Overview
- Palit officially announced the GeForce RTX 3060 Infinity 2 OC on July 15, 2026, and said it will also sell a non‑OC variant.
- The card uses the original 2021 Ampere design with 3,584 CUDA cores and 12GB of GDDR6 on a 192‑bit bus and only a small boost‑clock uplift over the 2021 model.
- Palit has not given a price yet but coverage infers a likely street price near $329, and reviewers warn buyers that current RTX 50‑series or used RTX 40‑series cards generally give better performance for similar money.
- Manufacturers are reusing older Ampere designs because GDDR6 supplies and older process nodes such as Samsung 8nm have better yields, which helps free GDDR7 and newer foundry capacity for high‑margin AI and data‑center GPUs.
- The relaunch mainly helps people who need a larger 12GB VRAM pool for tasks like large local AI models or high‑texture workloads, but it trades away Blackwell‑generation features such as improved tensor cores and DLSS 4.5 multi‑frame generation.