxed out raytracing. You could also leverage DLSS 2.0 to crank up the display resolution.

The new GeForce Ampere architecture marks the 2nd generation of RTX Technology, which combines new Ampere CUDA cores with concurrent FP32+INT32 math performance, 2nd generation RT cores which double the intersection performance over the previous generation, hardware for raytraced motion-blur effects, and 3rd generation Tensor cores that leverage the sparsity phenomenon in neural nets to increase AI inference performance significantly.

The GeForce RTX 3060 comes with 3,584 Ampere CUDA cores, 112 3rd generation Tensor cores, 28 Ampere RT cores, 112 TMUs, and 48 ROPs. NVIDIA sweetens the deal by doubling the memory amount over the RTX 2060 to 12 GB. The memory bus width and memory type are unchanged—192-bit GDDR6. The memory clock has been increased slightly to 15 Gbps.

MSI supercharges the RTX 3060 with its top-of-the-line GeForce RTX 3060 Gaming X Trio. This card powers the RTX 3060 with an over-specced VRM solution and a meaty Tri Frozr cooling solution that's optimized for extremely low gaming noise levels, is loaded with all the RGB bling you could ask, and sports high-end looks when installed. MSI is also giving the card its highest factory-overclocked speeds with the maximum GPU Boost frequency set to 1852 MHz (compared to 1777 MHz reference). MSI is not providing any pricing guidance for this card, but we expect it will come at a significant premium over the $329 starting price, which is very unlikely to hold for more than a day or two.

GeForce RTX 3060 Market Segment Analysis
 PriceShader
Units
ROPsCore
Clock
Boost
Clock
Memory
Clock
GPUTransistorsMemory
GTX 1060 3 GB$1601152481506 MHz1708 MHz2002 MHzGP1064400M3 GB, GDDR5, 192-bit
GTX 1060$2101280481506 MHz1708 MHz2002 MHzGP1064400M6 GB, GDDR5, 192-bit
GTX 1660$200 1408481530 MHz1785 MHz2000 MHzTU1166600M6 GB, GDDR5, 192-bit
GTX 1660 Ti$2701536481500 MHz1770 MHz1500 MHzTU1166600M6 GB, GDDR6, 192-bit
RTX 2060$3001920481365 MHz1680 MHz1750 MHzTU10610800M6 GB, GDDR6, 192-bit
RX 5700$3302304641465 MHz1625 MHz1750 MHzNavi 1010300M8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
GTX 1080$3302560641607 MHz1733 MHz1251 MHzGP1047200M8 GB, GDDR5X, 256-bit
RTX 2060 Super$3802176641470 MHz1650 MHz1750 MHzTU10610800M8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RX Vega 64$400 4096641247 MHz1546 MHz953 MHzVega 1012500M8 GB, HBM2, 2048-bit
GTX 1080 Ti$6503584881481 MHz1582 MHz1376 MHzGP10212000M11 GB, GDDR5X, 352-bit
RX 5700 XT$3702560641605 MHz1755 MHz1750 MHzNavi 1010300M8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 2070$3402304641410 MHz1620 MHz1750 MHzTU10610800M8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3060MSRP: $330
Estimate: $420
3584481320 MHz1777 MHz1875 MHzGA10613250M12 GB, GDDR6, 192-bit
MSI RTX 3060
Gaming X Trio
Estimate: $4703584481320 MHz1852 MHz1875 MHzGA10613250M12 GB, GDDR6, 192-bit
RTX 2070 Super$4502560641605 MHz1770 MHz1750 MHzTU10413600M8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
Radeon VII$6803840641802 MHzN/A1000 MHzVega 2013230M16 GB, HBM2, 4096-bit
RTX 2080$6002944641515 MHz1710 MHz1750 MHzTU10413600M8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 2080 Super$6903072641650 MHz1815 MHz1940 MHzTU10413600M8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3060 Ti$7004864801410 MHz1665 MHz1750 MHzGA10417400M8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 2080 Ti$10004352881350 MHz1545 MHz1750 MHzTU10218600M11 GB, GDDR6, 352-bit
RTX 3070$7505888961500 MHz1725 MHz1750 MHzGA10417400M8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RX 6800$8503840961815 MHz2105 MHz2000 MHzNavi 2126800M16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RX 6800 XT$120046081282015 MHz2250 MHz2000 MHzNavi 2126800M16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3080$10008704961440 MHz1710 MHz1188 MHzGA10228000M10 GB, GDDR6X, 320-bit
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