NVIDIA have revealed the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti officially today, along with a release date of December 2 and it sounds like quite an awesome card.
Hitting performance levels (and above!) comparable to the RTX 2080 SUPER, which for the price is absolutely amazing at $399 / £369 which is far less than the 2080 SUPER. When it becomes available on December 2 this will be as custom boards including stock-clocked and factory overclocked models from various vendors as well as a Founders Edition direct from NVIDIA.
Want some specs? Here's a comparison between the models of the 3000 series:
| GEFORCE RTX 3090 |
GEFORCE RTX 3080 |
GEFORCE RTX 3070 |
GEFORCE RTX 3060 Ti |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPU Engine Specs: | NVIDIA CUDA® Cores | 10496 | 8704 | 5888 | 4864 |
| Boost Clock (GHz) | 1.70 | 1.71 | 1.73 | 1.67 | |
| Memory Specs: | Standard Memory Config | 24 GB GDDR6X | 10 GB GDDR6X | 8 GB GDDR6 | 8 GB GDDR6 |
| Memory Interface Width | 384-bit | 320-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit | |
| Technology Support: | Ray Tracing Cores | 2nd Generation | 2nd Generation | 2nd Generation | 2nd Generation |
| Tensor Cores | 3rd Generation | 3rd Generation | 3rd Generation | 3rd Generation | |
| NVIDIA Architecture | Ampere | Ampere | Ampere | Ampere | |
| PCI Express Gen 4 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| NVIDIA G-SYNC | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Vulkan RT API, OpenGL 4.6 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| HDMI 2.1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| DisplayPort 1.4a | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| NVIDIA Encoder | 7th Generation | 7th Generation | 7th Generation | 7th Generation | |
| NVIDIA Decoder | 5th Generation | 5th Generation | 5th Generation | 5th Generation | |
| Display Support: | Maximum Digital Resolution | 7680x4320 | 7680x4320 | 7680x4320 | 7680x4320 |
| Standard Display Connectors | HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a | HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a | HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a | HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a | |
| Multi Monitor | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | |
| HDCP | 2.3 | 2.3 | 2.3 | 2.3 | |
| Founders Edition Card Dimensions: | Length | 12.3" (313 mm) | 11.2" (285 mm) | 9.5" (242 mm) | 9.5" (242 mm) |
| Width | 5.4" (138 mm) | 4.4" (112 mm) | 4.4" (112 mm) | 4.4" (112 mm) | |
| Slot | 3-Slot | 2-Slot | 2-Slot | 2-Slot | |
| Founders Edition Thermal Power Specs: | Maximum GPU Temperature (in C) | 93 | 93 | 93 | 93 |
| Graphics Card Power (W) | 350 | 320 | 220 | 200 | |
| Required System Power (W) (2) | 750 | 750 | 650 | 600 | |
| Supplementary Power Connectors | 2x PCIe 8-pin (adapter to 1x 12-pin included) |
2x PCIe 8-pin (adapter to 1x 12-pin included) |
1x PCIe 8-pin (adapter to 1x 12-pin included) |
1x PCIe 8-pin (adapter to 1x 12-pin included) |
As long as you're not going for 4K gaming, the GeForce RTS 3060 Ti seems like a winner, and would likely be exactly what I would be going for if I was going to be building a system. At 1440p and 1080p gaming, it seems ideal. NVIDIA drivers generally have good Linux support too, and we expect NVIDIA to have a fresh driver up either today or tomorrow to formally add support for it on Linux - like they always do with a new GPU release. We're never left waiting around.
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Going by Phoronix benchmarks on Linux, it seems like performance winner. I get that technology moves on quickly but even so, it still slightly amazes me just how much performance and price has come along with cards like this.
The real question is: just how fast will stock vanish this time? It may be releasing on December 2, doesn't mean many people will actually be able to get one though like the last few new GPU release.
