Launched in February 2021, we liked the RTX 3060, but a performance that didn’t match the $329 MSRP, especially compared to the RTX 3060 Ti, meant we.
What just happened? The RTX 3060, a graphics card so popular with gamers that it has topped the Steam survey charts since September 2023, is no more. Just over three years after it launched, Nvidia is preparing to distribute the final batches of GA106 graphics processors that power the mid-range Ampere model.
Launched in February 2021, we liked the RTX 3060, but a performance that didn’t match the $329 MSRP, especially compared to the RTX 3060 Ti, meant we didn’t love it at the time. As such, we awarded the card a good if not great score of 75.
Most-popular GPUs among Steam survey participants during July 2024
But Nvidia’s mid-range xx60 series has always been popular, and the RTX 3060 has been finding its way into more gamers PCs as the years passed and the prices fell.
