▲ 18 ▼ NVIDIA To Bring Back The GeForce RTX 3060 In Q1 2026 To Tackle Current-Gen GPU & Memory Shortages (wccftech.com) submitted 10 months ago by Agent_Karyo@piefed.world to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca 2 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] jnod4@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago (1 child) Bring back 1080 while you're at it permalink fedilink source hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Agent_Karyo@piefed.world [S] 2 points 10 months ago I do wonder if the 1080 Ti would be a better option for consumers than 3080 12GB if you don't need DLSS and Ray-tracing. The 1080 Ti has 484.4 GB/s memory bandwidth versus 360.0 GB/s for the 3060. It seems to perform somewhat better (~10%) in games, although I am assuming this is without ray tracing: I am assuming manufacturing costs should be less for the 1080 Ti, but maybe GDDR5X isn't manufactured anymore? Node 1080 Ti: 16nm 3060: 8nm Transistors 1080 Ti: 11.8 B 3060: 12 B permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Agent_Karyo@piefed.world [S] 2 points 10 months ago I do wonder if the 1080 Ti would be a better option for consumers than 3080 12GB if you don't need DLSS and Ray-tracing. The 1080 Ti has 484.4 GB/s memory bandwidth versus 360.0 GB/s for the 3060. It seems to perform somewhat better (~10%) in games, although I am assuming this is without ray tracing: I am assuming manufacturing costs should be less for the 1080 Ti, but maybe GDDR5X isn't manufactured anymore? Node 1080 Ti: 16nm 3060: 8nm Transistors 1080 Ti: 11.8 B 3060: 12 B permalink fedilink source parent