Tuesday, January 12th 2021
NVIDIA Announces the GeForce RTX 3060, $330, 12 GB of GDDR6
NVIDIA today announced that it is bringing the NVIDIA Ampere architecture to millions more PC gamers with the new GeForce RTX 3060 GPU. With its efficient, high-performance architecture and the second generation of NVIDIA RTX, the RTX 3060 brings amazing hardware raytracing capabilities and support for NVIDIA DLSS and other technologies, and is priced at $329.
NVIDIA's 60-class GPUs have traditionally been the single most popular cards for gamers on Steam, with the GTX 1060 long at the top of the GPU gaming charts since its introduction in 2016. An estimated 90 percent of GeForce gamers currently play with a GTX-class GPU. "There's unstoppable momentum behind raytracing, which has quickly redefined the new standard of gaming," said Matt Wuebbling, vice president of global GeForce marketing at NVIDIA. "The NVIDIA Ampere architecture has been our fastest-selling ever, and the RTX 3060 brings the strengths of the RTX 30 Series to millions more gamers everywhere."
With newer gaming titles come bigger worlds with cinematic graphics and real-time raytracing — these are gaming workloads that only RTX-powered platforms are suited to handle. The GeForce RTX 3060 has twice the raster performance and 10x the raytracing performance of the GTX 1060, making it a formidable upgrade opportunity and the foundation of a gaming PC platform powerful enough to handle cutting-edge titles such as Cyberpunk 2077 and Fortnite with RTX On at 60 frames per second.
The RTX 3060's key specifications include:
Like all RTX 30 Series GPUs, the RTX 3060 supports the trifecta of GeForce gaming innovations: NVIDIA DLSS, NVIDIA Reflex and NVIDIA Broadcast, which accelerate performance and enhance image quality. Together with real-time ray tracing, these technologies are the foundation of the GeForce gaming platform, which brings unparalleled performance and features to games and gamers everywhere.
NVIDIA DLSS: The AI Gift That Gamers Love
AI is revolutionizing gaming — from in-game physics and animation simulation to real-time rendering and AI-assisted broadcasting features. Powered by dedicated AI processors on GeForce RTX GPUs called Tensor Cores, NVIDIA DLSS boosts frame rates while generating beautiful, crisp game images and gives gamers the performance headroom to maximize raytracing settings and increase output resolutions. DLSS is available in more than 25 games, with more added every month.
NVIDIA Reflex and Broadcast: The Ultimate Play
NVIDIA Reflex technology reduces system latency (or input lag), making games more responsive and giving players in competitive multiplayer titles an edge over the opposition. NVIDIA Broadcast is a suite of audio and video AI enhancements, including virtual backgrounds, motion capture and advanced noise removal, that users can apply to chats, Skype calls and video conferences.
Advanced GeForce Experience Features
All NVIDIA GeForce GPUs benefit from GeForce Experience, a tool used by tens of millions of gamers to optimize game settings, record and upload gameplay, stream gameplay, take screenshots, and download and install Game Ready Drivers. The latest features include:
One-click automatic GPU Tuning: GeForce Experience now supports GPU Tuning, which can automatically create overclocking profiles by using an advanced scanning algorithm.
Enhanced in-game monitoring overlay: GeForce Experience's already robust in-game overlay now adds performance stats, temperatures and latency metrics, including NVIDIA Reflex Latency Analyzer stats.
Where to Buy
The GeForce RTX 3060 will be available in late February, starting at $329, as custom boards — including stock-clocked and factory-overclocked models — from top add-in card providers such as ASUS, Colorful, EVGA, Gainward, Galaxy, Gigabyte, Innovision 3D, MSI, Palit, PNY and Zotac. Look for GeForce RTX 3060 GPUs at major retailers and etailers, as well as in gaming systems by major manufacturers and leading system builders worldwide.
NVIDIA's 60-class GPUs have traditionally been the single most popular cards for gamers on Steam, with the GTX 1060 long at the top of the GPU gaming charts since its introduction in 2016. An estimated 90 percent of GeForce gamers currently play with a GTX-class GPU. "There's unstoppable momentum behind raytracing, which has quickly redefined the new standard of gaming," said Matt Wuebbling, vice president of global GeForce marketing at NVIDIA. "The NVIDIA Ampere architecture has been our fastest-selling ever, and the RTX 3060 brings the strengths of the RTX 30 Series to millions more gamers everywhere."
The RTX 3060's key specifications include:
- 13 shader-TFLOPs
- 25 RT-TFLOPs for raytracing
- 101 tensor-TFLOPs to power NVIDIA DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling)
- 192-bit memory interface
- 12 GB of GDDR6 memory
Like all RTX 30 Series GPUs, the RTX 3060 supports the trifecta of GeForce gaming innovations: NVIDIA DLSS, NVIDIA Reflex and NVIDIA Broadcast, which accelerate performance and enhance image quality. Together with real-time ray tracing, these technologies are the foundation of the GeForce gaming platform, which brings unparalleled performance and features to games and gamers everywhere.
