3060 12GB is the best budget card if you bought it on release back in 2021. at msrp. Buying it in current year is questionable. Maybe used if there is a good deal. At $300 you can find the 7600xt 16GB new.
@@Cosmicdonut6764 Daniel didnt test the 3060 on some situations where it would have gone over 8gb. Like Alan Wake 2 1440p he didnt turn on RT, Resident evil 1440p also no RT
I had a spare 3060 and fixed up a budget 12400 system for a family member with it and they're very happy. Especially for much less intense games it works just fine.
True but in most cases the same money could give you a 6700 xt which is even greater. RT isnt a thing on 3050 3060 anyway. But the 6600xt and 3060 12 gb are just fine cards. For me the 3060 was just too expensive for a long time
Fantastic. I am about to do the same with my i7 8700 + RX 6600 because the GPU was gifted from Friends in the crisis for 530 Euros lol. Now i was able to buy myself a new System and i thought it is only fair to gift the Hardware to one of the friends bow, that was part of the Gifting, but now is not in the Situation to get new Hardware. He's running older 1440p Monitors, so an RX 6600 is not the best, but his 1070 (blower!) died and ~30% more fps sounds still nice. I still would use the RX 6600 because it is still fine, but i wanted to upgrade from 1080p UW to 1440p UW. And that was too much for my RX 6600 and the games i play. Nice to see these builds that can help people that aren't in a financial good Situation but also game alot and it is their main hobby.
@@wizardd agreed. the amount of shimmering,blinking, artifacting from FSR is just unacceptable. However, it also depends on implementation, and devs are very lazy this days when it comes to optimizing anything tbh
The 3060 was a great card for $300… 4 years ago. The fact people are forced to pay almost $300 for entry-mid level GPU from 4 years ago is just so disheartening.
Tbh it's what you deserve when so many people act like Nvidia is the only choice, AMD makes great price/performance products but people just sticks to Nvidia because it's Nvidia
@@poue nah people buy nvidia because its better price and performance lol you should realize there is 190+ countries in the world and amd only target that 5% country with influencers to be price competitive
Nvidia needs a new 3060 for the latest generation. Oh wait they have one, it’s called the 4070. Same 12GB VRAM same 192 bit bus bus they named it 4070 to get a massive price increase.
exactly, the new generation cards are named one tier higher than they would've been normally. Imagine the RX 7600's performance for let's say the RX 7500's (theoretically) price. That would've been insane, budget builds would've been so much more viable for people who just want to play older games or are fine with low settings. Then there's the RTX 4060 and 4060 Ti, imagine the 4060 Ti 16 GB being the 4060 and the 4060 being the 4050. No one would've complained about the GPU market if the pricing was one tier lower, in fact I'm pretty sure everyone would've been praising NVIDIA and AMD. But oh well. These greedy b*stards just want to milk us all dry and make us move to the PS5.
The 4060 and 4060 Ti are more like 4050 and 4050 Ti, since 8GB on 4000 gen xx60 isn't right, maybe they wanted 4050 and 4050 ti like 1050 and 1050 ti, in which one model had a bit more VRAM, and 4050 Ti 16GB is somewhat an equivalent, 4070 and 4070 Super, were supposed to be 4060 and 4060 Ti's, so 4070 Ti and 4070 Ti Super are 4070 and 4070 Ti, But...4080 is 4080, 4080 Super is 4080 Super, 4090 is 4090, and a 4090 Ti is missing, as some games can't max out 4K with RT+PT 60 FPS without DLSS, like Alan Wake 2 and maybe Cyberpunk 2077 in some urban areas. 4000 series are deprived offerings, with unbelievably low Performance/Price Ratio. I take a second hand 3080 10GB any day over any 4000 series cards. Yes a 4070 Ti Super is 3090 Ti level being not that expensive, but still it's not worth it, when you can turn down some settings with minor visual difference and play 4K w/DLSS quality +45 FPS with a 12700F.
@@kaiserfakinaway5909 I never thought of that GPU manufacturers are pushing people to sell PS5's and XBOX Series X's, even though AMD does the GPU, but who knows maybe they had a secret contract with Nvidia, Although new 7000 series AMD cards are somewhat expensive but AMD is much more fair than Nvidia. Nvidia simply misused it's reputation from 1000 series cards, and introduced RT+DLSS, then started selling overpriced 2000, 3000, and 4000 series GPU's, with the first two RTX generations cheaping out on VRAM, forcing people to buy 4070's and up, with extreme prices, if they want RT that needs a 1-1.5 more GB on 1080p! FG takes about the same amount as well. A 10GB 3080 runs almost everything without VRAM issues +RT even most titles at 4K, except some new ones (not including FSR3 FG). I got myself a 3060 12GB second hand with a 12100F, the GPU is somewhat 10% slower than most people expected on some games but strangely faster on some other games, so the biggest issue with 3060 is the older games, or the ones with old game engines like RDR2, it really struggled with MSAA, and ultra shadows, but never lets you down on texture quality. Any game that has DLSS, you're fine on 1080p w/RT. RDR2 with DLSS Updade works well over 45 FPS maxed out with slight drops in 30-40's on heavy load areas, but it doesn't feature RT and its struggling even without it due to an old upgraded engine. A modded GTA V has trouble with MSAA and shadows when 5Real trees are used. DLSS mod is broken and it struggles there, you have to turn down high res shadows and MSAA to x2. It only struggles on Highly Demanding Games without good DLSS. Otherwise I wouldn't spend for any ither card at this price range. 4000 series are not worth it, most people are coming around with this idea. Get a 10GB 3080 second hand if you want a strong GPU for 1440p, or even some 4K games tuned down a bit.
actually the 3060 is a xx70 card just look at the tdp, x60 cards had always been 100w eg 960, 1060, 4060 they bumped up the 2060 and 3060 with more power to compete with AMD and now they correct it back so no 4060 is not a x50 card, x50 card are powered by pcie at 75w
Bought my 3060 about 18 months ago and I'm very happy with it. I play at 1440p and don't need 60fps. Anything over about 40 is fine for me so I can mostly play at very high settings, especially with a bit of help from DLSS quality in some titles. I'll upgrade when I can get roughly twice the performance for my budget.
I've had my 3060 12 gig a couple years now and love it! Granted, I play older games (Fallout 4, Skyrim, Wonderlands, Ziggurat) but they all look great and run smooth. The rough part was paying $400 when GPU prices were high, but the 3060 is still worth it.
For people saying, "you should have tested with different cpu's!" 1) Testing it with a 7800x3d shows what the 3060 can do when it's not cpu bottlenecked. So then you know what fps the 3060 can do. 2) Next you need to check benchmarks of your cpu with a 4090 to show how many fps it gets. 3) If your cpu can do 100 fps in game x with a 4090 and the 3060 gets 60 fps in the same game with a 7800x3d, you're going to get 60 fps with a 3060 and your cpu. If the cpu can do 60 fps in a game with a 4090 and the 3060 can do 100 fps with a 7800x3d, you're going to get 60 fps with a 3060 and your cpu. This is not a difficult concept.
was? I still want it somehow. I made my PC with 5600G back in 2022, and now want to upgrade it with this one only. I can go for a 3060ti as well, but I feel I will need a better PSU for that as I am currently having 550W.
