NVIDIA - GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB GDDR6 PCI Express 4.0 Graphics Card - Steel and Black

you can’t beat the MSRP price. Downside: rtx sign is not glowing(

Everyone told me to wait for the 4000 series but for $399 this is more than enough for my purposes. The 4000 series so far are a big disappointment. If the 4000 equivalent ends up being amazing I still don't regret buying this card. Also, Best Buy needs to do a better job with handling bots.

Got this at MSRP and it's been a FANTASTIC performer since replacing an AMD RX570. I will NOT use any AMD cards moving forward as their drivers are always disappointing and crashing Windows 10/11.

Ridiculous performance to the price. I've been playing Cyberpunk 2077 with a 3440x1440 monitor and it's absolutely killing it, despite everyone talking about bugs and performance issues. If you find the opportunity to buy this or any of the 3000 series cards, jump on it. I'm coming from an RX 470 so this is a huge upgrade for me. In my Cooler Master NR200, I'm getting a max temperature of 65 C, and idle is around 30 C. It also overclocks pretty nicely. My core clock is at 2070 mhz and memory at 8000 mhz and it holds both with ease.

I didn't even know that they were still selling these FE cards at MSRP with all of the stock problems and tariffs raising prices, but Best Buy came through. I learned about a drop of cards on the 9th from a discord with drop notifications, and with the 2FA and app I actually got a card. The build quality is amazing on this card and it runs Cyberpunk at 1080p any settings with ease.

The product worked perfectly. Came with all parts, and plugged into my system easily. The card meets my expectations and is exactly what I needed!

TL;DR: Buy this product if it is in stock and if you need a graphics card because it is amazing, but don't fear if you don't get it for AMD and Nvidia's new offerings in Q 1/2 of 2021, may provide the gpu that could be a better fit for you. I got this product after refreshing the page many times on launch day and was one of the few souls who got it, I wish luck to the others who are trying to get it. Firstly, I use a egpu (external Graphics Card Unit) when I game because of my personal situation, and I was able to get it up and running within a few minutes. All of my games are amazing compared to my previous card (gtx 960) and I was able to play Battlefield 1/V, Fallout 4/76, Skyrim SE, GTA V, and RDR2 all at 60 fps+ on 4k High/Ultra settings with 1% lies in the low 50s fps at worse (RDR2 during a pretty strenuous scene) and 0.1% lows in the high 40s fps (also in RDR2). But please remember, even with my relatively good egpu set up, it normally gets no more than 80-95% then what you get in desktop, so your milage may very. Thermals: It never got more than 72°C in my 1 hour stress test in unigen heaven with the very quiet stock fan curve that got to no more than 41%. The physical card is simply beautiful and it seems to use all of the metal as a heat sink and (don't touch the card at home, I was just curious for this review) gets quite uncomfortably hot, so don't touch your graphics card while it's in usage even though that should be obvious because it is a computer part. It admittedly warmed up my room by about 1°C with room set at 21°C to 22°C after about 5 hours of continuous usage (along with my 25w laptop and my smaller bedroom, this is an uncontrolled variable but is interesting nontheless). The airflow and cooling for the card is outstanding considering it is a 200w card and is smaller than my evga twin fan edition of my previous gtx 960. Great stuff! Overclocking: With there being quite a bit of thermal head room, I felt confident in the cards ability to I overclock, and I was right. I was able to oc it with the core at 2085 mhz (+150 cc) and it was stable during my 2 hour stress test of me playing GTA V story mode. I was able to get it to 2110 mhz (+175 cc), but it was a tad unstable if it stayed there, and would normally fall back down to 2085 automatically in order to not crash. With the memory clock I was able to get a +1400mhz on the memory and it remained stable and there was no artifacting after that same stress test on GTA V. Ii was able to get about 3%-12% fps performance gains, which is astounding, but the average was more like 6.5-8.5% fps gain. With the stock fan curve and with these overclocking settings, it got to 54% fan speed at 79°C, and with my manual fan speed setting of 72% it sat at 75°C. I would suggest using the auto curve if you are a bit sensitive to noise, but if you're fine with a little bit of fan noise, I would suggest raising the fan speed slightly higher like I did. Overall, it's very impressive from my perspective. Note that overclocking may void manufacturer warranty on some products and may not give same results, so use at your own risk. DLSS and RTX: I really only play one game that uses either that I care to use and that is rtx minecraft which works perfectly at 4k ~55-60fps and looks stunning. It uses DLSS for the performance gains of from what I can tell of about 15-20+ fps to make it go from playable to very useable. DLSS at this point seems to be very a future oriented technology which is nice, because it gives me some more hope that I will be able to use the 3060ti for longer than I would otherwise. But, right now it is still a very impressive technology. Overall: This is a great product for $400 and although a bit more vram would have been nice, for $400 there is no question that this is an absolute buy. Although the review shenanigans that occurred around this launch were quite suspect, this product is still very good and I recommend buying this model or any other 3060ti model if it is under $430. RTX in my eyes is still in it's infancy, but very much a product to be used, and DLSS along with Nvidia broadcast is also amazing. Best Buy pickup was fine and they got it too me a day later than expected, but they brought it out my car within a few minutes when I did go to pick it up. Thanks for my long ramble, and I wish you luck on getting this card, or any card for a good price this holiday season. -HW

Spent ages trying to get this card, and it did not disappoint. Works phenomenally and is still technically bottlenecked by my cpu. That upgrade is coming soon though