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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
For the money I paid? Yeah, it's bad.

I bought this in the middle of 2021, so back then, $500 was a good price, an exceptional price actually... nothing else compared for that as the 6700 XT at the time was an $800/$900 card that I couldn't have dreamed of having.

It was bought to replace an old GTX 980 Ti because I couldn't quite hit 144fps in 1080p (100-110fps on high was the typical) with my games and wanted a boost. The 3060 still can't really achieve that even when paired with a way better CPU than it should be and way more RAM that it would normally be with in your typical midrange PC, at the time the i9-10900K was top of the line current.

The $500 shiny new 3060 barely delivered a 10-15% improvement across the board, to the point where I made sure I didn't miss a power connector or something. Huge disappointment to go from a 7 year old card to a new one expecting massive improvement only to find that almost nothing has changed.
gpt
That sucks! I did something similar going from 780 Ti to 1650S. Literally no difference, but at least I paid $350 less than you. But to be fair both the 780 Ti and 980 Ti were absolute monsters.