Nvidia nails the launch date of the Geforce RTX 3060

The top tier of the graphics card market has been full of new models since the autumn of 2020, while the store shelves are empty. When it comes to graphics cards in the lower price and performance classes, AMD is reportedly about to present variants for the middle class, while Nvidia has already made a difference with the launched Geforce RTX 3060 Ti and unveiled sibling RTX 3060.

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1 Specifications: Nvidia Geforce RTX 3060

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The “Ti” -less sibling stepped into the spotlight during the company’s presentation at CES 2021, where the middle class’s most outstanding feature was a memory capacity of 12 GB. At present and isolated to the “Ampere” family, only the Geforce RTX 3090 breaks this. At the time, Nvidia announced that the card will debut towards the end of February, a time that is now being nailed to 25 February.

As of Thursday, February 25, compact Geforce RTX 3060 cards will accompany the larger ones.

It is already known that the recommended price tag is 329 USD, which Nvidia translates to a starting price of 3,650 kronor. Via The Verge, Nvidia confirms a premonition about which versions are waiting for the intermediate model, and it is clear that the variant Founders Edition will not be available. Official presentation photos show both two- and three-fan coolers from various partner manufacturers, but eager players have also lifted the lid on compact Mini ITX models.

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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
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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In terms of other specifications, Nvidia lists the new graphics circuit GA106, which in the case of the Geforce RTX 3060 comes with 3,584 active CUDA cores. The memory bus stops at 192 bits for a theoretical memory bandwidth of 360 GB / s, which is usually lower than for the rest of the RTX 3000 family. Also lower is the specified TBP value of 170 watts, a level that, however, completely crushes the possibilities for small cards without external power supply.

It remains to be seen what price levels the partner manufacturers are aiming for, but even more central is the issue of availability. A few Swedish retailers such as Webhallen have already listed some models with prices in the range of SEK 3,990 to SEK 5,990, but whether they are sold in volume and whether the prices are adjusted for launch remains to be seen. The cards can be purchased from 25 February at 18:00 Swedish time.

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Will you try to get your hands on a Geforce RTX 3060 at launch, or are you perhaps queuing up for one of the more powerful Nvidia or AMD cards? Tell us in the comments thread!