Nvidia Geforce RTX 3060 is listed on the Swedish market - for SEK 3,560

A new graphics card with the architecture Ampere is on the doorstep. This is the Geforce RTX 3060, a long-awaited addition for many as it occupies the middle class and the price range of SEK 3,000–4,000. However, the autumn has shown that the recommended prices for graphics cards are as common as unicorns, but now it looks like at least hundreds at each retailer will be available at the right price.

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1 Specifications: Nvidia Geforce RTX 3060

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The Proshop online store is among the first to start listing the Geforce RTX 3060 and more specifically it is about Asus’ entry-level variant Dual. The price for graphics cards is stated here at SEK 3,560 including VAT, which is even slightly lower than Nvidia’s recommended SEK 3,650. However, it is not unreasonable that Proshop accidentally reversed the numbers 5 and 6.

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The catch is that the price will be limited to the first 230 copies sold. What the price for the model lands on afterwards is not clear, but other listings at Proshop suggest that a surcharge of up to SEK 1,500 or more is a probable outcome. As an example, MSI’s entry-level variants Ventus 2X and Ventus 3X are listed, which are listed for SEK 4,890 and SEK 5,190, respectively.

Specifications: Nvidia Geforce RTX 3060

	RTX 3070	RTX 3060 Ti	RTX 3060	RTX 2060 Super
Technical	8 nm Samsung	8 nm Samsung	8 nm Samsung	12 nm TSMC
Circuit	GA104	GA104	GA106	TU104
Circuit surface	392 mm²	392 mm²	?	445 mm²
Transistors	17.4 billion	17.4 billion	?	10.6 billion
Architecture	Ampere	Ampere	Ampere	Turing
CUDA cores	5 888 st.	4 864 st.	3 584 st.	2 176 st.
RT cores	46 st.	38 st.	28 st.	34 st.
Tensor cores	184 st.	152 st.	112 st.	272 st.
Texture units	184 st.	152 st.	112 st.	136 st.
Raster units	96 st.	80 st.	64 st.	64 st.
Clock frequency	1 500 MHz	1 410 MHz	1 320 MHz	1 470 MHz
GPU Boost	1 725 MHz	1 665 MHz	1 777 MHz	1 650 MHz
Calculating power (FP32)	20 313 GFLOPS	16 197 GFLOPS	12 738 GFLOPS	7 181 GFLOPS
Memory bus	256-bit	256-bit	192-bit	256-bit
Memory amount	8 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6	12 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6
Memory frequency	14 000 MHz	14 000 MHz	15 000 MHz	14 000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	448 GB/s	448 GB/s	360 GB/s	448 GB/s
TBP	220 W	200 W	170 W	175 W
Rec. Award	499 USD	399 USD	329 USD	399 USD

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The new intermediate class is based on the new graphics circuit GA106 and has 3,584 CUDA cores with a base frequency of 1,320 MHz and boost at 1,777 MHz. This includes a 192-bit memory bus and 12 GB of GDDR6 memory with an effective clock frequency of 15,000 MHz, for a theoretical bandwidth of 360 GB / s. The performance of the model is expected to be well above the RTX 2060 Super, especially with ray tracing the surcharge.

For those who are curious about Nvidia’s Geforce RTX 3060, the launch will take place tomorrow, February 25 at 15:00. The sales start for the new middle class will not take place until three hours later at 18:00.