Nvidia resurrects older graphics cards as RAM needs impact industry

Nvidia has reintroduced some old hardware to the market, but not at an especially agreeable price.

Tom's Hardware reported that Nvidia has quietly begun restocking the RTX 3060 graphics card series at some online retailers, such as Newegg. The 12GB card first launched in 2021 but had been off the shelves for some time as the company shifted its priorities to the newer 50-series cards. The only problem? This five-year-old card costs $339.99, which is not much less than a newer, more powerful RTX 5060.

This is obviously meant to reduce the strain on the GPU market a bit by offering a PC component that, while not capable of supporting all the latest technical bells and whistles, would still be plenty good for playing most PC video games. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the company would consider doing this back at CES earlier this year, and it has apparently made good on that promise. It just hasn't done so in a way that will save gamers very much money.

That is, unfortunately, just how things will go for the foreseeable future, as we suffer the consequences of RAMageddon.