We don’t have to say the current market situation and much more that of graphics cards, so to have a very interesting discount on one of them is practically a giveaway before Black Friday. This time, it is PcComponentes which brings us a complete RTX 3060 Ti XLR8 with dual PNY fan with a 15% discount, which is quite a bit. That being said, let’s get to know her.
While choosing a GPU is already a challenge, getting it in the mid-range GPUs isn’t an achievement, but rather an achievement. This RTX is a very valid option of an assembler not too well known in our regions, but it is also an excellent card which has some interesting features.
PNY RTX 3060 Ti XLR8 Gaming REVEL EPIC-X
The graphics card itself is simpler than the name the brand has given it because it’s not exactly easy. But under the hood we have a GPU with the best NVIDIA seal and no doubt towering over the series with an iron fist as it is much closer to an RTX 3070 than anything else and as we have it. Seen in our review, it goes thinner than its higher sibling when it comes to playing with minimal FPS difference.
We are of course talking about a GA104-200-A1 chip made by Samsung using an 8nm lithographic process with a total area of 392mm2, which is great for the range it has.
Because? Well, NVIDIA has equipped it with 38 SMs which distribute their characteristics in no less than 4864 Shaders, 152 TMUs, 80 ROPs, 152 Tensor Cores and 38 RT Cores, all with a 128 KB L1 cache for each SM it has. has and also 4 Shared L2 MB.
These characteristics are linked to 8 GB of GDDR6 and a 256-bit bus which translates into a bandwidth of 448 GB / s thanks to the fact that its memory increases to 14 Gbps effective or 1750 MHz real.
A custom graphics card with standard specifications
PNY did not want to risk much with this graphics card, since it is intended for the most affordable range of the series. Therefore, he did not touch any frequencies to overclock this model, which tells us that we will have 1410 MHz in base frequency and 1665 MHz in Boost, which will increase depending on the quality of the ASIC that we touch. at around 1800 MHz on average. .
This gives an FP32 performance of 16.20 TFLOPS for a consumption of 200 watts. What makes this GPU different from others that use the same chip? Well, we start from an ITX PCB which will need an 8-pin power supply and which will be cooled by a two-body heat sink with 3 heat pipes that extend its dimensions to be able to cover said bodies with two 8 cm fans.
Additionally, it comes with a standard backplate half of which is oversized and perforated in a honeycomb shape to allow hot air from the larger heat sink body to expel heat upward. As if that weren’t enough, it has a very curious customizable RGB system and without being anything new it is different from what has been seen so far and simple at the same time.
Its price was 899.90 dollars, but after the 15% discount it can be found for 759.89 dollars. A price that you should only pay if you plan to use it to play, as this card is limited to mining.
