Nvidia RTX 3060 Review ft. Gigabyte Gaming OC

1. Introduction2. Gigabyte RTX 3060 Gaming OC3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy5. 3DMark DirectX Raytracing6. Assassin's Creed Valhalla7. Control8. Cyberpunk 20779. Dirt 510. The Division 211. F1 202012. Gears 513. Hitman 314. Metro Exodus15. Red Dead Redemption 216. Total War Saga: Troy17. Watch Dogs: Legion18. Performance Summary (12 Game Average)19. Cost Per Frame Analysis20. Ray Tracing - Control21. Ray Tracing - Metro Exodus22. Ray Tracing - Watch Dogs: Legion23. DLSS On - Control & Watch Dogs: Legion24. Resizable BAR - Tested25. Blender26. Clock Speed27. Temperatures28. Acoustics29. Noise-Normalised Temperatures30. Power Consumption31. Performance Per Watt32. Overclocking33. Closing Thoughts34. View All Pages

We run Blender's 2.91.2 benchmark tool, using the Classroom scene. Nvidia GPUs are testing using CUDA and OPTIX, while AMD GPUs are tested using OpenCL.

Looking at Blender render performance, the RTX 3060 is fractionally faster than the RX 5700 XT when using CUDA, posting a render time of 145 seconds. It can use OPTIX however, reducing the render time by 31%. This is on par with the RTX 2070 Super, with just a 1-second difference between the two.

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