Earlier this year, it was announced that Nvidia would be launching its midrange RTX 3060 cards soon, and that they would be slapped with a cheaper price tag compared to its higher end range. Now further developments have been unveiled and a release date for the much cheaper GPUs has been made official.

Launching on February 25th, the RTX 3060 represents a much more affordable way for PC gamers to keep their systems up to date with Nvidia tech. Said to be priced at just $329, these new cards will slash the GPU budget of any gamers looking to upgrade, especially considering the likes of the RTX 3090 cost nearly $1,400 at the very least. Of course, these are more powerful cards, but the higher cost, as well as being hard to get hold of, will likely make potential customers turn to the much cheaper selection.

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In terms of hardware, the specs of the RTX 3060 range looks like this: 12GB of GDDR6 memory, beating its own 3060 Ti and 3070 cards which have 8GB of memory, 1.78 GHz clock speed, 25RT TFLOPS, and 13 Shader TFLOPS. It's not quite as astounding as their RTX 3090 range, but the price tag will more than draw PC enthusiasts in. However, Nvidia says it won't be creating a Founder's Edition of the midrange cards. Founder's Editions, which used to be known as "reference cards," are GPUs which have a higher clock speed out the factory, and enables better performance overall.

As well as good graphic prowess at an affordable price, the 3060 will also support Nvidia's proprietary DLSS, an AI system that upscales lower resolution graphics to higher resolution outputs without loss of frame rates. For those who are more into laptop gaming, there will be mobile versions of the 3060 available, along with other ranges as well.

While all this sounds great, the one caveat is that many may not be able to get hold of these cheaper GPUs. Once launched at the end of this month, it's likely they'll sell out pretty quickly given the cost of them. Nvidia has already been under fire recently due to its RTX 30 range being in short supply, a trend which is expected to continue until later on this year. The 3000 series cards were bought out by scalpers and bots, who have made a killing, but have left a lot of gamers unable to get hold of one themselves. Fans are hopeful that Nvidia can get a grip on demand by supplying the market with enough of the 3060 cards for everyone.

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Source: The Verge