NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Graphics Card (3 products)

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The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 presents the lowest barrier of entry to NVIDIA's ground-breaking 2nd generation RTX architecture codenamed Ampere. Even as the cheapest NVIDIA graphics card from the GeForce RTX 30 Series line-up, the NVIDIA RTX 3060 is not slow by any means.

From AI-accelerated image reconstruction to surprisingly capable raytracing performance, the RTX 3060 packs an advanced feature set many other comparably priced graphics cards on the market fail to match.

Upgrade to the RTX 3060

If you have been desperately clinging onto the immensely popular GTX 1060 patiently awaiting a worthy successor, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 might be it. The GTX 1060 originally launched way back in 2016 and after all these years still ranks highest in the Steam Hardware Survey with a whopping 8% of the total install base, even beating out integrated graphics on Intel and AMD CPUs.

Since 2016, graphics card technology has improved considerably. We have witnessed the arrival of real-time raytracing and the AI machine learning revolution on graphics cards long before anyone could have expected. Even the next-generation PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles miraculously managed to squeeze in raytracing support. Don't get left behind and upgrade to a NVIDIA RTX 3060.

Best budget graphics card

The NVIDIA 60 tier of graphics cards including GTX 1060, RTX 2060, and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 are regularly categorised as their budget offering. The term budget is often conflated with poor performance and a drastic reduction to features, but the NVIDIA RTX 3060 does not compromise on either.

Interestingly, the RTX 3060 is stocked with a whopping 12GB of video memory (VRAM). This doubles the previous generation of RTX 2060 VRAM, comfortably future-proofing it for higher and higher resolution textures and displays.

NVIDIA Reflex

An exciting development of the GeForce RTX 30 Series is NVIDIA Reflex. It's designed to reduce end-to-end system latency when gaming - from a gaming mouse click to an on-screen reaction - and improve performance in combination with a NVIDIA G-SYNC compatible gaming monitor.

RTX 3060 Vs. RTX 2060 Vs. GTX 1060

Compared to the previous generation RTX 2060, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 is a truly transformative leap in performance across the board in both conventional rasterised and raytraced rendering.

In Borderlands 3, a non-raytraced game benchmarked at the highest graphical pre-sets and at a Full HD resolution, the previous generation RTX 2060 teeters on the edge of 60 frames-per-second, but the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 soars past it with slightly above 70FPS.

By way of a comparison, the old GTX 1060 is below the 40FPS mark, a frame rate many PC gamers would deem unplayable. Going from a GTX 1060 to a RTX 3060, you are effectively doubling your performance for a true generational leap!

Looking for even more performance? Check out the new RTX 4090.

RTX 3060 Raytracing

On a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060, raytracing is no longer the performance hog it once was. Before, you would have to selectively pick-and-choose whether the raytracing impact on frame rate was worth it, but now, a NVIDIA RTX 3060 can handle raytracing at playable frame rates.

Have you ever noticed how in a lot of games mirrored surfaces are conspicuously broken in a lot of games? Game rendering techniques have historically struggled with off-screen information, as it is too computationally expensive to render everything outside the player viewport.

Raytracing, however, simulates the physical properties of light for unparalleled realism in support games. Pin-point reflections, natural shadows and more. Raytracing is the future of graphics, and the RTX 3060 delivers it in the here and now.

RTX 3060 DLSS

Plus, the AI-accelerated graphics cards from the GeForce RTX 30 series are revolutionising the industry approach to native resolution rendering. While we would class the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 as a 1080P graphics card on a technical level, the NVIDIA Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) changes the game.

DLSS leverages the power of Tensor cores - AI co-processors exclusive to NVIDIA RTX GPUs to smartly reconstruct a frame from a lower internal resolution to a higher output resolution, with shockingly convincing results. DLSS can transform bog-standard 1080P into a crispy 4K image. Plus, you get the performance improvements of running at a lower resolution beneath all the DLSS wizardry.

DLSS is somehow a win-win for both image quality and performance, making it a must-have for gaming PCs. So, check out Ebuyer's full range of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 graphics cards.

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