RTX 3060 announced, AMD killer

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti made its debut just a month ago, but Nvidia’s not finished with graphics cards. At CES 2021, Nvidia announced its new $329 GeForce RTX 3060 GPU.

Nvidia is banking on this new card to appeal to anyone waiting to upgrade their cards without having to spend big. This graphics card is $70 cheaper than the RTX 3060 Ti and over $150 less than the GeForce RTX 3070, yet still promises serious gaming performance.   

The GeForce RTX 3060, which appears to be a viable substitute for older GTX 1060 Pascal cards, features specs even PC users with enviable setups might find themselves green with envy over. The card will offer 12GB of GDDR6 memory, and is said to deliver a dramatic improvement with both ray tracing and raster performance. 

Compared to the GTX 1060, the RTX 3060 has twice the raster performance and 10x the ray-tracing performance. And Nvidia touted it as 1.3x as powerful as a PS5. 

It will include support for all of Nvidia's ray tracing and DLSS features, the latter of which allows users to harness the power of neural networks to help sharpen games that run at lower resolutions. That way, you could be looking at much crisper games thanks to image reconstruction that offers native 4K in some situations, or better.