Nvidia has announced that its mid-range RTX 3060 graphics card will be released on February 25th.
Customers can order the RTX 3060 from retailers that day from 9am PT / 12pm ET. According to The Verge, no Founder’s Edition of the 3060 is planned.
The RTX 3060 will set you back $ 329, making it significantly cheaper than the RTX 3060 Ti ($ 399) or the much more powerful 30 Series GPUs, the top of which (the RTX 3090) will cost you $ 1499.
Utilizing Nvidia’s Ampere architecture, the RTX 3060 has 12 GB of GDDR6 memory with 13 Shader TFLOPS, 25 RT TFLOPS and 101 Tensor TFLOPS. At $ 329, the RTX 3060 should allow budget-conscious PC gamers to build a rig that rivals or even beats the PS5 or Xbox Series X for about the same price.
If you’re more of a laptop gamer, don’t worry about being left in the dust. Nvidia also recently unveiled 30 series RTX cards for mobile machines, bringing the power of the 3060, 3070 and 3080 to laptops.
Joseph Knoop is a writer / producer / clings to his AMD Fury for IGN.