I chose RX 6700XT for my first gaming PC build instead of RTX 3060 and I've been very proud of my choice so far. Btw used 6700XTs in my country are currently about 200usd, and used 3060s are around $185. I would say both are very good choices.
Had to settle for a 3060 during the mining craze, because everything was sold out or just super expensive. Wasn't happy with the performance, so once prices started to normalize i sold it and got a 6950XT. I more than doubled my fps and only paid $200 more for the 6950XT than i did for the 3060.
I think the RTX 3060 12gb is the best value RTX 30 series. Most 30 series gpus has 8gb of vram, even the 3080 had 10 (base model). So the fact the 3060 can get 1080 ti level of performance with 12gb of vram for $330 is good value if it wasn't for scalping prices at the time
@@jasonzhu9742 1080 ti is old now this GPU is barerly 1080p, and the 3060 doesn't have that great performance either. 3060Ti, 3070, 3070Ti and 3080 will still win in most situations, especially at 1080p.
The 3060 12gb will be one of those cards with a very long life. You'll never have to worry about running out of vram at 1080p. The price hasn't come down because people are also using them for cheap AI because of their 12gb vram.
@@Extreme96PL Starfield is running at 90fps with DLSS at 100% render, with Geforce, and Nvidia Reflex, it's like night and day compared to the Xbox Series S and X version.
I have an RTX 3060 with a ryzen 5 5600G and 16GB ram and I can still play quite a few triple a titles at 1440p on low settings and get above 100fps. Ive had this setup for about 4 years now and its still going strong...
Exactly. The RTX 3060 is pretty nice. I guess I would move to the 4070 Super if I needed to get a new card tomorrow. But I really like the 3060. And I think it should get us to 2025 just fine.
12gb ram is incredibly valueble because it allows players to choose the "Highest texture pack" in triple A games like horizon forbidden west or Helldivers 2. With Frame generation softwares like Lossless scaling. I wouldnt sweat much about it having slightly less raw gpu performance. Any gpu with less than 12gb is just handicapped right now in terms of image quality even at 1080p.
I bought a 3060 about a year ago (upgraded from 1650). It was a big upgrade! BUT, I wasn't very happy with it's performance in a game I wanted to play (Hogwarts Legacy). I sent it back within a couple days, and upgraded to the 3060ti. The 3060ti made a fairly large difference, and I've been very happy with it. Paired with a 5800x & 32gb ram. *edit* - I play on a 27" 1080x60 monitor. And even the 3060ti cannot max out 1080 @ 60fps locked. But I can have almost all settings on ultra, with ray tracing off.
I saw videos showing that, when you play hogwarts legacy on high res, specially 1440p and on, a d uses DLSS, the 3060 actually performes better than the 3060ti. Did you happen to test that?
@@Thomas_Angelo DLDSR, not old DSR that you had to pump to 4k. 2.25x DLDSR looks as good as 4x DSR for way less performance cost. DLDSR 1.78x/2.25x + DLSS P will get you better quality than DLAA for somewhere between DLSS Q and DLAA performance. If you can pump that to DLSS B/DLSS Q even better. Play with the smoothness slider if the game looks a little TOO sharp. 33% is default but depending on the game's art style you can pump that up to get rid of some sharpness.
@@albert2006xpAgreed. DLDSR is a great feature. Though DLSS P is a bit too much, if we are talking about 1440p renderer (which means it will be upscaled from 720p). I'd say DLSS B is fine, roughly on par with 1080p + DLAA in terms of visuals, but it usually provides higher framerates.
I have one sitting on the shelf, my son still games with a 3060ti @1440p high/ultra settings running Loseless Scaling, he's pretty happy with it considering how LS extends it's usability. It's still a decent GPU though.
I certainly wouldn't get a 3060 new in 2024, but if you currently have one it can do well enough that you can hold off until the 50 series to consider upgrading in earnest.
I did in January with a 12400f and I couldn't be happier. it's definitely 10 times better than playing on a gt 720m laptop. I can play every game I want at more than 60 fps on high graphics. That's all I needed.
I had to get a 3060 almost two weeks ago to replace the 6600 that I bought almost three years ago because I was having hangs and crashes (a gradual issue I've had ever since I got the card that I thought was a driver one until I started getting crashes while gaming with no memory dumps) After extensive testing of everything else and a fresh windows reinstall I took a chance and got the 3060 12gb. I thought for a while about the 3060 and the 4060 but I chose the 3060. It may not have been the best value but ironically I got my 6600 at a value only for it to not even last three years. It's been about two weeks and I have never gotten a crash or a hang, not even with the old 750ti that I temporarily used in the meantime that the 6600 initially replaced. While getting an AMD card may have been a better value the experience I had with the 6600 is unfortunate. Personally I didn't want to take the chance on getting another AMD card to have the same or a similar issue.
I don't know what tech they're working with these days that makes it possible, but lowered settings absolutely look fine to me, and if higher framerate is what I'm looking for when I sit down to game that day, it works out really well! I don't know if I'm crazy to admit this, but sometimes I find the more advanced/contrasty lighting on higher settings of 3D games is kinda distracting and wears me out more quickly. I can more easily (and comfortably/relaxedly!) marathon a game on something like Normal or Medium sometimes. Maybe Low with Normal/Medium/High textures. I even find myself playing more 2D games, but lower graphics settings can do a similar thing to me where it's less overwhelming. Heh. I can focus on the story and doing well at the game. Thanks for taking a look at this, 3060 is the most popular for a reason. The perf/dollar is pretty dang good, and the overall price is attainable, especially when you consider sales or used prices. With lowered settings looking this good, and actually rather future-proof 12GB of VRAM you don't get until much more expensive cards... it's a pretty good choice. (For people who insist on max settings it could be a let-down, but I hope this whole video will nudge people to try lowering some settings and seeing if they prefer framerate over the last few % of bling...)
Super nice! im happy with this videocard! saving up for a next year videocard, hopefully something like a 5070/ 5080 and a new 1440p screen, gaming on 1080p right now etc! already did a bigger upgrade this year with a 7800x3D so thats all good for now.
I’m in the exact same spot can’t wait to see what nvidia and amd got coming out this January 2025 and cop that new 1440p 480hz oled asus got coming out
@@AwwMizi Dont' touch gpu NVIDIA January 2025 just high price for nothing big scam. RTX 3060 12 gb DDR6 or RTX 4060 8 gb DDR6 it's verry good gpu for gaming
Some legend blessed me with a used 3060ti for $180 last year. It is my first pc build, more for photo/video editing than gaming, and it's been a great little GPU for that so far. For 1080p the thing has been great but it does struggle a little when going 1440 on more demanding games
i got a RTX 3060 cause i had a GTX 1050 ti and the gap was huge but y i will buy a 4070 or above when the 50 series comes out and the prize of the 40 series drops cause i ain;t spending 500$+ for 20 more fps when the 3060 can still run the latest games at a decent frames
I just got a 3060 for $249 today and can't wait to see how well it does. I have a RX 6600 XT currently but want more vram as I have maxed it out playing newer games.
I have a 3060 and now I am looking for an upgrade to a new generation and nothing came close to convincing me other than 4070 550$ because of the 12 gigabytes ram, so I decided to keep it until the next gen 12 gigabytes ram and I'm very satisfied with it.
