Looks cool I like it
installed quick and easy...
Excellent box presentation and above average build quality for the price. I felt like I was opening a more expensive premium product instead of something that was this cheap. The card is light weight but still built though. The cooler and fans do an exceptional job despite being a compact card and not noisy at all. If you want, you can manually tune the fans and keep this card under 55c at 60% fans even while overclocked. Intel provides easy to use overlocking in their newly design Intel graphics software suite. Core, voltage, power, vram and fan tuning all all available in easy or advanced modes. If you go crazy and it crashes the software auto resets upon opening next time from my testing. Ive been able to boost the card above 3100mhz for gaming and 20Gbps on the memory. This card punches well above its weight in games. I played BF2042 at 4K with 80% res scale and ultra everything at 60fps. Blown away for the price. Obviously this card was made for 1440p/1080p gaming but I wanted to see what it would do under heavy load and it didnt leave me mad. 3x Display Port 2.1 and 1x HDMI 2.1 means you can connect any modern display and run high refresh rates without issue. Very future proofed. Intels new XESS 2 with frame gen looks great in the one game I tested. Very promising new features.
This video card was purchased to provide CUDA support. The product being replayed was a Radeon RX 580, which I could not utilize CUDA functionality. The GeForce RTX 3060 does support the CUDA functionality. My primary use is astrophotography image processing in the PixInsight application (Russell Crowman's Xterminator plugins). This VGPU acceleration executes those time consuming tasks 10x faster.
Runs everything I want with great settings and framerates 16gb VRAM is definitely noticeable and appreciated over the 8 gb counterpart when playing more demanding games Outperforms any comparable AMD card in Blender and other creative workflow applications.
Not an NVIDIA