Performance of RTX 3060Ti

[odd pendant]

I'm currently planning on upgrading the graphics card in my Dell G5 5090 (the desktop!!) to an RTX 3060. The reason for that is that I want to get into RTX, now that many games actually support it, mainly Fortnite at the moment. I'm gonna play on 1080p144 and I have a core i7-9700, so plenty of CPU horsepower. How much performance will an RTX 3060Ti get me if I crank the settings in Fortnite (just an example because I often play it)? Can I rely on YT videos that are saying it will get around 60FPS with everything, including ray tracing, maxed out? My current RTX 2060 only gets me like 25FPS on not even cranked RTX settings with DLSS at its highest and I'd like to not use DLSS anymore and get 60FPS or more raw and more than 60FPS with DLSS.
The other game that I want to upgrade my graphics card for is minecraft as my current shader+texture pack combo gets me into the mid- to lower single-digit FPS as soon as I get near more than 10 trees

[silver agate]

take a look at this: https://howmanyfps.com/graphics-cards/comparisons/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3060-mobile-vs-nvidia-geforce-rtx-2060-mobile

i don't know if the quality of testing is any good (site is new to me) so take it with a grain of salt.

[odd pendant]

And this is comparing the mobile version, but my PC is a desktop, if you couldn't tell. Dell killed the G5 1-2 years ago (luckily, it's too loud but I've gotten used to it), I can't find it anywhere on their site anymore, which is a good thing 🙂

[silver agate]

so dell g5 5090 is a prebuilt pc?

i thought because it was from dell it was a laptop and someone makes a g5 series i think

[odd pendant]

Yeah, it's a bit confusing, people get it confused as a laptop often. But the G5 desktop doesn't exist anymore, there's only alienware now for gaming desktops. And you can't upgrade the GPU in a laptop without changing the entire motherboard out at which point you might just get a completely new laptop

They do make laptops called G15 though if I remember correctly

[graceful topaz]

Tbh you should honestly move away from the prebuilt nightmare that is Dell before upgrading your GPU.

I mean new case and motherboard

But go ahead and get a 3060 if you want.

If possible it would be much better to get a 3060ti instead of a 3060

[odd pendant]

Is the 3060Ti that much better than a "regular" 3060?

[graceful topaz]

obviously it's better performance

3060ti and 3070 are solid cards that are widely available at the moment

[odd pendant]

Nah, that would be kinda expensive and I got used to the fan being loud and I'm mostly wearing headphones and never really hear them. I decided to just live with it but when it's time to upgrade, I'll build one myself but for now I'll stick a 3060 in which is what my 475W PSU will just so be able to handle. What power consumption is the 3060Ti rated for? 170W like the 3060 non-Ti?

The thing is that the cheapest 3060Ti at digitec.ch is 400.- and it's one that won't fit into my case at all because it's quite a long triple fan card. The dual fan cards that would fit are 450. There is a 3060 for 326 from zotac

My case only has like ~27cm of graphics card clearance as it is only 30cm long and the G5-specific 2060 is around 20-21cm long

[latent magnet]

you can probably fit a 3060 or a founders 3070

[odd pendant]

But do these come with an adapter for their 12 pin? And I also only have one 8 pin PCIe power cable and one 6-pin available and around a 200W power budget. My CPU can draw up to 110W in NFS heat and I have my whole steam library on a HDD. I see that the 3070 draws up to 220 watts, I don't know if that poor 475W PSU will catch fire if I get a 220W 3070... Because with 110W of CPU power and 220W of GPU power, we are already up to 330W. Then there's my HDD at probably 7.5-10W or so, my 6W fan, the front blue light bar at 5W or so and we're close to 350W. I'll go for a 3060 for now as these are cheaper, around 320 swiss francs (352$). The cheapest 3070 I can find is 620 fr, so almost double the 3060

[latent magnet]

They should come

yes

You can undervolt your CPU also

and from my experience

the 3070 wont draw constant 220

around 190 200 in heavy heavy games

you can also undervolt that, i can teach you

[onyx knoll]

Look at Gigabyte 3060's the Aurous Elite is 8 + 6pin while the Eagle is just 8pin with 170w TDP but the power consumption is basically the same for most 3060's.

The 2070 Super is also an option, especially used, same 8+6pin with a max of 215w TDP which you could probably limit with Afterburner.

