Mingxuan 's iCraft E-sports Heart series is positioned at the high-end market and is very enterprising in appearance, heat dissipation and design specifications. Its previous Mingxuan MS-iCraft Z690 WiFi E-sports Heart motherboard ensures the experience of high-end Z690 motherboards, while the product can also maintain an affordable price and has an extremely high cost-effectiveness, which left a deep impression on the author. In addition to the motherboard, the heart of e-sports series also has graphics card products and many categories. Take GeForce RTX 3060 Ti graphics cards for example. Currently, there are three iCraft series GeForce RTX 3060 Ti graphics cards, namely GeForce RTX 3060 Ti iCraft OC 8G Aijia Limited Edition, GeForce RTX3060Ti iCraft OC 8G T0C and GeForce RTX 3060 Ti iCraft OC 8G S1.
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti iCraft OC 8G Aijia Limited Edition is very obvious, and its appearance design has a strong 2D style. The difference between GeForce RTX3060Ti iCraft OC 8G T0C and GeForce RTX 3060 Ti iCraft OC 8G S1 is the factory default dynamic acceleration frequency.
where GeForce RTX3060Ti iCraft OC 8G T0C is 1800MHz, while GeForce RTX 3060 Ti iCraft OC 8G S1 is 1710MHz. Today, the review is a Mingxuan GeForce RTX 3060 Ti iCraft OC 8G S1. The specifications can be found in the following table:
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GPU Introduction
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Originally adopted the GA104-200 core, and then added the cryptocurrency mining limiter to become the GA104-202 core. It is still built on the GA104 core, with a core area of 392.5mm2, and the number of transistor is 17.4 billion. The production process is still the 8nm process customized by Samsung for NVIDIA.
Compared with the GA104-300 core used by RTX 3070, GA104-202 has a completely missing set of GPCs. A set of GPCs in the GA104 core contains 4 TPCs, and each TPC contains 2 SM units. Each SM unit has 128 CUDA cores.
So compared with RTX 3070, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti has 1024 CUDA cores, and the number of CUDA cores it has is 4864, which is about 17.4% less than the RTX 3070. In addition, in terms of frequency, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is also slightly lower than the RTX 3070. The basic frequency of the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is 1410MHz and the Boost frequency is 1665MHz.
However, in terms of video memory, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is consistent with the RTX 3070. The video memory bit width is a complete 256bit, and it is paired with 8GB GDDR6 video memory, with an equivalent data frequency of 14Gbps, and the video memory bandwidth is 448GB/s. Due to the reduced SM cells enabled and the frequency decrease, the power consumption of the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is also reduced compared to the RTX 3070.
The above is to compare the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti with the stronger RTX 3070 of the same generation. If the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is compared with the RTX 2060 SUPER, which is the same positioning of the previous generation, you can see that this generation's 60-grade dessert cards have made huge progress.
First of all, this generation of 60-grade dessert cards use the second largest 104 core on Nvidia game cards, which is quite terrifying. Compared with the RTX 2060 SUPER, the core area of the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti has been greatly reduced, while the number of transistors has increased by 6.6 billion, and the number of CUDA cores has also soared from 2176 to 4864. The number of
Tensor Cores has decreased, but the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is the third-generation Tensor Cores, which is much stronger than the second-generation Tensor Cores of the RTX 2060 SUPER. The same RT Cores have evolved to come to the second-generation RT Cores, and the number has increased compared to the RTX 2060 SUPER, and AI performance will usher in a big increase.
Of course, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti graphics card based on the new generation of Ampere architecture has more common features than the RTX 2060 SUPER graphics card. Some general technologies of
NVIDIA Ampere graphics card
NVIDIA DLSS
DLSS full name is Deep Learning Super Sampling. Its function is to increase the frame rate by reducing the rendering resolution in the game and at the same time using stretching, such as the rendering resolution of 1080P and the display resolution of 4K (2160P) to achieve the purpose of increasing the frame rate.
As the name suggests, DLSS is composed of two parts, namely deep learning, and supersampling.The deep learning part is actually easy to understand. It is to let the AI behind DLSS learn from a massive 16K ultra-high resolution image reference standard (Ground Truth) obtained by supercomputers running different games in a machine learning manner, so that AI can more accurately synthesize a picture that meets the target display resolution based on limited picture data.
