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The recently announced Nvidia RTX 3060 has been photographed in the wild ahead of its rumored release later this month.
Nvidia first unveiled the RTX 3060 at CES 2021, where it touted the graphics card as a mid-range graphics card designed to bring ray-traced games to all PC gamers. While Nvidia confirmed that the GPU will go on sale for $ 329 (around £ 255 / AU $ 460), making it the cheapest card in the RTX 3000 series, it did not reveal when it will go on sale.
While rumors point to a February 25 release date, some eagle-eyed Redditors have already seen the GPU in the wild.
Reddit user He_never_sleeps claims to have stumbled across two Gigabyte RTX 3060s on the shelves of an unnamed European country, and even managed to pick one of the two available GPUs.
However, since the RTX 3060 has yet to be officially released, it notes that it cannot get the card to work in Windows due to a lack of available drivers.
Separately, a second Reddit user claims that one of the stores in his unidentified country has seven units of a 12GB PALIT RTX 3060 graphics card in stock, which retails for $ 750 USD, more than double the suggested retail price. maker.
Although the Nvidia RTX 3060 has started to hit store shelves ahead of its rumored launch two weeks from now, it remains to be seen if the GPU launch will be as complicated as its predecessors.
Supply issues have been a constant problem with Nvidia’s latest generation GPUs, with the RTX 3080 and RTX 3060 Ti particularly affected.
Things also appear to be getting worse, as European retailer Alternate revealed this week that the availability of RTX 3000 series cards will deteriorate further in the first quarter of 2021, which could cause GPU prices to spike.
Via: PCGamesn
