NVIDIA announced to stop producing the ‘national card’ RTX 3060 Ti

If nothing changes, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti will officially hit the 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 the Steam Hardware Survey. At the time of launch, the RTX 3060 Ti 8GB had a list price of 399 US dollars, and early reports suggest that it is highly likely that the RTX 4060 Ti will also have the same price, but there will be two variants for users 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 memory. 16GB. This means that there will be a difference in price that users need to be aware of. It is highly likely that the standard 8GB version will keep the same $399 list price as the 8GB RTX 3060 Ti, while the 16GB variant will be $100 more expensive, at $499.

Recent reports also indicate that NVIDIA has directed its partners to clean up their existing stock of GeForce RTX 3060 Ti graphics cards in preparation for new RTX 4060 Ti shipments. This could be why Colorful decided to offer a brand new version of GDDR6X along with other variants later this year, as revealed by Videocardz. Although it is more than 3 years old, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti still has a retail price close to the list price, which is about 390-400 USD. Clearing the inventory of the RTX 3060 Ti 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 feature similar core configurations, with an 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 has a TDP close to 150-160W. This parameter will make it one of the extremely effective gaming graphics cards for the vast majority of ordinary users.