Enough juice for a 3060?

[wolfmcbeard]

So I've been looking at a few non-ti 3060's, I'm seeing the recommendation for psu wattage around 650, can I get away with flat 600 since I don't have plans to overclock it and don't want to get a new psu right now?
I've considered the rx6600 and 6700, but I've seen a lot of complaints about drivers for team red.
I've seen two different memory options for the 3060 as well, 8gb 256bit and 12gb 192bit, is there any real advantage to one or the other because my brain tells me big number = better.

[rippy4500]

8gb is the 3060 ti, 12gb is the regular 3060. Yeah its weird.

Most games will be fine with 8gb so it will rarely matter on modern games.

 

600 watts should be fine assuming you have a high quality unit. Which power supply do you have?

[wolfmcbeard]

Something that came with my ibuypower chassis, I can give the thing better marks for at least being painted, I can't remember the name of it though.
Where it's sitting, I'd have to take the pc half apart to get a look at it again, I know it ran a 3600 and a 5700xt for a while before that system failed due to other reasons, though not sure how good of a metric that is.
Pretty sure I recall seeing an 80+ of silver on the side of it though.

[Pixelfie]

If the 5700 XT worked, it should have enough power for a 3060.

 

26 minutes ago, wolfmcbeard said:

I've considered the rx6600 and 6700, but I've seen a lot of complaints about drivers for team red.

In my experience you should be good if you use the recommended drivers instead of optional. In the last 2 years I've never had any driver issues using RX 5500 XT and RX 6600, until I recently installed a new optional driver for OpenGL improvements.

[wolfmcbeard]

PCpartpicker is saying I'd only need 394watts, but I imagine that's going off base tdp's and whatnot.
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/

[Dukesilver27-]

The main issue is the transient spikes, which are momentary increase in power draw, good quality PSU may survive them. But lower quality ones, these spikes might trigger the overcurrent protection of the PSU, which would shut down the whole system. 

A 3060 is rather low powered, so it might be fine, you just need to try and see if your PSU could survive those spikes.

 

And, in regards to AMD GPUs, I recently switched to a 6800 XT, while it is a very powerful card, I've experienced so many driver issues, even with WHQL drivers, especially the optional drivers. But nothing that a driver reinstall could not fix, but every time any issue happens I have this fear that my GPU might kick the bucket.

But, can't beat the price to performance of AMD GPUs, I mean I bought it for the same price as a 3070, yet the 6800 XT is on par or a bit faster than a 3080.