Jumped from 3060 to 4070 Ti last sping. It was an amazing upgrade - 4070 Ti is roughly 2,2 times faster than 3060. Before any game I wanted to play at desired settings/resolution (1440p/High/Ultra), I had to aim at 30-40 fps. So I really needed 2 times more performance to get 60+ fps. Now I can crank everything to Ultra without any problems. I'd recommend to consider 4070 Super, which is slightly slower than 4070 Ti, but significantly faster than vanilla 4070. Next gen midrange cards will probably be released in spring 2025. So it is worth the wait, if your 3060 is still good enough for you.
I have a 3060ti (roughly 20ish percent better than 3060 admittedly) and I can run Cyberpunk 2077 Ultra with max textures (including extra mod-based ones!) at a consistent frame rate (I do indeed mod in frame gen, but without it I'd still get 60-70) at 1440p. It's very doable! I also do fairly high level VR (much harder on your GPU than any monitor) just fine. I'd recommend it still on a budget!
I recorded several videos early to release over the next week because I have family visiting from out of the country around the 4th of July and I won't have time to make videos.
3060 is a beast 1080p card for the money at launch, even at mining price of $500 its just better than anything else.. its the card made for those playing 1080p esports title, most popular FPS games are well over 240+ FPS.. and honestly the jump from 1080 to 1440 isn't worth unless you have a 25"+ monitor.. If you are on the fence of upgrading with 3060 on 1080p monitor, skip 1440 and go straight to 4k with like a 4070ti super or 4080super for the right price, ultra max setting is not needed with 4k.. With the AI boom its hard to imagine the latest GPU becoming affordable anytime soon really
As a 3060Ti owner I've been happy with 60FPS performance over the last 2 years...Hoping for cards that can finally double the performance for similar money in the 2025 releases!
Great video!! I have a I5-13600 with a 3060 Ventus 2x and I’m really surprised with what It get. Even at 4k with some little compromises, I get very decent performances. A 1000$ price tag for the 40 series, does not justify any upgrade atm. Have a good one.
I had a 2070 for like 5 years which is basically identical performance to a 3060. They can't do native 1440p too well anymore but 1080p or DLSS equivalent runs fine. The 3060 will be great until another 60 series card gets 12gb of VRAM.
I got a 3060 recently as new . 12G Vram whit 192 bit bandwith . Changed my old good 1660 Ti . I wont spend any money on any 128 bit version no matter the marketing what try to explain me how great is the newest generation 4000 is . Also the first 192 bit version in 4000 series price is almost double compare whit the 3060 12G 192 bit .Playing 2023 relased game Jedi Survivor on 1440 , DLSS on, Shadow quality decreased from high to med , Ray Tracing off .. Happiness
Daniel what do you think of this do you think it’s smart to buy a 3060 12gb used for like 150$ hold on too it until 5060 comes out and hopefully that has more vram then 8gb and upgrade to that or just buy a new 4060
3060 12gb use and hold until 5060 comes out. I use this same strategy since 4060 only give around 15% better performance than 3060 12gb. And with 12gb I can use it for many demanding task outside video game, like 4k video editing, 3d modeling, etc.
Depends on a certain game. In those latest VRAM hungry PC ports of PS4/5 games 3060 definitely wins, if you want to play with Ultra quality textures. But for less VRAM demanding games, like UE5 titles, for example, 3060 Ti is still a better choice, since these game rely more on raw GPU power and 3060 is too weak to run them well enough. While 3060 Ti can still hit 60 fps at high enough settings/resolition.
@@stangamer1151what high-quality textures, haven't you watched the video? Everywhere you need to turn on the dlss or switch the settings to medium or even low)))
I’ve had mine for 26 months, and in newer games, it’s not as great as I expected it to be, even for 1080p native unless lowering settings and upscaling from 480p/720p
@@Thomas_AngeloNah. TLOU P1 is a bad example. This games runs at native 1440p/High/60 fps on PS5. And PS5 is not that much faster than 3060 in other games.
@@stangamer1151 It's definitely got some issues on PC but it ain't unplayable. It's pretty disrespectful with these remasters and ports these days but what can we do except for pirate their games if they do it bad?
Thinking of upgrading to this (yes, in 2024) from a GTX 1660 Super (thats why) , I can't decide if I wanna go with this or invest more and go with the 4070, both are gonna be upgrades either way to my current GPU, but I can't decide since the 4070 is a bit over my planned budget
@@Flalgra5 Appreciate your advise! I'm sure the 3060 is great, but yeah I actually did end up going with a 4070 Super and don't regret it a single bit. Funny you talking about wattage though; I can laugh about it now, but at the time I wrote the comment I was an absolute PC noob, I ordered the GPU back then and only then while it was on it's way, I found out about watts being a thing to pay attention to. So I had to upgrade my PSU as well (was on 500 watts before) which was definitely unplanned, but if this wasn't already enough: once everything arrived and I built it in, I was wondering why my games just keep crashing...yeah that was the moment I realized I had to up my RAM as well lmao
I personally love my high quality textures settings …. But I will compromise settings to keep high quality textures by lowering other settings 🥰💪👍. It’s a shame that even newer graphics cards are suffering with UE5 and some other engines even to achieve 1080p 60fps. I will drop fps to to even 40’s (fps) to get high textures even on a GPU like this.
No matter the texture quality in a game, if shadows, reflections and terrain pop-in in front of your nose and also flicker due to being low resolution, it looks pretty bad anyway. Textures alone can not save any game visuals. Everything should be in balance.
The Palit 3060 12GB was the second card I bought my son, pretty decent to be fair. If you can get one cheap then go for it. *Edit - I bought this for £500 during COVID!*
had the same card, and got the 3060 12gb, so happy with this card so far. playing most games at 1440 high settings at 60fps. go with the 12gb version, the ti with 8gb is not worth it in my opinion due to stutters when you run out of vram.
Hey Daniel, great video. I was wondering if you’d be able to make a video comparing cards such as the 3070 and 3070TI against their AMD counterparts, as a few of my friends have recently thought about purchasing them but are mainly offset by the lack of VRAM. I feel like AMD’s previous mid-tier generation has aged more gracefully than Nvidia’s.
I have a 3070 and a 6800, tbh both cards run games great, 3070 for superior image quality (dlss vs fsr both of which I always use) and 6800 for vram hungry games and a little more frames here n there. If I was forced to choose I’d pick the 3070 because dlss is better and I only play at 1440p in action rpgs and fighting games, I get over 60fps 1440p high/very setting dlss quality in any game I play really but both cards cost me the same barely used so I got lucky. If the 6800 is significantly cheaper or fsr is good enough for them then it’s the better choice because the massive vram, better performance generally and lower power consumption is a no brainer
In Nvidias low range everything is a compromise. 3060 12GB is right on edge and pretty expensive. 3060 TI has great performance but only 8GB. RTX 4060 has low power consumption and ok performance but still only 8GB. meh
When I bought this card in 2021 people said that 12 gb vram was so much for nothing and it will never be used and blah blah, now look in 2024 8 gb cards struggle and can only play at 1080p if that 😅
I have the 3060 and you can overclock it pretty decently as well using MSI after burner and it can play any game that comes out right now ultra settings and run perfect
The lack of generational upgrade is sad the fact that 1060 still top the chart tell me that people in the low end can’t afford to upgrade cuz new one suck.
