NVIDIA has notified the press that a new graphics card from the Ampere series will be released within two weeks, on February 25th. The information has already been widely known thanks to previous leaks.
NVIDIA this morning has informed that their next video card will be released next month at August 28th. The mainstream video card, previously revealed at CES 2021 and slated to arrive late in February of this year, will now hit the market in early February, with prices starting at $329.
— Ryan Smith, AnandTech
According to this report, Cowcotland has stated that both the embargo and sale embargo will be lifted at the same time. At 3PM Central European Time, NVIDIA will lift the embargo on reviews. The GeForce RTX 300 will become available for purchase at 6 PM on the same day.
| GeForce RTX 3060 Ti | GeForce RTX 3060 | |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | NVIDIA Ampere | NVIDIA Ampere |
| GPU | 8nm GA104-200 | 8nm GA106-300 |
| Base Clock | 1410 MHz | 1320 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1665 MHz | 1777 MHz |
| CUDA : RT : Tensor | 4864 : 38 : 152 | 3584 : 28 : 112 |
| Memory | 8GB GDDR6 | 12GB GDDR6 |
| Memory Clock | 14 Gbps | 15 Gbps |
| Memory Bus | 256-bit | 192-bit |
| Memory Bandwidth | 448 GB/s | 360 GB/s |
| TGP/TBP | 200W | 170W |
| MSRP | 399 USD | 329 USD |
| Release Date | December 2nd, 2020 | Late February 2021 |
NVIDIA’s GA106 based RTX 3060 is a card that retails for 329 USD. The card provides 3584 CUDA cores alongside 12GB GDDR6 memory, which is more than an RTX card (10GB). This variant of the RX 500X will compete directly against AMD’s RX 6700 XT which is now rumored to be coming in March.
