NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Officially Gets Updated To GDDR6X Memory, RTX 3060 Gets 8 GB Variant
It was no secret that NVIDIA was working on brand new GeForce RTX 3060 series graphics cards. The move was made to allow AIBs to ease down their Ampere inventories and clear them before the next generation of mainstream GPUs, based on the Ada Lovelace architecture, arrived. As so, NVIDIA is introducing two brand new cards. Starting with the first variant, we have the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X which features the same 4684 CUDA cores, 1665 MHz boost clocks, and an 8 GB memory configuration running across a 256-bit bus interface. The difference is that the new variant features GDDR6X memory that will be offering speeds of up to 19 Gbps. This is an increase of 36% in pin speeds and the bandwidth which has been increased to 608 GB/s. Both cards feature the same 200W TDP and the GDDR6X will come in several flavors. First is a faster GeForce RTX 3060 Ti with GDDR6X memory, in addition to the original version with GDDR6 memory. Second is a GeForce RTX 3060 with 8GB of GDDR6 memory. Both new options are supported starting with today’s Game Ready Driver. For more details on each option, visit the GeForce RTX 3060 family product page on GeForce.com. The second card is the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 8 GB graphics card which is a slimmed-down model of the 12 GB model. While the card retains its 3584 cores and 1770 MHz clocks, the new graphics card comes with an 8 GB 128-bit memory configuration as opposed to the 12 GB 192-bit (bus) memory configuration on the original variant. This will lead to a reduction of 33% in memory bandwidth and also memory capacity.
— GALAX Official (@GALAXHQ) October 26, 2022 For the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X variant, we will see performance closing in on the RTX 3070 and sometimes even exceeding it while the RTX 3060 8 GB will see a definite reduction in performance but also feature a lower price point that is slightly above the RTX 3050. Drivers for the cards are out now which can be seen here.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series Graphics Card Specifications
