Monday, February 8th 2021
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Release Date is February 25
NVIDIA is slated to launch its performance-segment GeForce RTX 3060 "Ampere" graphics card on February 25, 2021, according to a WCCFTech report. The company launches the card at an MSRP (starting price) of USD $329. 12 GB is the standard memory size for the RTX 3060. The card marks the debut of the new 8 nm "GA106" silicon, NVIDIA's 4th chip based on the GeForce "Ampere" graphics architecture.
While the "GA106" silicon features up to 3,840 CUDA cores across 30 streaming multiprocessors, the RTX 3060 is reportedly being carved out by enabling 28 SM, working out to 3,584 CUDA cores. It features 12 GB of 15 Gbps GDDR6 memory across a 192-bit wide memory interface, which means 360 GB/s memory bandwidth, slightly higher than the 336 GB/s of the RTX 2060. The card has a typical board power rating of 170 W, which means plenty of custom-design graphics card models should come with single 8-pin PCIe power connector configurations. NVIDIA's design goal for the RTX 3060 could be doubling performance over the GTX 1060 "Pascal," and a significant performance uplift over the RTX 2060.
Source:
WCCFTech
While the "GA106" silicon features up to 3,840 CUDA cores across 30 streaming multiprocessors, the RTX 3060 is reportedly being carved out by enabling 28 SM, working out to 3,584 CUDA cores. It features 12 GB of 15 Gbps GDDR6 memory across a 192-bit wide memory interface, which means 360 GB/s memory bandwidth, slightly higher than the 336 GB/s of the RTX 2060. The card has a typical board power rating of 170 W, which means plenty of custom-design graphics card models should come with single 8-pin PCIe power connector configurations. NVIDIA's design goal for the RTX 3060 could be doubling performance over the GTX 1060 "Pascal," and a significant performance uplift over the RTX 2060.
27 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Release Date is February 25
3080 to 12GB=$999(probably)
Conclusion GDDR6 chips is much cheaper with HUGE discounts for graphic card trademarks than all we believe. Prices of this chips that we accessed and found from internet sites are fake.
Wanted to upgrade to a 5600 XT/5700 'non xt' or RTX card in the ~ same range in January or so, slowly saved up the money for it since 2020 September but then we know what happened meanwhile.
Everything is like double the price now on the second hand market if not more.
Looking at the way things are atm, I'm not even sure if I can upgrade this year.
@authorized well, I usually go to a brick & mortar shops instead of waiting/worry about my purchase being damaged from shipment.
Last time I held myself to that principle I ended up with the GTX 1080 at 420 eur after taxes, best bang/buck and value I've ever had... I mean I could still sell one today for 2/3rd of the price! Can't deduct anymore, so 500 it is now, fair enough. This bar will not move up no matter how much polish gets added to leather jackets or ingame lighting.
History repeats, patience is a virtue.So don't Ebay your GPUs. God almighty, I thought that was super obvious since... Ebay. But maybe in some areas of the world there is a different stance on this. I still don't get it, why would you overcomplicate your support and RMA process by going with some unknown quantity sort of seller, for these kinds of products? To save $10? And if you're buying second hand GPUs over there the risk is even higher because no warranty whatsoever.
My card is also an ex miner, previous owner used it for ~6 months of mining or so. 'he had the retailer purchase papers/warranty to prove that'
Its still running in my PC since 2018 September with pretty much no issues. 'I'm also undervolting it and taking care of it in general'
I'm only buying second hand hardware from a second hand market site/forum in my country.
There I can do my research about the seller/check their history and also reactions from previous buyers and whatnot. 'this dude had +110 positive and 0 negative feedback'
That and I also refuse to buy anything unless it has the very least 1 year retailer warranty thats in my country. '2-3 years is the norm here if brand new'
He was clear about the fact that it was a mining card but in good condition and also flashed back the original bios before selling.
Sure you can still run into the random scammer or shady person on that site but they don't last long or just buy from reputable sellers with good history.
I do prefer brand new hardware from a retailer but since I'm always on a low budget its actually a better way for me to buy upgrades and sell my old ones.
I won't hold my breath about seeing any stock of the 3060.
I'd like to say I can wait things out, but over the past month or two my 980Ti has been having random fan spin ups to 100% more and more often. Even when the fans aren't spinning and the temps are in the mid 30s, I'll just be copying a blu-ray movie and doing nothing else and the fans spin up real quick.....maybe I'll swap my 980Ti from my computer to the server computer (used to have it as a backup gaming rig, but I don't game off it anymore) and put the 980Ti from that computer into my gaming tower.
I'm glad I grabbed a 2080 Super in the first half of 2020. It might no longer be in the top 10 performing cards anymore but it should still be powerful enough to last me until the end of this current round of crypto craze.