Nvidia revealed the GeForce RTX 3060, it’s latest mainstream GPU that it hopes would take the place of its popular GeForce GTX 1060 that was introduced back in 2016. The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 has a release window of late February with a price of $329 (around Rs. 24,100). No specific India release date or price has been announced just yet so don’t expect a direct US Dollar conversion to be the official price locally.
That said, the GeForce RTX 3060 appears to be the company’s big push to get its audience to adopt ray tracing. Nvidia claims 90 percent of GeForce users currently use its GTX range of GPUs that weren’t made with ray tracing in mind.
“There’s unstoppable momentum behind ray tracing, which has quickly redefined the new standard of gaming,” said Matt Wuebbling, Vice President of global GeForce marketing at Nvidia. “The Nvidia Ampere architecture has been our fastest-selling ever, and the RTX 3060 brings the strengths of the RTX 30 Series to millions more gamers everywhere.”
In terms of performance Nvidia says the GeForce RTX 3060 has twice the raster and ten times the ray tracing performance of the GTX 1060, allowing it to play the likes of Cyberpunk 2077 and Fortnite with ray tracing enable at 60fps.
To get an idea of what kind of performance to expect you can check out our impressions of its higher specced counterpart, the Zotac GeForce 3060 Ti.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 specifications
- 13 shader-TFLOPs
- 25 RT-TFLOPs for ray tracing
- 101 tensor-TFLOPs to power NVIDIA DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling)
- 192-bit memory interface
- 12GB of GDDR6 memory
