Nvidia Revives RTX 3060 12GB at $339 as AI Demand Squeezes Entry-Level GPU Supply
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Updated · Tom's Hardware · Jun 30
Nvidia Revives RTX 3060 12GB at $339 as AI Demand Squeezes Entry-Level GPU Supply
2 articles · Updated · Tom's Hardware · Jun 30
Summary
$339.99 RTX 3060 12GB cards have reappeared as new retail stock at Newegg, ending a hiatus that began late last year and signaling a quiet relaunch of the 2021 GPU.
Gigabyte's listed card carries a Rev2.0 label, and Asus models have also surfaced in Europe, suggesting board partners are reviving the older Samsung 8nm-based product beyond a one-off restock.
Nvidia had floated bringing back older GeForce cards at CES 2026, and the move fits a market where AI demand may be pulling cutting-edge wafer capacity toward higher-margin data center GPUs instead of entry-level Blackwell desktop chips.
That leaves gamers with a weak value proposition: the revived RTX 3060 sits only slightly below the faster RTX 5060 and can neither fully exploit DLSS 4.5 nor support DLSS Frame Generation.