Galax has quietly introduced its first GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Plus graphics cards equipped with 8GB of GDDR6X memory. The boards feature higher memory bandwidth than regular GeForce RTX 3060 Ti boards and, therefore, offer somewhat higher performance than regular models in cases where memory bandwidth matters. In some situations, the Galax RTX 3060 Ti Plus could rival Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3070.
The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Plus is based on a GA103 or GA104 graphics processor with 4864 CUDA cores (just like the regular GeForce RTX 3060 Ti) that are mated with 8GB of 19 GT/s GDDR6X memory using a 256-bit interface (vs. 14 GT/s GDDR6 on regular models). As a result, the new graphics board can offer a peak memory bandwidth of 608 GB/s, which is 36% higher than standard GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 3070 cards.
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CUDA Cores
FP32 TFLOPS (Boost)
Memory
Memory Bandwidth
MSRP
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
4864
16,197
14GT/s 8GB GDDR6 256-bit
448 GB/s
$399
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Plus
4864
16,197
19GT/s 8GB GDDR6X 256-bit
608 GB/s
?
GeForce RTX 3070
5888
20,314
14GT/s 8GB GDDR6 256-bit
448 GB/s
$499
Performance numbers demonstrated by Galax and republished by VideoCardz show that the RTX 3060 Ti Plus can indeed be faster than the model RTX 3070 in certain cases, though these numbers need independent verification.
Meanwhile, since GDDR6X uses PAM4 encoding, this memory increases power consumption for both the GPU and memory. Furthermore, GDDR6X, which is exclusively available from Micron, tends to be more expensive than the regular GDDR6 that is sold by three major memory makers.
(Image credit: Galax)
Speaking of Galax's GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Plus graphics cards, the company has two models: the Galax GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Plus SG with a 1695 MHz boost clock and a triple-slot triple-fan cooler, as well as the Galax GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Plus with 1680 MHz boost clock and a dual-slot dual-fan cooler. In addition, both cards have one eight-pin auxiliary PCIe power connector and four display outputs (three DisplayPort 1.4 and one HDMI 2.1 connector).
(Image credit: Galax)
Given the somewhat odd configuration of the Galax RTX 3060 Ti Plus, it remains to be seen how much the graphics cards will eventually cost. In theory, the model RTX 3060 Ti Plus should sit between the regular RTX 3060 Ti ($399) and RTX 3070 ($499), but since the product will rival the latter, at least in some cases, its pricing will probably fall closer to Nvidia's reference GeForce RTX 3070.
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Anton Shilov is a contributing writer at Tom’s Hardware. Over the past couple of decades, he has covered everything from CPUs and GPUs to supercomputers and from modern process technologies and latest fab tools to high-tech industry trends.
Have these AIB GPU makers lost their minds? Why are xx60 and xx70 series card triple slot and triple fan designs? These are supposed to be low to mid range cards. FFS make them no more than 1.5 slot dual fan designs.
3060 Ti is actually a big chip being a 104 class. It has more CUDA cores than a 2080Ti. That the 3070 and 3070 Ti have even more is kind of crazy.
One of the reasons the 4080 12GB was so out of place. It is the same class of chip as the 3060-3070Ti. Whereas in the 20 series, mid-range through the 2070 was only a 106 class chip.
Three of them under $400 on Amazon right now just doing a quick search (probably more than 3 if I looked hard). If willing to wait deals pop up periodically. I got mine for $330 this past week.