As for super sampling, it refers to sampling frame picture data in multiple dimensions, thereby increasing the amount of data that AI can use as a reference basis. Here are four methods of sampling: one is the frame screen at the low rendering resolution that everyone knows about the game; the second is the dynamic vector data (Motion Vectors) of the same frame, which allows the AI to "know" which direction the objects in this frame are moving; the third is the picture enhanced by DLSS in the previous frame; and the last is the massive 16K resolution image reference standard mentioned above.
NVIDIA Reflex
was released with the RTX 30 series graphics card. There is a new thing that is very important for e-sports games, or more carefully, for e-sports players, that is NVIDIA Reflex. So what is this NVIDIA Reflex? In fact, it is divided into two parts, one is hardware and the other is software.
hardware part is directly pre-installed in the monitor and can be used to measure the time difference between the player clicking the mouse until the screen changes, that is, all delays in the entire system.
and the software part is the NVIDIA Reflex SDK. The function of this NVIDIA Reflex SDK is to reduce and measure rendering delays, and developers can directly integrate into the game. After turning on its low latency mode, the CPU can be synchronized with the graphics card, greatly reducing the rendering sequence and thus reducing rendering latency. The latest progress of the NVIDIA ecosystem on
CES 2022
On CES 2022, NVIDIA has launched more than 160 new GeForce RTX laptops and Studio design books, including the new GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti laptop GPUs; it also grandly launched the GeForce RTX 3050 graphics card; it highlights some games enhanced by RTX and Reflex technology; the new G-SYNC display also debuted.
More RTX games
RTX games are still expanding, except for last year's popular games including Call of Duty: Warzone, DOOM Eternal, Back 4 Blood and Deathloop. Now games such as "The Day Before", "Rainbow Six Extraction", "Escape from Tarkov" and "DYING LIGHT 2 STAY HUMAN" have also joined the RTX lineup.
More Reflex games and hardware ecology
Currently, among the top 10 competitive shooting games in the world, 8 of them integrate NVIDIA Reflex, and more than 20 million GeForce gamers turn on Reflex to compete in games every month. And now Reflex continues to expand, with seven games equipped with Reflex coming soon and expanding to new gaming categories. Among these new Reflex games, iRacing, the world's leading online racing simulator game "Rainbow Six Extraction". With the development of games, Reflex’s hardware ecosystem is also continuing to grow. With the Reflex Delay Analyzer, players can easily measure system latency with just one click. There are now more than 50 Reflex mice and monitors from 16 brands, including 6 new Reflex mice from Alienware, AGON, CORSAIR, EVGA and Logitech, as well as 6 new Reflex monitors.
graphics card appearance and lighting effects
The overall back panel adopts the anodized process, with a very prominent texture, and half of the surface is wire drawing, and the other half is frosted, making the overall degree of exquisiteness to a higher level. In addition, the back panel also has RGB lighting effect, which allows the graphics card to change in all colors.
In addition to aesthetics, the metal back plate also has reinforced the PCB so that it is not easy to deform, not damaged by static electricity or external forces, effectively extending the life of the graphics card. The design of multiple heat dissipation holes on the metal back plate is for better heat dissipation performance and reduce the temperature during the graphics card operation.
video interface , Mingxuan GeForce RTX 3060 Ti iCraft OC 8G S1 adopts the conventional design of standard 3 DP interfaces and 1 HDMI interface. This HDMI interface is version 2.1 and can support video output of 8K 60FPS or 4K 120FPS. The power supply interface is a single 8Pin power supply interface.
lighting effect display
lighting effect, the lighting effect of Mingxuan GeForce RTX 3060 Ti iCraft OC 8G S1 graphics card is Mingxuan's new generation Skylight lighting effect, with various lighting effect modes such as RGB breathing lighting effect.
graphics card disassembly: 4 heat pipes, 8-phase power supply
Mingxuan GeForce RTX 3060 Ti iCraft OC 8G S1 graphics card has 4 capillary cold and cold pipes, all of which are nickel-plated to prevent oxidation. The heat pipe adopts a high-cost reflow soldering process. The place where it comes in contact with the GPU core is a polished and flat large-area pure copper base, which can transfer heat from the GPU core well and quickly disperse it into a large number of heat dissipation fins through the heat pipe.
