Nvidia announced that its midrange graphics card RTX 3060 will be launched on February 25.
Customers will be able to order the RTX 3060 from retailers from 9am PT / 12pm ET on that day. No edition of Founder’s 3060 is planned, according to The Verge.
The RTX 3060 will cost $ 329, making it significantly more affordable than the RTX 3060 Ti ($ 399) or the much more powerful 30 series GPUs, the top of which (the RTX 3090) costs $ 1,499.
Using Nvidia’s Ampere architecture, the RTX 3060 has 12 GB of GDDR6 memory with 13 Shader TFLOPS, 25 RT TFLOPS and 101 Tensioner TFLOPS. For $ 329, the RTX 3060 should allow price-conscious PC players to build equipment that rivals or possibly wins the PS5 or Xbox Series X for almost the same price.
If you like laptop games more, don’t worry about being left in the dust. Nvidia also recently unveiled RTX 30 series cards for mobile machines, bringing the power of the 3060, 3070 and 3080 to laptops.
Joseph Knoop is a writer / producer / attached to his AMD Fury for IGN.