Nvidia's RTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition Is in Stock for $399: Real Deals

You mean the 3060 Ti selling for MSRP is a deal?

That isn't a deal for this gpu on its way out, not even close.

LolaGT said:

That isn't a deal for this gpu on its way out, not even close.

We won't be seeing a 4060/ti class card till sometime next year. It is not on its way out yet. That said, I would still spend a little more, and get the 6700xt instead. Better long term card, with the extra vram, and faster.

logainofhades said:

We won't be seeing a 4060/ti class card till sometime next year. It is not on its way out yet. That said, I would still spend a little more, and get the 6700xt instead. Better long term card, with the extra vram, and faster.

While I agree that we probably won't see a new ~$400 card from Nvidia until after the new year, I wouldn't be surprised if one were to launch by January, which is just 5 months away. And while Intel's upcoming cards might not have the best driver situation at launch, if their performance fares well relative to the 3060 and 3060 Ti, that will put more pressure on Nvidia and AMD to lower prices. Nvidia undoubtedly wants to do as much as they can to keep Intel from stealing market share in the graphics card space over the coming years, and Intel will likely be pricing their cards competitively to help them make a good first impression.

As for the 6700 XT, it's certainly an option, but performance tends to be rather similar to the 3060 TI in most of today's games, and it's generally priced higher than this. And while the additional VRAM might be beneficial in future titles, the same could be said for Nvidia's faster raytracing implementation, which already allows the 3060 Ti to pull ahead in most of the titles currently supporting it. And as RT effects become standard for "Ultra" graphics settings, that's likely to become more relevant.

The 6700 XT's additional VRAM will likely eventually help too, though lowering textures a notch is often enough to make up for VRAM deficiencies. And if features like DirectStorage reduce the need to keep unused texture data stored in VRAM in future titles, there might not be as much of an impact from having less, provided the system is fitted with a fast enough SSD to load textures on an as-needed basis. And we don't yet know how well either of these cards will perform with DirectStorage games.

Each card has things it does better than the other, so I wouldn't say the 6700 XT's VRAM makes it better. Its typically lower pricing may help sway the value proposition in its favor, but that doesn't work in cases like this where the 3060 is priced lower. Really though, both cards should be priced lower than they typically are at this point.