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GeForce RTX 3060

Nvidia graphics card · GeForce RTX 30 series · launched October 2022

Launch price
$329
≈ $372 in 2026 dollars
Blender 4.x render score
2,174
#42 of 103 scored graphics cards
Memory
8 GB
GDDR6 · 128-bit
Rated power
170 W

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Launch price in today's dollars

The GeForce RTX 3060 launched at $329 in 2022. Adjusted with the U.S. Consumer Price Index, that is about $372 in 2026 dollars (7-month average), a 13% rise over 4 years. At its launch price that is 661 Blender points per $100.

Method: launch price × (CPI 2026 average ÷ CPI 2022 average), calendar-year averages of BLS series CPIAUCSL. 2026 covers 7 months so far.

Blender rendering score

Median score 2,174 (middle half of runs 2,091–2,240) across 2,830 community runs on Blender 4.x with the OPTIX backend. That is #42 of 103 graphics cards in our dataset with a score, and #8 of 10 in the GeForce RTX 30 series.

This is a rendering benchmark (samples per minute over the monster, junkshop and classroom scenes), not a gaming benchmark. It says how fast the part renders in Blender's Cycles engine and nothing about frame rates. Source: Blender Open Data, CC0, snapshot 2026-09-06.

Specifications

VendorNvidia
SeriesGeForce RTX 30 series
LaunchedOctober 2022
Launch price$329
ArchitectureAmpere
ChipGA106-302-A1
Memory8 GB
Memory typeGDDR6
Memory bus128-bit
Memory bandwidth224 GB/s
Core clock1,320 MHz (boost 1,777 MHz)
FP32 compute12.74 TFLOPS
Rated power170 W (TDP)
Transistors12 billion
Die size276 mm²
Bus interfacePCIe 4 x16
Tier60-class

The Nvidia 60-class over time

Nvidia graphics cards in the same tier around this one, oldest first, re-releases left out. Prices in launch dollars and in 2026 dollars; scores are Blender 4.x medians where they exist.

PartYearLaunch priceIn 2026 $Blender
GeForce GTX 10602016$199$274356
GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB2018$299$394364
GeForce RTX 20602019$349$4521,542
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti2019$279$361759
GeForce GTX 16602019$219$283690
GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER2019$399$5162,096
GeForce GTX 1660 Super2019$229$296749
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti2020$399$5102,780
GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB2021$329$402—
GeForce RTX 30602022$329$3722,174
GeForce RTX 4060 Ti2023$399$4333,818
GeForce RTX 40602023$299$3253,124
GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB2023$499$542—
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti2025$379$3894,319
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB2025$429$441—
GeForce RTX 50602025$299$3073,691

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