PNY RTX 3060 XLR8 Gaming Review

1. Introduction2. PNY RTX 3060 XLR8 Gaming3. 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. Clock Speed20. Temperatures21. Acoustics22. Noise-Normalised Temperatures23. Power Consumption24. Overclocking25. Closing Thoughts26. View All Pages

Here we present the average clock speed for each graphics card while running Cyberpunk 2077 for 30 minutes. We use GPU-Z to record the GPU core frequency during gameplay. We calculate the average core frequency during the 30 minute run to present here.

Looking at the average operating clock frequency of the XLR8, it becomes clear why we did see this card running a touch slower than the other RTX 3060s during our game benchmarks. It averaged 1816MHz, roughly 25MHz slower than the Palit StormX, but over 100MHz slower than the Gigabyte Gaming OC, which is the fastest RTX 3060 we have tested to-date. The differences aren't massive, and they are to be expected considering the XLR8 isn't factory overclocked, but it does explain why we saw the gaming performance results that we did.

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