NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3060 was going to get a fifth option as a "SUPER" variant with a full GA106 GPU but never saw the light of day.

Based on a tweet by @inatural_log, it looks like NVIDIA was about to offer a brand new GeForce RTX 3060 SKU. This SKU was going to be the best model in the entire RTX 3060 lineup that includes four variants, the GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB, RTX 3060 8 GB, & their respective GA104 variants that were made later on. Graphics Card 6gb

Never-Released NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 SUPER Would've Been The 5th Entry In The 3060 Lineup, Full GA106 GPU

So far the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 SUPER, there is a GPU-z screenshot that reveals that the card is based on an MSI design and utilizes the PG190 SKU 50 PCB. This card was finalized in December 2020 which is just a month before the RTX 3060 12 GB was first introduced to the world. As for the specifications, the graphics card makes use of the full GA106-400 GPU with 3840 cores, 120 TMUs & 48 ROPs.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 SUPER should have retained its 12 GB GDDR6 memory across a 192-bit bus interface, clocking in a bandwidth of 360 GB/s. Clock speeds were rated at 1627 MHz base & 1852 MHz boost which are also a good bit ahead of the standard RTX 3060 12 GB model. It is likely that NVIDIA sent out this specification to its partners for evaluation purposes and certain rumors in the time during the RTX 30 series launch also pointed to various specs and SKUs so it's now easy to explain where those rumors came from.

In fact, there have been various SKUs that showed up much later after they were rumored. Cards like the RTX 3080 Ti with 20 GB and the RTX 3070 Ti with 16 GB memory have appeared. These were also some of those specs that we thought would only be rumors but they were indeed made but never got to see a public release. So is the case with the RTX 3060 SUPER which will only remain one of those "what if?" cards.

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