Custom NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 models have been circulating in the retail channel, with some buyers receiving their cards a week before launch. Now in its latest exclusivity on the retail availability of the RTX 3060, Coreteks has leaked photos of several custom models along with its final retail price, which is more expensive than the $ 399 RTX 3060 Ti MSRP.
Custom NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB graphics card models from ASUS, MSI and ZOTAC leak along with their prices, big profit margin over MSRP
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 should be launched for $ 329, which is a pretty decent price for a video card of this caliber. However, it seems that every major retailer will throw MSRP in the trash can and go with their own prices. Note that retailers and manufacturers act to set the final prices for these cards based on supply and demand.
Regarding prices, the cheapest NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 custom model that was seen was the MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Ventus 2X which features a dual fan design. This model is priced at $ 484.99 US. This is followed by the ASUS GeForce RTX 3060 TUF Gaming which costs $ 489.99 US, the ASUS GeForce RTX 3060 ROG STRIX and ZOTAC GeForce RTX 3060 Gaming, both would cost $ 499.99 US and, finally, we have the MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Gaming X Trio which is the most expensive variant priced at $ 514.99.
- MSI RTX 3060 Gaming X Trio $ 514.99
- MSI RTX 3060 VentusX2 $ 484.99
- Zotac RTX 3060 Gaming $ 499.99
- Asus RTX 3060 ROG Strix $ 499.99
- Asus RTX 3060 TUF Gaming $ 489.99
Considering that prices are in US dollars, this is probably a large retailer based in the United States, although the name is not disclosed. It should also be noted that there is a lot of stock for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 custom models as seen in the photos, so availability shouldn’t be as much of an issue as was the case with high end offerings. Considering that GeForce RTX 3060 depends on the GA106 GPU, which is a more conventional offering, it should be easier to produce than the GA104 and GA102 GPUs.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card specifications – GA106 GPU and 12 GB GDDR6 memory
At the heart of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card is the GA106 GPU. The GA106 is one of the many Ampere GPUs that we will have in the gaming segment. The GA106 GPU is the third gaming GPU produced by NVIDIA.
The new shader core in the NVIDIA Ampere architecture is 2.7x faster, the new RT cores are 1.7x faster, while the new Tensor cores are up to 2.7x faster than the previous generation Turing GPUs. The 2nd generation RT core offers accelerated ray tracing performance by dedicated hardware and features twice the intersection of radius / triangles with simultaneous RT graphics and computing operations.
For GeForce RTX 3060, NVIDIA has enabled a total of 28 SM units in its flagship, resulting in a total of 3584 CUDA cores, 112 TMUs. In addition to CUDA cores, NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3060 also comes packed with the latest generation RT (Ray-Tracing) cores, Tensor cores and new SM units or streaming multiprocessor units. The graphics card has a TDP of 170W.
In terms of memory, the GeForce RTX 3060 comes packed with 12 GB of GDDR6 memory. The memory runs on a wide 192-bit bus interface and has an effective clock speed of 15.00 Gbps, which offers a cumulative bandwidth of 360 GB / s, which is slightly greater than the RTX model. 6 GB of 2060 and you also end up with twice as much while the new Ampere compression architecture ensures that the GPU does not lose bandwidth.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series ‘Ampere’ graphics card specifications:
| Graphics card name | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPU Name | Ampere GA106-300 | Ampere GA104-200 | Ampere GA104-300 | Ampere GA102-200 | Ampere GA102-300 |
| Process Node | Samsung 8nm | Samsung 8nm | Samsung 8nm | Samsung 8nm | Samsung 8nm |
| Matrix size | TBC | 395.2 mm2 | 395.2 mm2 | 628.4 mm2 | 628.4 mm2 |
| Transistors | TBC | 17.4 billion | 17.4 billion | 28 billion | 28 billion |
| CUDA Cores | 3584 | 4864 | 5888 | 8704 | 10496 |
| TMUs / ROPs | 112/64 | 152/80 | 184/96 | 272/96 | 328/112 |
| Tensioner / RT cores | 112/28 | 152/38 | 184/46 | 272/68 | 328/82 |
| Base Clock | 1320 MHz | 1410 MHz | 1500 MHz | 1440 MHz | 1400 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1780 MHz | 1665 MHz | 1730 MHz | 1710 MHz | 1700 MHz |
| FP32 Compute | 13 TFLOPs | 16 TFLOPs | 20 TFLOPs | 30 TFLOPs | 36 TFLOPs |
| RT TFLOPs | 25 TFLOPs | 32 TFLOPs | 40 TFLOPs | 58 TFLOPs | 69 TFLOPs |
| Tensor-TOPs | 101 TOPs | 192 TOPs | 163 TOPs | 238 TOPs | 285 TOPs |
| Memory capacity | 12 GB GDDR6 | 8 GB GDDR6 | 8 GB GDDR6 | 10 GB GDDR6X | 24 GB GDDR6X |
| Memory Bus | 192 bits | 256 bits | 256 bits | 320 bits | 384 bits |
| Memory Speed | 16 Gbps | 14 Gbps | 14 Gbps | 19 Gbps | 19.5 Gbps |
| Bandwidth | 384 Gbps | 448 Gbps | 448 Gbps | 760 Gbps | 936 Gbps |
| TGP | 170W | 175W | 220W | 320W | 350W |
| Price (MSRP / FE) | $ 329 US | $ 399 US | $ 499 US | $ 699 US | $ 1499 US |
| Release (availability) | February 25, 2021 | December 2, 2020 | October 29, 2020 | September 17, 2020 | September 24, 2020 |
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB graphics card is released on February 25 at 6:00 am Pacific time. The graphics card will be positioned against the 6 GB AMD Radeon RX 6700 graphics card and will offer performance close to the RTX 2070 SUPER.