I was interested in this card last year the 12GB version but the price was £330 which is ridiculous for a card that doesn't really improve with the extra 4GB. In the end I got the RX6600 8GB for £180 unfortunately it came with Star Field free if I waited 1 month I could have got RE4 Remake Instead. But I upgraded over the awesome RX580 8GB and this to me it's the replacement from the 6000 series it's a great 1080p card is the RX6600
I just got a 3060ti and have it paired with an i5 4th gen as I wait to build out the rest of the system. I'm so cpu limited there's basically little to no difference between the fps I'm getting and the fps i got using an rx 570 8gb and the stutters are way worse. 3060 looks to still be doing the job and will for quite a time because there are no good games worth upgrading from it.
For Alan wake 2 and starfield you can get far better results if you tweak abit of the settings for high because alot of the settings don't do much while taking alot of performance so are not worth it, i can hit 65-80fps with 1080p dlss quality by just lowering some of the settings from high to low or med, you can far easily optimize these settings just by checking the digital foundry optimized settings or benchmarkking or something channels they have far better settings to play Alan wake 2.
It's more low-end relative to other products of the same generation than the 1060 was. It's more like the 30 series equivalent of a GTX 1050 ti, just with more vram relative to the other graphics cards of its generation. That being said, even the 1050 ti still had plenty of vram for a low-end card back in the day, with 4GB (which is actually more vram than one of the two versions of the 1060).
I just recently got an RTX 3060. It's so hard to believe that a 3060 can't even run AAA games at 1080p high 60+ that should be a must I'm so disappointed!
Honestly, the RTX 3060 12gb is arguably the best value 30 series GPU at the time for msrp. If it wasn't for the scalping prices. It had the 2nd most vram behind the RTX 3090 (aside from the 3080 ti and 3080 12gb) and it only costed $330 msrp. The 3060 ti and 3070 costed more and only has 8gb of vram, and original 3080 had 10gb. So the RTX 3060 aged pretty well for it's price at msrp. It's just ashame that scalping prices ruined this wonderful GPU. The second best value GPU in my opinion is the RTX 3060 Ti. It was barely slower than the 3070 and it costs 100 less with the same vram. Now I wouldn't blame anyone if they picked the 3060 ti over the 3060 despite the vram, because the 3060 ti had a pretty big performance uplift over the 3060 for just $70 more msrp. So 3060 and 3060 ti were the best value at the time. 3080 is best value for high end
I bet NVIDIA is regretting the 12GB 3060 since they didn't repeat the mistake by releasing a 4060 12GB entry level card. Instead they put the extra VRAM two SKUs up to get 16GB and you pay hundreds of dollars more.
the fact this card is still $270 is painful.
3060 12GB is the best budget card if you bought it on release back in 2021. at msrp.
Buying it in current year is questionable. Maybe used if there is a good deal. At $300 you can find the 7600xt 16GB new.
@@lanelesic 7600xt is not very impressive. 6700xt would be a better choice IMO. Or just buy a used 5700xt or something
For 300 USD either get a used Rx 6750 XT oc / Rx 6800 XT
RTX 3070 @@lanelesic
It's $100 if you know the right people... It used to be $200 in 2023
Get a job
12GB definitely saving the 3060 in 2024.
Nah 12gb isn’t even utilized by the 3060 lol
@@Cosmicdonut6764 Daniel didnt test the 3060 on some situations where it would have gone over 8gb. Like Alan Wake 2 1440p he didnt turn on RT, Resident evil 1440p also no RT
@@MightyCats2011 yeah but even with 24gb of vram it still doesn’t have enough power lol
Only in some rare cases where 3060 could use that extra 4gb of ram
@@MightyCats2011 RT really isn't viable for this card or even higher tiers of graphics cards. That's why he choose to not focus on it
Friend was running a i3 8100 and a 1650. Picked up a i5 8400 & 3060 12gb for $290. The upgrade doubled his frame rate and he’s very happy.
Can I use the 3060 with an i7 8700k?
@@BREEZYM6015I'm using the RTX 3060 on an old Xeon processor and it works fantastic.
I had a spare 3060 and fixed up a budget 12400 system for a family member with it and they're very happy. Especially for much less intense games it works just fine.
True but in most cases the same money could give you a 6700 xt which is even greater. RT isnt a thing on 3050 3060 anyway. But the 6600xt and 3060 12 gb are just fine cards. For me the 3060 was just too expensive for a long time
Fantastic. I am about to do the same with my i7 8700 + RX 6600 because the GPU was gifted from Friends in the crisis for 530 Euros lol. Now i was able to buy myself a new System and i thought it is only fair to gift the Hardware to one of the friends bow, that was part of the Gifting, but now is not in the Situation to get new Hardware.
He's running older 1440p Monitors, so an RX 6600 is not the best, but his 1070 (blower!) died and ~30% more fps sounds still nice.
I still would use the RX 6600 because it is still fine, but i wanted to upgrade from 1080p UW to 1440p UW. And that was too much for my RX 6600 and the games i play.
Nice to see these builds that can help people that aren't in a financial good Situation but also game alot and it is their main hobby.
@redknight2120 RT actually does work on 3060 so it is a thing for 30fps gaming
@@redknight2120 until fsr is comparable to dlss (its still not even close) nvidia is all i will recommend
@@wizardd agreed. the amount of shimmering,blinking, artifacting from FSR is just unacceptable. However, it also depends on implementation, and devs are very lazy this days when it comes to optimizing anything tbh
YES! I am very curious to see the 3060 / 4060 comparison.
thanks2, tomorrow i guess, once again 4k on those would be great instead of more vids, just 2 cents
The 3060 was a great card for $300… 4 years ago. The fact people are forced to pay almost $300 for entry-mid level GPU from 4 years ago is just so disheartening.
lets just focus on available now
here is was sold for 500$(8gb) and 300$ used
I saw that the 2 fan version 3060 (12 Gb) by Gainward and Colorful is cheaper now. Somewhere around 260-270 USD new.
Tbh it's what you deserve when so many people act like Nvidia is the only choice, AMD makes great price/performance products but people just sticks to Nvidia because it's Nvidia
@@poue nah people buy nvidia because its better price and performance lol
you should realize there is 190+ countries in the world and amd only target that 5% country with influencers to be price competitive
Nvidia needs a new 3060 for the latest generation. Oh wait they have one, it’s called the 4070. Same 12GB VRAM same 192 bit bus bus they named it 4070 to get a massive price increase.
exactly, the new generation cards are named one tier higher than they would've been normally. Imagine the RX 7600's performance for let's say the RX 7500's (theoretically) price. That would've been insane, budget builds would've been so much more viable for people who just want to play older games or are fine with low settings.
Then there's the RTX 4060 and 4060 Ti, imagine the 4060 Ti 16 GB being the 4060 and the 4060 being the 4050. No one would've complained about the GPU market if the pricing was one tier lower, in fact I'm pretty sure everyone would've been praising NVIDIA and AMD. But oh well. These greedy b*stards just want to milk us all dry and make us move to the PS5.
