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NVIDIA To Bring Back The GeForce RTX 3060 In Q1 2026 To Tackle Current-Gen GPU & Memory Shortages
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Trogdor1123
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I asked this the other day too. Are we going to shift to way more apus?
Integrated graphics are gonna make a comeback within a few months at this rate.
Tiago Rodrigues
Member
More like there's no way it's coming in 2027.
If it is coming by then...how the fuck are they going to sell it? What's the main selling point?
How can you sell a new console that's going to be cross-gen games only, with games that will virtually look the same on a console that's going to be really expensive?
Makes no sense in the current market tbh.
asdasdasdbb
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From 3dmark's site, the average 5060 TI 16 GB is 83% faster in Steel Nomad.
Edit: And even the 5050 is faster. So probally not a RAM thing, esp if it ends up being the 3060 12 GB version.
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Donald mac Ronald
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If only Hitler had a rtx 3060, we'd be speaking German now.
Skifi28
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Zacfoldor
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My 3080 is fine but I can't run any of the good AI because I only have 10gb of vram.
AI requires higher end cards and you can rent them to run restriction-less AI. The new thing now is renting a cloud gpu to run your own restriction less AI on so you can use the latest versions of the tech without the restrictions put on the commercial models.
Cards with lots of VRAM can run the better models and with my 10gb of vram I can only run the lower end lightweight models on my home GPU so I may end up renting one. Even if I have 32gb of system ram which I do that will not help much since it is so much slower and impossible to function at acceptable levels without the higher speed vram. So you can't get around needing a card with high vram.
I will use my console for gaming but soon we will all need local AI as well. If you want it to actually do things for you it is much easier without the safety rails. Like I want this thing to manage my bank account and credit cards and pay them for me if needed based on my current financial circumstances. I need to take the safety rails off. My iphone 17 Pro Max already has ai nodes for live translation built in and also the fucking thing has water cooling and never gets hot. On a side note I will never buy another phone or table without vapor/liquid cooling.
AI requires higher end cards and you can rent them to run restriction-less AI. The new thing now is renting a cloud gpu to run your own restriction less AI on so you can use the latest versions of the tech without the restrictions put on the commercial models.
Cards with lots of VRAM can run the better models and with my 10gb of vram I can only run the lower end lightweight models on my home GPU so I may end up renting one. Even if I have 32gb of system ram which I do that will not help much since it is so much slower and impossible to function at acceptable levels without the higher speed vram. So you can't get around needing a card with high vram.
I will use my console for gaming but soon we will all need local AI as well. If you want it to actually do things for you it is much easier without the safety rails. Like I want this thing to manage my bank account and credit cards and pay them for me if needed based on my current financial circumstances. I need to take the safety rails off. My iphone 17 Pro Max already has ai nodes for live translation built in and also the fucking thing has water cooling and never gets hot. On a side note I will never buy another phone or table without vapor/liquid cooling.
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MayauMiao
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That's pathetic.
mckmas8808
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Buggy Loop
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wow
It's not just a VRAM question because they have other models with low VRAM.
I guess Samsung fab was the only one not fully booked and why this is the gen that gets re-released. 4000 and 5000 series are TSMC but they're saturated.
It's not just a VRAM question because they have other models with low VRAM.
I guess Samsung fab was the only one not fully booked and why this is the gen that gets re-released. 4000 and 5000 series are TSMC but they're saturated.
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Hawk The Slayer
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The 3060 was a decent and natural evolution with its 12gb vram up from the 6gb/8gb vram of the past consumer cards. It should have just stayed with this pattern where the vram increases every 2 gen with the base 5060 being 16gb vram. There shouldn't even be any 8gb consumer cards left in 2025/2026 and 12gb vram should be the absolute lowest.
DirtInUrEye
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To put this into context that actually matters:
Absolutely fine for most players. The problem is Nvidia, who will rinse potential buyers despite the architecture being pretty old.
Absolutely fine for most players. The problem is Nvidia, who will rinse potential buyers despite the architecture being pretty old.