Also if Dell has a proprietary PSU so you can't upgrade to a 600w+ model, there is always the option of getting a second lower wattage PSU just for the GPU that you hide.

[odd pendant]

That gigabyte model isn't showing up in my shop, at least not under the cards under 450$. What is the performance of a 2070 super compared to a 3060?

[onyx knoll]

Here's a good head to head.
Honestly my goal is to hopefully be able to OC my 3060 to come close to matching the 2070S.
https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-RTX-3060-vs-Nvidia-RTX-2070S-Super/4105vs4048

[latent magnet]

He should undervolt it

[odd pendant]

I think I'll still go with the 3060 from Zotac, as it's the cheapest. Then I can also turn down the fan on the case as I think there won't be as much airflow as I currently have with that dell 2060

[odd pendant]

And it will have sufficient performance for me. If I'm careful with my settings, I can probably get 60FPS with RTX on and I can saturate my 144Hz monitor in NFS heat as I'm currently "only" getting around 90-100FPS on average. But that may very well be CPU limited, but I'll see about that when I have it installed

[odd pendant]

How long will they still be available for? Because apparently they aren't producing 30 series anymore and are fully focusing on 40 series

[silver agate]

probably will be available for a while because they produced way too many after the pandemic and had tons of stock

[odd pendant]

Oh cool. Digitec is saying that they have 7 stocked at the supplier, so there are still a few out there

[grim jolt]

Listen if your tryna play Fortnite with RTX the 3060 won’t cut it

[odd pendant]

Well the 2060 doesn't cut it either and any improvement is better because my current 2060 can do 15FPS raw and like 25 with DLSS

So even 45-50 will do for me, I guess I'll look around what there is available at my length restriciton of ~28cm

[latent magnet]

True

[odd pendant]

A friend of mine has a 3070, I'll ask him how Fortnite runs on max settings (including ray tracing) How much less does a 3060 perform compared to a 3070?

[odd pendant]

https://youtu.be/wvizvFVFn2Q at around 10:30 they(the author of this vid, not my friend) set everything to max( dlss too) and get 60FPS (with a 3060)

That's satisfactory for me as I won't be having RTX on all the time so that it remains somewhat special

@latent magnet weren't you "SIV" once who helped me with getting things ready for repasting my laptop?

[latent magnet]

yeah i was

[odd pendant]

I have now looked at quite a few videos. Lookes like the 3070 can do around 50FPS raw and the 3060 can do 60-70 with DLSS. Judging by the fact that I don't want RTX on all the time as it won't be anything special anymore after a while, I think 60FPS is enough. And I can turn down some other settings to get more FPS

[latent magnet]

What resolution was this

[odd pendant]

1080p, that's my target resolution

[latent magnet]

I can try with my 3070Ti at any resolution up to 4k if you tell me the settings to run at

And expect like a few less with a normal 3070

Just in case you want results from another source

[odd pendant]

And like 3/4 of that for a 3060?

Actually does Fortnite still have to be restarted when changing RTX settings? Could you please test at 1080p, everything cranked, oce with DLSS on and once with it off?

[latent magnet]

I think

[latent magnet]

Last time I tried RTX, I was getting around 100-120FPS in the lobby with a cap

At 1080

I’ll boot it up in a few and try in creative

[odd pendant]

I'll test my 2060 on friday just to see what I'm upgrading from bit I have seen in an old recording of mine around 30FPS avg but I don't know the settings I used

[odd pendant]

Thanks 🙂

To get around the performance of a 3060, what would I have to multiply your FPS with? Like 0.75? @latent magnet I wanna know what the lowest possible performance is that I can get as I can always turn some settings down because with some settings at high vs epic, I can't really tell a difference unless I were to compare them side-by-side

[latent magnet]

Um

I think there is like

A lot of difference

Like the 3060 is 0.5 the performance

I’ll try it right now I’m in game

I’ll max everything and go into D12

[odd pendant]

That big of a difference? Well it's also like 2x the price atm so Idk, price to performance ratio is around the same. There is a used 3070 for 500$, but I don't know if it will fit in my casey it's short enough, bit I don't know how wide it is. Because it can't really exxeed the PCIE bracket length, otherwise it will not fit

It's a rather big one, the 3 Fan Asus strix card

Gtg eat dinner. Thanks for benchmarking for me

[latent magnet]

The lowest I saw a 3060 when I went to buy it was 350 I think, I payed 500 for my one

Pound*

The Founders is pretty small

For the normal 3070

Also the performance between the Ti and non Ti is like

10 fps

If you OC it will be a bigger different though

[latent magnet]

They are BIG

Ok 100FPS in the lobby

105 ish

[errant bluff]

used to have a 3070, all settings were on epic exept for shadows which were off and no rtx, ran at 240. r9 5900x for cpu btw. rtx support is really bad in fortnite, you will get high fps but it will stuter alot making it unplayable. even now on my 4080 it stutters like crazy, unless you play on 60 fps capped with rtx on your not going to have a fun time.

