FEBRUARY 2021 PCWorld 31Nvidia revealed scant technical details
about the GeForce RTX 3060, but the
company claims the card offers twice as
much traditional rasterization performance
as the beloved GeForce GTX 1060, and 10X
the ray tracing performance. (The GTX 1060
doesn’t include dedicated real-time ray
tracing cores like RTX-class GeForce cards
do). Interestingly, the GeForce RTX 3060
includes an ample 12GB of GDDR6 memory,
more than the limited 8GB available in the
more powerful RTX 3060 Ti and 3070. It
uses a smaller 192-bit bus however. Looks
like AMD’s offer of vastly more VRAM in the
Radeon RX 6000-series had an effect on
Team Green.
The GeForce RTX 3060 product page
(go.pcworld.com/pdpg) offers more
details, however, comparing the card
against the $400 RTX 3060 Ti. It will
include 3,584 CUDA cores clocked at a
1.78GHz boost speed. The spec sheet
doesn’t detail physical information like size
or the connector loadout, but this will be a
170-watt card that should be paired with a
550W power supply. By contrast, the
RTX 3060 Ti is a 200W card that needs a
600W PSU.
Of course, as an RTX 30-series card,
the GeForce RTX 3060 supports all of
Nvidia’s most advanced features, like
real-time ray tracing, DLSS, Nvidia Reflex,
NVENC encoding, Shadowplay, Nvidia
Broadcast, and more.