According to a news report, NVIDIA is planning to increase the production of the GeForce RTX 3060 graphics cards starting from July. This news comes after it was reported a few weeks ago that NVIDIA is planning to cut down the production of the older RTX 2000 series graphics cards to focus on increasing the supply of the RTX 3000 graphics cards.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 is aimed at the mainstream gaming segment with an MSRP of $329 US. But due to the ongoing crypto mining craze, the card was being sold at 2x,3x its MSRP. The prices were hiked ever since crypto mining folks found a way around the hash rate limiter, making it a very lucrative mining card.
But all this is about to change as a report from ITHome says that NVIDIA is planning to increase the production of the GeForce RTX 3060 graphics cards starting from July. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 has also received a revised Ampere GPU, which blocks the total hashing rate against mining algorithms, with no workarounds working this time.
The RTX 3060 is powered by the GA106-300 GPU, which has 28 SM units enabled, making a total of 3584 CUDA cores and 112 TMUs. In addition, it features a base clock of 1320 MHz and a boost clock of 1777 Mhz. With that CUDA core count, the RTX 3060 GPU can hit a peak horsepower of 12.7 TFLOPs – which is almost on par with the older Turing-based flagships.
The GeForce RTX 3060 comes packed with 12 GB of GDDR6 memory. The memory runs across a 192-bit bus interface and features an effective clock speed of 17.00 Gbps. NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3060 also comes packed with next-generation RT (Raytracing) cores, Tensor cores, and brand-new SM or streaming multi-processor units. The graphics card has a TDP of 170W.
We will have to see if this step from NVIDIA can fulfill the dire shortage of graphics cards that has been ongoing since the end of last year.
