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Nvidia RTX 3060 Review ft. Gigabyte Gaming OC

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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