Some might lament the passing of the RTX 3060, especially the 12GB version – but they shouldn’t
Nvidia’s RTX 3060 graphics card has long been a popular relatively wallet-friendly GPU, topping the rankings on Steam – but the death knell has apparently sounded for this Ampere (last-gen) model.
VideoCardz reports that news has filtered down from the Board Channels in China – a common source of GPU rumors, but one that requires some skepticism – that Nvidia is calling time on the RTX 3060.
The report claims that Nvidia is now taking the final orders for RTX 3060 GPUs, according to graphics card makers including Palit and Colorful, so once these have gone through, that’ll be the end of the (production) line for the last-gen stalwart.
There’s still stock on shelves, of course, and further RTX 3060 graphics cards will be manufactured and shipped with this final batch of GPUs. So, inventory won’t run out anytime soon, but the RTX 3060 is on borrowed time – if this report is correct in its assertion.
There are two flavors of the RTX 3060, incidentally, one of which has 8GB of video RAM and the other sports 12GB of VRAM (and a fatter memory bus at 192-bit versus 128-bit).Analysis: Why the RTX 3060 was so popular – and also why it’s time to move on
Assuming this is correct, how long will it be before the RTX 3060 starts to get thin on the shelves out there? Our guess would be that this isn’t likely to happen before the end of 2024 – and it is just that, a guess.
