The beforehand rumored recent spin on the Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti is basically taking place, with Asus revealing its refreshed tackle the favored Ampere GPU.

As VideoCardz (opens in new tab) noticed, Asus has unveiled a pair of recent TUF GDDR6X fashions of its RTX 3060 Ti graphics card, one in all which is the bottom card, and one other is the OC Version.

The one distinction in comparison with the prevailing TUF RTX 3060 Ti boards is that the 8GB of VRAM is quicker. As an alternative of 14Gbps GDDR6 video RAM, the refreshed playing cards use 19Gbps GDDR6X reminiscence, upping the general reminiscence bandwidth considerably from 448GB/s to 608GB/s.

That’s the solely change right here, and in any other case the CUDA Core depend, clocks, and all different specs stay the identical.

VideoCardz factors out that pepping up the reminiscence bandwidth like so ends in a rise of round 7% to 10% higher efficiency primarily based on 3DMark scores.

Evaluation: Will that VRAM make all that a lot distinction in actuality?

After all, artificial benchmarks are a helpful indicator, however what we actually wish to see is how a lot distinction the quicker VRAM makes to real-world gaming (throughout the standard number of titles to get some general perspective as to the precise affect on boosting body charges).

Clearly, there shall be some efficiency uplift, however it might be the case that it’s a comparatively minor enhance. Nonetheless, relying on pricing, and precisely how a lot distinction the brand new GDDR6X RAM makes – which the jury continues to be out on, after all – this new spin on the RTX 3060 Ti could be a compelling purchase. And we must always keep in mind that in latest instances, the vanilla 3060 Ti has (lastly) began to witness some chunky drops in its value.

That mentioned, with Nvidia pursuing a ‘layered’ launch technique – rolling out next-gen RTX 4000 graphics playing cards at a sluggish tempo (and certainly reversing course with one in all them, ‘unlaunching’ it) – it stays to be seen when mid-range Lovelace will flip up, with rumors suggesting it might not be for a while but. (Keep in mind, Nvidia purportedly has fairly the hefty quantity of RTX 3000 stock to clear.)

And that being the case, we might be caught with the RTX 3060 and the Ti variant (together with this new model of the latter, after all) for a while but, so pricing might turn out to be a bit much less more likely to drop, and maybe degree out in consequence, a minimum of in the intervening time.

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