Legacy Nvidia RTX 3060 12GB returns to retail five years after original launch, priced at $339 — resurrected GPU strategy that Jensen called a 'good idea' apparently comes to fruition

3 months ago by Rekall Incorporated to c/hardware

Ampere rides again for almost the same price as RTX 5060s

darcmage 22 points 3 months ago

Nvidia: "The only way you're getting more than 8GB on low end cards is if you pay for hardware from two generations ago."

I know they don't care but fuck them.

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foodandart 11 points 3 months ago

I'm running a 3060 and NGL, it's handling every game I have w/o issue.

Though it should cost a lot less at this point.

Yaah, nvidia.. get a grip.

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elvith 3 points 3 months ago

I run a 2060 Super that's roughly in the ballpark of a regular 3060 (no Resize bar and DLSS2+ support, though) and it runs everything I throw at it.

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Lippy 9 points 3 months ago

With this and the 5800X3D being manufactured again and Raptor Lake being spun up for yet another refresh, I wonder how long it will be before we see something like the Core 2 Quad Q6600 being resurrected along with the P35 chipset and DDR2.

I jest, but with much of a farce the industry has become lately, it does make me wonder how much further backwards we're going to go.

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rainwall 4 points 3 months ago

Bulldozer or bust.

I ran one of the above for something like 6 years. Absolute power hog, but I'll be damned if it didn't keep up. I did have to overclock the hell out of it near the end, but it took to it like a champ.

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Mycatiskai 4 points 3 months ago

Did they actually restart manufacturing this card or just find a warehouse full of old stock?

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ArfArfWoof 4 points 3 months ago

$340 is a lot. Sure, it runs almost anything, but not that well. Gonna be selling mine soon and I' ve been thinking around $200, but I might get more - thanks nvidia.

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SpankyDoodle 3 points 3 months ago

My 3050 runs great. Not as good specs as the 3060 but I’ve had very little issues and it was well worth whatever I paid around 4 years ago

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Superorbit 2 points 3 months ago

Welp on the brightside this might help keep my outdated hardware relevant for a while longer...

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buran 2 points 3 months ago

I wouldn't mind if they costed $200 USD. But at $339 USD?

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Rekall_Incorporated 2 points 3 months ago

Era of $200 dGPUs is over and it's not even purely due to ML tech impacting component costs. Inflation and overall cost of packaging mean that it's not viable to have $200 dGPU (outside of the absolute low end that's barely comparable to mediocre iGPU performance).

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KoalaUnknown 1 point 3 months ago

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