Photos of unobtainable video cards with prices to creep your skin

Video card manufacturers don’t want it, and neither do those who love plastered information, but every now and then you also have to put yourself in our shoes. Talking to you on a daily basis about products that we know you will not be able to buy, if not perhaps at crazy prices, frustrating for us too. We could have made a news entitled “Here are the RTX 3060s coming”, but it would have sounded like a grip for a ride and therefore a way of creativity.

Yesterday evening the shops put up the first (few) GeForce RTX 3060 12GB video cards on sale and frankly, plus one
scarce availability, even the prices were and are dizzying. If you have read our review of MSI’s Gaming X Trio, you know that for a “starting price” (the so-called MSRP) of 339 euro the custom proposal we tested costs 549 euros.

The starting price, which some find already high in itself (in line with the launch price of the RTX 2060 and this superior GPU, so I do not find it personally scandalous, perhaps because I own an RTX 2060 bought on Amazon for 374 euros in March 2019 , damn!) appears
a practically fictitious price, and not only for market dynamics, but starting from the price lists of Nvidia’s partners.

Let’s start from MSI, which informs us that in addition to the Gaming X Trio at 549 euros, its launch lineup includes four other models called Gaming X 12G (509 euros), Ventus 3X 12G OC (485 euros), Ventus 2X 12G OC (459 euros) and Ventus 2X 12G (429 euros). The extreme synthesis that the less expensive RTX 3060 of MSI costs 90 euros more than the price list indicated by Nvidia. Sure, an Aero ITX will likely come along that might just come close to MSRP, but currently not there.

At home Asus is no better, with the ROG Strix 3060 (ROG-STRIX-RTX3060-O12G-GAMING) “available at the recommended price of 599 euro VAT included “. Eh, thank goodness that VAT included. The TUF version instead costs 549 euros, while the Dual 499 euros. 160 euros more than what Nvidia said. The other realities did not communicate the price lists to us, but wandering around the stores (about ten), we saw in addition to the shortage / absence of cards also something interesting.

Leaving aside AK Informatica which seems to sell the new card only on preassembled PCs (AK Rig) without specifying the model, at Drako we see two Asus models – the ROG Strix and the TUF – respectively at 649 euros and 599 euros, even beyond the recommended price list. from the Taiwanese company. Availability indicated for late May – early June (!), But we hope they are only precautionary dates.

Next sees many cards in its list, but obviously not available. There Zotac GeForce RTX 3060 Twin Edge la meno costosa, a 399 euro, but last night it was discounted by 15% at 340 euros (when we saw it it could not already be bought), and therefore represents the only case of a price similar to that declared by Nvidia. Without making it too long, currently the most expensive model on Next is the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3060 Eagle OC at 709 euros.

Cast Informatica has two MSI in the list, the Ventus 2X OC and the Gaming X Trio, not available and with a price of 499 and 549 euros, the first higher than that indicated by the manufacturer. We could go on a little longer, but we would get repetitive and stop there. In practice, nothing new under the sun (unfortunately), if not that Zotac on Next that we do not know if it was really affordable or a red herring.

At this point it comes to saying as much to Nvidia / AMD, as to their partners, that perhaps they would do better to present the new cards without talking about the recommended price, at least until the end of this blessed shortage. So, it seems like a joke for everyone, we who try to make information and the fans who find themselves completely disoriented and embarrassed by a disheartening situation. Below, as promised in the title, a roundup of photos of GeForce RTX 3060 that, if you want, you can print as a holy picture waiting for better times:

MSI

ASUS

Gigabyte

Zotac

EVGA

Palit

KFA2

Inno3D

Gainward