Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 announced, offers Ampere power for $329

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• Nvidia has introduced the brand new GeForce RTX 3060 GPU.
• The 3060 will act as a alternative the beloved GeForce GTX 1060, coming this February.

Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1060 GPU provided avid gamers years of enjoyable and energy, and now its time within the solar has set. It exhibits its age in relation to graphically intense video games, and Nvidia is able to flip to the longer term. The new GeForce RTX 3060 is now official, and also you’ll have the ability to seize yours beginning in February for $329.

With an emphasis on spectacular ray-tracing capabilities, the RTX 3060 will likely be most avid gamers’ first style of Nvidia’s Ampere structure. It has huge sneakers to fill too, as GTX-class GPUs energy practically 90% of all Steam-based GeForce avid gamers. The latest RTX 3060 follows up the nonetheless new RTX 3060 Ti, and it even outperforms its costlier sibling in some respects.

You received’t discover as a lot energy on the RTX 3060, although that’s to be anticipated with a extra reasonably priced GPU. As for core specs, Nvidia’s new {hardware} gives the next:

• 13 Shader TFLOPs
• 25 Ray-Tracing TFLOPs
• 101 Sensor TFLOPs
• 192-bit reminiscence interface
• 12GB of DDR6 reminiscence

If you’ve seen the spec sheets for the RTX 3060 Ti — and even the RTX 3080 — you’ll know that 12GB of reminiscence takes the cake. The 3060 Ti packs simply 8GB and the RTX 3080 splits the distinction at 10GB.

Another key function of the brand new RTX 3060 is Nvidia’s Resizable BAR know-how. It primarily permits the CPU to faucet immediately into the GPU’s reminiscence for a pleasant little pace enhance. That is, so long as you could have the best {hardware}.

As talked about, we are able to anticipate to see the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 hit cabinets beginning this February for $329. However, it could be difficult to get your arms on one if the rollout is something like that of the earlier RTX 30 GPUs.

Check out the complete launch video beneath and don’t neglect to learn the remainder of our CES 2021 protection.