Furmark Rtx 3060

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MSI Kombustor 2019 (v4.1.9) has an interesting benchmark (MSI-01) which is also a very good burn-in test. This graphics test mixes tessellation, shadow mapping, DoF, HDR and high resolution textures in a simple scene.

The GPU temperature reached a max value of 62C which is very nice. The reference RTX 3060 Ti has a TGP (total graphics power = total graphics card power draw) of 200W. This overclocked RTX 3060 Ti has a power draw that reaches 213W which is ok.

In most tests, this GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is faster than the previous generation RTX 2080. In some particular tests, like RhodiumLC (a pure pixel shader / procedural test), the RTX 3060 Ti is slower than the RTX 2080. Ok, more or less, the RTX 3060 Ti has the same level of performances than the RTX 2080. Now if we take into account the power draw, the RTX 3060 Ti is suddenly a better choice. In full load, the RTX 2080 has a power draw of 250W while the RTX 3060 Ti is limited to 200W.

For graphics developers, this card is perfect because all features are present: Ampere GPU with all latest techs, OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.2, Direct3D 12, OpenCL, CUDA, PhysX, realtime raytracing and serious graphics drivers. What else?

Inspired by the video Aorus Gaming Box GPU Swap / Upgrade to RTX 3060 posted by cbutters Tech in which he stuffs a desktop RTX 3060 (ASUS DUAL RTX 3060, 20 cm in length) into an Aorus Gaming Box originally stocked with an RTX 1080 and turns out working perfectly fine, I decided to stuff the ASUS DUAL 3060 Ti MINI that shares the same form as the DUAL RTX 3060 into the Aorus eGPU enclosure.

At first, it seems that everything works very smoothly, be it running 3DMark benchmark or Furmark extreme tests. However, after a few days, the enclosure started to shut off in cases where intensive graphics come up in games. I've tried many troubleshooting methods such as editing the TdrDelay value in Registry and updating drivers, etc., the problem was still there. So I started to think that it could be the PSU issue, possibly overheating or GPU peak power overload. After all, the PSU is meant for powering a 180W RTX 1080. So I bought an Enhance 7660B 600W PSU to replace the original Enhance 7145B 450W PSU. After the change, the problem was solved and the eGPU is running smoothly no matter what game it is.

Furmark Temperature Test, the RTX 3060 Ti registered a maximum of 72 Celcius degrees at full load (200W TDP) for a span of ten minutes, no throttling detected, the ambient temperature was 23 Celcius degrees

The build is probably the most portable one with an internal PSU and a powerful desktop GPU. It weighs only 2.3 kg or so and is only 3.3 litres. I consider this a successful build that can be duplicated if you also want to have a portable eGPU setup that is able to stock a graphics card up to RTX 3060 Ti.

Can you adjust the CPU power limits with Throttlestop? I think you might be very CPU bottlenecked because my 1070Ti gets 6650 in Timespy and I'm fairly sure that the 3060Ti could do much better than that.

You can read more about our approach to GPU power testing, but the takeaway is that we're not dependent on AMD, Nvidia or any other GPU vendor to accurately report how much power a GPU uses. We run FurMark as a worst-case stress test, and we also run five loops of the Metro Exodus benchmark at 1440p ultra (without ray tracing or DLSS) for the following charts. Because Metro loops every two minutes or so, you'll see a saw pattern, but maximum power and temperature are pretty consistent.

On average, the EVGA RTX 3060 used 171W in our Metro Exodus test, matching up pretty much exactly with the TGP. FurMark reached a slightly higher power draw of 175W, but that's not particularly worrisome. Our manual overclock bumped that up to 182W in Metro and 193W in FurMark, which is pretty much right in line with the power limit increase for the latter. For gaming purposes, it looks like something else was the limiting factor, at least on the EVGA card.

Temperatures were the same for both our stock and overclocked tests, coming in at 64C on the GPU core in Metro and just one degree higher in FurMark. There's not a huge spread in thermals, mostly because the fan speeds automatically adjust to help keep the GPUs cool, which is where we start to see a lot of separation.

That makes EVGA RTX 3060 a less-than-stellar example of a quiet graphics card. It's not horribly loud, but neither is it silent. We measured noise from 15cm away using an SPL meter, with dB(A) weighting and a noise floor of 34 dB. The card's fans turn off at idle (provided the GPU is below 50C), but after gaming for a few minutes the fan speed ramped up to 1940 RPM, or about 71% of maximum. That resulted in 43.1 dB(A) of noise for gaming, and FurMark took that slightly higher to 72% and 43.9 dB(A). Overclocking naturally required even higher fan speeds, around 80% or 2350 RPM, with a very noticeable 49.3 dB result. If you're looking for a quiet RTX 3060, you'll be better off with a larger card that has a bigger heatsink and improved cooling.

Last, we have GPU clocks. With a boost clock of 1777 MHz for the reference cards, the RTX 3060 is the highest clocked Nvidia GPU from the Ampere family so far. As usual, the real-world clocks are even higher than the boost clocks (except in FurMark). The EVGA card averaged 1876MHz in the Metro test, and 1609MHz in FurMark. Overclocking allowed for average GPU clocks of 2085MHz. GA106 doesn't clock quite as high as AMD's Big Navi chips, but we expect we'll see factory overclocked models running at well over 2GHz.

Jarred Walton is a senior editor at Tom's Hardware focusing on everything GPU. He has been working as a tech journalist since 2004, writing for AnandTech, Maximum PC, and PC Gamer. From the first S3 Virge '3D decelerators' to today's GPUs, Jarred keeps up with all the latest graphics trends and is the one to ask about game performance."}), " -0-10/js/authorBio.js"); } else console.error('%c FTE ','background: #9306F9; color: #ffffff','no lazy slice hydration function available'); Jarred WaltonSocial Links NavigationJarred Walton is a senior editor at Tom's Hardware focusing on everything GPU. He has been working as a tech journalist since 2004, writing for AnandTech, Maximum PC, and PC Gamer. From the first S3 Virge '3D decelerators' to today's GPUs, Jarred keeps up with all the latest graphics trends and is the one to ask about game performance.

Hi,

I have been using a RTX 3060 for a couple of years now. It started having some issues a while ago, and most likely I did not pay too much attention. Lately I had some crashes, mostly with a frozen pc while looping the last 2-3 seconds (of audio/video if I was using).

From looking around, I can see it could be a mis-alingment between the motherboard and the GPU, some kind of overclocking? I bought a customized computer (did not customized it myself, from an online shop).

I am running Ubuntu 20.04, and the GPUz software that is recommended around works only on Windows, so I wanted to ask what could be the best way to test the GPU for physical damages or to test for some misconfiguration of the motherboard/GPU and similar.

I tested the GPU using Furmark (FurMark Homepage) and run two 10 minutes test at low (1080p) and high (4k) resolution, everything went fine. It did not overheat (reached peaks of 69 and then stable around 65-67 degrees celsius) and absolutely no issues.

I still do not understand where the crashes (of course today no more crashes as I report) comes from.

I tried using other software and everything was running fine, then it crashed again while browsing a page (inspecting a 3D model, but the heavy computation was already done). I kept always on top nvidia-setting, temperature was stable at 61C and there was no warning sign about anything. So it might be from somewhere else (some background program, some power shortage?)

I am still clueless.

Thanks in advance

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