If you do buy one, NVIDIA are throwing in one whole year of GeForce NOW Founder membership too which is open to both new and existing GFN customers to sweeten the deal. With their plans to actually support Linux with GFN in the browser, that sounds good.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: CybolicNVIDIA still doesn't support re-projection for use in VR, right?From what I understand, they have the vulkan compute extensions for it, but not the low-latency, high priority driver path to make it actually usable.
slaapliedje Dec 1, 2020
Quoting: CybolicNVIDIA still doesn't support re-projection for use in VR, right?You know, what? I think AMD drivers do? And if that's the case, that'd explain why others were saying that Elite Dangerous runs fine on Linux (Not that I can run it in Linux until someone writes up a scripting engine equivalent of the Thrustmaster Warthog has in Windows, as I now use that rather heavily.)
- A much snappier desktop environment (with a poor intel igp from my i5 Haswell!)
- High resolution terminals even without grub and/or uefi
- Kmsgrab working in ffmpeg
- Glitchless resume from hibernation and suspend (texture corruption)
- Glitchless vt switching (desktop corruption)
- The ability to start multiple xorg sessions without having graphic corruption in the other one
- Good power managment (not excellent, because the GTX always stays on, but certanly better than using the 1060 as the primary gpu, when it jumped to maximum power draw by just moving a window and stayed there for 30 seconds or more).
- Reliable reporting of what display is connected
YAY!
(edit, i just forgot how bad are nvidia drivers in memory managment, this is evident when you hit the limit by using proton!)
Last edited by kokoko3k on 1 December 2020 at 5:02 pm UTC
Quoting: yokem55Quoting: CybolicNVIDIA still doesn't support re-projection for use in VR, right?From what I understand, they have the vulkan compute extensions for it, but not the low-latency, high priority driver path to make it actually usable.
That's my understanding as well. Since I'm currently using a 1080 Ti and pretty happy with the general performance (though not the quirks), the only reason for me to upgrade is to fix the re-projection stutter I get in VR. If NVIDIA still hasn't "fixed" that under Linux though, there's not much point in a new card, no matter how good the bang-for-the-buck is - for me anyway.
Quoting: kokoko3kThat said, even if this new green card seems well priced, I'm finally about to quit using nvidia by christmas for AMD.
YAY!
Good luck getting a 6800(XT)/30X0 by XMas without paying double the MSRP xD
Last edited by poisond on 1 December 2020 at 6:39 pm UTC
Mohandevir Dec 1, 2020
Quoting: poisondQuoting: kokoko3kThat said, even if this new green card seems well priced, I'm finally about to quit using nvidia by christmas for AMD.
YAY!
Good luck getting a 6800(XT)/30X0 by XMas without paying double the MSRP xD
Quite the same for all next gen GPU. Team Green's GPUs, in the RTX 30x0 series, are not easier to find or cheaper, atm.
Not sure it's going to be better with this one either. Better wait for January... Maybe.
Last edited by Mohandevir on 1 December 2020 at 7:07 pm UTC
slaapliedje Dec 1, 2020
Quoting: GuestThere are few demanding AAA's on Linux. Most of my library works on my second hand 970 i bought for 180 € in 2016. When i will buy metro exodus i will let some graphic options down and maybe play it again if i get a better graphic card.Ha, I am the exact opposite, if I can't get playable frame rates at max resolution / settings, I will upgrade.
Borderlands 2 runs better at 720P but is kinda dead now and Alien Isolation too runs at 720P.
So i'll wait more.
Granted with my monitor being 3840x1200@144hz, I may need to upgrade to either the 3080 or 6800 XT soon enough.
If not, no thanks, wake me up when AMD 6700 is released...
Quoting: poisondWho said 6800?Quoting: kokoko3kThat said, even if this new green card seems well priced, I'm finally about to quit using nvidia by christmas for AMD.
YAY!
Good luck getting a 6800(XT)/30X0 by XMas without paying double the MSRP xD
You said it!
Thanks, take your time, i've pm'ed you my address, no hurry ;)
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