Jan 13, 2021 14:07:00

NVIDIA officially announces middle range GPU 'GeForce RTX 3060' in the 40,000 yen range

On Wednesday, January 13, 2021,

NVIDIA announced the new GPU ' GeForce RTX 3060 ' with Ampere architecture. It demonstrates 10 times the ray tracing performance of NVIDIA's popular product 'GeForce GTX 1060', and it is said that even new 3D games can be played easily at 60 FPS. At the same time, three types of gaming notebook PCs equipped with the RTX 30 series have also been announced.

GeForce RTX 3060 Family-NVIDIA
https://www.nvidia.com/ja-jp/geforce/graphics-cards/30-series/rtx-3060-3060ti/?nvid=nv-int-gffmmfg-85253#cid=gf40_nv-int-gffmmfg_ja-jp

NVIDIA Introduces GeForce RTX 3060, Next Generation of the World's Most Popular GPU | NVIDIA Newsroom
https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-introduces-geforce-rtx-3060-next-generation-of-the-worlds-most-popular-gpu

NVIDIA Reveals GeForce RTX 3060: Launching Late February For $ 329
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16411/nvidia-reveals-geforce-rtx-3060-launching-late-february-for-329

The main specifications of GeForce RTX 3060 are as follows.

NVIDIA GeForce	RTX 3060	RTX 3060 Ti	RTX 2060	GTX 1060
architecture	Ampere	Ampere	Turing	Pascal
Manufacturing process	Samsung 8nm	Samsung 8nm	TSMC 12nm (FFN)	TSMC 16nm
Number of CUDA cores	3584	4864	1920	1280
Number of ROPs	64	80	48	48
GPU core clock (boost)	1.78GHz	1.665GHz	1.68GHz	1.709GHz
Memory clock	15Gbps / GDDR6	14Gbps / GDDR6	14Gbps / GDDR6	8Gbps / GDDR5
Memory bus width	192bit	256bit	192bit	192bit
VRAM	12GB	8GB	6GB	6GB
Single precision floating point number	12.8 TFLOPS	16.2 TFLOPS	6.5 TFLOPS	4.4 TFLOPS
Tensor Performance (FP16)	51.2 TFLOPS	64.8 TFLOPS	51.6 TFLOPS	unknown
Tensor Performance (FP16-Sparse)	102.4 TFLOPS	129.6 TFLOPS	51.6 TFLOPS	unknown
Thermal design power (TDP)	170W	200W	160W	120W
GPU	GA106	GA104	TU106	GP106
Release date	February 2021	December 2, 2020	January 15, 2019	July 19, 2016
Price (yen conversion only)	329 dollars (about 34,000 yen)	$ 399 (about 41,000 yen)	$ 349 (about 36,000 yen)	$ 249 (about 26,000 yen)

You can check the special event 'GeForce RTX: Game On' held by NVIDIA on YouTube from the following movie with Japanese subtitles. GeForce RTX 3060 is introduced from 26 minutes 12 seconds.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series Laptops | RTX 3060 | Official Launch Event --YouTube

The GeForce RTX 3060 boasts 13 Shader TFLOPS, 25 RT TFLOPS for ray tracing, 101 Tensor TFLOPS for DLSS, and is equipped with 12GB GDD P6 memory. Scheduled to be released in late February, the domestic sales price is 49,980 yen.

In addition, gaming laptops equipped with GeForce RTX 3060, GeForce RTX 3070, and GeForce RTX 3080 will be released.

NVIDIA Introduces GeForce RTX 30 Series Laptops, RTX 3060 Graphics Cards | NVIDIA Blog

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/01/12/rtx-30-series-laptops-rtx-3060-graphics-cards/

NVIDIA Ampere Architecture Powers Record 70+ New GeForce RTX Laptops | NVIDIA Newsroom
https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-ampere-architecture-powers-record-70+-new-geforce-rtx-laptops

Nvidia reveals mobile RTX 3060, 3070, and 3080 GPUs for gaming laptops | VentureBeat
https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/12/nvidia-reveals-mobile-rtx-3060-3070-and-3080-gpus-for-gaming-laptops/

The three models with the RTX 30 series are twice as power efficient as the previous generation with 2nd generation RTX and 3rd generation Max-Q technology . The Dynamic Boost 2.0 AI network will determine where the most power is needed between the CPU, GPU, and GPU memory, and move power to maintain maximum performance.

Models with RTX 3060 can play the latest games at 1080p / 90FPS with the highest image quality, 30% higher performance than PlayStation 5, and are appealing to be faster than any other product on the market. It is said to be 30% faster than the PlayStation 5, and the price is 999 dollars (about 104,000 yen).

The RTX 3070 laptop with a 1440p compatible display costs $ 1299, 50% faster than the RTX 2070, and delivers 90 FPS with an ultra setting of 1440p.

The flagship model RTX 3080 laptop claims to be the fastest in the world, with up to 16GB of memory and GDDP6 memory. You can play popular games such as 'Overwatch' at 240 FPS.