The crazy titan

  Nvidia has launched The RTX 3060 which is based on the new GA106 die which measures 300mm2 and packs 3584 cores, 112 TMUs and 48 ROPs. It is said to be 20% reduction from the 3060 Ti.This change to the memory subsystem meant that Nvidia couldn’t pair the RTX 3060 with 8GB of VRAM. The options were essentially 6GB or 12GB. The former would have been embarrassing at this price point and with AMD set to release their mid-range parts with 12GB, Nvidia had no choice but to include 12GB of VRAM. It also helps them to market the RTX 3060 and justify the $330 asking price which sees it come in just 18% cheaper than the 3060 Ti despite the significant reduction to the core configuration. On paper, the RTX 3060 doesn’t appear to be a great value product, since it dosent have a founders edition and only 3rd party cards will be available and it is sure that the price will be surely more than $330. But t he card delivers performance upwards of the RTX 2060 by a decent margin, while arriving che