NVIDIA DLSS: The AI Gift That Gamers Love
AI is revolutionizing gaming — from in-game physics and animation simulation to real-time rendering and AI-assisted broadcasting features. Powered by dedicated AI processors on GeForce RTX GPUs called Tensor Cores, NVIDIA DLSS boosts frame rates while generating beautiful, crisp game images and gives gamers the performance headroom to maximize raytracing settings and increase output resolutions. DLSS is available in more than 25 games, with more added every month.
NVIDIA Reflex and Broadcast: The Ultimate Play
NVIDIA Reflex technology reduces system latency (or input lag), making games more responsive and giving players in competitive multiplayer titles an edge over the opposition. NVIDIA Broadcast is a suite of audio and video AI enhancements, including virtual backgrounds, motion capture and advanced noise removal, that users can apply to chats, Skype calls and video conferences.
Advanced GeForce Experience Features
All NVIDIA GeForce GPUs benefit from GeForce Experience, a tool used by tens of millions of gamers to optimize game settings, record and upload gameplay, stream gameplay, take screenshots, and download and install Game Ready Drivers. The latest features include:
One-click automatic GPU Tuning: GeForce Experience now supports GPU Tuning, which can automatically create overclocking profiles by using an advanced scanning algorithm.
Enhanced in-game monitoring overlay: GeForce Experience's already robust in-game overlay now adds performance stats, temperatures and latency metrics, including NVIDIA Reflex Latency Analyzer stats.
Where to Buy
The GeForce RTX 3060 will be available in late February, starting at $329, as custom boards — including stock-clocked and factory-overclocked models — from top add-in card providers such as ASUS, Colorful, EVGA, Gainward, Galaxy, Gigabyte, Innovision 3D, MSI, Palit, PNY and Zotac. Look for GeForce RTX 3060 GPUs at major retailers and etailers, as well as in gaming systems by major manufacturers and leading system builders worldwide.
100 Comments on NVIDIA Announces the GeForce RTX 3060, $330, 12 GB of GDDR6
Millions of players? Yes, Nvidia. You should try to reach millions of actual players instead of scalpers and miners like you did so far...I think it will be asked many times... With that kind of bus, the choice was between 6 and 12. 6 Gb would have been not enough so... You have your answer ;)As usual MSRP will be something regarding a few US customers only... The other customers outside US will pay much probably like 400/450€ for this cardThis. I'm not happy about Nvidia memory size choices, but so far I never saw a test showing we are approaching VRAM issues on a 10 Gb card even at 4K.What happened? Nothing. So far 3070 are fine with 8 Gb even maxed out
Starting to look less attractive as it gets seeded further. Strange how that works. But the lackluster specs along with shitty price situation are quickly pushing me to a no-buy again. They made a big mistake trying to pre-empt as they did.
Not really final enough to say, but the texture we can see on the bottom does look like a cover, rather than the chevron-angled heatsink fins we've seen on higher-tier cards.
As for power connectors, Nvidia will be hooking into the PCB which will be short again, so it's very likely they'll be in the middle of the card like the rest of the Ampere line-up.
The other option is that this render is so half-assed because Nvidia isn't planning on an FE and will hope the partners carry the design at launch. That's usually what happens from the 50-series and down, with renders of Nvidia's own desingn only existing as marketing images on Nvidia's website. It could take effect from the 60-series this time....
That one fan can't be enough to cool a 175W card(more, since it'll still use the 12pin connector for up to 225W of power draw).
Cooling 175W should be a piece of cake for a single fan. The 3080 at 350W don't seem to have any problem (175W per fan) and with two fans on a card, that means there's much less heatsink per fan too.
If you want to oc a card to max a single fan is nowhere near enough cooling unless you live near the arctic circle and leave the windows open lol
Hybrids only have one fan might be the exception.
They're not even going to bother with a real reference release at MSRP, so naturally the OEMs that just announced price hikes on any other GPU are not going to be selling many of these at MSRP , wave one may have some at that price to dodge legal pursuit but after that these will quickly scale the price range IMHO.
As for the card, looks good I wouldn't mind a go but I don't think I will bite.
They're trying to hard via alternative means( Hub etal) to get my cash ATM.
Smart.
remove those blinkers, your perspective is not everyones or more right.
I didn't say my opinion worth more. I just said i ACTUALLY played several games using RT, and every one of them counts. And in the next future it will be even more relevant.
PS: I saw a "/RTX 2060" in your signature. I don't know what it means, but even if you own one, a RTX 2060 is not exactly the hardware to test RT.
Yeah reflections isn't a reason I game :-)
The vast majority of gamers don't have and don't really need RTX. Maybe when it becomes more mainstream, but at the moment, they don't.