PCB You can see the conspicuous GeForce RTX 3060 Ti core, codenamed GA104-202, is the LHR core, surrounded by 8 H56C8H24A1R-S2C of SK Hynix GDDR6 video memory, a single 1GB capacity and a 32bit bit width, 8 pixels make up a total of 8GB of video memory capacity and 256bit bit width, and the equivalent video memory data rate is 14Gbps.
Mingxuan GeForce RTX 3060 Ti iCraft OC 8G S1 uses 8 phases of power supply, including 6 phases of power supply of core, all on the left side of the GPU chip, and 2 phases of power supply of video memory, and both on the right side of the video memory. The core MosFET and the video memory powered MosFET are both from the 7340EH-WW94Z from the sinopower (sinopower). The core PWM master is the common NCP81610, and the video memory PWM master is the common uS5650Q.
test part
Through GPU-Z, the basic frequency of Mingxuan GeForce RTX 3060 Ti iCraft OC 8G S1 graphics card is 1410MHz and the Boost frequency is 1710MHz. Compared with the public version OC, it is 45MHz, and the video memory equivalent data rate is 14Gbps.
You can also see that the fan speed in standby state is zero through GPU-Z. However, in fact, the fan of Mingxuan GeForce RTX 3060 Ti iCraft OC 8G S1 is still rotating and does not stop. After verification with Mingxuan, the author confirmed that the card does not have the fan intelligent start-stop function.
In addition, the default temperature limit of Mingxuan GeForce RTX 3060 Ti iCraft OC 8G S1 is 83 degrees Celsius. Players can choose to unlock upwards to 90 degrees Celsius. The power consumption limit is defaulted to 220W. The power consumption limit has been locked and cannot be unlocked upwards.
test platform
test platform As shown in the table above, the processor is Intel Core i7-12700K, the motherboard is MSI MPG Z690 CARBON WIFI Dark Motherboard, the memory is a 32GB dual-channel configuration consisting of 2 16GB Weigang XPG Longyao D50 DDR4-3600 memory, and the memory is turned on XMP in the BIOS to make the memory run at a frequency of 3600MHz, and the support of Resizable BAR is turned on in the motherboard BIOS, and the others are all set.
benchmark performance test
We use
Mingxuan GeForce RTX 3060 Ti iCraft OC 8G S1 graphics card's 3DMark performance is in line with expectations. If compared with the previous public version, you will find that the Mingxuan GeForce RTX 3060 Ti iCraft OC 8G S1 has a slightly better score.
game performance test
This game test all selected 2K resolution and tested at the preset highest image quality. On this basis, if ray tracing is supported, the ray tracing effect is turned on to "high", all those with ray tracing support and DLSS technology are turned on, and all those with DLSS 2.1 are turned on to "balance mode" (in the game tested, except for "Dust 5" and "Far Cry 6" are all supported DLSS technology, and "Call of Duty: Pioneer" does not support ray tracing, so DLSS is not turned on).
Game: Call of Duty: Pioneer
In addition, the default is not full-screen manual to full-screen. Vertical synchronization is turned on by default. Vertical synchronization is manually turned off vertical synchronization. Except for the above, other options are all default settings, and all use the Benchmark included in the game's output results are as follows:
Mingxuan GeForce RTX 3060 Ti iCraft OC 8G The performance of the S1 is still very good. Almost all games can achieve a smooth play experience with the help of DLSS balance mode under 2K resolution, highest picture quality, and advanced ray tracing effects. The new stand-alone masterpieces "Dust 5" and "Far Cry 6" can reach 76 frames and 72 frames respectively without the help of DLSS. It can be said that Mingxuan GeForce RTX 3060 Ti iCraft OC 8G S1 can easily compete with the excellent gaming experience at 2K resolution for any current game.
