Tuesday, January 5th 2021
NVIDIA Readies GeForce RTX 3060 Ultra: 12GB, ASUS TUF OC Pictured
NVIDIA is reportedly preparing a new GeForce RTX 30-series SKU positioned around the RTX 3060 Ti and the RTX 3070, as the company looks to fine-tune its lineup against the Radeon RX 6700 series. Called the GeForce RTX 3060 Ultra, the SKU is reportedly carved out from the same 8 nm "GA104" silicon as the RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 3070; but with a different core-configuration, and 12 GB of GDDR6 memory. At this point, it is not known if the memory bus width is narrowed to 192-bit, or if the same 256-bit wide memory bus is used (with mixed memory chip density). WCCFTech posted a picture of the first custom-design RTX 3060 Ultra card, an ASUS TUF Gaming product, which it reports to be faster than the RTX 3060 Ti. The publication also reports the card's MSRP pricing to be USD $449.
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WCCFTech
69 Comments on NVIDIA Readies GeForce RTX 3060 Ultra: 12GB, ASUS TUF OC Pictured
Apart from 3090's, there's almost no stock left, even here.
Reading about mixed memory densities made me wonder if any other GPU of the past was launched with such memory, hmmm...
Rumor mill BS. There's not even any knowledge on what the GPU can do. 192 or 256 bit is kinda important, but luckily there's a shader count or die estimation..oh wait
Assuming this is a reasonable response
Earlier, the 3080Ti to bridge the 10% gap between the 3080 and 3090, and now a 3060 Ultra to bridge the 10% gap between 3060 Ti and 3070?What with the 1060 6GB it's nothing new.Don't if they're not going to go above 1440p. This would be a flat launch I'm guessing.
They seem a bit lost lately.
edit: 8GB could be a problem later, but 3060ti is still a lot faster, so It's better to keep It.
If the person is not going to use a very high resolution(e.g. >=4K) then there is no point getting lots of RAM.
What might happen in the future when 4K gaming becomes more mainstream is that he may end up leapfrogging 12GB altogether and get a 16GB card, like I did - my 970 was 4GB and it's starting to get constrained at 1080p in newer games so I jumped directly to an 8GB 3060Ti which should set me up for a long time for 1080p and 1440p.
RTX 3060 LE
Ah well, at 500C even that'll be burnt to a crisp.
The market is filled with paltry 710 and 1030 GPUs with 2 and 4GB of memory.
We all know the poor cards won't be able to use a quarter of it.