[latent magnet]

I just won a game on solo

Some stutters but it does like

50-60 fps

Sometimes 45

All cranked up

[errant bluff]

any other rtx capable games handles rtx just fine

[latent magnet]

For sure

[errant bluff]

yeah thats about what i was getting on the 3070

[latent magnet]

When it gets intense it’s like 45 ish to 55

[errant bluff]

yeah its poorly optimized

[latent magnet]

Yeah if a 3060 gets the same fps it probably is

It wasn’t getting full utilisation either

Like 90%

CPU at 10-15 %

[odd pendant]

Okay, well that's much better than the almost 35 FPS I get with my 2060 with DLSS on performance lol. And I even used to play at 1600x900 when I was playing on my laptop (has a 1660Ti) and ot didn't bother me at all but I got like 110-120FPS instead of 80-90. So what if you play at 1600x900? Should be able to set that within FN itself

I think if I turn down the resolution and reduce some other settings, I think I shoild be able to get like 60FPS even out of a 3060

[odd pendant]

GG dude btw, I'm still dreaming of getting this with decent enemies, not like the starter enemies that are really easy to kill

[errant bluff]

you want raytracing because its fancy graphics but then want to turn down the resolution scale to get pixelated graphics, i dont get it

just dont use ray tracing and keep the high quality

[odd pendant]

I couldn't really notice a difference when I was playing at 1600x900 compared to 1080p but it gave me a big performance increase

[errant bluff]

well yeah your turning down the quality, less pixels to render

[odd pendant]

I'm not gonna turn the texture resolution of fortnite, that gets pixely very quickly. I meant the whole game itself

[odd pendant]

Yeah. But I don't think that this would make me unable to see the features of RTX

[errant bluff]

it wont

[odd pendant]

then why did you say that I wouldn't see the features of RTX? ||Not tryna be rude||

Also I'm watching the LTT review of the 3060 and the 3060Ti seems to be quite a bit faster than the normal 3060, but for me, it's also like 200$ more expensive, so less FPS/$

[errant bluff]

you will see it, at a low resolution. i just dont understand why you want rtx so much at a low resolution it just ruins it. you can go for it but i dont understand why you want that

[odd pendant]

Because I don't want to spend 600$ on something like a 3070. Also that one 3070 I just looked at requires two 8-pin plugs while my PSU only has one 8-pin and a 6-pin and it's only 475W. I'm now not sure anymore what to get, if at all

[errant bluff]

the majority use the 12 pin plug that comes with an adaper that becomes two 8 pins, if you get a 3070 id go for a 650w

[odd pendant]

Well my PC is a dell G5 which has a custom form factor PSU and I don't want to add another external PSU. I think I'm just gonna go for the 3060 as it will be faster than the 2060 and it's pretty cheap rn and I honestly don't mind "only" getting 60FPS with DLSS because, as I said, I won't have RTX on all the time. And I can also turn down the settings as far as I can't tell a difference unless I compare the settings side by side

[onyx knoll]

Is it one of these SFX types, or one of the long bois?
https://www.coolermaster.com/catalog/power-supplies/v-series/v850-sfx-gold/

[odd pendant]

it's the long, thin boy, it's also dells version of 12VO

[odd pendant]

I just texted with @latent magnet in dms and I came to the following conclusion: clean and re-paste my 2060, sell that for around 220$ or so, get a 3060Ti as that performs much better than the normal 3060, game on and be happy. Then I won't have to deal with power as it only needs a single 8-pin

[onyx knoll]

Sounds good, couldn't find any PSU upgrades, at least that I'd trust. Seems like next upgrade is case, PSU, for sure, probably a CPU/Mobo bundle, no idea if their board will work with a "normal" PSU.

