The mining movement flourished, the unreleased RTX 3060 has been pushed the price many times higher

The RTX 3060 is NVIDIA’s latest mid-range GPU and will go official on February 25. With 3584 CUDA cores, 12GB GDDR6 memory and support for some outstanding technologies like ray-tracing or DLSS, RTX 3060 is rated for performance on par with RTX 2080. RTX 2060 becomes even more attractive in eye of users by the list price of only 329 USD.

However, in fact, it will be difficult for users to buy the RTX 3060 at such a price, at least in many European countries. Otherwise, Users will have to spend 2 or even 3 times the listed price.

As noted by VideoCardz , at a German retailer called ProShop, RTX 3060 is sold at the cheapest price of 499 EUR, equivalent to 600 USD and nearly double the listed price.

Meanwhile, another retailer, PCDiga in Portugal, has raised the price of the RTX 3060 from 490 EUR (600 USD) to 699 EUR (841 USD) in just one week.

Returning to Asia, a retailer in Pakistan claimed to have had an RTX 3060 for sale, even before NVIDIA allowed it. Of course, the price to own will not be cheap: 750 USD.

Right now, the GPU market is more exciting than ever. The purchasing power of GPUs increased not only because of the need for home entertainment during the pandemic, but also from the flourishing of the cryptocurrency market, leading to a flourishing demand for “mining”. Last week, Bitcoin crossed the $ 50,000 mark, hitting an all-time high. Meanwhile, another cryptocurrency popular among miners, Ethereum (ETH), has tripled in value in just two months, from around $ 600 in December 2020 to nearly $ 1,900 in the same period. current point.