Palit GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Palit made a bit of a bold move sending us a value edition card (over a premium model) for a change. And realistically, if this card sits at that founder edition price, or perhaps a few tenners below it, then I see very little wrong with it. GeForce RTX 3060 Ti FE edition sits at the 399 USD marker, and we can only hope that prices will be any higher, as that would be a tough sell, with the NVIDIA Founder edition being so good already. This is a product that I like as it offers proper performance at WQHD levels for us common folk. Not just that, you'll have the added benefit of playing some games with hybrid raytracing, as well as the fact that NVIDIA has Tensor cores onboard, offering more perf at complex workloads with DLSS.

Promising new hardware continues to be beset by global stock shortages. RTX 3060 Ti is, in our estimation, an excellent forward-looking GPU that suits a wide range of gamers. Performance is really solid at QHD and decent at UHD, and with the Ampere architecture, you're guaranteed a best-in-class ray tracing experience and the undeniable potential of second-generation DLSS. That's the good news, but there are a couple of caveats. Finding a card in stock has proven extremely difficult in the weeks following launch, and the refined nature of Nvidia's £369 Founders Edition is such that dearer partner cards are tough to justify. Palit doesn't get a whole lot wrong with its modest Dual OC, yet there's no escaping the fact that the Founders Edition is more affordable, practically as quick, noticeably quieter, and subjectively easier on the eye. Fortunately for AIBs, ravenous consumer demand ensures that any and all RTX 3060 Tis will continue to sell well for the foreseeable future. In an ideal world, Nvidia's Founders Edition would be the RTX 3060 Ti to buy. In these strange times, most gamers will have to accept whichever card they can get their hands on.

We have with us the Palit GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GamingPro OC, the company's premium custom-design graphics card based on NVIDIA's swanky new RTX 3060 Ti Ampere performance-segment GPU. The Palit GamingPro OC combines the RTX 3060 Ti with a powerful triple-slot cooling solution meant for a segment above, which aims to trade cooling performance for lower noise. As the most affordable RTX 30-series GPU at launch, the RTX 3060 Ti Ampere is designed to bring the 2nd generation RTX technology to a wider audience.