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Corporal.Hicks
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The RTX 3060 doesn't make much sense in 2026. However, the RTX 3070 with 16 GB of VRAM or the RTX 3080 with 20 GB of VRAM would be attractive purchases.
cormack12
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HOLLY: (VO) It's perfectly consistent with current theory. Everything
starts with a Big Bang, right? And the universe starts expanding.
Eventually, when it's expanded as far as it can, there's a big crunch,
right? And everything starts contracting. Perfectly possible that
time starts running in the opposite direction, as well.
Disciple of MSSP
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Diminishing returns or returning to diminish?
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Trogdor1123
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The pricing will definitely be interesting
Magic Carpet
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I can only see it as bad news.
Imagine Apple releasing a new iPhone with 5 year old hardware.
Come On Tars
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Ok maybe I was wrong that the 5090 won't be 5k
Smiggs
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Nihilum
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justiceiro
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The guy who holdout to his 3060 until now:
Aenima
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This AI bubble is so awesome, we are now going back in time...
Hawk The Slayer
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Hopefully they're trying to get as many people to keep up with the current gen as possible and prepare for the upcoming games so they'll sell this at a really cheap price like 150 dollars with 12gb of vram which should still have enough power to low settings future titles. If not fuck'em, actually still fuck'em either way for upping the price so much in the first place.
P:axMagellanic
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No such thing as a bad GPU, only a bad price. This is still pretty embarassing though.
amigastar
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The more reason to release the Nvidia Neural Texture Compression tech.
ChorizoPicozo
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Reset the clock, reset the generation baby!!!
Laptop1991
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I put my ROG 3060 TI up for sale when i got my new PC but took it down due to low offers, Nvidia did this 5 years ago bringing back the RTX 260 for a while, i'm not sure how many they sold back then, but, at least the games should work for the next few years at this rate or they won't sell many, ohh wait that's been happening anyway lol.
TheTony316
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Fortunately, we have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of GDDR7, it's called RTX3060.
FIREKNIGHT2029
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Crayon
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Oh lord. Please don't be true. How much will it cost? This could be a very expensive 3060 if 40 and 50 series get so costly that nvidia finds this necessary.
Really it's all eyes on the PS6 price. That will be enough time for this to die down *if* it's going to. The console sets a certain baseline only once it sells enough to be in mass adoption. If the console is too expensive to reach that, we are stuck with PS5 baseline.
Looks like we're already stuck with 8gb gpu's for a long time as there are just so many out there that they need to be supported. So if PS6 can't sell fast enough to obsolete ps5, we're stuck with the compute baseline of the ps5 (with no ml upscaling to stretch the performance), and the 8gb baseline of popular gpu's. Worst of both worlds.
Really it's all eyes on the PS6 price. That will be enough time for this to die down *if* it's going to. The console sets a certain baseline only once it sells enough to be in mass adoption. If the console is too expensive to reach that, we are stuck with PS5 baseline.
Looks like we're already stuck with 8gb gpu's for a long time as there are just so many out there that they need to be supported. So if PS6 can't sell fast enough to obsolete ps5, we're stuck with the compute baseline of the ps5 (with no ml upscaling to stretch the performance), and the 8gb baseline of popular gpu's. Worst of both worlds.
dgrdsv
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Because it's another mind numbingly stupid rumor time.
Fun fact: all 50 series GPUs support GDDR6 memory, and if using that memory would somehow help with the current product mix they would just introduce a new 50 series SKU with G6 memory instead of "bringing back" something which has long lost all economy of scale advantages.
Buggy Loop
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I'm betting they're just finding allocation slots for ampere on Samsung node and that's it. Nothing to do with memory.
dispensergoinup
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Damn but does it look beautiful.In other news, IBM is re-entering the PC market....
Read the article
"There's no detail on whether both the 12 GB / 8 GB models or one of those will be produced, but the RTX 3060 is going to be made available on retail shelves once again."
I suspect they know GPU sales are going to be trash so pay more for memory but cut back on silicon to keep the same/lower price overall.
ChuckeRearmed
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AMD brings old CPUs, Nvidia old GPUs. What an era!