A “SUPER” variant with a full GA106 GPU was supposed to be the fifth option for NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3060, but it was never released. It appears that NVIDIA was about to release a brand-new GeForce RTX 3060 SKU based on a tweet by @inatural log. The GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB, RTX 3060 8 GB, and their respective GA104 variants that were produced later were the other three RTX 3060 variants. This SKU was supposed to be the best model in the entire RTX 3060 lineup.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 SUPER is currently known to use the PG190 SKU 50 PCB and is based on an MSI design, according to a GPU-z screenshot.
The design of this card was completed in December 2020, less than a month before the RTX 3060 12 GB was first made public. Regarding the technical details, the graphics card utilises the entire GA106-400 GPU, which has 3840 cores, 120 TMUs, and 48 ROPs.
The 12 GB of GDDR6 memory from the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 SUPER should have been retained across a 192-bit bus interface with a 360 GB/s bandwidth. The clock speeds, which are also considerably faster than the standard RTX 3060 12 GB model, were listed as 1627 MHz base and 1852 MHz boost.
Given that certain rumours during the launch of the RTX 30 series also mentioned various specs and SKUs, it is now simple to understand where those rumours originated. It is likely that NVIDIA sent out this specification to its partners for evaluation purposes.
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