Sunday, September 19th 2021
Some NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Cards Based on Heavily Cut-Down GA104, Found in China
With the need for SLI compatibility out of the way, NVIDIA has been harvesting its larger GPUs to create lower-end SKUs to good effect, since the GeForce 10-series. Its latest such creation is select batches of GeForce RTX 3060 graphics cards sold through its AIC partners, which are based on the larger "GA104" silicon, over the "GA106" that it's natively based on. Nearly half of the 6,144 CUDA cores physically present on the chip are disabled to arrive at the 3,584-core count of the RTX 3060, besides a narrowing of the memory bus down to 192-bit. Since it is based on a different silicon, these RTX 3060 cards come with a different device-ID of "2487." The TechPowerUp GPU Database, which interoperates with the TechPowerUp GPU-Z Validation Database, localizes these oddball RTX 3060 cards to China.
Sources:
T4CFantasy (Twitter), TechPowerUp GPU Database
11 Comments on Some NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Cards Based on Heavily Cut-Down GA104, Found in China
I knew you could.
Same thing with the cutdown cores to make yet another card model.
However with that, I do have one of the 560-448's and it's not a bad card for what it is. Maybe this will work out to be the same, maybe not but there it is and if any find their way over here you'd at least want hope for that.
EDIT @qubit beat me to it.
"That's completely ridiculous and you're fired. You, the other one, sell those cards as renamed 3060s to China."
In other words, the more cards are produced the more money miners will get right now.
The only thing that will change this situation is when crypto bubble will burst, causing the GPU to not make money anymore and then miners will flood the market with their cards, making prices go down the floor.