GPU · Ampere (RTX 30) · 2021

RTX 3060

The card that surprised everyone with 12 GB VRAM in a mid-range chip.

VRAM

12 GB GDDR6

Memory bus

192-bit

TBP

170 W

PCIe

Gen 4

Local AI

14B Q4 fits · ~40 tok/s on 8B

Verdict

Aged surprisingly well because of that VRAM. Cheap on the used market and still competent for 1080p. Local LLM/Stable Diffusion crowd loves it for the VRAM/price ratio.

Good for · Not for

▲ Good for

1080p high across the board
1440p at medium/high
Local AI experimentation (12 GB is precious)

▼ Not for

Ray tracing without heavy DLSS
New AAA at max at 1440p

Live benchmark data

Aggregated from 5 saved benchmark runs on Test Your Rig where the reported hardware matches RTX 3060.

Population

5runs

Average

98FPS

Best

165FPS

Weakest

60FPS

Measured compute

4.53TFLOPS · 6 runs

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