Nvidia announces RTX 3060 as successor to legendary GTX 1060

Nvidia has announced the RTX 3060, which they’re billing as a successor to one of their best selling video cards ever, the legendary GTX 1060.

We don’t know much about the exact specs yet. Only that it will feature 13 TFLOPs of shader performance. This should make it just a hair slower than the 3060 Ti. Nvidia themselves are claiming double the raster performance over the 1060. Which seems a bit off considering the 1060 was only about 3.8 TFLOPs. So it seems as if some efficiency has been lost transitioning from Pascal to Ampere.

It’s also been confirmed that the 3060 will indeed feature 12GB of GDDR6, as had been rumoured for several weeks now. This is more than Nvidia’s entire Ampere product stack aside from the top tier 3090. We don’t have performance numbers yet, but you can expect it’ll probably be the same 448 GB/s memory as the Ti.

Additional specs give it 25 TFLOPs of ray tracing core performance, with 101 TFLOPs of FP16 power coming from the tensor cores. Overall, it’s about 40% slower than the 3070. Though it should be a good fit for those looking to get into 1440p gaming, or those rocking 1080p high frame rate displays.

The RTX 3060 will be “available” (barring scalping, miners, and supply shortages) late February, starting at $329 USD.