Tuesday, January 5th 2021
NVIDIA Readies GeForce RTX 3060 Ultra: 12GB, ASUS TUF OC Pictured
NVIDIA is reportedly preparing a new GeForce RTX 30-series SKU positioned around the RTX 3060 Ti and the RTX 3070, as the company looks to fine-tune its lineup against the Radeon RX 6700 series. Called the GeForce RTX 3060 Ultra, the SKU is reportedly carved out from the same 8 nm "GA104" silicon as the RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 3070; but with a different core-configuration, and 12 GB of GDDR6 memory. At this point, it is not known if the memory bus width is narrowed to 192-bit, or if the same 256-bit wide memory bus is used (with mixed memory chip density). WCCFTech posted a picture of the first custom-design RTX 3060 Ultra card, an ASUS TUF Gaming product, which it reports to be faster than the RTX 3060 Ti. The publication also reports the card's MSRP pricing to be USD $449.
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WCCFTech
69 Comments on NVIDIA Readies GeForce RTX 3060 Ultra: 12GB, ASUS TUF OC Pictured
BTW 839€ for a 6800 is ridiculous...
And no, stock is not depleting in minutes.
Alternate also has plenty in stock (although, same or worse pricing, and, wow, 600€ for 3060Ti, lmao) Well in line with green pricing, if anything, rather modest.
Considering the 6800 at 840€ "in line" with 3070 pricing showed your bias. I paid 639€ for a PNY 3070 on Amazon.de
I don't know why so many people think It's faster than 3060Ti when It has 12GB and that means 192bit GDDR6 bus which is less than what 256bit what 3060Ti has and from that we can quess It has less Cuda cores.
BTW they won't use different memory sizes to get 12GB Vram(4x 1GB + 4x 2GB GDDR6 chips) on a 256bit wide bus, because full bandwidth would be only for 8GB and the last 4GB would have only 1/2 of that.
2) It's a nonsensical GPU with 10GB VRAM
3) NV likely wasn't sure it could get away with selling it at twice the announced price and hence didn't produce to much of those
It is essentially 3080Ti sold as 3080 (and 3070 is what should have been 3080, but RDNA2 hit hard and now we expect 3060<something> to have more VRAM than 3070/3080) It's been hours since I've posted it and all GPUs are still there.
There will be there tomorrow and the day after as well and if not, only shortly. No, it rather shows your fanboism.
849 is an adequate price for 6800 (notably faster, double the VRAM), when 3070 goes for 729, there is nothing to argue about here.
As for "but can't I pull some random price from somewhere", people bought 6800 for 580€ from amd.com.
It is as relevant to this discussion, as color of my neighbor's car.
I would buy a 3070 over a 6800 every day, even if 8 Gb of VRAM are a poor choice by Nvidia.
Nothing can be said of performance before the card is actually benchmarked.
Most likely the RTX3060 Ultra will be my next GPU !! Hyped-up!!
Regular and cheaper 3060 would be better.
My theory is that all RTX cards are bought up for render farms that will put 'man on mars' - if you catch my drift :D
I mean NASA and Musk sort of promised, and you don't want to announce all the deaths and suicides until there is nobody left, it would be depressing.
What a monumental loss... :D