After the "skill", the most "excellent" Gigabyte Magic Eagle RTX 3060 GAMING OC evaluation

2021-04-06 05:16:00 [Original by Zhongguancun Online] Author: Zhang Xin 1

since RTX 30 series Graphics card After the release, the outstanding performance has made it difficult to get a card in the market, but this also shows that the player users recognize the performance of the new graphics card. Recently, another new member of the RTX 30 series graphics card family, the RTX 3060, has been introduced. The positioning of the graphics card is the "dessert card" for most players. Among many non-public RTX 3060 graphics cards, how does the Gigabyte Magic Eagle RTX 3060 GAMING OC perform? Let's experience it together.

This is my understanding of the so-called "dessert card":

It can meet the use needs of the vast majority of players or users, and has a wider audience in the mid market. And Gigabyte Magic Eagle RTX 3060 GAMING OC is the product of GeForce RTX 30 series Entry level graphics card , with the support of NVIDIA Ampere architecture, play the strength that surpasses the previous generation, face the overwhelming majority of mainstream games and Software They can run smoothly, which can be said to be excellent cost performance.

First generation NVIDIA RTX architecture

The second generation NVIDIA RTX architecture RTX 3060 under Ampere

Compared with the previous generation of Turing RTX architecture, the NVIDIA Ampere architecture has doubled its computing power, which is still reflected in the GeForce RTX 3060. Each clock performs two shader operations, while Turing is once. The GeForce RTX 3060 shader performance reaches 12.7 TFLOPS single precision performance, while Turing is 6.5 TFLOPS.

The NVIDIA Ampere architecture doubled the intersection throughput of light and triangles. The RT Core reached 24.9 RT TFLOPS, while Turing reached 19.5 RT TFLOPS. Moreover, the most important thing of the second generation ray tracing is not only to improve the performance, but also to increase the speed of ray tracing calculation for motion blurred scenes in the game.

Gigabyte Magic Eagle RTX 3060 GAMING OC

Although the chip determines the performance and specification of the graphics card, the overall stability, temperature performance, and noise level of the graphics card depend more on the integrated capabilities of the graphics card manufacturer in PCB wiring, electronic component adaptation, and cooling system calibration. Before the evaluation, the author summarized some characteristics of the video card for you to read:

1. Three fans design with lengthened fins for efficient heat dissipation
2. Color contrast panel design for more high-end texture
3. The metal back plate is stable and durable
4. Thanks to ray tracing, DLSS and other functions, the game picture is more realistic and smooth

Buying suggestions: The design of Gigabyte Magic Eagle RTX 3060 GAMING OC is very high-end and textured. In terms of performance, it is comparable to the previous generation of mid-range video card products. For ordinary game players, it is competent for the current network masterpiece. It can also achieve good frame performance when the special effects are fully open. Moreover, the video card itself has excellent heat dissipation performance and can be used stably for a long time, Recently, gamers who need to change video cards are worth getting started.

01 Gigabyte RTX 3060 GAMING OC - Appearance:

Gigabyte Magic Eagle RTX 3060 GAMING OC

The Gigabyte Magic Eagle RTX 3060 GAMING OC graphics card is designed with black and silver color contrast stitching. The interweaving of silver and black has more e-sports style. The surface of the graphics card is frosted, which can prevent fingerprints from leaving behind in addition to providing excellent hand feel. The edges of the graphics card are made with sharp edges and corners, which is very tough.

Positive and reverse function

The Gigabyte Magic Eagle RTX 3060 GAMING OC graphics card uses the Gigabyte Wind Power cooling system. The front is equipped with three 80mm blade fans and adopts a special blade design. Through the triangular three-dimensional shape of the edge of the fan blade and the guide grooves on the fan blade surface, it can provide a stronger air intake. It also supports the forward and reverse function and the intelligent start and stop function of the fan.

Gigabyte Magic Eagle RTX 3060 GAMING OC backplane

The design of the back of the graphics card is very simple. The back is sprayed with gun gray metal, and the surface has a slightly frosted texture, which is very good for viewing. The metal reinforced backplane not only strengthens the overall structure, prevents the circuit board from bending or parts from crashing down, but also provides an additional layer of protection for the video card. The edges are hollowed out to see the fins of the graphics card.

Gigabyte Magic Eagle RTX 3060 GAMING OC

The radiating fin extends all the way to the outside of the PCB board. This extended radiating fin can let air flow through and improve the heat dissipation capability. In addition, the backplane is not hollowed out and carved, but a nearly fully open window design, which also makes the heat passing through the graphics card unimpeded and more efficient.

