NVIDIA Announces the GeForce RTX 3060, $330, 12 GB of GDDR6

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3060 looks cool as other Nvidia too, but cant complain about AMD products as well. When it gets to competition with AMD and attempts to attract customers, weird decisions come out like that 12GB VRAM, but thats due to conficts with previous card generations setups like 6-8GB VRAM 20xx series or even newer 30xx series from last year(2020). Anyway i guess it makes some sense, while sometimes unused, say with older games, as new games with higher VRAM requirements come out and higher res textures and so on, it allow you play higher res.. either 2K or even 4K with lower FPS versus higher GPU cores with less VRAM, but maybe less stuttering, thanks to no touches to system RAM, sure depends on other system parts...CPU and RAM mainly. As I dont stick to last gen AAA titles if those dont get to me by accident or as gift, that VRAM size would be most time unused for me, so overpriced, I usually go for budget GPUs, like 1050 i have 3years. If GPUs get at stocks again at some close to MSRP prices so value ok, i probably get some newer, not yet decided if it would be 1650S/1660S, 2060series if some big discount or some 3050/3050TI, which 3050TI looks most future proof for casual gaming and still kicking vs my 1050, also hope reasonably priced. That 4GB VRAM looks quite big compromise for making low price, maybe Nvidia knows best what memory size fits its GPU core for most uses. As they have GF experience tool for recommended settings for each GPU, its kind easy to optimize your ingame settings for optimal GPU/game performance for any desired Graphics card /VRAM you get, so here i finally dont fear much for that 12G VRAM within 3060.