Nvidia To Bring Back The GeForce RTX 3060 To Help Tackle Current-Gen GPU & Memory Shortages

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Nvidia To Bring Back The GeForce RTX 3060 To Help Tackle Current-Gen GPU & Memory Shortages

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So Nvidia's solution to the AI-driven GPU shortage is bringing back the RTX 3060... but here's the kicker: they're conveniently bringing back the gimped 12GB version instead of something actually useful.

It's like your manager saying "we're addressing the workload crisis" and then hiring an intern who can only work Tuesdays. The 12GB RTX 3060 was already the budget option that got nerfed to prevent crypto mining, and now it's being resurrected as the hero we supposedly need? Meanwhile, everyone running LLMs locally is sitting there needing 24GB+ VRAM minimum.

The meme format captures the corporate gaslighting perfectly. Nvidia's out here acting like they're doing us a favor while the AI bros are burning through 80GB A100s like they're Tic Tacs. Sure, bring back a card from 2021 with barely enough memory to run a decent Stable Diffusion model. That'll fix everything.

Classic Nvidia move: create artificial scarcity, charge premium prices, then "solve" the problem with yesterday's hardware at today's prices.

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