NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Release Date is February 25

[Parn]

I guess the miners would have pre-ordered all cards from the first batch. This is going to be equivalent to a paper launch more or less.

I'm glad I grabbed a 2080 Super in the first half of 2020. It might no longer be in the top 10 performing cards anymore but it should still be powerful enough to last me until the end of this current round of crypto craze.

 

[cst1992]

Exactly. I've got a nice half grand sitting here waiting to get spent. It should buy a 3070 or equivalent, and if it doesn't... no buy.

If you could get a 3070 for that price, go for it; but frankly I'd be willing to stretch the budget a little($50?) if possible.
I paid $490 for a 3060Ti and I'm not dissatisfied.

This card confuses me a bit.
3060 vs 3060Ti:
- 3584 cuda cores vs 4864
- 170W vs 200W TDP(could be lower)
- As fast as a 2070 vs as fast as/faster than a 2080 Super
- 15Gbps vs 14Gbps memory
- 360GB/s memory bandwidth vs 448GB/s

This card is 20% slower and has 20% less memory bandwidth than the 3060Ti.
Why does it have 12GB of VRAM? 6 GB should have been fine. I bet the extra TDP is because of the excess memory.

 

[Vayra86]

If you could get a 3070 for that price, go for it; but frankly I'd be willing to stretch the budget a little($50?) if possible.
I paid $490 for a 3060Ti and I'm not dissatisfied.

This card confuses me a bit.
3060 vs 3060Ti:
- 3584 cuda cores vs 4864
- 170W vs 200W TDP(could be lower)
- As fast as a 2070 vs as fast as/faster than a 2080 Super
- 15Gbps vs 14Gbps memory
- 360GB/s memory bandwidth vs 448GB/s

This card is 20% slower and has 20% less memory bandwidth than the 3060Ti.
Why does it have 12GB of VRAM? 6 GB should have been fine. I bet the extra TDP is because of the excess memory.

Now compare it to cards of past gen and you'll see an immense discrepancy between core power and VRAM amounts. Even the 3070 with just 8GB is far from ideal, really, and even at 500 that still seems like a pretty bad deal going forward. They can talk ages about fantastic technologies to reduce VRAM but they all hit quality or performance in some way. The fact is, we're at a complete standstill with GPUs that are twice as fast as what I've got now.

So no, definitely not agreeing with that perspective on memory this gen. The whole stack is screwed up like that. Its either overkill or too little. So really, MSRP is already the F*ing limit and quite a bit over it, if you ask me. I don't care about demand and scarce stuff, the product just for what it is, is just not worth it. RT is also just not worth it yet, and most recent games that do have it are short, linear, or the eternal shooter.

I can wait.