In addition to the back, you can also see the logo of GIGABYTE on the side of the graphics card. In addition to supporting 16.77 million color changes, its lighting effect can also set various personal preferences through software. What's more, it can synchronize lights with other AORUS products that support RGB Fusion 2.0 and enjoy a harmonious visual feast.

Gigabyte Magic Eagle RTX 3060 GAMING OC

The logo of GIGABYTE can be clearly seen on the side of the graphics card. To the disappointment of light pollution loving players, except for the RGB LOGO light, the graphics card itself has no other light emitting areas, but sometimes this little embellishment can also play a so-called "finishing touch" role.

Gigabyte Magic Eagle RTX 3060 GAMING OC

In terms of interface, Gigabyte Magic Eagle RTX 3060 GAMING OC graphics card is equipped with two HDMI 2.1 interfaces and two DP 1.4a interfaces. The new HDMI 2.1 interface can support single line 8K video output, while the previous generation HDMI 2.0 only supports 4K 98Hz video output. If you want to connect an 8K TV, you need more cable support.

Single 8Pin power interface

In terms of power interface, this video card uses a single 8Pin power interface. Users who used to use old video cards can upgrade them, which eliminates the trouble of replacing the power supply and is very convenient.

02 RTX 3060 under NVIDIA Ampere architecture

Gigabyte Magic Eagle RTX 3060 GAMING OC adopts NVIDIA Ampere architecture. Let's first take a look at the parameter improvement of GeForce RTX 3060.

Complete GA106 core

The complete GA106 GPU consists of 3 GPCs (graphics processing clusters), 15 TPCs (texture processing clusters) and 30 SM (stream processors). The GPC is the dominant advanced module with all key graphics processing units. Each GPC contains a dedicated raster engine. In the new NVIDIA Ampere architecture, each GPC also contains two ROP partitions, and each partition contains eight ROP units.

GeForce RTX 3060 adopts GA106 core, with 13.25 billion (13250 million) transistor , 276 square millimeters, based on Samsung's 8nm NVIDIA customized process, from Samsung's GDDR6 video memory.

The GeForce RTX 3060 has a total of 3584 CUDAs. In fact, it has 1292 INT32 units. However, because the number of internal FP32 has doubled, the number of 3584 CUDAs has finally been achieved.

However, such a rude increase in the number of CUDA is actually very helpful to the game. Generally, floating point operations are more commonly used than integer calculations in the game. Shader workloads in graphics, algorithms and various calculation operations usually need to use FP32 arithmetic instructions in a mix, and FP32 acceleration also helps ray tracing noise reduction shaders.

With the release of GeForce RTX 30 series graphics cards, there is also a new technology - RTX IO. At present, many games often have tens or even hundreds of gigabytes of installation space. The burden of storage space is not mentioned, but if the video card wants to read the data stored in the hard disk, the CPU needs to read it from the hard disk first compress Passed data decompression And then sent to video memory.

Although with the introduction of NVMe SSD, the reading speed can be 20 times faster than that of mechanical hard disk, due to the limitations of traditional I/O, the high-speed reading and writing of NVMe up to 7GB/s is a great burden to the CPU.

Traditional data exchange

In this process, multiple CPU cores will be occupied, the pressure will increase sharply, and more memory will be occupied. In fact, the GPU is idle at this time. RTX IO is used to bypass CPU decompression In the second step of data transmission, the compressed data on the hard disk is read directly from the PCIE bus, and the lossless GPU decompression is completed, which reduces CPU usage and improves performance.

RTX IO can greatly relieve CPU burden

Of course, as the operation mode of the bottom layer of the system changes, this technology also needs to be implemented with the help of DirectStorage released by Microsoft. For games with current capacity, the improvement effect of RTX IO is limited, but if the game capacity of hundreds of gigabytes becomes normal over time, this technology will play a huge role.

At the same time, with the new HDMI 2.1 interface, it can support single line 8K video output, while the previous generation HDMI 2.0 only supports 4K 98Hz video output. If you want to connect an 8K TV, you need more cable support.

03 Gigabyte RTX 3060 GAMING OC - host test:

Test platform:

First, we will introduce the test platform. In order to ensure that this evaluation can give full play to the best performance of Gigabyte Magic Eagle RTX 3060 GAMING OC, the platform has all adopted the current flagship configuration, as follows:

Benchmarking adopts 3DMARK , the game performance test uses the game's own Benchmark The average value of the same scenario has been tested many times to ensure the accuracy of the test.

