It seems like it’s the RTX 3060 to the rescue in the current state of PC gaming industry, at least that’s what NVIDIA thinks. With rising GPU prices, worldwide shortages of RAM and increasing costs of SSDs, the PC gaming market has been in a whirlpool of uncertainty since the end of last year and judging by what’s happening now, it’s unrealistic to expect things to stabilize anytime soon. And perhaps that’s why, NVIDIA is bringing back one of their most budget-friendly and cost effective GPUs in the last five years which is the RTX 3060 to help provide a sort of affordable solution to players who need to buy a new graphics card in the current hardware marketplace.
According to Board Channels (courtesy of VideoCardz), the RTX 3060 will reportedly arrive at board partners sometimes between March 10 and March 20. However, it’s currently unknown whether the relaunched RTX 3060 will be available in both 12GB and 8GB VRAM variants but considering the main USP of the card is it’s sumptuous 12 gigs of VRAM, it seems we’ll be seeing both versions of the GPU when it relaunches.
The RTX 3060 features 3,584 CUDA cores, a base clock of 1.32 GHz, a boost clock of 1.78 GHz, a 192-bit wide memory bus and a massive 12 gigs of VRAM which make it relevant in terms of performance even in 2026, if you’re willing to disable Ray Tracing, that is. Without RT, the 3060 can still run all the latest titles in fairly decent visual quality levels as evident by a myriad of benchmarks you can find on Youtube.
And the thing about RT, is that if you don’t have at least a 70-class GPU like the RTX 4070 or 5070, don’t expect to max out RT as even a 5060 Ti 16 GB can’t get 60 FPS on games like Spider-Man 2 at 1080p with full RT settings so without RT, the RTX 3060 can still get you pretty decent FPS at 1080p.
First released back in 2021, the RTX 3060 still holds a 4.58% in Steam’s Hardware Survey which makes it one of the most popular and beloved GPUs out there.
It seems Samsung is also restarting its 8 nm node production to help manufacture the relaunched RTX 3060.
