With NVIDIA launching the new RTX 3000 series LHR version,Judging from the latest foreign auction prices, seems to have really suppressed the price speculation behavior (Of course, it has a lot to do with the recent sharp decline in cryptocurrency.), locking mining computing power is indeed a good decision, but it has more mechanisms. For some gamers who want to buy the RTX 3000 series, they may be worried about whether it will reduce game performance? Recently, foreign media tested the RTX 3060 graphics card and compared the game performance of the old version and the LHR version.
Actual game performance measurement of NVIDIA locked computing power LHR version compared with the old version
The RTX 3060 on the left is the locked version with GOC marked, while the right is the old unlocked RTX 3060 with only OC written on the back:
The computer hardware platform tested by this Chinese media is:
- Processor: Intel Core i9-11900K
- Motherboard: MSI MEG Z590 ACE
- Memory: Zhiqi F4-3600C 16D-32GTNC (16GB*2)
- Hard drive: Teclast Tamron DS10 512GB SSD
- Power supply: Deshang Biku PURE POWER 11 FM (750W gold medal)
Below are the test results. The first is 3DMark. No matter which mode is used, the scores are almost the same (only a few are listed here, please refer to the original text for the complete picture):
Next is the data run through the AIDA64 GPGPU. Similarly, all tested RTX 3060 old versions are almost the same as LHR. The picture below shows the old version:
LHR version:
Actual measurement of 12 game masterpieces, the image quality is set to the highest, the resolution is 1920×1080, not surprisingly, the average FPS is also similar, the difference is within 2 FPS:
So the result is obvious. The old version of RTX 3060 and the LHR version perform exactly the same in terms of game performance. This computing power locking mechanism has no impact. Gamers who are interested in buying RTX 3000 series graphics cards can buy it with confidence.
If the RTX 3000 series graphics card is LHR, it will be specially marked on the outer packaging. Only the RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti have LHR as soon as they are launched, so they will not be specially marked.
Source: KOCPC Chinese