There won't be a Founders Edition of the GeForce RTX 3060

Chatter on the web indicates that the GeForce RTX 3060, to be released next month, will only be released by NVIDIA board partners. NVIDIA would not have any plans to release its Founders Edition for this model.

The news originates from our French colleagues at Cowcotland. Now if you look at the slide that NVIDIA used during the announcement of the RTX 3060, we see that no reference model was shown, suggesting that indeed the manufacturer does not plan to include the latter GPU in its Founders Edition list.

GeForce	RTX 3080	RTX 3070	RTX 3060 Ti	RTX 3060 12GB	RTX 2060
Architecture	Ampere	Ampere	Ampere	Ampere	Turing
Process	8nm	8nm	8nm	8nm	12nm
Die size	628.4mm²	392.5mm²	392.5mm²	-	445mm²
Transistors	28 billion	17.4 billion	17.4 billion	-	10.8 billion
CUDA cores	8704	5888	4864	3584	1920
Base clock	1440MHz	1500MHz	1410MHz	1320MHz	1365MHz
Boost clock	1710MHz	1730MHz	1665MHz	1780MHz	1680MHz
Graphics memory	10GB GDDR6x	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	12GB GDDR6	6GB GDDR6
Memory speed	19Gbit / s	14Gbit / s	14Gbit / s	-	14Gbit / s
Memory bus	320-bit	256-bit	256-bit	192-bit	192-bit
Bandwidth	760GB / s	448GB / s	448GB / s	-	336GB / s
Tgp	320W	220W	200W	170W	160W
Recommended price FE(at introduction)	719 euros	519 euros	419 euros	$ 329	369 euros
Released	September 17, 2020	October 27, 2020	December 2, 2020	Late February 2021	January 7, 2019

In the presentation from CES, you will have spotted a single blower style product, but that one was for illustrative reasons solely it now seems. GeForce RTX 3060 will be available at the end of February in custom models at a price that starts at $ 329 dollars (at least it should be). The card will be based on an 8nm fabrication APmpere GPU that offers 3584 shader cores, 28 RT Cores and 112 Tensor Cores, a 1320/1777 MHz GPU and which integrates 12 GB of 192-bit GDDR6 memory.