Unreleased NVIDIA RTX 3060 With 3840 CUDA Cores Emerges After 2 Years

Another variant of NVIDIA’S GeForce RTX 3060 has popped up. This variant of RTX 3060 was kept in the shadows and it never made it to the markets. But through TechPowerUp’s GPU Database editor, we come to know that an obscure card like this did exist quite some time ago but was never released. 

TechPowerUp’s GPU Database editor shared a validation report of a GeForce RTX 3060 SKU, featuring 3840 CUDA Cores and a full GA106 GPU, which never made it to the markets and has finally emerged after 2 years. It would’ve had 12GB GDDR6 memory clocked at 14.8 GB/s.

The card is dubbed GeForce RTX 3060 SUPER a.k.a RTX 3060 3840SP. If this card was released, the memory specification of it would be a tad bit lower than what the RTX 3060 GPU had, which is 15 GB/s. The base clock, on the other hand, would’ve been much higher (1627 MHz vs. 1320 MHz), while the boost clock is set to 1875 MHz (for better sense of comparison, RTX 3060 had a boost clock of 1777 MHz). 

What you should keep in mind is that the above BIOS leak is dated 16th December 2020, which makes this card relatively old. It’s very unlikely that the card will release at this time since NVIDIA’s RTX 4060 series is launching in a few weeks. Last year, NVIDIA released an RTX 3060 variant consisting of 8 GB memory, which was probably the last GPU in the series.

For a better sense of comparison of how the leaked card fares against the other cards in the series, check the image below, made by Twitter user @harukaze5719.

Despite having more CUDA Cores and higher clock speeds, the RTX 3060 SUPER would’ve used the original 170W TGP. A 450W power supply would’ve been good enough to power the card. Even though the card seems pretty rare, its price still remains unknown as of now.

About Nvidia

NVIDIA Corporation is an American multinational technology company incorporated in Delaware, based in Santa Clara, California. They design graphics processing units (GPUs) for the gaming and professional markets, as well as system on chip units (SoCs) for the mobile computing and automotive market.

Best known for the “GeForce” lines of GPUs, they are a direct competitor to AMD’s “Radeon” series. NVIDIA has also expanded its offerings with its handheld game consoles Shield Portable, Shield Tablet, and Shield Android TV and its cloud gaming service GeForce Now.