Unreleased GeForce RTX 3060 "Super" that Maxes Out GA106 Silicon Surfaced

[btarunr]

An unreleased GeForce RTX 3060 "Super" graphics card surfaced on the web. The original and popular RTX 3060 falls short of maxing out the 8 nm "GA106" siicon it is based on, with 28 out of 30 streaming multiprocessors being enabled (that's 3,584 out of 3,840 CUDA cores). This odd-ball graphics card maxes the silicon out, enabling all 30 SM and 3,840 CUDA cores, 120 Tensor cores, 30 RT cores, 120 TMUs, and 48 ROPs. This card reportedly has the ASIC code "GA106-400-A1" and device ID of 10DE-2501. The memory interface is still 192-bit wide, as is the memory speed of 15 Gbps (GDDR6-effective), and it has the same 12 GB of memory. Besides more shaders, the card has been given higher clock speeds than a production RTX 3060, with up to 1875 MHz boost, compared to 1777 MHz. Alas, this is one of many unofficial rare graphics cards that never went into production, and which NVIDIA doesn't officially support with driver updates.



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[Luke357]

This could've been the 3060 that didn't suck.

 

[roberto888]

So just a 3060 Mobile with 12GB vram.

 

[watzupken]

This could've been the 3060 that didn't suck.

I am not sure if this is true. The maxed out GA106 offers a minor increase in CUDA cores. So I am expecting only single digit percentage increase in performance. In my opinion, the RTX 3060 desktop is not a bad card, just badly priced as compared to competition. Because cards in this segment are not really RT worthy, so it lost a feature to make it stand out from competition.

 

[Luke357]

I am not sure if this is true. The maxed out GA106 offers a minor increase in CUDA cores. So I am expecting only single digit percentage increase in performance. In my opinion, the RTX 3060 desktop is not a bad card, just badly priced as compared to competition. Because cards in this segment are not really RT worthy, so it lost a feature to make it stand out from competition.

The 3060 is a bad card. It is about as a fast a 2060S which is hardly an improvement for the money. The only redeeming quality it has is the fact that it has 12 gigs of VRAM. @Msrp it was a bad price let alone for what it actually sold for. It shouldn't have been more than $250.

 

[jiacheng_liu]

fast a 2060S which is hardly an improvement for the money. The only redeeming quality it has is the fact that it has 12 gigs of VRAM. @Msrp it was a bad price let alone for what it actually sold for. It

This could've been the 3060 that didn't suck.

Except the PCB did suck lol. My goal was to at least beat stock titan xp on this 3060 "super," with a shunt mod and max overclock (because I wanna replace my daily), but this leaky ES core draws ~255W (yes 255W with GA106) under load, maxing out the heavily cut down VRM config. The PCB can accommodate 8 phases, but MSI installed only 5, and each of those mosfets can handle 45A sustained. This means that even at stock 1.1V, I am already pushing very hard on those VRM (45x5x1.1 = 245W) and is forcibly throttling despite a shunt modded TDP limit not being reached at all (not to mention the flimsy single 8pin on the board that has to handle all of this).

My goal is to find a gaming trio/suprim x GA104 PCB and transplant the core, but my BGA station has poor temperature control and applies excessive heat, so every heat cycle will just degrade this chip even more. I wonder if it is worth the effort, but there are hundreds of these cards unsold here, and I will ask if there are cards with better PCB already made.