Ampere to any wallet. Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card introduced for $ 330

Nvidia today officially unveiled the newest and most affordable Ampere graphics card – the GeForce RTX 3060. The novelty replaced the GeForce GTX 1060 and GeForce RTX 2060: the company understands that the GTX 1060, despite its age, is still quite popular in gaming environment.

At the same time, the graph above clearly demonstrates that the performance of the GTX 1060 no longer stands up to criticism if you want to play modern games with normal graphics settings. GeForce RTX 3060 is also not a performance record holder, but DLSS activation allows you to keep the level of 60 FPS or slightly higher for many popular games, including Cyberpunk 2077.

The GeForce RTX 3060 is built on the GA106 GPU and delivers 13 TFLOPS in single precision operations and up to 35 TFLOPS in real-time ray tracing. The video card received 12 GB of GDDR6 memory, which is even 2 GB more than the GeForce RTX 3080. The memory bus width is 192 bits.

The novelty will go on sale at the end of February at a price of $ 330. Judging by the picture published by Nvidia, the company’s partners are already preparing a lot of different versions of the RTX 3060: both more compact with two fans, and large ones with three “propellers”.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 line Model GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 3060 Architecture

GPU

Base frequency, GHz

Boost frequency, GHz

# Of CUDA cores

# Of Ray Tracing Cores

Number of TMUs

GDDR6 memory capacity, GB

Memory frequency, GHz

Memory bus width, bit

TGP, W

Recommended retail price, $

release date

NVIDIA Ampere	NVIDIA Ampere
GA104-200	GA106-300
1.41	1.32
1.67	1.78
4864	3584
38	28
152	112
8	12
14	16
256	192
200	170
400	330
December 2, 2020	End of February 2021

Nvidia also introduced the mobile Ampere today, GeForce RTX 3060, 3070 and 3080 graphics cards for laptops. But about them – in a separate news.