How Much Does It Cost?
The Gigabyte RTX 3060 Ti Gaming OC Graphics Card is priced at just £409.99, making it the most affordable of the three we’ve tested today. The MSI Trio X and the ASUS TUF are both priced at £449.99. Please keep in mind that this review goes live a day before the retail release of the cards. You can check for to date stock on Amazon here.
Overview
Gigabyte has built a very impressive card here, and it was able to beat out the ASUS TUF Gaming in most of the benchmarks by a small, but decent margin. It wasn’t quite as fast as the MSI card, but it’s really just all in the available boost clocks. Furthermore, given this is the most affordable card, you would expect it to be the slowest, but that really wasn’t the case.
Basically, the Gigabyte cooler is very good, but not quite as good as its rivals. It gets its performance by running the fans a little harder, and the noise levels topped 44.9 during testing, not loud, but still around 7dBA above the other two RTX 3060 Ti’s. It also consumed slightly more power. Of course, that’s all fine, it’s not a hot card, it’s not a noisy card, it’s not even a power-hungry card either, but we can see it performing better than the ASUS card in gaming tests, so that power is going somewhere!
The RTX 3060 Ti chipset really is a surprise, offering performance that took out the RTX 2080, and the RTX 2080 SUPER in many tests, and in a few, it was around the same performance as the RTX 2080 Ti! For the lowest card in the RTX 3000 range so far, that’s mighty impressive. Keep in mind, it’s beating cards that were double, even triple the price of this one. For 1080p and 1440p gaming, it’s a beast. You can even game at 4K in quite a few titles, but the most demanding ones may see you dropping a few settings to get nearer to 60 FPS.
Check out my review of the MSI RTX 3060 Ti Gaming X Trio Graphics Card here, and the ASUS RTX 3060 Ti TUF Gaming Graphics Card review here.
Should I Buy One?
While it may use a little more power and make a little more heat, the Gigabyte RTX 3060 Ti Gaming OC certainly takes that power and turns it into performance. It’s not only cheaper than its rivals, but it proves it can still go head to head with them in benchmarks, and even outperform them in many of them. A great card for those wanting the best value from their new graphics card!