GPU-Z parameter

First, let's take a look at the parameters of GPU-Z. The GeForce RTX 3060 uses the GA106 core, Samsung 8nm process, a chip area of 276 square millimeters, and has 3584 CUDAs. After overclocking, the Boost frequency of the Gigabyte Magic Eagle RTX 3060 GAMING OC is 1807MHz, and the public version is 1777MHz, with a small increase. 12GB GDDR6 video memory is adopted, with a bit width of 192bit, a video memory bandwidth of 360 GB/s, and 48 and 112 grating units and texture units.

AORUS Engle

We can also use AORUS Angle software to set the parameters of the graphics card according to our own needs, which is very convenient.

Test officially started:

The first step is to measure the graphics card DX11 The 3DMARK FS package with theoretical performance: FS, FSE and FSU respectively correspond to the theoretical performance of the graphics card at 1080P, 2K and 4K. The actual test results of the graphics card scores are as follows:

3D MARK FS package test

In the 3DMARK FS package test for the performance of the graphics card DX11, the performance of the Gigabyte Magic Eagle RTX 3060 GAMING OC is aligned to the RTX 2070, which is slightly weaker than that of the RTX 2070, but the difference is no more than 2%. In addition, due to the use of GA106 chip, compared with GeForce RTX 3060 Ti using GA104 chip, there is still a significant difference between 30-40%.

3D MARK TS package test

In the Time Spy and Time Spy Extreme tests for the DX12 environment, the score of the Gigabyte Magic Eagle RTX 3060 GAMING OC is also slightly lower than that of the GeForce RTX 2070, but the test score is relatively better than that of the public version RTX 3060.

3D MARK light tracing test

PortRoyal is a special test item for light pursuit performance in 3DMARK. The performance of Gigabyte Magic Eagle RTX 3060 GAMING OC is 2% lower than that of RTX 2070, and 38% higher than that of GeForce RTX 2060.

In the theoretical test, we can see that the performance of the Gigabyte Magic Eagle RTX 3060 GAMING OC is very close to that of the previous generation of mid-range graphics card - RTX 2070. As the previous generation of mid-range graphics card, the RTX 2070 can cope with the big game on the market running smoothly at 2K&144Hz. This performance is just what players need, and it is also the mainstream performance in the market today. It can be said that Gigabyte Magic Eagle RTX 3060 GAMING OC, an "entry-level" 30 series video card, is full of cost performance.

Next, we will use several games to test the performance of the video card in terms of game frames.

04 Gigabyte RTX 3060 GAMING OC - Game Performance Test

In the game performance test, we chose New Blood of German Headquarters《 Island Frightening 5 》、《 Assassin's Creed : Hall of the Spirit, Land Without a Master, benchmark running software of the domestic game Bright Memory: Unlimited.

In addition, in the game test, due to Graphics card driver The version update and game update of have a great impact on the number of game frames, and all benchmark scores are subject to this score.

Assassin's Creed: Hall of the Spirit game test

First of all, the new game "Assassin's Creed: Hall of the Spirit" just launched. In the actual measurement, we found that although the theoretical score of RTX 2070 was better, the actual score in the game was basically consistent with that of Gigabyte Magic Eagle RTX 3060 GAMING OC, with a difference of no more than one frame. The score gap between GeForce RTX 3060 and GeForce RTX 2060 using NVIDIA Ampere architecture is 25-30%.

New Blood of German Headquarters Game Test

The New Blood of German Headquarters has two benchmarks, so our data take the average running score. In addition, this game is updated almost every time drive Or the upgrade of the game version will lead to a huge difference in scores. The running score a few months ago was higher, which was about 30 frames on average.

The game test of "Island 5"

Isolated Island 5 is also a 3A masterpiece that is well optimized. As an entry-level graphics card of GeForce RTX 30 series, Gigabyte Magic Eagle RTX 3060 GAMING OC can also achieve 64 frames of smooth operation at 2K resolution.

Bright Memory: Unlimited Game Test

Bright Memory: Unlimited is a new series of Bright Memory developed by the studio of Feiyan Islands. At present, there is no game available for trial, but benchmark's score software has been officially provided, and players can play it in steam Upper self download 。 In addition, we can not turn off the light pursuit option during the test, so all test results are conducted in the "RTX highest/DLSS quality" mode. Because this demo contains a large number of light pursuit elements, most video cards have low scores. Even GeForce RTX 3060 Ti has only 22 frames at 4K resolution.

