NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Launching February 25

[Peter_Brosdahl]

NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3060 graphics cards will be released on February 25. This is according to Wccftech, which shared a couple of store listings spotted by Twitter user Casmoden with pricing for a handful of ZOTAC models. A user on r/EtherMining has also posted images of a GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3060 EAGLE OC 12 GB after managing to get one ahead of release.



The GeForce RTX 3060 features 3,584 CUDA Cores, a base/boost clock of 1.32/1.78 GHz, 12 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 192-bit bus, and a 170-watt TDP. NVIDIA has set its MSRP at $329, but it remains to be seen what retailers or manufacturers might price the card at...

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[MadMummy76]

"Launching"

Will there be a trunk sale?

 

[Burticus]

It's not the card we want. It's not the card we "need". But it's the one we're going to get. Eventually.

Man I remember when $350-400 would buy you some bad a$$ GPU action. Now it's mid-tier.

 

[Brian_B]

It's a good day to be a miner.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

It's not the card we want. It's not the card we "need". But it's the one we're going to get. Eventually.

Man I remember when $350-400 would buy you some bad a$$ GPU action. Now it's mid-tier.

Yep, those days are long gone. The sadder part is that MSRP doesn't really mean anything once you factor in all the other stuff going on these days, that is unless you're one of the lucky few to get one at MSRP. Just out of curiosity I spent some time today just looking at things on NewEgg and Amazon. The closest thing to reasonable was a GTX 1650 at around $549. Just sad.

 

[Burticus]

The closest thing to reasonable was a GTX 1650 at around $549. Just sad.

WUT! 549 for a 1650? Hells no. That should be $150 in a normal world

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

WUT! 549 for a 1650? Hells no. That should be $150 in a normal world

Yep, exactly my point. It's utterly insane what is going on right now with GPUs. Pretty sure we can all get behind this.
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[Endgame]

Yep, those days are long gone. The sadder part is that MSRP doesn't really mean anything once you factor in all the other stuff going on these days, that is unless you're one of the lucky few to get one at MSRP. Just out of curiosity I spent some time today just looking at things on NewEgg and Amazon. The closest thing to reasonable was a GTX 1650 at around $549. Just sad.

Man, and I thought I did well selling my HTPC 1660 Super for what I paid 10 months later. I should have waited and doubled my money.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

Man, and I thought I did well selling my HTPC 1660 Super for what I paid 10 months later. I should have waited and doubled my money.

I've never seen anything like it. I got a 2080 Super back in Dec 2019 for $749. They're selling for around $1400-$1700 there now. Same for the 2080 Ti I got the year before. 1080s I got close to 4 years ago are are going for around $1000. It's sort of funny that all this old tech has become worth so much but at the same time I'm a bit disgusted over it too.

 

[Endgame]

I've never seen anything like it. I got a 2080 Super back in Dec 2019 for $749. They're selling for around $1400-$1700 there now. Same for the 2080 Ti I got the year before. 1080s I got close to 4 years ago are are going for around $1000. It's sort of funny that all this old tech has become worth so much but at the same time I'm a bit disgusted over it too.

I’ve got a founders 1080ti I got on launch day. If they are worth that much, I need to find a place to sell and use it to buy half a 3090

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

I’ve got a founders 1080ti I got on launch day. If they are worth that much, I need to find a place to sell and use it to buy half a 3090

Yeah that's the real trick. I've never been comfortable selling my stuff online which I why I've got so much. I usually use 'em in different rigs for different purposes.

 

[Endgame]

Yeah that's the real trick. I've never been comfortable selling my stuff online which I why I've got so much. I usually use 'em in different rigs for different purposes.

The neighbor kids were buying my left overs for about 8 years. Unfortunately, the older one went to college and chose a gaming laptop, and he gave his (my) old 980 and 6700K to the younger one, so my outlet for hardware has mostly dried up.

i have had the opportunity to buy a 3090 around weekly recently at microcenter, so maybe I just need to buy one and then eBay the ol 1080ti. I’ve never done that before, but it can’t be all that bad.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

The neighbor kids were buying my left overs for about 8 years. Unfortunately, the older one went to college and chose a gaming laptop, and he gave his (my) old 980 and 6700K to the younger one, so my outlet for hardware has mostly dried up.

i have had the opportunity to buy a 3090 around weekly recently at microcenter, so maybe I just need to buy one and then eBay the ol 1080ti. I’ve never done that before, but it can’t be all that bad.

Not a bad strategy if you can unload it without any grief or regrets. I've always had doubts about getting scammed which is why I never tried.

I know I love my 3090. People will say all day long how the value isn't there for the price but I've never had anything that can perform like it. I honestly have no regrets about getting it.

 

[Endgame]

Not a bad strategy if you can unload it without any grief or regrets. I've always had doubts about getting scammed which is why I never tried.

I know I love my 3090. People will say all day long how the value isn't there for the price but I've never had anything that can perform like it. I honestly have no regrets about getting it.

I would have been all in on the 3090 had I been able to buy it on or before 11/1. After 2 months, it starts to make a lot more sense to wait for the inevitable ti version and pay less for the same performance. This release was actually the first release ever where I have been unable to secure a card I wanted on release day. Now I’m in the no man’s land where it feels incredibly stupid to buy a 2000 card that is 5 months old with the next thing just around the corner, vs nothing else being in stock and no guarantee the 3080ti will be available either for months after it’s release.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

I would have been all in on the 3090 had I been able to buy it on or before 11/1. After 2 months, it starts to make a lot more sense to wait for the inevitable ti version and pay less for the same performance. This release was actually the first release ever where I have been unable to secure a card I wanted on release day. Now I’m in the no man’s land where it feels incredibly stupid to buy a 2000 card that is 5 months old with the next thing just around the corner, vs nothing else being in stock and no guarantee the 3080ti will be available either for months after it’s release.

I totally agree. The insanity of it all is almost indescribable. I keep imaging being able to tell myself ten 5+ years ago what the GPU/CPU landscape would be like now and I know that I wouldn't have believed it. Sure, it's not uncommon for a couple of releases to be hard to find, but all of them? That plus back stock of previous GPU gens too? Totally insane. I was mentioning in the laptop thread that this will probably come back to bite the manufacturers in the behind at some point when the market gets flooded by either miners or scalpers trying to unload what they don't need.

 

[Burticus]

The neighbor kids were buying my left overs for about 8 years. Unfortunately, the older one went to college and chose a gaming laptop, and he gave his (my) old 980 and 6700K to the younger one, so my outlet for hardware has mostly dried up.

i have had the opportunity to buy a 3090 around weekly recently at microcenter, so maybe I just need to buy one and then eBay the ol 1080ti. I’ve never done that before, but it can’t be all that bad.

Local options are nice, once thing I dislike about covid WFH. I used to unload my used gear on my co-workers.

There is a For Sale thread on here, list your 1080ti there. Someone will snap it up, people are desperate for GPUs. If you ebay/paypal you will auto lose 15-20% plus shipping issues (ie - the shipping calculator sucks balls and has never been able to predict accurate shipping costs. I was always over or under on shipping $). Plus scammers on ebay are real and you have to be careful.