[odd pendant]

Next upgrade is the whole PC for me. Gonna build the next one myself once the G5 has reached the end of its life

[odd pendant]

I just tested the performance of my 2060, for some reason in fortnite, it's not even consuming its full 160W anymore like it used to. But at least it overclocks to +165 on the core and more than 420 on the memory. Edit: It actually didn't use the full 160W before either, it fluctuated from anywhere between 75 and 95% power

[raw ember]

I own RTX and on FullHD full settings I go around 60 and above for sure, it wants to go above usually lol

[raw ember]

xDDDD

[raw ember]

I do own Palit 3060 which is the most cheapest dual fan I could afford. My case isnt any specially cooled... I play on FullHD with all settings on and temperature doesnt go above 64 celsius... so about temps and shit you can be happy

having way worse cpu than you have btw

[odd pendant]

I'm now confident that an upgrade will improve my performance, I can squeeze 30FPS with RTX out of my 2060

[raw ember]

well... i do own i5 7600K cpu and newly rtx3060 Palit, I played some games and all were smooth... of course i tried full settings, im crazy haha

[odd pendant]

Apparently +575 on the memory is the max, my game is just black and unclosable. Breh. It's also on top, so thai I can't undo the OC because afterburner is on the same screen as my game. Do I have to restart my PC? I deactivated the automatic profile applying on boot, so it should be fine

[raw ember]

Yeah restarting might help

What you're up to tho? Burning your pc?

[odd pendant]

No, was just testing my card to see its limits, and it's apparently +180 on the core, game crashed pretty quickly after setting it, and +575 on the memory, where the game just blackened out and was on top of everything else. Also some dell shit crashed in the background again, forcing me to hold the power button as neither a shutdown via pressing the button worked, nor did restarting it through the start menu work, nor did it work through the command line (that wasn't linked to the graphics crash, I get that every now and then)

[raw ember]

Hmmm... Well pushing limits on such builds is kinda risky... It's not meant for these kind of things

[odd pendant]

I wasn't gonna have that OC 24/7, I usually just had the core at +165 and the memory at +200 but I'm now running it at +400. I'm planning to sell it anyway for a 3060Ti, because I want to have ray tracing with more than just 25 fps

[raw ember]

You play Fortnite right?
I'll test 3060 for you at Monday if you want

[warped onyx]

TBH You'd see a better boost upgrading to a 9900K. It will give you higher clock speeds AND it will give you hyperthreading.

[odd pendant]

According to task manager, ny CPU was at 100% all the time on all cores. But According to MSI Afterburner, it averaged like 50-60% with around 60W on average. Will my poor 6-phase naked VRMs even be able to handle a 9900K? Because these VRMs are already at 90°C while the CPU is drawing its 60W in-game with warm GPU air in the case

Because at that point I could also just throw away my entire PC and get something completely newy because 9900Ks probably aren't cheap

The first listing on tutti.ch (basically a swiss ebay) fir a 9900k is 300 francs or around 290$. And in addition to that, my shadow rock LP (cooler) is only rated for 130W and while gaming when the CPU is pulling 70W, it's already at 70-75°C, idk if I could even cool a 9900K

[odd pendant]

But I don't really care about the non-RT performance. That will probably be limited by my 9700. But the RT performance will surely improve with a 3060Ti compared to my 2060

[raw ember]

70-75° is alright tho

Don't forget that airflow does a lot too

[warped onyx]

If you get a good down-draft cooler those VRMs will be fine. You don't need to overclock the 9900K, you just need the extra cores and clocks.

Though for that money, you could probably score a cheap 11th-gen Intel upgrade. I did mine from a X299+7820X to Z590+11700K for about $350

New parts

Or you could get the 9900K and THIS abomination. https://www.newegg.com/intel-bxts15a/p/N82E16835203026

The ShadowRock TF2 will do nicely as well. 😉

[odd pendant]

Well remember I have a dell G5 without upgradability, so that won't be possible without throwing it away and getting something completely new

[odd pendant]

Oh yeah the roidie!! I don't think that will cool a 9900K

[odd pendant]

I already have a downdraft cooler, the beQuiet shadowRock LP is a downdraft cooler and even with that fan at 100%, I still get 90°C on the VRMs while gaming. As I said, I don't care if I'm bottlenecked by my CPU in non-RTX performance, I just want more RTX performance

[silver agate]

I can get my 2060's vram up to +900 I think, and it was still stable enough to mine on for over a day only got core to about +200 tho but for the mining it was running the largest underclock I could get so maybe that's why the memory went so high

[latent magnet]

Those are some good numbers, when I had my 2060 I was able to push the memory to 1150+ with full stability, and core around 120 due to strict power limits.

