Nvidia RTX 3060 GPU could still come in a cheaper version with 6GB VRAM

Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card arrives in just a couple of days on February 25 complete with 12GB of GDDR6 VRAM, but there may still be a version with half that video memory coming as well, going by a filing in South Korea from graphics card maker Palit.

Previous buzz from the GPU grapevine in the past has suggested the existence of an RTX 3060 with 6GB of video RAM, and that quantity fits with the card’s 192-bit memory interface – Nvidia essentially has a choice of using either a 12GB or 6GB configuration.

Because Nvidia officially confirmed it was going with the former, and there’s been no mention of a 6GB variant, it was assumed that this smaller loadout had been abandoned.

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