A few months ago, rumors appeared on the net that NVIDIA was preparing, together with partner companies, to release at least three new graphics cards in the RTX 30 series in order to get rid of the accumulated inventory of Ampere generation GPUs. At the time, classified information providers assumed that the manufacturer would focus on the RTX 3060, RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti, equipping the updated video cards with faster GDDR6X memory instead of the GDDR6 used in the original models. And yesterday, October 21, Videocardz, citing its sources, published the first images of the packaging of a video card from ASUS, which indicates a new generation of memory.
We are talking about the ASUS GeForce RTX 3060 Ti TUF Gaming OC graphics card, which has a logo on the box indicating that the video card comes with 8 GB of GDDR6X integrated video memory. Unfortunately, the manufacturer itself has not yet officially announced the video card, so it is still problematic to talk about real tests and advantages. However, insiders noted that the new memory increases the data transfer rate to 19 Gb / s, due to which the total video memory bandwidth of the new video card will be 608 GB / s instead of 448 GB / s for the original model. The increase in speed is actually huge, but this does not affect the performance of the video card so much.
Journalists from the Videocardz publication published tests leaked to the network, conducted in benchmarks by some reviewers who, apparently, have already received a video card with new memory for the test. If you believe the numbers from synthetic tests, then a video card with GDDR6X memory is on average 7-10% more powerful than the original model with GDDR6, so you should definitely not expect a significant increase in frame rate. Considering that in real scenarios the performance is usually lower than in synthetics, in reality the user received an advantage of about 5%. Accordingly, if the ASUS GeForce RTX 3060 Ti TUF Gaming OC and competitors that will be presented in the near future are noticeably more expensive than the original RTX 3060 Ti, then paying for a 5% performance increase would be a strange decision.
However, NVIDIA’s desire to capitalize on the past generation of video cards, and even on almost the most affordable models in the line, suggests that the “paper” launch of the RTX 4090 actually did not bring such huge profits as the company expected. And instead of launching the RTX 4070 or RTX 4060, the company will try to get the most out of the previous generation, and only in February or even in the spring will introduce the younger models of the new line.
Source: Trash Box
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