Nvidia RTX 3060 GPU could be somehow more expensive than RTX 3060 Ti

Nvidia RTX 3060 GPU could be somehow more expensive than RTX 3060 Ti
Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card is set to launch later this week, on February 25, but we've just received another sneak peek at alleged pricing, and that's not good news on the affordability front. It looks like the RTX 3060 GPUs have arrived with retailers, unsurprisingly at this point, with Coreteks providing images of a load of different boxed models at an unspecified US store (probably one of the big players). , all ready to go on sale, and possibly for an instant grab. Best of all, though, Coreteks is also offering what it believes to be the retail price for some of these graphics cards. Remembering that the recommended price is €329 (approx €235, AU$420) in the US, the actual prices assumed at this retailer will be as follows:

So, as you can see, the cheapest model costs €485, which is 47% more than Nvidia's recommended price. Big pinches of salt are needed, of course, and we certainly can't take this as more than a potential indication of possible price increases. (Also note that the MSI Ventus X2 presumably refers to the Ventus 2X.) That being said, unfortunately this is in line with the price-related leaks we've seen in Europe too, with retailers like ProShop jacking up the price of the 3060 by 50% or more. Which, as you can tell, leaves us with the situation where the RTX 3060 will be more expensive than the recommended price of the 3060 Ti. Or even the actual price of some Ti models - you can get an EVGA 3060 Ti for $460 at Best Buy, for example, which is cheaper than one of the 3060 prices above (but naturally that 3060 Ti is out of stock, like all The models).

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The RTX 3060 has 3.584 CUDA cores and a base clock of 1.32 GHz, with a boost clock of 1.78 GHz. It will come with 12 GB of GDDR6 VRAM (due to the 192-bit memory interface). Stock issues have plagued Nvidia's Ampere graphics card since its launch, and that will continue with the rush for the RTX 3060, especially since it's the most affordable RTX 3000 card to date (although, as we've seen, it's a relatively affordable term). here). Nvidia is fighting the fires on the price front in terms of deterring crypto miners about the appeal of the new graphics card by deliberately cutting the hash rate of the RTX 3060 in half, as well as releasing dedicated miners of GPU. This should mean these cards are much more likely to end up on avid gamers' PCs, rather than mining rigs, which will hopefully alleviate some of the mass demand issues. It's a welcome move, of course, but the demand will most likely be huge from gamers alone, so it will require a very fast supply of RTX 3060 models, which is unlikely to happen given what Nvidia has. and retailers. It has already been said about production problems. The danger is that Ampère is already mentioned and seen as some kind of "lost GPU generation"; a great product that is literally not delivered, or at least not in large quantities. Nvidia needs to make sure that's not how the RTX 3000 line makes history, and as we discussed recently, Team Green should go beyond its anti-mining measures, with a chance to push the release of the updated RTX ``Super''. . 3000 letters sooner or later. Today's best graphics card deals Via Wccftech

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