Nvidia's RTX 3060 is coming out on February 25th !

Nvidia's forthcoming RTX 3060 graphics card yet only has an official release time of "late February" at the time of writing, but a new report from WccfTech advises that Thursday, February 25th will be the day it goes on sale. Admittedly, WccfTech doesn't state their source for this particular date, so it could all be a load of hogwash. However, when taken together with other rumors that have been floating around the internet lately (and the fact that almost all Nvidia's previous RTX 30 cards have launched on a Thursday as well), there might just be a shred of truth to it.

By the end of January, For example, Videocardz allegedly obtained Nvidia's embargo plan for the RTX 3060, which declared that press and influencers would begin receiving review examples on February 19th. The plan didn't list when the embargo for reviews would finally lift, nor did it reveal an exact release date for the RTX 3060, but if the sample seed date does indeed prove to be true, then it would seem likely that a worldwide release date of Thursday, February 25th is probably about right. The RTX 3070, RTX 3080, and RTX 3090 all launched on Thursdays at the end of last year, after all, and it's not unusual to only have a week of testing before the card eventually goes on sale. The only exemption to this rule was the RTX 3060 Ti, which launched on December 2nd - a Wednesday.

As such, there's still a possibility that February 25th isn't the correct release date after all - although given we're almost halfway through February already and I've heard neither hides nor hair of when review examples are arriving yet, a more general window somewhence within Monday, February 22nd, and Friday, February 26th seems all but several. Of course, given how soon the rest of Nvidia's RTX 30 the family got caught up at launch, we can apparently also expect stock levels of the RTX 3060 to last all of 20 seconds before it, too, disappears in a puff of smoke for the next several months, but I will, of course, let you know its proper on-sale date as soon as Nvidia get round to announcing it.

The RTX 3060 is set to be the cheapest RTX 30 card yet out of Nvidia's next-gen Ampere family of ray-tracing GPUs, with prices starting at £299 / $329. It will come with 12GB of GDDR6 VRAM (which is more than the 8GB you get on the more powerful RTX 3060 Ti on RTX 3070), 3584 CUDA cores (down of the 4864 on the RTX 3060 Ti), also a base clock speed of 1320MHz (also down from the 1410MHz on the Ti). Unlike the rest of Nvidia's RTX 30 family, though, there will be no Founders Edition of the RTX 3060 open when it finally launches - so you'll pick from one of the many third-party models that will be going on sale if you decide to try and get one.

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