The RTX 3060 is one of Nvidia’s most popular cards. right now and now, the company on the green side has announced the arrival of an 8GB variant. Previously, the “standard” card was released in 2021 with 12 GB. Moreover, The RTX 3060 Ti also gets a new model With GDDR6X VRAM memory.
When the RTX 3060 was announced during CES 2021, a lot of questions were asked about why the GPU was launched with 12GB of memory as the model would have a weaker chip compared to the 8GB RTX 3060 Ti. The reason is in the memory bus, in this case is 192 bits and only supports 6 or 12 GB configurations. Selected for larger amount as 6GB might be insufficient.
With the 8 GB variant, the bus switches to 128 bit, which 30% less bandwidth impact. However, as there are no practical tests, it’s hard to know how much this affects performance in Full HD games. Performance will definitely suffer on Quad HD as it requires much more VRAM than video cards.
With the Ti model, the new version keeps the original 8GB but changes the memory type. Previously using the GDDR6 standard and now switching to GDDR6X Faster speeds up to 608GB/s, a 36% increase.
It is expected that the variants will go on retail rollout in October, but pricing information has yet to be announced.
Source: Tec Mundo