The game test of Land Without Owners 3

Land Without a Master 3 is a cartoon rendering style game. At 1080P resolution, including RTX 2060, it can also run smoothly, while at high resolution, the number of frames drops significantly, which is lower than the doctrine of assassins who claim to be all life stories.

05 Temperature and power consumption test

In terms of temperature power consumption test, at 24 ℃, we did not use a fully enclosed chassis, but a test platform method, which can minimize the external factors of the graphics card, such as air duct, in addition to its own heat dissipation.

Power consumption test (click to view the large picture)

In the power consumption test, we choose FurMark software for copying test, and the power consumption is only calculated by the graphics card itself. As a GeForce RTX 30 series entry-level graphics card, the power consumption of Gigabyte Magic Eagle RTX 3060 GAMING OC is much smaller, and the overall average power consumption is about 170W in peak conditions.

Thermal imaging during use

In the temperature test, we use thermal imaging to observe the dispersion of the temperature area of the graphics card. The highest area is around the power supply interface and GPU chip, while the tail of the graphics card is low.

Temperature test

In terms of temperature, after about 15 minutes of copying, the temperature of the Gigabyte Magic Eagle RTX 3060 GAMING OC stabilized at about 52 ℃. It can be seen that under the same volume, the temperature control of the low-power entry card is very good even under the condition of full operation for a long time.

06 Some game light tracing and DLSS effect display

Above, we tested the performance of light pursuit and DLSS of some games. What are the specific performance of these effects in the game? The author has selected several games to show you.

RTX ON (click the picture to view the large picture)

RTX OFF (click the picture to view the large picture)

In Cyberpunk 2077, light chasing effects can be seen everywhere, and different light chasing effects are also used in the game, including the most common light chasing reflections, shadows, and more advanced effects such as ambient light masking, diffuse illumination, and global illumination. In the above figure, there is also a complex ray tracing effect. The near neon tube has an obvious diffuse reflection effect. Through the reflection of the wall, the overall light is stronger. You can see that the ground and the wall on the right can reflect the reflection of the door frame and light tube when ray tracing is turned on, while when it is turned off, there is only light.

RTX ON (click the picture to view the large picture)

RTX OFF (click the picture to view the large picture)

In the online game Cold Against the Water, there is no surface reflection like the promotional film because the light pursuit effect is in the experimental stage. But the overall shadow of the picture is more realistic, such as the shadow of the trees overhead, and the effect of lotus leaves on the water. Moreover, since the light tracing effect is less, the number of frames does not decrease significantly after the function is turned on.

Comparison of "Xuanyuan Sword 7" RTX switches (click the picture to see the larger picture)

In "Xuanyuan Sword 7", we compare the street scene in the prologue. The first picture shows the effect after light tracing is turned on. The effect of light tracing is obvious. After turning on Light Chase, the street lights, shadows and the reflection of sunlight on the water surface have been greatly improved, and the overall color of the game has also changed from cold to warm, making it more livable. But in fact, this game has passed the prologue, and the light chasing effect is not much, but only in the prologue, we also saw the power of light chasing.

World of Warcraft 9.0 RTX ON (click to view the large picture)

World of Warcraft 9.0 RTX OFF (click to view the large picture)

World of Warcraft 9.0 is also a cartoon rendered online game. Warcraft has a longer history, and the light pursuit effect added this time is not as visual as a whole fortress The night is obvious. However, the shadow of trees in the distance and the shadow under the nearby stone platform are more obvious.

Control RTX ON (click to view the large picture)

Control RTX OFF (click to view the large picture)

The physical effect of the engine used in the game "Control" is excellent, and the contrast of light chasing switch is also obvious to the naked eye. The reflection of the figures on the glass and the plants on the ground in the distance are clear. At the same time, the light and shade contrast on the roof is more obvious after turning on the light.

DLSS mode comparison

For DLSS comparison test, we chose Cyberpunk 2077 as the game. 2K/RTX ON/DLSS turned off the native image quality as the standard. After turning on the DLSS quality mode, we can see that the overall picture has almost no change, and the word edge of the billboard is still very clear. It is still in good condition in DLSS balance and DLSS performance mode, and the overall image quality is the same as that of the original image.

DLSS mode comparison

Picture quality description

In the DLSS test of Cold Against the Water, we set the picture to 4K resolution, with the highest picture quality preset. Compare the frame number and image through three different modes: off, fast and super performance.

