before seeing vid: higher bus bandwidth and more vram than 4060 means almost same performance or some games, better. also, cheap.

The 3060 is a great card. I've had a 6600xt since launch and can't see any reason to upgrade it. I enjoy the efficiency of the 6600xt and the fact that it does what I need very well. I use it for photo editing and playing Battlefield 1. If a new game comes out that requires an upgrade I'll do it - but I've got zero interest in the current crop of games that are all graphics and zero soul or gameplay.

I use to own a INNO3d 3060ti, it performed in games better than the 3060 12gb even with only 8gb VRAM in benchmarks the 3060TI came out at 128% where as non TI was only 100%, but in todays times I'd rather have a video card with least 12GB so I upgraded to a 4070 Super.

3060 12 GB is less than 5% slower than 4060, which has 8 GB, when Nvidia releases a 12 GB 5060 or 6060, with 12 GB minimum, I'll change my 3060.

I upgraded to a 4070 from the 3060, the 3060 was a really good card...

you never said what vram the 3060 had... in games vram makes a big difference in frame rates... as the 6650 you got only has a crap weak 8gb.. and you only chose one game...and doom eternal is known to run better on amd gpu's ..so the tests are redundant

Srsly 1 game comparison and no 1% Lows??

Is there any reason you didnt use pcie 4.0? Great video btw.

Great video thank you

3060 is a good gpu much better then the 3060ti yes the 3060ti is faster but only till the vram spitsover same at 4060 and 4060ti 8gb :D i want at november 2023 too a 3060 but it was at german 60€ more expensive then a rx6700xt oc variation so i choose the rx6700 xt oc and undervolted and underclocked it in linux bcz. it gets really hot at my tiny itx pc, dont use intel cpu's its a bit cheaper sometimes but needs too much wattage pay more (sometimes much more or double) wattage for same power is bad :) i use 1440p on my (really cheap, but good for a va panel) 39" monitor

I just bought one too to replace mine. I just didn't want to lay out $700+ for a card that also has 12 gb. When this one is fine. It was $275 US dollars on sale. I just didn't feel the upgrade was worth the price right now.

I would have recommended the 6750XT 12GB. It's cheaper, FAR faster, 4GB more VRAM and it's AMD. Get the 6700XT/6750XT to compare to this card. The XFX Qick 319 is a 3x fan cooler, has zero RPM, too, when not under load and is just an overall better card. The reason that card is at the top is because people fall for Nvidia advertising. I mean, congrats on your new purchase, but it doesn't compare at all to the 6700XT/6750XT in price, performance, reliability, etc. You pay less and get more. You can run most 1440p games at max without upscaling whereas the 3060 runs out of VRAM, needs upscaling and... yeah. Congrats either way.. but AMD is the way to go. CONSTANT driver improvements. It also has Smart Access Memory which Nvidia doesn't have.

Not a smart buy! Don't do this, buy a 4060 instead! Both are priced around $299 new and you would be losing a lot of performance when it comes to DLSS.

Waste too much time! When will he give the answer?

Too bad these MSI variants have plastic back plates, br-r-r-r-r-....

Ah the 3060, the 12gbyte option that isn't too expensive. And yeah it has decent performance. So, not a bad card.I I have found it is pretty good performing combined with 8th -9th generation pc hardware. Yeah as you said if your pc is a bit older, and you need SOMETHING powerful ENOUGH to go with your current CPU. These are a perfect slot in, and with 12Gbyte few games will complain.

I'm bought a 3070 ti last year, 40 series cards are still insanely pricey and who cares about tons of vram when most AAA games suck anyways. 9/10 games that run bad are not fun anyways.

The 3060 actually does pretty well on 1440p somehow, You can get 60fps usually on 1440p. Even on the last of us I was able to reach 60 - 80fps using dlss. I think ill get an upgrade at some point but this card is fantastic for the cost

It was cheap???

I got a new msi 3050 6gb. I'm working my house and cars. It's nice to see and play with the technology. Suits my needs for now, msi makes a great product.

i took the TrueNAS route a few years ago now i have my own rack, i only have a few servers that i mainly use for plex and as a general NAS. they are worth it

Yes

You can just choose your fan curves on msi afterburner with any card can't you?

I bought the same card recently. Great price and best decision I made. Love it. :)

Great content, thank you! I just wanted to check if anybody else is having problems with the sound at 11:13? Mine suddenly goes to only one channel. The same thing happened on an earlier video right at the end.

3060 also performs great at 1440p. It was the first card I got, everyone was saying don't but it was the most sensible option for me. It has exceeded all benchmarks I have ever seen. Never had a single issue aside from pushing it way harder than it had any business going lol no crashes though. Just minor stutters, some fuzziness trying to render textures it is not powerful enough to render.

