Ampere · 2020
Moving to NVIDIA's Ampere architecture, the desktop RTX 3060 Ti (2020) jumps to 4864 cores and 8GB of GDDR6 on a 256-bit bus, running over PCIe 4.0 at a 200W TDP - a significant generational leap over the Turing-based 2060 Super and 2070 Super it effectively replaced.
It quickly earned a reputation as one of the best value cards of its generation, comfortably handling 1440p gaming at high settings and even dabbling in 4K for less demanding titles, with ray tracing and DLSS performance well ahead of the previous generation.
Smooth 1440p gaming and solid creative app performance.
8 GB GDDR6 memory.
Push performance beyond base clock.
PCIe 4.0 x16
Mainstream desktop power draw with solid headroom for upgrades.
The NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti is a upper mid-range dedicated GPU with 8GB of GDDR6 memory, suited to mainstream gaming and everyday graphics tasks.