The 4060 and 4060 Ti are more like 4050 and 4050 Ti, since 8GB on 4000 gen xx60 isn't right, maybe they wanted 4050 and 4050 ti like 1050 and 1050 ti, in which one model had a bit more VRAM, and 4050 Ti 16GB is somewhat an equivalent, 4070 and 4070 Super, were supposed to be 4060 and 4060 Ti's, so 4070 Ti and 4070 Ti Super are 4070 and 4070 Ti, But...4080 is 4080, 4080 Super is 4080 Super, 4090 is 4090, and a 4090 Ti is missing, as some games can't max out 4K with RT+PT 60 FPS without DLSS, like Alan Wake 2 and maybe Cyberpunk 2077 in some urban areas. 4000 series are deprived offerings, with unbelievably low Performance/Price Ratio. I take a second hand 3080 10GB any day over any 4000 series cards. Yes a 4070 Ti Super is 3090 Ti level being not that expensive, but still it's not worth it, when you can turn down some settings with minor visual difference and play 4K w/DLSS quality +45 FPS with a 12700F.
@@kaiserfakinaway5909 I never thought of that GPU manufacturers are pushing people to sell PS5's and XBOX Series X's, even though AMD does the GPU, but who knows maybe they had a secret contract with Nvidia, Although new 7000 series AMD cards are somewhat expensive but AMD is much more fair than Nvidia. Nvidia simply misused it's reputation from 1000 series cards, and introduced RT+DLSS, then started selling overpriced 2000, 3000, and 4000 series GPU's, with the first two RTX generations cheaping out on VRAM, forcing people to buy 4070's and up, with extreme prices, if they want RT that needs a 1-1.5 more GB on 1080p! FG takes about the same amount as well. A 10GB 3080 runs almost everything without VRAM issues +RT even most titles at 4K, except some new ones (not including FSR3 FG). I got myself a 3060 12GB second hand with a 12100F, the GPU is somewhat 10% slower than most people expected on some games but strangely faster on some other games, so the biggest issue with 3060 is the older games, or the ones with old game engines like RDR2, it really struggled with MSAA, and ultra shadows, but never lets you down on texture quality. Any game that has DLSS, you're fine on 1080p w/RT. RDR2 with DLSS Updade works well over 45 FPS maxed out with slight drops in 30-40's on heavy load areas, but it doesn't feature RT and its struggling even without it due to an old upgraded engine. A modded GTA V has trouble with MSAA and shadows when 5Real trees are used. DLSS mod is broken and it struggles there, you have to turn down high res shadows and MSAA to x2. It only struggles on Highly Demanding Games without good DLSS. Otherwise I wouldn't spend for any ither card at this price range. 4000 series are not worth it, most people are coming around with this idea. Get a 10GB 3080 second hand if you want a strong GPU for 1440p, or even some 4K games tuned down a bit.
actually the 3060 is a xx70 card
just look at the tdp, x60 cards had always been 100w eg 960, 1060, 4060
they bumped up the 2060 and 3060 with more power to compete with AMD and now they correct it back
so no 4060 is not a x50 card, x50 card are powered by pcie at 75w
What about 4070 TI super vs 4080 super.
Can they do 4K @ 60 steady?
bro why are your videos always perfect timing for me, when i want to investigate deeper into that exact GPU you release a banger of an analysis video.
tbh its just me creating playlist for myself really, not so good content wise, but sure maybe someday ill update good quality recordings
Bought my 3060 about 18 months ago and I'm very happy with it. I play at 1440p and don't need 60fps. Anything over about 40 is fine for me so I can mostly play at very high settings, especially with a bit of help from DLSS quality in some titles. I'll upgrade when I can get roughly twice the performance for my budget.
Same here
the 4070S will be your best bet in the near future imo once the prices for em drop as the 5xxx goes out
I've had my 3060 12 gig a couple years now and love it! Granted, I play older games (Fallout 4, Skyrim, Wonderlands, Ziggurat) but they all look great and run smooth. The rough part was paying $400 when GPU prices were high, but the 3060 is still worth it.
Yeah, the RTX 3060 scores lower in benchmark testing, but for reliability and consistent use, it works well.
👍
The 3060 is a great card that really holds up to the test of time, honestly. It's no 1080 Ti, but it's no slouch, either.
Better than a 180 ti 😂
@@REXae86 It's not, the 1080ti is about 15-20% more powerful BUT, it consumes a lot more wattage as well and so it is not nearly as power-efficient
For people saying, "you should have tested with different cpu's!"
1) Testing it with a 7800x3d shows what the 3060 can do when it's not cpu bottlenecked. So then you know what fps the 3060 can do.
2) Next you need to check benchmarks of your cpu with a 4090 to show how many fps it gets.
3) If your cpu can do 100 fps in game x with a 4090 and the 3060 gets 60 fps in the same game with a 7800x3d, you're going to get 60 fps with a 3060 and your cpu. If the cpu can do 60 fps in a game with a 4090 and the 3060 can do 100 fps with a 7800x3d, you're going to get 60 fps with a 3060 and your cpu.
This is not a difficult concept.
3060+11400F/5600X was the combo many ppl wanted in early 2021 but pandemic fkd us.
was? I still want it somehow. I made my PC with 5600G back in 2022, and now want to upgrade it with this one only. I can go for a 3060ti as well, but I feel I will need a better PSU for that as I am currently having 550W.
I bought i5 12400F+ 3060 in 2024.
Such a good PC for 1080 gaming
I chose RX 6700XT for my first gaming PC build instead of RTX 3060 and I've been very proud of my choice so far.
Btw used 6700XTs in my country are currently about 200usd, and used 3060s are around $185. I would say both are very good choices.
Had to settle for a 3060 during the mining craze, because everything was sold out or just super expensive. Wasn't happy with the performance, so once prices started to normalize i sold it and got a 6950XT. I more than doubled my fps and only paid $200 more for the 6950XT than i did for the 3060.
I think the RTX 3060 12gb is the best value RTX 30 series. Most 30 series gpus has 8gb of vram, even the 3080 had 10 (base model). So the fact the 3060 can get 1080 ti level of performance with 12gb of vram for $330 is good value if it wasn't for scalping prices at the time
@@jasonzhu9742 1080 ti is old now this GPU is barerly 1080p, and the 3060 doesn't have that great performance either. 3060Ti, 3070, 3070Ti and 3080 will still win in most situations, especially at 1080p.
6950XT is extremely nice. 69 extra fps!
@@Extreme96PL y they will win however most of them got 8gb and that's an issue and also they are more expencive than the 3060
y i was thinking about going for AMD however when i heard some of the negativity i went with Nvidia even tho it was a bit more expencive
The 3060 12gb will be one of those cards with a very long life. You'll never have to worry about running out of vram at 1080p. The price hasn't come down because people are also using them for cheap AI because of their 12gb vram.
It will run out of speed its already not that great.
@@Extreme96PLFSR 3 FG mod saved it 😅
@@Extreme96PL Starfield is running at 90fps with DLSS at 100% render, with Geforce, and Nvidia Reflex, it's like night and day compared to the Xbox Series S and X version.
@@RocketRentonYeah but he's right. Whenever they compare 3060 to 3060 t.i it gets outperformed, even though t.I only has 8gb.
It’s been great for me on stable diffusion related stuff. Setup a monster batch and let it run.
I have an RTX 3060 with a ryzen 5 5600G and 16GB ram and I can still play quite a few triple a titles at 1440p on low settings and get above 100fps. Ive had this setup for about 4 years now and its still going strong...
