It seems that now that the RTX 4000 are on the market, NVIDIA is going to gradually abandon the RTX 3000. But the truth is that it seems that they will continue to sell it during this generation, and on top of that I offer a possible improved version of the RTX 3000 card more popular. NVIDIA partners could be working on a new variant of GeForce RTX 3060. This version would have the full GA106 GPU and 3840 cores.
TechPowerUp GPU database editor “T4C Fantasy” reported on the graphics card and posted the link to the specifications. The unknown NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP offers 3840 cores, 120 texture mapping units, 112 Tensor cores, and 48 ROPS.
This would be a new version of the RTX 3060
The card's memory is 6 GB of GDDR6 memory with a 192-bit bus width and has a 2 MB L3 cache. The NVIDIA GPU supports DirectX 12 Ultimate, which offers hardware-based ray tracing thanks to its 30 cores of ray tracing acceleration, and variable-rate shading to support most modern games. Other supported graphics options are OpenGL, OpenCL, Vulkan, and CUDA.
In the connectivity department, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP includes a single HDMI 2.1 port and three DisplayPort 1.4a ports. The graphics card would connect to the PC via a PCIe 4.0 x 16 controller interface. The clock speed of the card reaches 1852 MHz, which is 75 MHz higher than the RTX 3060 12 GB and RTX 3060 8 GB cards. The TDP remains at 170 W.
The relative performance of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP GPU is equal to that of the AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT. Performance is measured at 1920 x 1080 at 4K resolution. TechPowerUp mentions that the card «it is rare and appears on some OEM systems«. AIB partners ASUS, Dell, Gigabyte, HP, and MSI have all used this graphics card in their designs. Only the mobile RTX 3060 parts shared a similar configuration, but had an inferior memory system.
They speculate that this model could simply be an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 SKU designed to clear Ampere's inventory. The GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 used an older silicon chipset. The GeForce RTX 3060 came with 8 GB of GDDR6 memory, and the GeForce RTX 3060 GDDR6X offered improved memory performance.
Source: Wccftech
