The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 is the ultimate GeForce graphics card. It is aimed at gamers, content creators, and designers who want to get the best possible graphics and performance from their computers, as it supports HDR image and recording with resolutions up to 8K, 4 times more pixels than 4K resolution and 16 times more than Full HD resolution.
It brings a huge leap in performance, efficiency, and AI-driven graphics. Experience gaming with ultra-high performance, incredibly detailed virtual worlds, unprecedented productivity, and new ways of creating. It is powered by the Nvidia Ampere architecture and comes with 12 GB of GDDR6 memory to deliver the ultimate experience for gamers and creators.
Ampere Architecture
The GeForce® RTX 3060 is based on NVIDIA®'s advanced "Ampere" architecture and incorporates 3,584 CUDA Cores, 112 Tensor Cores, and 28 RT Cores, complemented by 12GB of GDDR6 memory (192-bit memory interface).
The graphics card is ideal for endless hours of entertainment and fun. Play the latest game titles at 1440p resolutions with high-quality graphics and comfortably run content creation applications.
Ray Tracing
The ray tracing technology simulates the way light behaves in the real world to produce the most realistic and immersive graphics for gamers and creators. The GeForce RTX 30 series features 2nd generation RT cores for maximum performance.
The exclusive 2nd generation RT (ray-tracing) cores offer double the real-time ray-tracing performance and utilize AI technologies such as DLSS 2.0 to further enhance the gaming experience.
Nvidia DLSS 2.0
DLSS 2.0 operates on Nvidia RTX cards and uses a new AI model and machine learning to upscale game resolution. According to Nvidia, the new AI model in DLSS 2.0 is twice as fast as the one in the previous version.
Nvidia Broadcast
Your AI-powered home studio
The NVIDIA Broadcast application transforms any room into a home studio, taking your live streams, voice chats, and video calls to the next level with powerful AI effects such as noise removal and room sound, virtual background, and much more.
Nvidia Ansel
Nvidia Ansel is a powerful program that allows you to take professional-level photos from your games.
Now, you can share your most brilliant gaming experiences with super-resolution, 360-degree, and HDR photos.
Nvidia Reflex
Nvidia Reflex offers the ultimate competitive advantage. The lowest latency. The best responsiveness. Supported by the GeForce RTX 30 series and Nvidia G-SYNC gaming monitors.
Acquire targets faster, react quicker, and increase aiming precision through a revolutionary suite of technologies for measuring and optimizing system latency for competitive games.
Game Ready Drivers
GeForce Game Ready drivers provide the best possible experience for your favorite games. They are finely tuned in collaboration with developers and have been extensively tested on thousands of hardware configurations for maximum performance and reliability.
Nvidia Studio
Creativity with AI
Take your creative projects to the next level with Nvidia Studio. With new dedicated hardware, the RTX 30 series unlocks unparalleled performance in 3D rendering, video editing, and graphic design. Enjoy feature-rich RTX accelerations in top creative applications, world-class Nvidia Studio drivers designed to provide maximum stability, and a suite of exclusive tools that harness the power of RTX for AI-supported creative workflows.
Nvidia Encoder
Steal the show with incredible graphics and smooth high-quality live streaming without any stuttering. GeForce RTX GPUs feature advanced streaming capabilities thanks to the NVIDIA Encoder (NVENC), which is designed to deliver stunning performance and image quality. Additionally, exclusive optimizations in your favorite live streaming apps give your audience the best version of you, every time.
Nvidia Omniverse
Connect your creative worlds with a universe of possibilities
The Nvidia Omniverse functions as a hub for connecting the existing 3D workflow, replacing linear pipelines with live synchronization creation, allowing you to create like never before and at speeds you have never experienced.
GeForce Experience
Capture and share videos, screenshots, and live streams with your friends. Keep your drivers up to date and optimize your game settings. GeForce Experience allows you to do all that. It is the essential companion to your GeForce graphics card.
Nvidia G-SYNC
This technology synchronizes the computer's screen refresh rate with the game's frame rate, thereby eliminating tearing, stuttering, and other issues related to unsynchronized graphics performance.
To use G-Sync, a compatible monitor that supports the technology is required.
Virtual Reality
Virtual reality offers some of the most immersive experiences in PC gaming. But getting VR right is tough. With true screen resolutions at 4K and rising, minimum refresh rates of 90 Hz, and high latency tolerances, virtual reality is one of the most demanding applications in the world.
NVIDIA's GeForce RTX GPUs give you the performance you need to power top titles on the latest VR units. Additionally, they feature technology to crank up the settings for truly impressive, immersive gameplay.
Resizable Bar
Nvidia's Resizable BAR is an advanced PCI Express feature that allows the CPU to access the entire GPU frame buffer simultaneously, improving performance in many games.
Ventus offers a performance-focused design that retains the essentials for completing any task. With a reliable dual-fan arrangement mounted in a rigid industrial design, this striking-looking graphics card fits into any build.
A clean backplate with a brushed finish enhances the length of the card.
