While the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 release date was February 25, 2021 through the company’s board partners, getting one at launch was exceedingly impossible. Now, PC components distributor RP Tech India has confirmed that it has the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 in stock. Though the price is far from what it should be. The Colorful GeForce RTX 3060 NB 12G-V India price on RP Tech’s site is a pricey Rs. 50,699. For context that’s more than the price of the PS5 in India, which has a maximum retail price of Rs. 49,990. During the RTX 3060 launch, Nvidia had confirmed to IGN India that the GeForce RTX 3060 India starting price is Rs. 29,500.
There is no Founder’s Edition version and its OEMs like Zotac, Gigabyte, and MSI will set their own pricing with Rs. 29,500 being the baseline.
At more than double, this makes the Rs. 50,699 price from Colorful ridiculous to say the least, more so when it’s from a distributor that’s expect to have fair pricing versus some online retail stores like Vedant Computers. We have reached out to RP Tech India for comment and will update this story if we hear from the company.
That said, the GeForce RTX 3060 appears to be Nvidia’s big push to get its audience to adopt ray tracing. Nvidia claimed 90 percent of GeForce users currently use its GTX range of GPUs that weren’t made with ray tracing in mind. Unfair pricing like this is not going to change that in any meaningful way.
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
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