FACEPALM: A "new" Nvidia graphics card has hit US and European retail stores. But it's not the RTX 5000 Super series, unfortunately: it's the five-year-old RTX 3060, and it carries the same price it did in 2021. The Ampere-era GPU has been slowly making its return since the start of 2026, a response to the memory crisis that has turned the industry into a nightmarish hellscape.
Newegg is now listing the MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Ventus 2X 12G OC for $329.99 – its original launch price. VideoCardz writes that the listing was created on July 2 and published on July 5.
Claims that Nvidia might bring back the hugely popular RTX 3060 12GB first appeared in January. The card was discontinued in 2024, and all remaining warehouse stock is believed to have been exhausted by December 2025.
Since then, RAMageddon has caused major disruption across the graphics card market, particularly for models using GDDR7 memory, which include almost the entire RTX 5000 series.
In April, well-known leaker MEGAsizeGPU claimed Nvidia would relaunch the RTX 3060 in June. A few weeks later, a post on Chinese forum Board Channels suggested the return could instead happen sometime in July.