The award-winning MSI TORX Fan 3.0 design keeps pushing the boundaries of thermal performance. The fan blades alternate between traditional blades and dispersion blades that focus and accelerate airflow to the heatsink.
50% more air pressure than a regular fan
15% more air pressure than the TORX 2.0 fan
Zero Frozr is the calm before the storm. The fans stop completely when temperatures are relatively low, eliminating any noise when active cooling is not needed. The fans will automatically start spinning again when the heat is up during gaming.
Thermal pads allow the various components of the board to transfer heat directly to the heatsink for better cooling.
Custom Board Design
Not all circuit boards are the same. A custom PCB design provides greater reliability and enhanced power circuitry to push the card to its limits.
MSI Center
The exclusive MSI Center software helps you get the most out of MSI products. Monitor, adjust, and optimize in real-time with just a few clicks.
MSI Afterburner
MSI Afterburner is the most recognized and widely used graphics card overclocking software in the world. Take full control of your graphics card while monitoring key system metrics in real-time.
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Effective graphics card, when playing on ultra it heats up tremendously and the coils scream like crazy. Additionally, it launches new titles from 2024-2025. Crap blender or adobe premiere pro card.
The card has relatively good performance and fps, but there is a problem with the fans that make an annoying noise after 75% fan speed, which gradually increases up to 90% and turns into a rattling noise from there up to 100%. There has always been an issue with the Ventus regarding the fans, and it continues to this day.
It was purchased in February 2024 for around 300 euros. The card performs quite well in FHD and everything on ultra settings. Overall, I am quite satisfied two months later
i got this graphics card in dec 2023 and ive been using it since then the fans are not loud the only spin to life when the graphics card needs to and even when playing graphic demaning games it wont make a noise and the msi afterburner app is very good with this
Although it has very good performance, the reason I gave it 3 stars is that for some reason after 2-3 months of use it made the PC incredibly laggy. It struggled to even boot into Windows 10. I formatted and reinstalled the new drivers 4-5 times, but nothing changed. I changed the hard drive, but the same issues persisted. I tried it on another PC and had the same problems. When I put back the 1660ti, everything worked fine, just like it did with a gigabyte 4060ti and two asus 3060 12gb. Maybe I was just unlucky, as its performance was very good while I was using it
I bought the 12GB due to video editing, but it has also been tested in gaming, especially with recording.
It's a fantastic card without raising temperatures.
Combined with the R7 5800x.
Although I'm a Gigabyte fan, I recommend it
Excellent. Completely silent, low temperatures, plays ultra Battlefield 2042, Path of Exile, Diablo 4 without any lag, and for the money it currently costs around 300 euros, it is definitely worth the purchase and more
Plays dirt rally 2.0 on ultra, need for speed heat on high, and gta v on very high graphics without any problem. The maximum temperature I saw was 65 degrees. I bought it for 280€ and it is definitely worth it!
EDIT: In the end, I was right. The card lasted until October 2024, just under 12 months. I had purchased it directly through Skroutz and they credited the entire original purchase amount back to my account.
Conclusion 1: This implementation from MSI is a failure.
Conclusion 2: Purchases only through Skroutz to keep our minds at ease.
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This particular card would only be worth its price if it cost 150 euros. Too much noise, strange temperatures, and terrible FPS lag in its overall performance, in demanding 3D games over 3 years old (e.g., Transport Fever 2)!!!
Tested on the following system:
Screen: SAMSUNG 55Q70C 55'' QLED 4K Smart TV
Cable: HDMI 2.1
Motherboard: MSI pro Z690-A
Processor: 12th Gen i5 12600k
SSD 1: Western Digital Black SN850X W/o Heatsink SSD 2TB M.2 NVMe PCI Express 4.0
SSD 2: Samsung 870 QVO 2TB
Power Supply: Corsair RM Series RM750 750W
Memory: 64GB Kingston KFS48c38 (4X16GB)
Operating System: Windows 10 pro 64
Guys, I've had it for about 6 months and in simple games like FIFA, it consistently raises high temperatures like 85 degrees! The RPM is constantly above 2000 and it makes excessive noise during gaming in general. I haven't been able to solve the problem yet, even today! If someone can help, please do. I've tried countless things like removing the front panel from my case, etc. PC Specs:
CPU: Intel Core i5 10400F
RAM: G.Skill 8GBx2 3200hz
MB: MSI H510M-A Pro
Case: Coolermaster Q300P
Excellent. Completely silent, low temperatures, plays on ultra whatever I tried and handles without any problem 3 screens (maybe even more, I haven't tried).
It was purchased about a month ago and replaced an MSI 1650 Gaming-x (4gb ddr5), whose cooling was a bit overkill. This time I chose this particular implementation of MSI as I noticed that MSI has closed the gap between the Ventus and Gaming-X implementations in terms of performance (see msi 1650&3060 Ventus vs Gaming-x), but it has also closed the gap in the cooling system of these cards (as correctly pointed out by user "SmyrNeoS"), so I chose not to go for the more expensive implementation. If for professional reasons I needed a more expensive and capable card, e.g. 4070, 3080 and above, only then would I avoid 2X and Ventus implementations.
