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GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
Lowest price in United Kingdom across retailers
Last updated Oct 31, 2026
Price History & Trend
GeForce RTX 3060 12GB price history in United Kingdom: current low £373, 12-month low £205, 12-month median £323.
Price history is aggregated from tracked listings at Overclockers · Box · Currys · Ebuyer.
GeForce RTX 3060 12GB Price Summary
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Price history is aggregated from tracked listings at Overclockers · Box · Currys · Ebuyer.
Retail Prices
Overview
The GeForce RTX 3060 12GB is NVIDIA's mainstream Ampere offering, succeeding the RTX 2060 Super from the Turing generation. It occupies the middle tier of the RTX 3000 lineup and was the original RTX 3060 configuration at launch, notable for carrying more VRAM than several cards above it in the stack.
The 12GB GDDR6 frame buffer is paired with a 192-bit memory bus, giving it solid memory bandwidth for its class. It includes 2nd-generation RT cores for hardware ray tracing, 3rd-generation Tensor cores, and DLSS 2 — which marked a substantial quality improvement over DLSS 1 in image reconstruction. Its 170W TDP makes it manageable for most mid-range systems.
With 12GB of VRAM, this card has more texture headroom than its 8GB sibling, making it better suited to modded games, higher-resolution texture packs, and content creation tasks. It targets 1080p gaming with high to ultra settings and handles 1440p respectably when DLSS is engaged.
Technical Specifications
Architecture & Cores
- Architecture
- Ampere
- Process Node
- Samsung 8nm
- CUDA Cores
- 3,584
- RT Cores
- 28
- Tensor Cores
- 112
Clock Speeds
- Base Clock
- 1,320 MHz
- Boost Clock
- 1,777 MHz
Memory
- VRAM Capacity
- 12 GB
- Memory Type
- GDDR6
- Memory Bus
- 192-bit
- Memory Speed
- 15 Gbps
- Bandwidth
- 360 GB/s
Connectivity & Power
- Interface
- PCIe 4.0 x16
- TDP
- 170 W
- Power Connectors
- 1x 8-pin
- Released
- Feb 25, 2021
Boards for this GPU
Every GeForce RTX 3060 12GB board we track, cheapest in-region listing first.
| Board | Series | OC | Length | Price | Stock |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MSI Ventus GeForce RTX 3060 12GB | Ventus | — | — | £376 | In stock |
| GIGABYTE Gaming OC GeForce RTX 3060 12GB | Gaming OC | — | — | £395 | In stock |
| GIGABYTE Windforce GeForce RTX 3060 12GB | Windforce | — | — | £420 | In stock |
| ZOTAC Twin Edge GeForce RTX 3060 12GB | Twin Edge | — | — | £438 | In stock |
| ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3060 12GB | Dual | — | — | £443 | In stock |
| ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 12GB | TUF Gaming | — | — | £330 | Out of stock |
| PNY XLR8 GeForce RTX 3060 12GB | XLR8 | — | — | £377 | Out of stock |
| EVGA XC GeForce RTX 3060 12GB | XC | — | — | £398 | Out of stock |
| ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 3060 12GB | ROG Strix | — | — | £817 | Out of stock |
| GIGABYTE AORUS Elite GeForce RTX 3060 12GB | AORUS Elite | — | — | — | Out of stock |
How does the GeForce RTX 3060 12GB run popular games?
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