The RTX3060 having 12GB of VRAM is helping it keep up with current games and you can use framegen without it running out of VRAM.
Exactly. The RTX 3060 is pretty nice. I guess I would move to the 4070 Super if I needed to get a new card tomorrow.
But I really like the 3060. And I think it should get us to 2025 just fine.
12gb ram is incredibly valueble because it allows players to choose the "Highest texture pack" in triple A games like horizon forbidden west or Helldivers 2.
With Frame generation softwares like Lossless scaling. I wouldnt sweat much about it having slightly less raw gpu performance.
Any gpu with less than 12gb is just handicapped right now in terms of image quality even at 1080p.
I bought a 3060 about a year ago (upgraded from 1650). It was a big upgrade! BUT, I wasn't very happy with it's performance in a game I wanted to play (Hogwarts Legacy). I sent it back within a couple days, and upgraded to the 3060ti. The 3060ti made a fairly large difference, and I've been very happy with it. Paired with a 5800x & 32gb ram.
*edit* - I play on a 27" 1080x60 monitor. And even the 3060ti cannot max out 1080 @ 60fps locked. But I can have almost all settings on ultra, with ray tracing off.
I saw videos showing that, when you play hogwarts legacy on high res, specially 1440p and on, a d uses DLSS, the 3060 actually performes better than the 3060ti. Did you happen to test that?
This has been my experience with the 3060, DLSS Q and mid-high settings for almost every game.
Do DLDSR + DLSS P and thank me later.
@@albert2006xp DSR on 4k and then performance mode dlss? Does that actually look good?
@@Thomas_Angelo DLDSR, not old DSR that you had to pump to 4k. 2.25x DLDSR looks as good as 4x DSR for way less performance cost.
DLDSR 1.78x/2.25x + DLSS P will get you better quality than DLAA for somewhere between DLSS Q and DLAA performance. If you can pump that to DLSS B/DLSS Q even better. Play with the smoothness slider if the game looks a little TOO sharp. 33% is default but depending on the game's art style you can pump that up to get rid of some sharpness.
@@albert2006xp Is it in the Nvidia control panel? I only know of DSR
@@albert2006xpAgreed. DLDSR is a great feature. Though DLSS P is a bit too much, if we are talking about 1440p renderer (which means it will be upscaled from 720p). I'd say DLSS B is fine, roughly on par with 1080p + DLAA in terms of visuals, but it usually provides higher framerates.
I have one sitting on the shelf, my son still games with a 3060ti @1440p high/ultra settings running Loseless Scaling, he's pretty happy with it considering how LS extends it's usability.
It's still a decent GPU though.
I certainly wouldn't get a 3060 new in 2024, but if you currently have one it can do well enough that you can hold off until the 50 series to consider upgrading in earnest.
I did in January with a 12400f and I couldn't be happier. it's definitely 10 times better than playing on a gt 720m laptop. I can play every game I want at more than 60 fps on high graphics. That's all I needed.
@@Thomas_Angelo Yep i have cpu 12400f intel 6 cores 12 threads with gpu RTX 3060 12 gb nice setup for quality/price
im thinking of buying what should i buy?
@@arnoldthegreat4138 What kind of games do you play and what's your budget?
@@Thomas_Angelo RDR2 but im gonna use it to run Unity and Unreal Engine also $300
I had to get a 3060 almost two weeks ago to replace the 6600 that I bought almost three years ago because I was having hangs and crashes (a gradual issue I've had ever since I got the card that I thought was a driver one until I started getting crashes while gaming with no memory dumps) After extensive testing of everything else and a fresh windows reinstall I took a chance and got the 3060 12gb.
I thought for a while about the 3060 and the 4060 but I chose the 3060. It may not have been the best value but ironically I got my 6600 at a value only for it to not even last three years. It's been about two weeks and I have never gotten a crash or a hang, not even with the old 750ti that I temporarily used in the meantime that the 6600 initially replaced. While getting an AMD card may have been a better value the experience I had with the 6600 is unfortunate. Personally I didn't want to take the chance on getting another AMD card to have the same or a similar issue.
I don't know what tech they're working with these days that makes it possible, but lowered settings absolutely look fine to me, and if higher framerate is what I'm looking for when I sit down to game that day, it works out really well!
I don't know if I'm crazy to admit this, but sometimes I find the more advanced/contrasty lighting on higher settings of 3D games is kinda distracting and wears me out more quickly. I can more easily (and comfortably/relaxedly!) marathon a game on something like Normal or Medium sometimes. Maybe Low with Normal/Medium/High textures.
I even find myself playing more 2D games, but lower graphics settings can do a similar thing to me where it's less overwhelming. Heh. I can focus on the story and doing well at the game.
Thanks for taking a look at this, 3060 is the most popular for a reason. The perf/dollar is pretty dang good, and the overall price is attainable, especially when you consider sales or used prices. With lowered settings looking this good, and actually rather future-proof 12GB of VRAM you don't get until much more expensive cards... it's a pretty good choice. (For people who insist on max settings it could be a let-down, but I hope this whole video will nudge people to try lowering some settings and seeing if they prefer framerate over the last few % of bling...)
Super nice! im happy with this videocard! saving up for a next year videocard, hopefully something like a 5070/ 5080 and a new 1440p screen, gaming on 1080p right now etc! already did a bigger upgrade this year with a 7800x3D so thats all good for now.
I’m in the exact same spot can’t wait to see what nvidia and amd got coming out this January 2025 and cop that new 1440p 480hz oled asus got coming out
78x3d is a nice base bro
@@AwwMizi Dont' touch gpu NVIDIA January 2025 just high price for nothing big scam. RTX 3060 12 gb DDR6 or RTX 4060 8 gb DDR6 it's verry good gpu for gaming
@@LeTech772 oh yeah most likely won’t I’ll most likely get an amd card and have my first full amd build with the new 8000 series coming out
Some legend blessed me with a used 3060ti for $180 last year. It is my first pc build, more for photo/video editing than gaming, and it's been a great little GPU for that so far. For 1080p the thing has been great but it does struggle a little when going 1440 on more demanding games
so get a 3060 while waiting for the 5090?
i got a RTX 3060 cause i had a GTX 1050 ti and the gap was huge but y i will buy a 4070 or above when the 50 series comes out and the prize of the 40 series drops cause i ain;t spending 500$+ for 20 more fps when the 3060 can still run the latest games at a decent frames
Keep an eye on the used market. I’ve seen them occasionally for less than $200.
@@christonchev9762im upgrading from the same gpu to the same as you and got the same plan when the next gen comes 😮
I just got a 3060 for $249 today and can't wait to see how well it does. I have a RX 6600 XT currently but want more vram as I have maxed it out playing newer games.
So how's the experience been?
@@AkhilPaikra03 It's working good. I can't complain
I have a 3060 and now I am looking for an upgrade to a new generation and nothing came close to convincing me other than 4070 550$ because of the 12 gigabytes ram, so I decided to keep it until the next gen 12 gigabytes ram and I'm very satisfied with it.
Jumped from 3060 to 4070 Ti last sping. It was an amazing upgrade - 4070 Ti is roughly 2,2 times faster than 3060. Before any game I wanted to play at desired settings/resolution (1440p/High/Ultra), I had to aim at 30-40 fps. So I really needed 2 times more performance to get 60+ fps. Now I can crank everything to Ultra without any problems.
