NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Continues to Sell for an Absurd Amount Around the World Before its Official Launch

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NVIDIA RTX 3060 GPU is set to launch worldwide on February 25th but the card has started to sell already around the world at absurd prices. Many retailers have received their RTX 3060 cards, but some have not been able to hold them all in the store, and the cards already being listed in second-hand markets in Belarus.

NVIDIA RTX 3060 graphic card is listed for sale at Belarusian second-hand market Onliner. A seller going by the name ‘Artem’ on Onliner has listed three Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3060 Eagle OC graphics cards for sale. The asking price for each card is 2800 BYN which is around 1080 USD. This is almost triple the original announced MSRP of 329 USD.

Currently, the RTX 3060 cards won’t work for gaming as NVIDIA game-ready drivers are not available for it right now. However, the cards may be used for mining purposes but that may be a big doubt as NVIDIA has halved the hashing capability of the RTX 3060 to keep miners away.

The listing details that only one of the cards has been open in order to verify that it was in fact an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 inside. But the card may have been used to test out the mining capabilities of the card.

NVIDIA has announced that will half the hashing capability of the RTX 3060 graphic card to limit its use in mining. This comes to hand to hand with NVIDIA’s announcement of its CMP cards which have been specifically designed for mining purposes.

The company earlier announced that the upcoming GeForce RTX 3060 will have a special driver that will automatically detect mining-specific algorithms, which will limit the hash rate by 50%. This would ensure that the RTX 3060 would be useful to gamers and not miners.

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