[raw ember]

Each of the card behaves different at least that's what ppl say

[silver agate]

Yeah I think the max I got to was also about 1200 but the stability wasn't perfect and it got too hot for me to be comfortable running it like that 24/7

[odd pendant]

Could you maybe do that today please? Then I can just multiply your results by like 1.2-1.25 and I'd get the performance of the 3060Ti. Could you also test what "virtual shadows" does to your framerate? Because if I turn that on with my 2060, even without having RTX on, my FPS drops down to close to the single-digits for some reason. Please test at 1080p, as this is the resolution of my monitors. I really appreciate all you guys' help!

[raw ember]

Alright, sure thing! But I can test it like in 3 hours or so if you don't mind?
I'll test that on FullHD, can't play anything else XD.

I'll try to set the settings as you say.

What games I shall try? And any other stuff you want me to try?

[odd pendant]

I have lots of time, do it whenever you have spare time. My most-played games rn are: NFS Heat, Fortnite, Raft and Minecraft. NFS Heat I just play at max details, (I'm gonna run into a CPU bottleneck there I think if I get the 3060Ti but I don't mind) Minecraft I usually play with Sodium and iris shaders on Fabric loader with the SEUS PTGI-E12 shader, and Fortnite I play at epic settings except for virtual shadows off because these destroy my performance. Could you enable them too to see how much performance you lose with that setting all the way on? (and generally with everything on epic). I don't really care about the non-RT performance in Fortnite as it's already satisfactory for me, it's just nice that I can get closer to 144FPS for my 144Hz screen with a better GPU

But Raft is just gonna run into the 144FPS limit with the 3060Ti, so you don't have to test that. I'm already getting more than 100FPS, sometimes close to 120FPS, so no need to test Raft. The main thing I wanna know is RT performance in Fortnite and if you have it, Minecraft ( I use 1.19.2 fabric loader with Sodium and Iris shaders as previously mentioned. I also use the miejojo 512x texture pack as I really like that. But in combo with that shader, I get single-digit FPS as soon as there are more than 5-10 trees visible. I also like the stratum 128x texture pack)

[odd pendant]

Performance of RTX 3060Ti

[raw ember]

That's a lotta packs in Minecraft

[odd pendant]

Yeah, I like to push my GPU to its limit lol. That TP+Shader combo looks sooo nice, but it kills my FPS, so anything will be an improvement over my current 2060 xD

[raw ember]

XD well I do that too if the gpu is capable of it... My gtx970 is still alive tho, no serving under mom's command

[unique oak]

Don‘t use userbenchmark for anything else than laughing at its biased stupidity.

Also. That 3060Ti would overheat like hell most likely in that case. You might have to leave the side panel open or create speed holes

[raw ember]

What's better site?

[unique oak]

3dmark.com

You know, userbenchmark has such a ridiculous grading system where a 6700XT is worse than a 1080Ti or something stupid like that. Also take a look at their review on the 7900XTX. This is like actually insane

[odd pendant]

I just saw a pretty good video, it was also released pretty recently, of someone testing Fortnite on the new UE5.1 with all epic settings on the founders 3060Ti and he got close to 60FPS with everything cranked to the maximum. This is a LOT better than my 2060 that only barely manages 30FPS with DLSS on performance, which just makes the leaves of trees a nightmare to look at

[odd pendant]

And the more I use my laptop, the more I want to exchange its battery. I've now had Adobe inDesign open for 20 min or so and it went down from 80% to just 47% (Edit: Just saw that it's actually using my 1660Ti and not my integraged GPU, that might be the reason why lol). But that battery, if charged to 80%, has like 39WH left. at 100% it's close to 50Wh, even though it's physically a 66Wh battery lol. I want way too much tech stuff at the moment. I was also planning to upgrade that laptop to 32GB of RAM since I also do programming on it, but that would cost another 100 bucks, that's also what a new battery would cost. And then I want a 3060Ti for my desktop

[raw ember]

How do I install your stuff for Minecraft?
Fortnight takes ages to download xD

[odd pendant]

