The GeForce RTX 3060 is Nvidia’s cheapest new RTX 30-series graphics card and the company has now confirmed when consumers will be able to buy one. Of course, release dates are one thing, but actually being able to find available stock and complete a purchase is quite another. An issue that has plagued the release of all the other RTX 30-series GPUs so far.

Nvidia first unveiled its new RTX 30-series cards late last year with the lineup limited to the RTX 3070, 3080, and 3090. Over the next few weeks, the company released the various new graphics cards at different times. Since then, the company has unveiled the RTX 3060 Ti, and even more recently, the standard RTX 3060. Priced at just $329, the RTX 3060 is set to become the most affordable RTX 30-series card to date.

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For those looking to pick up the cheapest card, Nvidia has now confirmed it will go on general sale, starting from February 25, 2021. The Nvidia website has now been updated to reflect the release date and a separate confirmation came through an official Nvidia forums posting noting RTX 3060 units will go on sale at approximately 9 a.m. Pacific time. If the company’s recent releases are anything to go by, that approximate release time is likely to matter for anyone interested in picking one up.

RTX 3060 Likely To Sell Out Quickly

While it is good to know when the RTX 3060 goes on general sale, it might not matter much. Each RTX 30-series card that has come through before has been met with extreme demand, although not always genuine demand with bots and scalpers equally keen on securing as many graphics cards as they can. Due to these combined elements, the availability of these cards have typically not lasted much longer than a few minutes after their release. With the RTX 3060 being the cheapest of the new GPU lineup, it should probably be expected that demand for this one will be as high as the previous cards, if not higher. Unfortunately, this is also likely to mean that when the RTX 3060 goes on sale on February 25, it too will sell out extremely quickly.

For those that can get their hands on one, the RTX 3060 is looking like a good deal. In spite of its low price, the graphics card comes loaded with 12GB GDDR6 memory, 3584 CUDA cores, and a 3584 GHz boost clock speed. Not to mention, it also comes with many of the same improvements as the rest of the RTX 30-sesries lineup, including Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS), improved ray tracing, and other benefits associated with Nvidia’s Ampere architecture.

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Source: Nvidia

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