NVIDIA worked on a GeForce RTX 3060 Super, a graphics card that will arrive as an inter-generational update and will sit between the GeForce RTX 3060 and GeForce RTX 3060 Ti. This model was so advanced that it even required an official BIOS to run, although today we were able to confirm that it dates from December 16, 2020.

This means two things, the first is that NVIDIA was considering the launch of the GeForce RTX 3060 Super from the beginning, ie. since the debut of Ampere, and the second is that it could be released at the same time as the GeForce RTX 3060. We all know what happened in the end, the green giant decided to release the standard 12 GB version and the Ti model, and later also put them on the market with 8 GB graphics memory, but canceled the GeForce RTX 3060 Super.

At the specification level, the GeForce RTX 3060 Super is a graphics card that, deep down, does not surprise us because this is a copy of the GeForce RTX 3060 Mobileand it differs only in the configuration of the graphics memory, which is 12 GB (the Mobile version has 6 GB) and the operating frequencies, which are of course higher in the Super version, since it is a desktop graphics card.

GeForce RTX 3060 Super specifications

• Graphics core GA106 in 8nm.
• 3,840 shaders.
• GPU at 1627 MHz-1852 MHz, normal and turbo mode.
• 120 texturing units.
• 48 raster units.
• 120 tensor kernels.
• 30 RT cores.
• 192-bit bus.
• 12GB of 15GHz GDDR6 memory.

Compared to the standard GeForce RTX 3060, the super model has two more SM units, which means it has 256 more shader cores, and it also has two more RT cores, eight more texture units and eight more tensor cores. This, together with their higher working frequency, should have resulted an approximate performance improvement of 5% to 10% depending on each specific game, and would turn it into a direct rival to the Radeon RX 6600 XT.

We don’t know why NVIDIA decided not to release this GeForce RTX 3060 Super, but it’s clear that it did it ended up having an “alternative life” as it eventually hit the market converted into the GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile. This graphics card was one of the best in its range and today it is still able to offer excellent performance in games, especially at 1080p resolution, where it is most comfortable thanks to the 6 GB graphics memory configuration.