First, when DLSS is turned off, the number of game frames is 26 frames of native image quality, 41 frames when DLSS fast mode is turned on, and 57 frames when DLSS super performance mode is turned on. It is not difficult to find that the difference between the original image quality and DLSS fast mode is very small by zooming in the image. In DLSS super performance mode, the decoration behind the characters will become blurred, and the texture boundary of the crate will change significantly. However, the frame number has increased significantly.

07 Ampere is a combination of hard and soft

Good hardware without the blessing of software is equivalent to having a long handle without a gun head. If you want to exert 100% power, you must match hardware with software, and vice versa. With the launch of the press conference, the following items deserve our attention.

NVIDIA Reflex

In the past, most of us focused on the delay and learned the extreme response of several milliseconds from the display, but that is just the display output effect of the final end. Have you ever thought about the delay from the inside of the system to the actual picture?

NVIDIA Reflex

NVIDIA has repeatedly mentioned the "frame can win" in the 20 series graphics card, and has made a further breakthrough in the GeForce RTX 30 series graphics card. In addition to NVIDIA will launch its own e-sports display NVIDIA 360Hz G-SYNC ESPORTS, NVIDIA Reflex technology will also be introduced.

In the past, high-speed cameras and customized LED mouse circuits were needed to measure system delay. The display with NVIDIA Reflex technology will be built with an accurate delay analysis tool, which can optimize the rendering pipeline in the CPU and GPU, greatly reducing the delay time, and reducing the overall system delay to less than 30ms. However, as shown in the figure, you need a mouse that supports reflection delay analysis.

NVIDIA Broadcast

NVIDIA Broadcast is an easy-to-use and professional Live broadcast software Its strength lies in that the anchor no longer needs any background layout, but only a common camera and a GeForce RTX series video card.

Live broadcast of pet party

This software can turn your disorderly room into a live broadcast room immediately. It has built-in audio noise reduction, background virtualization, virtual background, head tracking and other functions. The working principle of NVIDIA Broadcast is to use AI algorithm to learn deeply from DGX supercomputer.

NVENC code

At the same time, RTX 30 series graphics card has the best hardware at present decoder , most users' computers are turned on during live broadcast OBS After streaming, the CPU usage will directly soar to about 50%. The GPU based NVENC decoding can greatly reduce the CPU burden.

NVIDIA Studio

For content creators, when it comes to software, most people may only think of software related to content creation. However, NVIDIA Studio driver, which is launched by NVIDIA specifically for content creators, is the key to connecting creation software and graphics card functions.

NVIDIA Studio

NVIDIA Studio driver has been updated and optimized Adobe Series software support is more stable, with more brilliant creation functions. Using NVIDIA CUDA technology, GPU acceleration effects can achieve faster real-time Video editing It also speeds up rendering output and makes it easy for videos that can only be output by software encoding to be supported by hardware. In addition, the advantages in AI computing, including automatic tag fragments, special effect tracking, face recognition and other functions, have significantly improved speed.

14.98 seconds for GPU rendering and 11 minutes for CPU rendering

Of course, Adobe is not alone in accelerating the creation of NVIDIA Studio. DaVinci Keyshot 、 Blender , D5 and other professional software. It can not only provide a strong and stable operating environment, but also accelerate with GPU, effectively improving the creation efficiency.

08 "Skill" is the favorite of powerful players

Gigabyte Magic Eagle RTX 3060 GAMING OC graphics card is a truly "dessert" graphics card. Its outstanding product performance and appearance performance make it a very good cost performance among many RTX 30 series graphics cards. To be sure, there must be a phenomenon that the supply of graphics cards exceeds the demand after they are shipped. Then it will be all based on hand speed.

Gigabyte Magic Eagle RTX 3060 GAMING OC

For mainstream blockbuster games on the market, Gigabyte Magic Eagle RTX 3060 GAMING OC can easily cope with 1080p and 2K image quality, and even run smoothly with full special effects. This kind of game performance is almost applicable to most game players, so you don't need to worry about performance problems after starting.

Gigabyte Magic Eagle RTX 3060 GAMING OC

The super power cooling system equipped on Gigabyte Magic Eagle RTX 3060 GAMING OC does not need heat dissipation at all. It can press the temperature of the graphics card under full load to 52 °. While fully enjoying the game, it does not have to suffer from performance interference caused by temperature, which is what most players expect.