Gainward and Galax have put new RTX 3060 video cards with the partially disabled GA104 GPU on their websites. The GA104 chipset is used in higher-ranking RTX 30 GPUs. However, it appears that the specifications of the new RTX 3060 remain unchanged.

Jenward employment Galaxy They posted refurbished RTX 3060 variants on their Chinese websites, note Video Cards Until the end of this week. Product pages indicate that these manufacturers offer RTX 3060 video cards with a GA140-150 GPU. RTX 3060 video cards usually have a GA106-300 or GA106-302 GPU with 3584 CUDA cores. GA104 GPUs are physically larger and are used in the RTX 3060 Ti, RTX 3070, and RTX 3070 Ti.

VideoCardz writes that the GA104-150’s GPU specs are pretty much the same as the GA106 chipset in previous RTX 3060 variants. The chip once again contains 3584 CUDA cores, a 192-bit interface, and the video card’s 12GB GDDR6 memory remains unchanged. The tech website speculates that it could be the number of files Presentation of output units It has been changed, or potential GPU-specific functions are enabled. However, this has not yet been confirmed. It appears that the RTX 3060 variants with the GA104 chip are only being sold in China at the moment. The suggested retail price will not change for the GA106 versions.

Nvidia has not officially announced the release of the RTX 3060 update with the GA104 chip. With the new variant, the company can still use GA104 GPUs that aren’t good enough for an RTX 3060 Ti or higher due to flaws in the lower-position RTX 3060. This strategy is used quite often. For example, EVGA was released in January last year KO variant of the GeForce RTX 2060, which contains the partially disabled RTX 2080 GPU.