Temperature and noise performance: full load 70.3 degrees Celsius, full fan speed 48.3dBA
Our graphics card cooling tests were tested in bare metal (if installed in the chassis, the GPU temperature will be about 5℃ higher). The ambient temperature during this test was about 22.8℃. The standby temperature is recorded for 10 minutes after starting up, and the full load temperature is recorded after completing the 3DMark Time Spy stress test. The data is recorded through the GPU-Z Log to File function. The following is the temperature test curve.
Mingxuan GeForce RTX 3060 Ti iCraft OC 8G S1 does not have a standby stop function, so the standby temperature is very low, and it can always be stable at low temperatures, only 29 degrees Celsius, and the hot spot temperature during standby is only 41 degrees Celsius, which is very cool.
Under full load state, the maximum temperature of the card is only 70.3℃. If you pay attention to the hottest temperature, the maximum temperature is only 83.3 degrees Celsius, which is a very good full load temperature performance.
noise, noise testing is completed in our specially made silent cabinet. The ambient noise in the silent cabinet can reach a minimum of 25dBA, which can basically test the true noise level of the sample well. The test status is the state where the graphics card cooling fan is running at full speed, and the following noise value is the noise level 1 meter away from the sound source.
After testing, the noise value of Mingxuan GeForce RTX 3060 Ti iCraft OC 8G S1 graphics card fan is 48.3dBA at full speed.
Full-load GPU core actual frequency: 1875MHz
Due to GPU Boost technology, the graphics card can monitor power and temperature, so that the GPU can fully utilize every feature without exceeding the safety or comfort limit, and run at a higher Boost frequency. During the 3DMark Time Spy stress test for temperature testing, we also recorded the actual frequency of the GPU core of the graphics card in full load state as shown in the figure below:
In full load state, Mingxuan GeForce RTX 3060 Ti iCraft OC 8G The actual GPU core frequency of S1 has reached 1965MHz at most. After stabilization, the fluctuation amplitude is not large and can be maintained at a high frequency. The lowest frequency during full load is 1815MHz, and it remains around 1875MHz for most of the time.
power consumption test: full load average of 215W
Through our dedicated graphics card power consumption testing instrument, we can accurately measure the watts of graphics card PCI-E and external power supply interfaces. The maximum power consumption of graphics card is obtained in the 3DMark Time Spy stress test, and the standby power consumption is recorded for 1 minute after entering the system.
After testing, the standby power consumption of Mingxuan GeForce RTX 3060 Ti iCraft OC 8G S1 is 18W, the full load power consumption is 215W, and the peak power consumption is over 265W. If is paired with a power supply, considering the power consumption of other components of the platform such as CPU, it is recommended to start with a 650W power supply.
summary
Mingxuan GeForce RTX 3060 Ti iCraft OC 8G S1 graphics card has a very gaming style design and has a new generation of Skylight lighting effect. In terms of materials, it uses 4 capillary cold and cold pipes and is nickel-plated to prevent oxidation. The heat pipe adopts a high-cost reflow soldering process. The contact with the GPU core is a polished and flat large-area nickel-plated pure copper base, and has a 6+2 phase power supply design.
This card has a 45MHz OC compared to the public version, and its performance and power consumption are also slightly higher than that of the public version GeForce RTX 3060 Ti. The measured maximum full load temperature is only 70.3℃, and the highest hot spot temperature is only 83.3 degrees Celsius. The average full load power consumption is 215W. In terms of noise, the noise level at 1 meter away from the sound source at full speed of the fan is 48.3dBA.
Mingxuan GeForce RTX 3060 Ti iCraft OC 8G S1 is a mid-to-high-end presence in the non-public GeForce RTX 3060 Ti graphics card in terms of appearance design and materials. Three 11-blade wide-frame design 9cm cooling fans, the new generation Skylight lighting effect, details such as hot pipe nickel plating and large-area nickel plating pure copper base are all worthy of recognition. Its performance and power consumption are consistent with its factory default dynamic acceleration frequency. Its price of 5,199 yuan is a cheaper existence in the non-public GeForce RTX 3060 Ti graphics card. Generally speaking, it is worth recommending, but it should be noted that the card does not support smart start and stop fans and pay attention to the length of 317mm to be compatible with your own chassis.
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