NVIDIA Has Stopped Making GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GPUs, According to Industry Leaks

[T0@st]

A Taiwanese PC hardware news outlet, Benchlife, has been talking to insider sources positioned within several of NVIDIA's add-in-board (AIB) partners - the author reports that these organizations are experiencing significant changeovers. The AIB informants indicate that production of GeForce RTX 4060 and 4060 Ti models is accelerating, following rumors of the older Ampere-based RTX 3060 Ti card being discontinued. The article's author was seeking further clarification and confirmation from industry insiders, given that most of the recent leaks have emerged from Chinese technology discussion boards. Forumites have posited that NVIDIA has stopped supplying its AIB partners with RTX 3060 Ti silicon. It is difficult to tell whether (via translation) the AIB tipsters have concluded that the older card is totally done for, but NVIDIA is prioritizing the launch of new products.

It would make sense for Team Green to clear the way for the much newer Ada Lovelace-based lineups, but their entry level RTX 3060 cards have remained firm favorites with PC hardware buyers, so it could be quite tricky to play catch up with succeeding product lines. NVIDIA's component suppliers have stated (back in mid-April) that RTX 4000-series GPU production was not ramping up, due to a possible slow uptake of existing cards - in particular the recently released RTX 4070. Given the vast popularity of budget graphics card models, it seems that NVIDIA is preparing to embrace that market segment once again with its latest offerings - due for launch at the end of this month.



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[cvaldes]

This makes sense. Everything eventually stops selling.

Selling down current channel inventory will probably take three months.

AIB partners won't want to pay Nvidia established silicon prices since as soon as the 4060 Ti comes out, the 3060 Ti will take a big hit in value. A price cut for 3060 Ti cards might be in store which means lower margins for everyone downstream of Nvidia. Team Green certainly isn't going to take a big margin hit willingly.

 

[dj-electric]

Looking at retailers and seeing that most models are 390-440 USD, this is a great time to stop making them.

 

[cvaldes]

Sales of 3060 Ti cards will plummet as soon as the 4060 Ti hits the street. If the channel is stuffed full of 3060 Ti inventory, expect some fire sales on Ampere generation cards.

Might be a good opportunity for certain market segments like streamers needing good video encoding performance for their capture rig.

 

[Paranoir andando]

Has Stopped... When? How many were making per month? How many full warehouses do they have?

 

[ZoneDymo]

Sales of 3060 Ti cards will plummet as soon as the 4060 Ti hits the street. If the channel is stuffed full of 3060 Ti inventory, expect some fire sales on Ampere generation cards.

Might be a good opportunity for certain market segments like streamers needing good video encoding performance for their capture rig.

buying a 3060(ti) for streaming would be a pretty silly purchase, you can get much lower end that would preform the same.

 

[Readlight]

I saw it costed more than 1000 euro.

 

[QUANTUMPHYSICS]

won't miss them

 

[Count von Schwalbe]

Sales of 3060 Ti cards will plummet as soon as the 4060 Ti hits the street.

Subject to pricing. I still remain firmly pessimistic on that front.

 

[cvaldes]

Subject to pricing. I still remain firmly pessimistic on that front.

Nvidia and their AIB partners need to price the 4060 Ti somewhere between the 3060 Ti and the 4070 which doesn't leave them with much wiggle room.

MSRPs at launch

4070 = $600 MSRP
4060 Ti = ?
3070 = $500 MSRP
3060 Ti = $400 MSRP

Assuming the 4060 Ti has a substantial performance boost over the 3060 Ti, the Ampere product isn't going to be particularly appealing even with a slight price advantage.

 

[N/A]

In terms of performance 4060 Ti is the same as 3060 Ti because it's 128 bit bus 48 ROP and it won't be saved by clock speed alone. 399 would be asking way too much for this since the simplicity of the PCB should shave off 100 at least. 349 at best and 399 for the 16GB.