I'd recommend to consider 4070 Super, which is slightly slower than 4070 Ti, but significantly faster than vanilla 4070.
Next gen midrange cards will probably be released in spring 2025. So it is worth the wait, if your 3060 is still good enough for you.
Cheap dlss + Fsr 3 FG might be a game changer for budget pc gaming
I have a 3060ti (roughly 20ish percent better than 3060 admittedly) and I can run Cyberpunk 2077 Ultra with max textures (including extra mod-based ones!) at a consistent frame rate (I do indeed mod in frame gen, but without it I'd still get 60-70) at 1440p. It's very doable!
I also do fairly high level VR (much harder on your GPU than any monitor) just fine.
I'd recommend it still on a budget!
Great vid. I'm looking forward to the comparison between the 3060 and 4060. Any chance you could include the RX7600 in there too?
It's already done wo 7600 and members only..
I recorded several videos early to release over the next week because I have family visiting from out of the country around the 4th of July and I won't have time to make videos.
@@danielowentech No worries. 😀
3060 is a beast 1080p card for the money at launch, even at mining price of $500 its just better than anything else.. its the card made for those playing 1080p esports title, most popular FPS games are well over 240+ FPS.. and honestly the jump from 1080 to 1440 isn't worth unless you have a 25"+ monitor..
If you are on the fence of upgrading with 3060 on 1080p monitor, skip 1440 and go straight to 4k with like a 4070ti super or 4080super for the right price, ultra max setting is not needed with 4k..
With the AI boom its hard to imagine the latest GPU becoming affordable anytime soon really
I feel like this guy could tell the weather pretty well.
As a 3060Ti owner I've been happy with 60FPS performance over the last 2 years...Hoping for cards that can finally double the performance for similar money in the 2025 releases!
I got a MSI Ventus 3060 a while back for $249. Then it went back up to $289 - Crazy
In my country I got the same model for 320$
Great video!!
I have a I5-13600 with a 3060 Ventus 2x and I’m really surprised with what It get.
Even at 4k with some little compromises, I get very decent performances.
A 1000$ price tag for the 40 series, does not justify any upgrade atm.
Have a good one.
Indeed, the RTX 3060 is a good performer, I really like how it works for me.
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Nice but I'm glad I have a RX6700XT instead.
I bought it used for $180 last year with 2 years warranty left. Been playing at 1440p with it 😚
Man I have this GPU)
Nice video!
haha thanks2
Is the rtx 3060 12gb oc eagle better in performance
looking to get rx 7800 xt but the 3060 is still giving good fps for the games i play
nowadays low settings is pretty much High
potato mode is either non existent or called Minimal
or even SteamDeck mode lol
used a few cards till now but this heats too much. is it common for 3060 to heat up that much. even with less load it heats up so much
I’m still on 2060 super it starting to show age finally hopefully I can upgrade this year
I felt kinda bad a couple of years ago when all I could afford was a 1660 super, now I think it was not bad at all
I saw one for $190 on Facebook Marketplace. Should I get it at that price?
Is this good for Blender or Sketchup?
I had a 2070 for like 5 years which is basically identical performance to a 3060. They can't do native 1440p too well anymore but 1080p or DLSS equivalent runs fine. The 3060 will be great until another 60 series card gets 12gb of VRAM.
I got a 3060 recently as new . 12G Vram whit 192 bit bandwith . Changed my old good 1660 Ti . I wont spend any money on any 128 bit version no matter the marketing what try to explain me how great is the newest generation 4000 is . Also the first 192 bit version in 4000 series price is almost double compare whit the 3060 12G 192 bit .Playing 2023 relased game Jedi Survivor on 1440 , DLSS on, Shadow quality decreased from high to med , Ray Tracing off .. Happiness
Daniel what do you think of this do you think it’s smart to buy a 3060 12gb used for like 150$ hold on too it until 5060 comes out and hopefully that has more vram then 8gb and upgrade to that or just buy a new 4060
3060 12gb use and hold until 5060 comes out. I use this same strategy since 4060 only give around 15% better performance than 3060 12gb. And with 12gb I can use it for many demanding task outside video game, like 4k video editing, 3d modeling, etc.
Surprisingly unofficial FSR 3 FG mod on Alan Wake 2, Horizon Forbidden West feels actually smooth on the 3060
would love to see the 5700xt, I plan on using one and they are very similar in performance
Do a comparason on 3060 12GB and 3060 Ti 8GB. It's so funny that the weaker 12GB card aged better than the stronger 8GB card.
Depends on a certain game. In those latest VRAM hungry PC ports of PS4/5 games 3060 definitely wins, if you want to play with Ultra quality textures. But for less VRAM demanding games, like UE5 titles, for example, 3060 Ti is still a better choice, since these game rely more on raw GPU power and 3060 is too weak to run them well enough. While 3060 Ti can still hit 60 fps at high enough settings/resolition.
@@stangamer1151what high-quality textures, haven't you watched the video? Everywhere you need to turn on the dlss or switch the settings to medium or even low)))
12 GB of VRAM are enough for maxed out textures at 1080p and 1440p. He was talking about textures.@@Aleksey-vd9oc
I’ve had mine for 26 months, and in newer games, it’s not as great as I expected it to be, even for 1080p native unless lowering settings and upscaling from 480p/720p
90 fps on TLOU part 1 and high settings with dlss quality is truly enough for me.
@@Thomas_AngeloNah. TLOU P1 is a bad example. This games runs at native 1440p/High/60 fps on PS5. And PS5 is not that much faster than 3060 in other games.
@@stangamer1151 It's definitely got some issues on PC but it ain't unplayable. It's pretty disrespectful with these remasters and ports these days but what can we do except for pirate their games if they do it bad?
Still have my 3060 12gb it was made of obtanium. Pairs well as a spare now with 12400F.
Should i get?(for 1440p gaming)
1) rtx 3060 12gb(300usd) or 2) 7600xt(500usd) and
cpu will be 7600x(200usd)
the 4060 will perform a little better but without the ultra texture option
Thinking of upgrading to this (yes, in 2024) from a GTX 1660 Super (thats why) , I can't decide if I wanna go with this or invest more and go with the 4070, both are gonna be upgrades either way to my current GPU, but I can't decide since the 4070 is a bit over my planned budget
@@Flalgra5 Appreciate your advise! I'm sure the 3060 is great, but yeah I actually did end up going with a 4070 Super and don't regret it a single bit. Funny you talking about wattage though; I can laugh about it now, but at the time I wrote the comment I was an absolute PC noob, I ordered the GPU back then and only then while it was on it's way, I found out about watts being a thing to pay attention to. So I had to upgrade my PSU as well (was on 500 watts before) which was definitely unplanned, but if this wasn't already enough: once everything arrived and I built it in, I was wondering why my games just keep crashing...yeah that was the moment I realized I had to up my RAM as well lmao
No Cyberpunk?
I personally love my high quality textures settings …. But I will compromise settings to keep high quality textures by lowering other settings 🥰💪👍. It’s a shame that even newer graphics cards are suffering with UE5 and some other engines even to achieve 1080p 60fps. I will drop fps to to even 40’s (fps) to get high textures even on a GPU like this.
