Nvidia Geforce RTX 3060 is sold used – three days before launch

The fall of 2020 included many highlights for hardware enthusiasts, through new donations on several fronts. When it comes to graphics cards, however, scarce access has been a fact since each launch day. High demand, component shortages, limited production capacity and mining disruption are all painted as contributing factors to the shortage, which seems to be holding up.

On February 25, Nvidia will launch the next graphics card in the Geforce RTX 3000 family, namely the RTX 3060 mid-range card. This will be the first model to tackle the problem where large volumes are forced to break cryptocurrency, miningperformance at both software and hardware levels. With three days left until launch, the card appears on the Belarusian second-hand market.

These are specifically three copies of the third-party Geforce RTX 3060 Eagle OC card from Gigabyte, which boasts a dual-fan cooler and 12 GB of graphics memory. According to the advertisement on the website Onliner, the cards are unsurprisingly in new condition, where two are unpacked and the third “open for verification”. The technology site Videocardz guesses that the verification is about testing the locking miningperformance, which is not unlikely given that the advertiser managed to procure three cards.

In line with the high demand for new graphics cards, the seller takes the opportunity with a juicy price tag of 2,800 Belarusian rubles, which corresponds to about 9,000 kronor. Nvidia believes that the starting price for the Geforce RTX 3060 is SEK 3,650, while eager Swedish retailers have listed upcoming models in the price range of SEK 4,000 – 6,000. Sales start on Thursday 25 February at 18:00.

The fact that the three graphics cards are immediately sold by a large-buying private person gossips that Nvidia’s cryptocurrency measure is in place and working, which is why miners likely to leave the cards in peace. The prospects for upgrading enthusiasts to pinch a card are thus likely to be better than for previous “Ampere” siblings, but scalpers and low volumes to store shelves are clouds of unrest that can be assumed to remain.

Source: Online via Videocardz

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