Cards based on GeForce RTX 3080 are not still available in serious quantities, it doesn’t matter, NVIDIA has just unveiled the fourth member of the RTX 30 family: the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti.
The RTX 3060 Ti is based on the same GPU than the RTX 3070 the GA104 GPU (Ampere architecture) but this time with lower specs: 4864 CUDA cores, 80 ROPs and 38 raytracing cores.
The RTX 3060Ti costs $399 and offers the same level of performance than the RTX 2080 SUPER.
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti main specifications
- GPU: Ampere GA104 @ 1410 MHz (base) / 1670 MHz (boost), 17-billion transistor, Samsung 8nm
- CUDA cores: 4864
- SMs: 38
- RT cores: 38
- Tensor cores: 152
- ROPs: 80
- Texture units: 152
- Memory: 8GB GDDR6 @ 1750 MHz real speed (7000 MHz effective speed), 256-bit, 448 GB/s
- TGP: 200W
- Power connector: 12-pin
- Price: starts at USD $399
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/geforce-rtx-3060-ti-out-december-2/
“be sure to download and install the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Game Ready Driver on December 2nd to unlock its full potential.”
https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/167106/en-us
https://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/457.51/457.51-desktop-win10-64bit-international-whql.exe
https://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/457.51/457.51-win10-win8-win7-release-notes.pdf
Nvidia GeForce 457.51 WHQL driver.