Nvidia announces the $399 RTX 3060 Ti —and we’ve tested it
At $399 this thing absolutely shits on the value of the RX 6800 at its $579 MSRP (when it becomes available and actually reaches this price).
*Note: the Memory Clock here is quoting Ampere's GDDR6 bandwidth. That's not what I'm used to seeing quoted under that label. More traditionally speaking, the Memory Clock is 1750 MHz for both (which translates to an effective transfer rate of 14 Gbps since it is GDDR6.
The 3DMark gives a generally accurate idea of relative gaming power:
Although in the rare case you can turn on DLSS 2.0, a list that is growing over time, the 3060 Ti suddenly stomps the RX 6800 out (even in
Watch Dogs which was a title where the RX 6800 otherwise enjoyed an inordinately large advantage):
I have no clue what the fuck AMD is doing. They got a little high on themselves. They must have had lingering beer goggles from their Zen 3 celebration, and mistook Huang Jensen rolling up in his NVIDIA-embossed leather jacket for an Intel executive prior to their RDNA 2.0 launch, because their GPUs are a bit of a joke at the prices they're asking. Memo to Lisa: you're
still the far-trailing underdog in the GPU game.