ASUS Proposes that DUAL GeForce RTX 3060 OC Card Offers "Incredible Value" in 2025

[Zareek]

What a JOKE! How far the mighty have fallen. When ASUS finally decides it's going to stop screwing over it's customers, I will wait another five years before buying or recommending their overpriced trash. There was a time when they made top quality products at reasonable prices and their support was pretty darn good too. At some point they got that Jensen Huang disease and now all they see are dollar signs. What they don't seem to realize is that unlike Ngreedia, they have real competition.

 

[mechtech]

I...I know you guys are laughing, but have you seen the pricing for both Newegg and eBay?

There are 3060 cards right now that they are asking $300 for. Cards that have been used and abused for years, that people think is worth this, and the most barebones of 4060 cards is only now reaching the $300 region.


Asus is obviously trying to sell this because they've found a stash of this garbage sitting somewhere...and given how badly the low end market has been hollowed out in the last few years they think that this is acceptable. It'd be funny if it weren't so darn depressing.

I can get a 4060 for that price although 8GB ram.

If it was for $200 maybe then.

 

[lilhasselhoffer]

I can get a 4060 for that price although 8GB ram.

If it was for $200 maybe then.

Maybe how I said this was unclear.

3060 - eBay - $300. Basic full memory version.
4060 - Newegg - $300. "Maximum" memory of 8 GB...4 less than the base 3060.

I make no judgements, and do not support the statement that the 3060 is a clear value in 2025. I simply think that the response from ASUS is less tone deaf than many might think, given the status of the free market on GPUs at this exact moment in time. No judgements on good bad or indifferent...just me asking if what they said was truly crazy or actually just a rational take on the market once you factor out the frankly depressing nature of them trying to sell you on a two generations old card for functionally what MSRP used to be. That's what depresses me.

 

[DaemonForce]

I make no judgements, and do not support the statement that the 3060 is a clear value in 2025.

I tend to be the one to make as many judgments as possible to find value where others can't figure it out and I might be in agreement here.
I'm starting to pick up some more ideas today. For most gaming and recording I'm still very much 1080p and filtering between 60/120/144Hz.
Is the Arc A380 6GB capable of trading blows with the RTX 3050 6GB? Against the RTX 3060 8GB? How about encode/decode performance?
Is it possible to get more out of a squirrely low profile Arc card on H.264 encode duty for $120 than some junk tier Ampere silicon at $190?
What happens if Intel surprise ships a B380 or other low profile B series card? Will that be enough to eat NVENC's lunch?

 

[mechtech]

On sale!!!

lol

 

[SSGBryan]

I tend to be the one to make as many judgments as possible to find value where others can't figure it out and I might be in agreement here.
I'm starting to pick up some more ideas today. For most gaming and recording I'm still very much 1080p and filtering between 60/120/144Hz.
Is the Arc A380 6GB capable of trading blows with the RTX 3050 6GB? Against the RTX 3060 8GB? How about encode/decode performance?
Is it possible to get more out of a squirrely low profile Arc card on H.264 encode duty for $120 than some junk tier Ampere silicon at $190?
What happens if Intel surprise ships a B380 or other low profile B series card? Will that be enough to eat NVENC's lunch?

I got an a310 specifically for AV1 encoding. $80 open box at Microcenter.