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

We measure system-wide power draw from the wall while running Cyberpunk 2077 for 30 minutes.

Total system power draw comes in just shy of 300W. Nvidia's official recommendation for the RTX 3060 is a 550W PSU.

We also use Nvidia PCAT to measure power draw of the graphics card only, with readings from both the PCIe slot and the PCIe power cables combined into a single figure. This provides us with significantly more accurate data to work with as it is measuring only the GPU power, and not total system power which is a fundamentally imprecise measurement. For this, we test Cyberpunk 2077, F1 2020 and Total War Saga: Troy, presenting an average power draw figure from those 3 games.

More accurate is our TGP testing. For the RTX 3060 Gaming OC, we measured an average power consumption of 174W, which is in-line with the official 170W rating. This means power consumption is barely higher than RTX 2060 Super, and is dead level with the RX 5700.

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