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
I paid $490 for a 3060Ti and I'm not dissatisfied.
This card confuses me a bit.
3060 vs 3060Ti:
- 3584 cuda cores vs 4864
- 170W vs 200W TDP(could be lower)
- As fast as a 2070 vs as fast as/faster than a 2080 Super
- 15Gbps vs 14Gbps memory
- 360GB/s memory bandwidth vs 448GB/s
This card is 20% slower and has 20% less memory bandwidth than the 3060Ti.
Why does it have 12GB of VRAM? 6 GB should have been fine. I bet the extra TDP is because of the excess memory.
So no, definitely not agreeing with that perspective on memory this gen. The whole stack is screwed up like that. Its either overkill or too little. So really, MSRP is already the F*ing limit and quite a bit over it, if you ask me. I don't care about demand and scarce stuff, the product just for what it is, is just not worth it. RT is also just not worth it yet, and most recent games that do have it are short, linear, or the eternal shooter.
I can wait.