For Minecraft fabric, go to fabricmc.net and get the fabric loader. Then you can execute it and select the version to install. At the end you'll be prompted to download the fabric loader, you can click on the link ant it gets you to curseforge. Download the same version that you installed your Fabric profile. While you're at curseforge, you can also install the two mods under "mods". Then once you've downloaded everything, cut it from your downloads folder and paste it into C:/Users/<yourusername>/AppData/Roaming/.minecraft/mods. Then all you have to do is to start up the already created minecraft profile and you're in-game. For the shaders, I'll just provide a link to them. Put the .zip file itself into .minecraft/shaderpacks. (do note that the mods folder and shaderpacks folder will only appear if you've started the game once, so you have to first start the game, let it start and then you can close it again and paste the mods) It seems complicated but it'll only take like 5 minutes

[raw ember]

XD I'm pretty lost tbh

How do I get those shaders?

[odd pendant]

forgot to send the link sorry

[raw ember]

I think I found it

But that it'll take 5 minutes is pretty big lie xD

[odd pendant]

What did you find?

[raw ember]

Iris

If it won't work imma hunt you down

[odd pendant]

Okay, for someone that's nevern done something like that before, it will take longer

[raw ember]

I did with forge
But you forgot times of downloading and stuff

[odd pendant]

I'll send the shader and texture pack in a bit, that 512x one is 141Mb lol

[odd pendant]

For me it downloads really fast, do you not have as good internet as me then?

[raw ember]

No lmao, here's internet is garbage

[raw ember]

Xd geez

[odd pendant]

I have 250Mbit/s down and 25Mbit/s up. I'd kinda like to have faster upload but I'm fine rn with "just" 25Mbit/s

[raw ember]

100/100 is mine but stuff aren't working good anymore

I can test Fortnite at least

[odd pendant]

Okay. Here's the link to the shader and texture pack (made it expire in 2 days for security reasons): both texture pack and shader have to be left as .zip

[raw ember]

Lmao, I'll have to kill Minecraft

[odd pendant]

Or let it generate/load the world (unless it's frozen)

[raw ember]

I did

Looool the hell I'm doing

[odd pendant]

Okay. Also wow that's not a lot of power that your CPU's using. My 9700 reaches close to 100W while loading Fortnite and gets up to around 120-125W while loading Minecraft

[raw ember]

It's i5-7600K, it can't draw much power lol

Stable 60FPS Minecraft and Fortnite 120 running both lol

[odd pendant]

You could make it draw more. I always have XTU running and I usually just set my power limit to something ridiculous that my CPU will never pull in real life like 150W, because the most I see it go to is 125W and that's while loading Minecraft

Nice, so 180FPS in total lol

[raw ember]

Why would I make it draw more? I have no need in killing my cpu lol

Okay I did set all at maximum what I could find

[odd pendant]

I don't know, I just like to give my CPU getting all the power it wants to, also because my cooler can handle it. It's rated for 130W but it can actually do around 160W in prime95, the 6-phase naked VRMs are my bottleneck there lol. But in-game they aren't limiting me

[raw ember]

Yk it shoeten it's life right?

It's alright with the card

[odd pendant]

Nah, just allowing it more power won't shorten its life. It will, but only by like a week or so at worst. The amount of lifespan that you lose when OC'ing is so minimal compared to how long they last and how quickly you upgrade it to a better, more recent one

[odd pendant]

200FPS seems too much for ray Tracing, what are your settings at? Are you running Fortnite on the newest verion? ||I'm guessing you do because you literally can't play without first updating if there's one||

[raw ember]

I did put on all I could

DLLS is on, all shit on and at epic ¯_(ツ)_/¯

This was some creative game, I'll try normal gameplay, loading so long

[odd pendant]

In that video I watched, the creator got around 50FPS with everything, including ray tracing, cranked. He was using a 3060Ti.

Ah creative. I got like 1.5x the performance in creative compared to battle royale too. I could get close to 160FPS with everything (except ray tracing) cranked on my 2060 while in battle royale I averaged around 100-110FPS

But thanks for testing! I'll have to see when I can buy it

[raw ember]

You're welcome

I haven't done much but, at least you know something

[odd pendant]

not much yet* ||xD||

[raw ember]

Well Fortnite doesn't want to load into battle royal game so I'll uninstall it probably xdd

Ohhh

Finally

Getting 100 fps and above

[odd pendant]

Oof, that's a lot. Do you have DLSS cranked too? Then that might be why you're getting 100FPS, even with "just" a 3060 at max ray tracing settings

It's pretty late for me, gonna go to bed now. I'll look at your further replies tomorrow

[raw ember]

I said yes

[odd pendant]

Ah okay. What happens to your FPS if you don't have it enabled?