No matter the texture quality in a game, if shadows, reflections and terrain pop-in in front of your nose and also flicker due to being low resolution, it looks pretty bad anyway. Textures alone can not save any game visuals. Everything should be in balance.
The Palit 3060 12GB was the second card I bought my son, pretty decent to be fair. If you can get one cheap then go for it. *Edit - I bought this for £500 during COVID!*
eyyy THATS MY GPU!
can you talk about undervolting? i tried yesterday and got really good expirience with my 3060
all the 1650 are finally upgrading to the 3060.
im on 1060 6gb still, plan to upgrade to 3060 or 3060 ti
had the same card, and got the 3060 12gb, so happy with this card so far. playing most games at 1440 high settings at 60fps. go with the 12gb version, the ti with 8gb is not worth it in my opinion due to stutters when you run out of vram.
Daniel Horizon Zero Dawn at High vs Forbidden west at Low would be an interesting comparison to see
i only have like 2 hzd vids
texture werent done and i was waiting for that
same for fh5, the fps and fsr werent right and they also disabled recording
but true i had plenty in 1080 streams
Hey Daniel, great video. I was wondering if you’d be able to make a video comparing cards such as the 3070 and 3070TI against their AMD counterparts, as a few of my friends have recently thought about purchasing them but are mainly offset by the lack of VRAM. I feel like AMD’s previous mid-tier generation has aged more gracefully than Nvidia’s.
3070 ti was the worst card i ever purchased
I have a 3070 and a 6800, tbh both cards run games great, 3070 for superior image quality (dlss vs fsr both of which I always use) and 6800 for vram hungry games and a little more frames here n there. If I was forced to choose I’d pick the 3070 because dlss is better and I only play at 1440p in action rpgs and fighting games, I get over 60fps 1440p high/very setting dlss quality in any game I play really but both cards cost me the same barely used so I got lucky. If the 6800 is significantly cheaper or fsr is good enough for them then it’s the better choice because the massive vram, better performance generally and lower power consumption is a no brainer
He was explain about frame generation fsr and techy techy, but me actully wondering how he is magically moving around the screen 😶
In Nvidias low range everything is a compromise. 3060 12GB is right on edge and pretty expensive. 3060 TI has great performance but only 8GB. RTX 4060 has low power consumption and ok performance but still only 8GB. meh
When I bought this card in 2021 people said that 12 gb vram was so much for nothing and it will never be used and blah blah, now look in 2024 8 gb cards struggle and can only play at 1080p if that 😅
I have the 3060 and you can overclock it pretty decently as well using MSI after burner and it can play any game that comes out right now ultra settings and run perfect
The lack of generational upgrade is sad the fact that 1060 still top the chart tell me that people in the low end can’t afford to upgrade cuz new one suck.
Crazy that this card still sells new for the like the same price as 4060 in 2024
I was interested in this card last year the 12GB version but the price was £330 which is ridiculous for a card that doesn't really improve with the extra 4GB. In the end I got the RX6600 8GB for £180 unfortunately it came with Star Field free if I waited 1 month I could have got RE4 Remake Instead. But I upgraded over the awesome RX580 8GB and this to me it's the replacement from the 6000 series it's a great 1080p card is the RX6600
Happy with my 7800xt nitro +
I just got a 3060ti and have it paired with an i5 4th gen as I wait to build out the rest of the system. I'm so cpu limited there's basically little to no difference between the fps I'm getting and the fps i got using an rx 570 8gb and the stutters are way worse. 3060 looks to still be doing the job and will for quite a time because there are no good games worth upgrading from it.
Treat yourself with a better cpu man. I got myself a 12400f but if you can afford it, get a 12700kf or something close to it in Ryzen
For Alan wake 2 and starfield you can get far better results if you tweak abit of the settings for high because alot of the settings don't do much while taking alot of performance so are not worth it, i can hit 65-80fps with 1080p dlss quality by just lowering some of the settings from high to low or med, you can far easily optimize these settings just by checking the digital foundry optimized settings or benchmarkking or something channels they have far better settings to play Alan wake 2.
*a bit
*a lot
*a lot
diablo 4 if you need to test a vram hog
what program do you run to get those graphical analysis readouts?
MSI Afterburner
almost ended up with one of these....luckily i got a 6600xt at the time
192bit bus and 12gb vram is the most + point of this card, I'm planning to get used one..
It would be interesting to see The First Descendant with different GPU, it's a UE5 title and free to play, official launch was yesterday.
the modern 1060 with ray tracing
It's more low-end relative to other products of the same generation than the 1060 was. It's more like the 30 series equivalent of a GTX 1050 ti, just with more vram relative to the other graphics cards of its generation. That being said, even the 1050 ti still had plenty of vram for a low-end card back in the day, with 4GB (which is actually more vram than one of the two versions of the 1060).
.... but twice as expensive 🤔
I don't get why You don't use noise cancellation on the mic for recording...
starflied is borked, it's getting 60s on my 3090, that game is really something
I just recently got an RTX 3060. It's so hard to believe that a 3060 can't even run AAA games at 1080p high 60+ that should be a must I'm so disappointed!
which game and whats ur cpu? usually I get 60+ in 1080p
@higorss yeah that's what I figured. I have the 5700 g RTX 3060 and a MSI b550 mobo
got this rtx 3060 12gb used 172$
A Plague Tale Requiem looks great
Would've been a good value card if it were for 200€
Still 330€ Here... I wait for a better option to replace my 6500XT for two full years... it sucks
The reason this card is so popular is because it’s perfect balance of vram and price for AI.
$285 for a card and I have to lower settings, AMD is going to on my radar from now on
Honestly, the RTX 3060 12gb is arguably the best value 30 series GPU at the time for msrp. If it wasn't for the scalping prices. It had the 2nd most vram behind the RTX 3090 (aside from the 3080 ti and 3080 12gb) and it only costed $330 msrp. The 3060 ti and 3070 costed more and only has 8gb of vram, and original 3080 had 10gb. So the RTX 3060 aged pretty well for it's price at msrp. It's just ashame that scalping prices ruined this wonderful GPU. The second best value GPU in my opinion is the RTX 3060 Ti. It was barely slower than the 3070 and it costs 100 less with the same vram. Now I wouldn't blame anyone if they picked the 3060 ti over the 3060 despite the vram, because the 3060 ti had a pretty big performance uplift over the 3060 for just $70 more msrp. So 3060 and 3060 ti were the best value at the time. 3080 is best value for high end
Got mine for 243$ new on eBay Gigabyte version 😎
Technically it's not fsr3 fg it's amd fluid motion frames. Both are marketing terms.
AMD Fluid Motion Frames aka "AFMF" is their driver level frame generation, which is not the same as when FSR 3 is directly integrated into a game.
should have benchmarked lords of the fallen that game can be one of the more demanding games especialy on 1% lows
No cyberpunk benchmarks? That's the most demanding game. You gotta cyberpunk always
thats the point lol, games too demanding i cant even enable raytracing, was waiting for optimization as well
God bless you!
I bet NVIDIA is regretting the 12GB 3060 since they didn't repeat the mistake by releasing a 4060 12GB entry level card.
Instead they put the extra VRAM two SKUs up to get 16GB and you pay hundreds of dollars more.