I'm running 1080s in SLI and have been looking at the 3060 evga XC as my next card. I want to see raytracing and I do some 3d stuff and could benefit quite well with such an upgrade... so, yep, you're right. TY.

While a NAS is probably the best thing for this gear, it's great value, whatever you want to do with it.

If you have PCIe 3.0 go for a RTX 3060 if you have PCIe 4.0 go for a RTX 4060

i own a 3060 myself

you bear an uncanny resemblance to Sean Astin (the actor)

Warning about new Nvidia 4090 scam just hit the market

silence is golden

for that u should get an 4060. if u have a old pc and what a cheap gpu upgrade, rx 580 is the answer

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I got an RTX 3060 a couple years ago for about $400. It's still a great card with Fallout 4, Skyrim, Tiny Tina's Wonderland, Subnautica, and Fallout 76 looking well. It pairs well with my Ryzen 3 3200 G with 16 gig 3200 ram, built in 2020. If you think my rig is old, the case is an alienware from 2005!

i really appreciate your insight to battle ewaste

that's an RTX not an atty X

The rtx 3060 is a great card, even now.

be the ball

What are you talking about, most of tech youtubers and forums recommend 12GB 3060 over 4060 lol and it's basically the same price too so no, you're not saving any money here either 😆

You're not mad, just schtuuuuupid!!!

Intel Core i3-4170: Leave me alone!!!

That 4th gen i3 was the best budget chip for a while because the amd counterparts were so bad. I remember the fx 8350 was getting beat by a i3 because of intels superior ipc

The cheap i7- will work as well. (Xeon 1265-v3 ) it has no igpu but they were my go to when the i7 was 50-80$ more back in 2015-2017

Nelly, All I see is a CPU limited experience. With a system of this vintage, You could easily drop an i7 4770/4790k for cheap and address the glaring performance issue. I've built a similar i3 with a 4150/MSI GTX 970 years ago, So I have some knowledge on how this can tarnish these bang on budget GPU's. Wouldn't mind a retest with said strong intel processor. Thanks for the video and Cheers on your new channel.

I bought my son the Gainward Ghost 3060 12GB at the start of Covid for £500! Great card but then upgraded him to a Palit 3070 GAMING PRO which blew it out of the water… he’s now rocking a Asus 4070 TUF GAMING OC which was a decent upgrade but not the difference from 3060 to 3070. For £260 ish the 3060 for 1080p is a great deal.

We dont even have to watch FAR; Hardware unboxed demonstrated the large problem of driver overhead using Ncrappier RTX gpu's with lower end processors. Basically if you have an older weaker quad core (i7 4770 say) you should be buying the rx 6600, which is faster than a 3060 in ALL situations but esp with weaker old cpu's. Whats first for laughs? "Lets find out if some of these older components can function with modern technology" .. This is a major understanding fail; the PCI-E bus and its different levels are forwards and backwards compatible with gpu cards for well over a decade. So it is not 'new tech'. The only major hiccup to this was with O.E.M. systems when nvidia compressed the vram on the 9 series cards, and without a bios update, biz chipset O.E.M. boards(particularly prone with only 8 pci-e lanes) would not run say a gtx 970 but would run an r7 2/380 no probs. (I remember this well, I spent a LOONG TIME cursing the price of a 970 and most biz boxes had no bios updates) Second for Laughs; Nelly is going to be using his "Test Bench" .. So after talking like a ten yr old mobo pci-E connect* is dinosaur tech for new entry cards he is going to use a power supply from 2006 which is 18 yrs old. (no, he doesnt have a psu load tester set up to test the test rig psu and yes the rest of us understand the probs using an 18 YEAR OLD POWER SUPPLY ffs ) Next? Oh yeah. DDR3 near him is as rare as rocking horse shit. HA HA HA HA HA. THE WORLD is swimming in it_ Gotta be fxxxxxxx kidding_ And he does not know about cas latency. Or 2 vs 4 sticks etc on that platform. How that affects cpu perf. Basically this bloke NELLY is an idiot like Reg Prescott the D.I.Y. er on the Kenny Everett show. A quick deny channel should see this plonker eradicated, bloke is WAY out of his depth. * gen 3

4060 is better because of the lower power draw and similar price.

Mmm I think just becouse there is 13 and 14 gen Intel is out there doesn't mean you get top brute force prossor power go go Xeon already and nothing is a problem anymore with my 20 core 40 treads I eat everything for breakfast and then some so doe your research and profit ;)