Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3090, RTX 3080, and RTX 3070 have only just been revealed, but there are signs of another graphics card on the horizon

Twitter regular hardware leaker kopite7kim said he knows the model name GA106-300, which appears to refer to the GeForce RTX 3060 This is due to a pattern of recently announced GPU model names

The GeForce RTX 3060 makes a lot of sense and follows the pattern established by the GeForce RTX 2000 series In the previous generation of Turing graphics cards, Nvidia released the RTX 2080 Ti, RTX 2080, and RTX 2070 first, with the RTX 2060 coming a bit later Therefore, it is likely that RTX 3060 will eventually appear

The graphics card will likely be aimed at mainstream gaming PCs and targeted at games with high frame rates and 1440p resolution The former will be at high frame rates with ray tracing enabled, and the latter will probably be in the 60 frames per second realm, which would place it below the RTX 3070, which is pursuing 1440p and 4K resolution games

The RTX 3060 is expected to cost between $300 and $400 This would likely make it a very good graphics card for PCs around $1,000

Kopite7kim also tweeted that the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti//Super and RTX 3060 Ti/Super are expected Again, Nvidia has done this with its RTX 2000 series graphics cards, releasing a Super variant about a year after releasing the vanilla GPU

Leeker noted that both the Super or Ti cards use the same core GPU as the RTX 3070; the RTX 3070 Super/Ti is expected to use 8GB of GDDR6X video memory, which is a This is a step up from the RTX 3070's GDDR6 The RTX 3060 Super/Ti is also said to use 8GB of GDDR6

With these boosted variants of the standard card, higher clock speeds can be expected And the RTX 3060 Super/Ti will use a more powerful GPU than the projected plain stable version

With their new numbers and suffixes, these cards may be quite confusing to those unfamiliar with Nvidia's naming conventions But in short, Nvidia appears to be expanding its lineup of graphics cards for 2021 [This is because Nvidia's rival AMD is expected to launch a high-end GeForce competitor in the form of the AMD Big Navi, which is said to be an Nvidia killer and appears poised to offer performance on par with the RTX 3080 but at a potentially lower price

With the addition of more graphics cards to the RTX3000 series, Nvidia is likely to have a number of GPUs targeting different performance and price points, giving AMD more competitors to face off against But more competition means more innovation and better prices for PC gaming enthusiasts And that's not something we can complain about