At $399.99, this refurb’d RTX 3060 Ti is not a good buy. The RTX 4060 Ti 8GB will be available in stores in two days (May 24th), for the same price.
Nvidia has been stingy with the die sizes for the 40-series, so I don’t expect much performance improvement (aside from “cheats” like DLSS-FG) in this new crop of mainstream cards. So, really this is a case of New (4060 Ti) vs Refurb (3060 Ti OC) being priced the same.
This is a terribly priced offering, made more so by recent market trends.
that’s what I came here to write as well. Those orders though. Must be nice to throw down $300 and not do any research.
Thank you for that info! I didn’t realize it was going to be so soon. That’s what I get for focusing in too hard on the 3060 ti.
4060 Ti reviews are out today and I’m surprised how well I nailed the post yesterday.
- 1080p performance on 4060 Ti vs 3060 Ti has modestly improved (~10%)
- The 4060 Ti’s memory bus hinders improvement at higher resolutions (1440p, 4K) to low single digits (1~3%).
- Memory-intensive workstation applications show zero to slightly negative improvement on 4060 Ti vs 3060 Ti, again due to the memory bus
Given that the card on offer is factory-overclocked, it will probably match the new 4060 Ti at 1440p. If the card were in NEW condition, then the $399.99 price would be unexciting, but justifiable.
As I said yesterday, the pricing issue on the refurb card on offer comes down to the lack of discount for sake of being a refurb.
LTT recommends a look at the 6700xt as a better raster card if you don’t mind losing the dlss sauce
The 3060 Tis are seeing price cuts in the wake of the 4060 Ti launch. The Amazon mothership is offering this same MSI Ventus 3X card NEW for $364.99. Newegg has gone down to $319.99 by way of a coupon code.
Lmao 3060 8gb is garbage, I think they even lowered the bus width along with the ram size, typical PC marketing. If you don’t invest the time into knowing it you can easily end up assuming otherwise
17 pct performance from a 3060 12gb, it’s 80% of the card but does it costs 20% less? Basically a 3050 Ti, hardly suitable for 1080p gaming at a steady 60fps
The RTX 3060 8GB is more than just a memory change. Due to smaller memory capacity, NVIDIA had to modify the memory bus width as well (from 192-bit to 128-bit). A shorter memory bus has an impact on memory bandwidth, and as a result can affect performance at high-fidelity gaming.
However, no other changes were applied to this model, it’s the same GA106-based card with 3584 CUDA cores and 170W TDP. Therefore, NVIDIA found no reason to put a new name on this model. That’s despite the fact there was never a desktop RTX 3050 Ti model perfectly suitable to take this spot.
Just a simple tactic to trick you into thinking more gbs of RAM = %17 pct faster, but the real reason is the lowering bus width resulting in lower clock speeds, along with less ram ending up with a worse card. That’s just the current trend with normal consumers and the ram/memory buzzword