Nvidia may be gearing up to launch the RTX 3060 Ti for PC gamers.
On Wednesday, the website VideoCardz said it obtained renders for the rumored GPU, and the pictures depict the “Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3060 Ti EAGLE OC.”
The overclocked custom product is a two-fanned GPU with a single 8-pin connector. According to VideoCardz, the graphics card is slated to contain 4864 Nvidia CUDA cores, 152 Tensor cores, and 38 RT (ray-tracing) cores.
That’s less computing power than the $499 RTX 3070, which has 5888 CUDA cores, 184 Tensor cores, and 46 RT cores. But the RTX 3060 Ti will reportedly contain the same amount of GDDR6 memory at 8GB.
According to media publications in China, the RTX 3060 Ti was supposed to launch on Nov. 17, but now rumors are indicating the card won’t arrive until Dec. 2. However, a key question will be the price. Will we get a truly midrange card at $350? Or will the product be priced closer to $450, as some retailers in China have previously indicated?
In the meantime, the rumored product is expected to be more powerful than last year’s RTX 2080 Super card, which currently retails for around $1,000.
Unfortunately, the RTX 3000 series cards have so far been incredibly hard for average consumers to obtain. The earlier models—the 3090, 3080 and 3070—instantly sold out on day one and remain out of stock across major retailers. To buy them immediately, you’ll have to pay double the normal price from third-party dealers on eBay.
According to Nvidia, demand for the RTX 3000 series is expected to outstrip supplies through the end of the year. So consumers may have to wait until early 2021 to have a real chance of obtaining the products.
