NVIDIA will discontinue the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti to make room for the RTX 4060 Ti GPU

NVIDIA is expected to stop GeForce RTX 3060 Ti production lines to make room for the upcoming high-end GeForce RTX 4060 Ti graphics card.

If nothing changes, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti will officially hit shelves later this month, specifically on May 24. This graphics card model is oriented by NVIDIA as the successor to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti model. 8GB launched in late 2020, and is currently the 7th most popular GPU on Steam Hardware Survey. At launch, the RTX 3060 Ti 8GB had a list price of $399, and initial reports show that the RTX 4060 Ti will likely have a similar price, but there will be two variants for users to choose from. use selection.

According to leaked sources, one of the two variants of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti launching later this month will have 8GB of memory, while the other version expected to launch in July will have up to 8GB of memory. 16GB. This means that there will be a difference in price that users need to pay attention to. It's highly likely that the standard 8GB version will retain the same list price of $399 as the RTX 3060 Ti 8GB, while the 16GB variant will be $100 more expensive, at $499.

Recent reports also say that NVIDIA has directed its partners to clear out existing inventory of GeForce RTX 3060 Ti graphics cards in preparation for new RTX 4060 Ti shipments. This could be the reason why Colorful decided to offer a brand new GDDR6X version along with other variants later this year, as revealed by Videocardz. Even though it is more than 3 years old, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti still has a retail price close to the listed price, which is about 390-400 USD. Clearing RTX 3060 Ti inventory at the same price will certainly become difficult when the RTX 4060 Ti is expected to have a similar retail price.

Both the 16GB and 8GB variants of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti are expected to have similar core configurations, with the AD106-350 GPU, 34 SM, 4352 cores, 16Gbps memory running on a 128-bit bus interface, and Provides 288GB/s bandwidth. The card will get 32MB of L2 cache and have a TDP of nearly 150-160W. This parameter will make it one of the extremely effective gaming graphics cards for the majority of common users.

David Pac

Update 15 May 2024