The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti debuted just a month ago, but Nvidia is not done with graphics cards; at CES 2021, Nvidia announced its new $329 GeForce RTX 3060 GPU.

Nvidia hopes this new card will appeal to those waiting to upgrade their cards without spending a fortune. The graphics card promises serious gaming performance despite being $70 cheaper than the RTX 3060 Ti and over $150 cheaper than the GeForce RTX 3070.

The GeForce RTX 3060 appears to be a replacement for the older GTX 1060 Pascal cards, with specs that might make even PC users with an enviable setup look envious. The card comes with 12GB of GDDR6 memory and is said to offer dramatic gains in both ray tracing and raster performance. [Compared to the GTX 1060, the RTX 3060 will have twice the raster performance and 10 times the ray tracing performance. Nvidia also touts this as 1.3 times the performance of the PS5.

The RTX 3060 supports all of Nvidia's ray tracing and DLSS features, the latter of which can harness the power of neural networks to make games running at lower resolutions more vivid. This allows for sharper game viewing with native 4K or even higher image reconstruction, depending on the situation. [Additionally, we can expect 13 shader TFLOPS, 25 RT-TFLOPS for ray tracing, 101 tensor TFLOPS (for Nvidia's DLSS capability), and a 194-bit memory interface.

While there are currently no benchmarks that test the RTX 3060's specs against other cards in the latest Nvidia product line, it is safe to say that this particular model is an attractive one.

And this is dangerous for AMD, as AMD does not currently sell RDNA 2 (the latest GPU architecture) graphics cards for less than $500. As a result, Nvidia has a monopoly in the mainstream PC gaming arena. We expect AMD to fight back in the not-too-distant future with its new, more price-oriented Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards.

Nvidia has also confirmed that various PC manufacturers, including ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, PNY, and Zotac, will be carrying the RTX 3060. The fact that several companies are getting into this graphics card suggests that prospective buyers will not experience the same severe supply problems that Nvidia's other models have experienced over the past few months.

However, if it wants to beat the duffers who will almost certainly plague the RTX 3060's launch, Nvidia plans to release the card in late February, and as the RTX 3060's release date approaches, we will keep you posted on inventory levels and where you can purchase it. We will keep you posted. We wouldn't be surprised to see a GeForce RTX 3060-powered machine on our Best Gaming PCs list in the not-too-distant future.