Nvidia RTX 3060 Review ft. Gigabyte Gaming OC

1. Introduction2. Gigabyte RTX 3060 Gaming OC3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy5. 3DMark DirectX Raytracing6. Assassin's Creed Valhalla7. Control8. Cyberpunk 20779. Dirt 510. The Division 211. F1 202012. Gears 513. Hitman 314. Metro Exodus15. Red Dead Redemption 216. Total War Saga: Troy17. Watch Dogs: Legion18. Performance Summary (12 Game Average)19. Cost Per Frame Analysis20. Ray Tracing - Control21. Ray Tracing - Metro Exodus22. Ray Tracing - Watch Dogs: Legion23. DLSS On - Control & Watch Dogs: Legion24. Resizable BAR - Tested25. Blender26. Clock Speed27. Temperatures28. Acoustics29. Noise-Normalised Temperatures30. Power Consumption31. Performance Per Watt32. Overclocking33. Closing Thoughts34. View All Pages

Here we revisit Metro Exodus, this time testing with the in-game ray tracing effects set to their highest values.

Metro Exodus' ray traced global illumination isn't quite so demanding, as we see a 31% hit when enabling ray tracing in this title. That means the RTX 3060 averaged 90FPS with RT set to Ultra, which isn't bad and puts it on par with the RTX 2070 Super, which is the faster GPU when ray tracing is disabled.

At 1440p, the RTX 3060 maintains 56FPS on average in this game, but remember there's no DLSS 2.0 support in Metro Exodus – only the blurrier DLSS 1.0.

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