This card is an entry-level card for machine learning (for beginners), 2K gaming with the current data (and of course for those interested in using the various AI apps that Nvidia has already developed).
The 12gb ddr6 vram it has can give it an advantage over cards with slightly higher power with 8gb vram in scenarios such as machine learning, photo/video editing (hi-res textures, complex effects, or multiple layers), video games that were released hastily with poor-moderate optimization (something that unfortunately seems to be becoming fashionable), etc., as the 8gb vram can in some cases cause lower performance, stuttering, or even crashes depending on the scenario.
The 16 lanes it has (PCI Express x16 4.0) affect its performance less (up to much less in some cases) compared to cards that use 8 lanes (PCI Express x8 4.0) in combination with motherboards and/or CPUs that support up to PCI-Express 3.0.
In terms of noise and temperatures, the card (based on the office use I often give it, room temperature of 25 °C, and the satisfactory airflow of my case) operates most of the time silently and its cooling is passive with its fans remaining off (similarly to the 1650 gaming-x, where the GPU connection to the motherboard entered the PCI Express x16 1.1 profile for energy saving and passive cooling). For example:
In typical office application usage, temperatures range from 37-44 °C.
In gaming mode (e.g. RDR2 ultra 1080p), temperatures range around 66 °C.
At the price of 280 euros it was purchased, it is a fairly balanced choice for upgrading a 3-year-old "AM4" system (R5 3600, B450 Tomahawk Max).
I have used this model on many computers. Many old users are skeptical about this MSI model. Of course, there is a reason for this. The older chipset models of MSI Ventus were very hot. The cooling of the Ventus was insufficient. However, the MSI Ventus from the 3000 series and the 4000 series do not have cooling problems.
Of course, every brand releases more than one graphics card model for each series. Ventus is the most basic graphics card model from MSI. Of course, the cooling structure of the MSI Gaming series and the Suprim X series is much better. But the cooling performance of the Ventus is now acceptable.
We live in Greece. Of course, Greece has a very hot climate. Especially during the summer period... If we want our PC to operate cool, it is always useful to use a Mesh panel PC Case.
Replaced a GTX 1050 in a system intended for photo editing. Lightroom and Photoshop, after multiple upgrades and AI feature additions, were not performing correctly. With the purchase and use of this specific card, everything is now functioning perfectly and quickly.
Upgrading from GTX 1060. It's needless to say that it's like night and day. I play some moderately demanding graphic games on Ultra settings at 2160p resolution. However, it should be noted that if someone buys it (this one or other similar ones), it is recommended to have the appropriate HDMI 2.1 cable for maximum performance.
I got it when it was at 460. Compared to the 650ti I had, the performance is day and night without question. Also, the temperatures are very low without even starting the fans. From there on, if someone finds it for 300, it's an excellent purchase that I don't think they will regret.
Replaced a 1060 Armor 3GB OCV1. I was aiming for the Ti version, but due to its high price, I had to settle. Of course, at the price of 522 euros that I "caught" it, I basically gave away my old one and got it for around 390 euros. Just as quiet as the Armor. I will mention the Metro Exodus Benchmark. Initially, at a resolution of 1920x1080 144Hz with g-sync, the 1060 averaged 42.03 frames per second on High settings, with a maximum of 70.91 and a minimum of 20.67, while the 3060 averages 78.17, with a maximum of 133.56 and a minimum of 36. The 1060 reached around 61 degrees Celsius during the test, while the 3060 reached around 69, and both cards were running at their factory settings. The difference between Pascal and Ampere is +88% in favor of the 3060, so for 390 euros, I would say I am satisfied. These results are based on a Ryzen 5 2600 with factory settings and 16GB of RAM clocked at 3.2 GHz, so I am definitely limiting it quite a bit. It will be seen how much it improves once I change the processor. Finally, the 12GB is expected since the Ti version literally cuts down the 3060, so it had to be somewhat competitive somewhere... Half the size of the 1060 but excellent performance. It has a very nice, discreet, and imposing design.
So, with an i5 12500 and running it at factory settings and the memory at the aforementioned timings, the difference was negligible, and sometimes the i5 would lose a few frames, usually 3 or 4...
Finally, I should mention that the card is housed inside a Corsair "veteran," the 760t. The case has two Corsair 140mm Magnetic Levitation fans as intake (front) and a Noctua NF-A15 as exhaust. As you can understand, the case you choose to put your other components in also plays a significant role. INVEST IN A QUALITY CASE THAT IS WELL-VENTILATED IN THE FRONT! Invest because everything becomes easier inside a large and well-ventilated "house"!
Good card, quiet, aesthetically pleasing, and with performance levels close to an RTX 2070. The 12GB of RAM are welcome, although I don't know where or when they will come in handy. Oh... it also has low temperatures, ranging from 60 to 65 degrees Celsius while gaming. So, for 1080p gaming, it meets today's needs with very satisfactory fps, 240+ fps in competitive settings, and 60+ fps in ultra settings in most games. The only negative I see is the price for now, but if you find it somewhere around 400 euros, then I consider it an excellent choice!