Nvidia has announced that its mid-range RTX 3060 graphics card will be released on February 25th.
Customers will be able to order the RTX 3060 from retailers from 09:00 PT / 12:00 ET that day. No The Founder edition of the 3060 is planned, according to The Verge.
The RTX 3060 costs you $ 329, which makes it significantly more affordable than the RTX 3060 Ti ($ 399) or the much more powerful 30-series GPUs, the top of which (the RTX 3090) is $ 1,499.
Using Nvidia’s Ampere architecture, the RTX 3060 has 12 GB of GDDR6 memory with 13 Shader TFLOPS, 25 RT TFLOPS and 101 Tensor TFLOPS. At $ 329, the RTX 3060 should enable price-conscious computer gamers to build a rig that can beat or even beat PS5 or Xbox Series X for about the same price.
If you are more of a laptop, do not worry about being left in the dust. Nvidia also recently released RTX cards from the 30 series for mobile machines, bringing the power of the 3060, 3070 and 3080 to laptops.
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