Aren't all the Nvidia open source drivers unable to take advantage of even a fraction of the true performance of the cards anyway?
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AlessandroB wrote on 2025-11-25, 12:40:Be careful, though, because I didn't ask which card was better for gaming per se, but how they both performed with my current CPU. I should note that I'd primarily use it with vMix, where the most important thing is the CUDA cores. If it allows me to game a little, so much the better, but that's not its primary use. Let's say 70% vMix, 30% gaming. And it doesn't even have to be a card suited solely to my current CPU, because if my work with vMix were to progress, I'd have to get a new motherboard and CPU to pair with the Nvidia, and in that case, a 1080ti (which paired with my current CPU is fine) would be limiting compared to the 3060ti, I think... but these are my considerations; I'm asking you, who know much more about this. I'm open to other models, too, as long as they don't cost too much compared to the price of these two.
Just a suggestion, but you may want to just ask this at r/vmix.
As expected, most comments here have assumed this was a question about gaming performance. A workload that is 70% using a specific piece of software (which most are probably not familiar with) is going to be hard to give meaningful recommendations for.
I don't believe there are normally any situations where a 1080 Ti outperforms a 3060 Ti, so I am inclined to say that the 3060 Ti will be better, but people who use vMix will be able to give a much better recommendation as to how they compare for that program.
keenmaster486 wrote on 2025-11-25, 19:30:Aren't all the Nvidia open source drivers unable to take advantage of even a fraction of the true performance of the cards anyway?
The old drivers which were reverse engineered (nouveau) - yeah, it's absolute crap to this day, even for very old hardware. Starting with RTX 2000 series Nvidia provided open source drivers. Maxwell and Pascal cards are still somewhat supported, but as the time will go on - old proprietary drivers won't be compatible with fresh Linux kernels.
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Ozzuneoj wrote on 2025-11-25, 20:01:Just a suggestion, but you may want to just ask this at r/vmix. […]
AlessandroB wrote on 2025-11-25, 12:40:Be careful, though, because I didn't ask which card was better for gaming per se, but how they both performed with my current CPU. I should note that I'd primarily use it with vMix, where the most important thing is the CUDA cores. If it allows me to game a little, so much the better, but that's not its primary use. Let's say 70% vMix, 30% gaming. And it doesn't even have to be a card suited solely to my current CPU, because if my work with vMix were to progress, I'd have to get a new motherboard and CPU to pair with the Nvidia, and in that case, a 1080ti (which paired with my current CPU is fine) would be limiting compared to the 3060ti, I think... but these are my considerations; I'm asking you, who know much more about this. I'm open to other models, too, as long as they don't cost too much compared to the price of these two.
Just a suggestion, but you may want to just ask this at r/vmix.
As expected, most comments here have assumed this was a question about gaming performance. A workload that is 70% using a specific piece of software (which most are probably not familiar with) is going to be hard to give meaningful recommendations for.
I don't believe there are normally any situations where a 1080 Ti outperforms a 3060 Ti, so I am inclined to say that the 3060 Ti will be better, but people who use vMix will be able to give a much better recommendation as to how they compare for that program.
But I'm pretty sure the 3060 is better than the 1080 in vmix. My doubt stems from how these two cards work on this particular system. It's a problem I can't imagine exists... perhaps a bus incompatibility or a power requirement issue. The 3060 card performs better in vmix, but it has to interact with the rest of the system, and I'm not sure about that.
