An upcoming NVIDIA RTX 3060 card has leaked out online. The card leaked online is an ASUS TUF variant and it is called the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ultra. And it is also rumored that this card will perform better than the RTX 3060 Ti and will have double the VRAM of the 3060 Ti, which houses 6 GB of GDDR6 memory.
The GeForce RTX 3060 Ultra is being readied by NVIDIA and according to reports, the Ultra tier is spec’d above the Ti and SUPER variants and that the ultra-series cards will come beefy cooling designs and high VRAM capacities.
According to the currently know specifications, the RTX 3060 Ultra will come with 12 GB of GDDR6 memory which more than the RTX 3060 Ti and even the RTX 3070 and 3080 cards, with the latter two however featuring the faster GDDR6X memory.
ASUS’s TUF gaming RTX 3060 Ultra has been leaked out online and the card will also come in ASUS’s several other custom flavors including its ROG STRIX series as well. The ASUS TUF RTX 3060 Ultra comes in a 2.7 slot design featuring a large shroud made of aluminum. The cooler has triple fans that come with the 0dB technology. The card features a massive aluminum fin array heatsink with several copper heat pipes running through it for high-end cooling.
The card will feature a custom PCB and a backplate as well. It is currently unknown what power configuration the card will feature but if we look at ASUS’s history, a single 8-pin or a dual 8-pin connector configuration might be a feature in this graphics card. For display, the card will have 1 HDMI and 3 DisplayPort outputs.
The Ultra variant of RTX 3060 is said to feature a price tag of $449 US and is expected to be announced on the 12th of January at NVIDIA’s CES 2021 keynote.
