NVIDIA has set a release date for the GeForce RTX 3060, although waiting is not the biggest challenge. According The Verge, the $ 329 mid-range GPU will be available at retailers on February 25 at 12pm East. You will need to purchase a video card from a third party. Unlike RTX 3060 Ti and other high-end cards, there will be no official Founders edition.
The base 3060 is a spiritual successor to cards like the GTX 1060 and RTX 2060, and brings features like hardware accelerated lightning tracking and DLSS to an NVIDIA card below $ 350 for the first time. It is the slowest in the RTX 30 family to date with ‘just’ 3,584 CUDA cores, a 192-bit memory interface and a 1.32 GHz base clock. However, it also has more memory than any mainstream NVIDIA GPU. , with 12 GB of RAM – may be a better choice if you need that space more than raw computing power.
The challenge, as you can imagine, is to find the RTX 3060 in stock. NVIDIA has been dealing with a shortage of GPUs for months due to increased cryptocurrency mining and limited demand, to the point of resuming the sale of cards from years ago just to have products available. Production is not expected to improve until NVIDIA’s fiscal quarter ends at the end of April. If you don’t act fast enough, you may have to pay a premium for the RTX 3060 (or wait several weeks) to obtain it.