Nvidia Bringing Back RTX 3060 As DRAM Shortage Continues

The rising price of PC elements is getting so unhealthy that Nvidia is reportedly going to begin making RTX 3060s once more, so folks have one thing to purchase sooner or later whereas all the brand new shiny tech will get consumed by the AI trade.

You’ve possible already seen that in 2025, it became more expensive to build or upgrade a PC. Because of hyperscalers and AI-focused tech companies gobbling up PC parts to build datacenters, it’s changing into quite pricey and challenging in your common particular person to purchase PC RAM and graphics playing cards. Even the costs on prebuilt PCs from firms like HP, Dell, and Asus will improve by 15 to twenty %, according to PC World. Not nice! This may also result in PC handhelds getting costlier, and consultants count on consoles will endure value will increase too, due to rising demand for particular elements.  And Nvidia, an organization that’s making billions from all of this, has an answer to offer PC gamers with a considerably reasonably priced GPU in 2026: Begin making and promoting its previous RTX 3060 once more.

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rtx3060 Q1 come again… 🥲

— hongxing2020 (@hongxing2020) January 5, 2026

As not too long ago reported by dependable Nvidia leaker Hongxing2020 and noticed by Wccftech, Nvidia is seemingly planning to restart manufacturing on the RTX 3060 in Q1 of this yr. The cardboard first launched in 2021 and remains to be one of the fashionable gaming GPUs round, according to data from Steam.

In 2024, Nvidia started retiring the cardboard because it moved on to the 40 and 50 collection of GPUs. Nevertheless, attributable to DRAM being quickly consumed for knowledge facilities, it has grow to be tougher and costlier to obtain the GDDR7 wanted to provide the newer, extra highly effective RTX 5060. (Sidenote: Basically, every datacenter built or being built will be out of date in the near future, meaning the billions invested in them will be basically a waste!)

So it looks as if the plan is for Nvidia to begin producing 3060s once more, utilizing cheaper, easier-to-acquire elements that aren’t prime of the road and subsequently aren’t being wanted by AI tech giants for his or her large datacenters. If that’s the case, hopefully Nvidia not less than costs the brand new 3060s at $200 or much less, as the one marketplace for these playing cards shall be avid gamers seeking to improve a PC from an older GPU to one thing (considerably) fashionable. However greed is a nasty factor and has contaminated all tech firms, together with Nvidia, so I wouldn’t maintain my breath on a sub-$200 value level regardless of the 3060 coming into its fifth yr in 2026.