NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition Review

By Nathan Kirsch

Watch Dogs: Legion

Watch Dogs: Legion is a 2020 action-adventure game published by Ubisoft and developed by its Toronto studio. It is the third instalment in the Watch Dogs series, and the sequel to 2016’s Watch Dogs 2. Legion was released on October 29, 2020 for Microsoft Windows and has received generally favorable reviews.

Watch Dogs Legion Built-in Benchmark

We tested this game title using the built-in benchmark with the ‘very high’ graphics quality setting with the DirectX 12 API. We benchmarked at 1080p, 1440p and 4K display resolutions with and without Ray Tracing enabled at the ‘High’ quality setting.

Watch Dogs Legion Very High Image Quality Settings

Each test was run three times and then we charted the average 0.1% minimum frame rate along with the average frame rate. This adds up to 18 benchmark runs per card and we tested 15 graphics cards, so you are looking at well over 250 benchmark runs on just this one game title.



Performance of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti was great on Watch Dogs: Legion as we were averaging 80 FPS at 1440P and 109 FPS at 1080P with the very high image preset. This level of performance put it ahead of the GeForce RTX 2080 and slightly behind the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER.

With ray tracing enabled the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti was found to be faster than the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER at all three resolutions that we tested.

The AMD Radeon RX 6800 was faster than the RTX 3060 Ti, but keep in mind that AMD has a known issue with ray traced reflections in Watch Dogs Legion as they are not rendering properly.