Introduction
Today’s evaluation is taking a look at the ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3060 Ti AMP White Edition (ZT-A30610F-10PLHR). As the title suggests this is an RTX 3060Ti video card based on the NVIDIA Ampere architecture. The RTX 3060Ti was released on December 1, 2020. The Founder’s Edition had an MSRP of $399. Our review video card is currently selling (and available) for $499. This model is a Limited Edition White color, features dual fan cooling, White LED lighting, and a metal wrap-around backplate, as well as a factory overclock. ZOTAC offers a three-year warranty if you register the card online after purchase. (two years if you don’t)
Our review video card is the top-of-the-line in ZOTAC’S RTX 3060Ti lineup. It stands out from 4 other cards by its white color and higher overclock out of the box. The factory GPU boost clock is rated at 1665MHz. Our ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3060 Ti AMP White Edition LHR has a boost clock of 1755MHz.
GeForce RTX 3060Ti Specifications
Briefly, the ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3060 Ti AMP White Edition LHR is based on the Nvidia Ampere architecture. It features 4864 CUDA cores, 152 texture mapping units, and 80 ROPs. There are 152 tensor cores and 38 ray tracing cores.
Memory is 8GB GDDR 6 on a 256bit bus at 1750MHz. (448GB/sec) The factory assigned base GPU clock is 1410MHz.
Zotac rates this AMP version at 240W power consumption and recommends a 650Watt power supply. Additional power to the card is via 2 8-pin PCIe connectors. It is a Lite Hash Rate video card.
ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3060Ti AMP White Edition
As of this writing, Zotac offers 5 different 3060Ti variants: ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Twin Edge OC LHR, ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Twin Edge LHR, ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Twin Edge OC, ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Twin Edge and our review card, the Gaming GeForce 3060Ti AMP White Edition. It is pretty easy to get dizzy looking at the different video cards Zotac offers in this category stack. Simply put, there are two cards that are Lite Hash Rate (one OC and one not) and two cards that are not Lite Hash Rate (one OC and one not).
Our video card is a dual-slot card. It measures 9.1 by 5.6 by 1.6 inches.
The back of the card features a solid “wrap-around” metal backplate which is slotted for airflow. Dual fans are a “new” 11-blade design. The fan control has “FREEZE Fan Stop” which will stop fans at low workloads.
The video card may be overclocked and fans may be user adjusted by installing Zotac’s FireStorm utility.
There are white LEDs on the front outer facing surface of the videocard.
