To the RTX 30 series and more specifically to the GeForce RTX 3060 he still has a long way to go. As we recalled a few days ago, after the appearance of the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 12GB with GDDR6X memory in 3DMark, for which it was already clear in the presentation of the GeForce RTX 40 series that in the short and medium term the RTX 30 or RTX 40 They will coexist in the market, offering a wider catalog of options for users who choose NVIDIA.

This of course forces the company (and by extension the manufacturer) give the menu “life” and introduce some updates which at the same time expand the possibilities and also give a clear signal that the company’s engineers continue to work on the RTX 30 series. Either with performance improvements or with new reference designs that can better meet the needs of multiple user profiles.

The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti with GDDR6X memory was already the first example of thisand there are already rumors that point to new updates in this regard in other models of the RTX 30 family. Something that indicates a very interesting improvement, given the performance increase that the change of this type of memory represents, considering the GDDR6 used in the rest of the references family suggestions. In addition, this can be a very interesting signal about which models from the listed series are the ones that aim to stay on the market the longest.

And now we see a new step in this direction, that both ASUS with two references (one and two) and Manli with a reference added to their catalog various GeForce RTX 3060 models with 8 GB GDDR6, compared to 12 gigabytes in the only reference version so far. The release, which would confirm that NVIDIA plans to update its RTX 3060 designs, which were originally scheduled for late October but seemed to be delayed until November due to the cancellation of the RTX 4080 12GB, finally did. will be held in the last days of this month.

In the case of ASUS, we find two models, namely ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3060 8GB GDDR6 and ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3060 OC Edition 8GB GDDR6, a similar model but optimized for overclocking as its name suggests. As for Manli’s model, it is review of their RTX 3060 LHR 12GB modelfrom which it also takes the state low hash ratethat is, it is very severely limited to perform cryptocurrency mining functions.

In all cases, we are talking about two-slot, two-fan models. The only difference is in the 8GB of memory it is connected to a 128-bit memory bus, not a 192-bit one as with the 12 gigabyte models, the bandwidth has been reduced from 360 GB/s to 240 GB/s.