That's the last thing I'll ask for Fortnite

[raw ember]

Alright I found out that I actually did not put it on even I tried put on every bullshit, and yeah it's above 50

It's better to keep it off bcs it's bruh with having it on

But using ray tracing is bullshit anyway, the quality won't change

[odd pendant]

I did notice differences, I like ray tracing

[odd pendant]

It really does for me, it doesn't change the whole experience, it's just like the chocolate coating on a chocolate cake. The chocolate cake itself is already good but the chocolate coating makes it even better. With Fortnite and ray tracing, I can see the whole room light up if I shoot rindoors for example and just the visual experience is just that little bit better with ray tracing, that's why I'd like to have it

[raw ember]

Well I tried and saw literally none. Idk if it's just my monitor or simply with newer gpu better overall experience

[odd pendant]

For me it does make a difference, but thanks for testing! Will you do Minecraft too or is this too much of a hassle for you? In which case you can also say no, I'll just test myself once I get the card

[raw ember]

Actually yeah, I have better stuff to do xD, sorry

Men wants so much of something that doesn't matter...

[odd pendant]

Yeah, was probably not necessary to have you test it when I can just test it myself. But thanks for testing Fortnite! I'll definetely get a 3060Ti and sell my 2060

[raw ember]

Like yeah 3060Ti is better performance than 3060

For me it's luckily enough and enough into future

[odd pendant]

For me, the 3060Ti will also be enough for the future, for at least another 3 years, if not more

[odd pendant]

Update: I'll buy it very soon and install it over the holidays that are starting in the week after the coming one!

[odd pendant]

Another update: turns out that the GPU I had in mind likely won't fit into my case because it's 14cm wide, my case is just over 15cm wide, I'll have to measure that when I'm back home

[raw ember]

Good luck, there's many available anyway

[odd pendant]

But not many that will fit my case... and they're all pretty close to 480$ or 500francs

[raw ember]

Well you can always get bigger case if anything...

[odd pendant]

remember, I have a dell G5, I can't swap the case without also getting a new MoBo

[raw ember]

Uninstall isn't possible? I was able to get mobo from my Lenovo pc...

[odd pendant]

It's possible to uninstall it, bit it's 1: apparently a pain in the butt to get out and 2: a custom form factor that I don't know any case that fits it. Also the front IO: it's a part of the motherboard

[odd pendant]

I also just noticed that the TDP of a 3060Ti is 200W compared to the non-Ti's 170W. Will my 475W PSU be able to power my whole PC? I'll take a look at it again when I'm home, but there's only a 12V rail as it's Dell's own 12VO "standard ||I guess||"

If it can power it, which I think it will be as there are more than 50W of headroom over my current config, it should be fine. MY CPU draws up to 100W and my GPU up to 160W in games. Then there's the front light with probably 5W, my spinning HDD with an additionnal 7.5W (about right?), and my SSD with another 4W max. Then my fans are 8W combined. All that would add up to 284W. With a 3060Ti that would be 324W, with inefficiencies let's say 335W. That should be fine, right?

[silver agate]

inefficiency is at least 10% i would think so you would go to about 360 watts but i think it could be fine if there aren't any spikes in power draw and you can always pull down the power limit for the 3060 so it should be fine

[odd pendant]

I also found out that my PSU has 3 different rails: one is a 12V18A split into two, and two 12V18A. I think the GPU power connector is one rail, so yeah, drawing 210W from a 216W rail is very, very close to the limit. I'll most certainly have to turn down its power limit in order to stay within 216W xD. Yeah, forgot about that, it is 80+ platinum though, so actually not that inefficient and it won't get that hot when I'm loading it that hard on the GPU-rail (that's what I'm calling it now)

The other 12V18A rail is probably for the CPU and the last one split into two is probably for everything else on the motherboard that needs power. Doesn't the GPU also draw some power from the PCI-e slot? Then it might be fine because the power gets spread out over two rails

[silver agate]

if it's platinum then it will probably be fine and i do think the pcie slot delivers a few watts but maybe not when a cable is plugged in but i don't know just assuming stuff.

[odd pendant]

Also why did the price of the GPU it drop to 409 bucks now? I bought it for 462 yesterday! Did it drop because I bought it?