Zotac GeForce RTX 3060 AMP White Edition Review

Source: Tech Power Up added 25th Feb 2021

Introduction

NVIDIA today launched the GeForce RTX 3060 “Ampere” graphics card, and Zotac sent us their most premium product based on this chip, the Zotac RTX 3060 AMP White Edition. This card retains the compact essential design of Zotac’s RTX 3060-series, but has a few premium bits, such as a most elaborate aluminium fin-stack heatsink, an all-white cooler, and factory-overclocked speeds that are a notch above even the standard (black) RTX 3060 AMP. The RTX 3060 is set to be the most important SKU from the “Ampere” generation, as the xx60 series tend to sell the most in terms of volumes. The RTX 3060 provides a logical upgrade path for the GTX 1060 6 GB “Pascal,” by enabling 1440p gaming with reasonably high settings, or maxed out 1080p gaming including raytracing.

The “Ampere” graphics architecture powering the Zotac RTX 3060 AMP White Edition represents the 2nd generation of NVIDIA’s path-breaking RTX technology, which combines new Ampere CUDA cores with concurrent FP32+INT32 math performance, 2nd generation RT cores which double the intersection performance over the previous generation, and add hardware for raytraced motion-blur effects; and 3rd generation Tensor cores that leverage the sparsity phenomenon in neural nets to increase AI inference performance significantly. The RTX 3060 features full DirectX 12 Ultimate logo readiness.

Powering the RTX 3060 is the new 8 nm “GA106” silicon, the smallest chip from the “Ampere” generation thus far. It comes with 3,584 “Ampere” CUDA cores, 112 3rd generation Tensor cores, 28 “Ampere” RT cores, 112 TMUs, and 48 ROPs. NVIDIA has doubled the memory amount over the previous-generation, to 12 GB. The memory bus width and memory type, are unchanged—192-bit GDDR6, although the memory clock has been increased slightly.

As mentioned earlier, the Zotac RTX 3060 AMP White Edition is the company’s most premium RTX 3060 offering, with an elaborate aluminium fin-stack heatsink, two fans of different sizes, a groovy all-white cooler shroud, and factory-overclocked speeds of 1867 MHz, compared to 1770 MHz reference. Zotac hasn’t provided any pricing info, we’re expecting the card will end up in roughly in the middle of the RTX 3060 price range.

GeForce RTX 3060 Market Segment Analysis
	Price	Shader Units	ROPs	Core Clock	Boost Clock	Memory Clock	GPU	Transistors	Memory
GTX 1060 3 GB	$160	1152	48	1506 MHz	1708 MHz	2002 MHz	GP106	4400M	3 GB, GDDR5, 192-bit
GTX 1060	$210	1280	48	1506 MHz	1708 MHz	2002 MHz	GP106	4400M	6 GB, GDDR5, 192-bit
GTX 1660	$200	1408	48	1530 MHz	1785 MHz	2000 MHz	TU116	6600M	6 GB, GDDR5, 192-bit
GTX 1660 Ti	$270	1536	48	1500 MHz	1770 MHz	1500 MHz	TU116	6600M	6 GB, GDDR6, 192-bit
RTX 2060	$300	1920	48	1365 MHz	1680 MHz	1750 MHz	TU106	10800M	6 GB, GDDR6, 192-bit
RX 5700	$330	2304	64	1465 MHz	1625 MHz	1750 MHz	Navi 10	10300M	8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
GTX 1080	$330	2560	64	1607 MHz	1733 MHz	1251 MHz	GP104	7200M	8 GB, GDDR5X, 256-bit
RTX 2060 Super	$380	2176	64	1470 MHz	1650 MHz	1750 MHz	TU106	10800M	8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RX Vega 64	$400	4096	64	1247 MHz	1546 MHz	953 MHz	Vega 10	12500M	8 GB, HBM2, 2048-bit
GTX 1080 Ti	$650	3584	88	1481 MHz	1582 MHz	1376 MHz	GP102	12000M	11 GB, GDDR5X, 352-bit
RX 5700 XT	$370	2560	64	1605 MHz	1755 MHz	1750 MHz	Navi 10	10300M	8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 2070	$340	2304	64	1410 MHz	1620 MHz	1750 MHz	TU106	10800M	8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3060	MSRP: $330 Estimate: $420	3584	48	1320 MHz	1777 MHz	1875 MHz	GA106	13250M	12 GB, GDDR6, 192-bit
Zotac RTX 3060 AMP White	Estimate: $440	3584	48	1320 MHz	1867 MHz	1875 MHz	GA106	13250M	12 GB, GDDR6, 192-bit
RTX 2070 Super	$450	2560	64	1605 MHz	1770 MHz	1750 MHz	TU104	13600M	8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
Radeon VII	$680	3840	64	1802 MHz	N/A	1000 MHz	Vega 20	13230M	16 GB, HBM2, 4096-bit
RTX 2080	$600	2944	64	1515 MHz	1710 MHz	1750 MHz	TU104	13600M	8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 2080 Super	$690	3072	64	1650 MHz	1815 MHz	1940 MHz	TU104	13600M	8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3060 Ti	$700	4864	80	1410 MHz	1665 MHz	1750 MHz	GA104	17400M	8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 2080 Ti	$1000	4352	88	1350 MHz	1545 MHz	1750 MHz	TU102	18600M	11 GB, GDDR6, 352-bit
RTX 3070	$750	5888	96	1500 MHz	1725 MHz	1750 MHz	GA104	17400M	8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RX 6800	$850	3840	96	1815 MHz	2105 MHz	2000 MHz	Navi 21	26800M	16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RX 6800 XT	$1200	4608	128	2015 MHz	2250 MHz	2000 MHz	Navi 21	26800M	16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3080	$1000	8704	96	1440 MHz	1710 MHz	1188 MHz	GA102	28000M	10 GB, GDDR6X, 320-bit

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