NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 sold in Pakistan weeks before launch, outrageously priced at $ 750

Last week we reported that NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3060 is set to launch on February 25, but we also saw various retailers listing the card for pre-orders, and some users even got their hands on the cards weeks before the release. launch. We have now received reports that an official Pakistan-based Palit graphics card dealer known as ZAH Computers is openly selling RTX 3060 cards at shockingly high prices.

Pakistani Dealers Break NDA, Openly Selling NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Graphics Cards Weeks Before Launch at Discounted Prices

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card is supposed to have a starting MSRP of US $ 329, but we know MSRPs don’t mean much these days. However, ZAH Computers, an official reseller (AU Technologies as the main distributor) of Palit graphics cards based in Pakistan, is selling the GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card 16 full days before these cards are officially released for sale.

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Usually South Asian retailers and distributors don’t care much about official NDAs and we find that to be the case here. To top it off, this custom Palit GeForce RTX 3060 variant was offered by the same retailer for an outrageous price of US $ 750 or PKR (Pakistani Rupees) 120,000. To put it in perspective, that’s more than double the MSRP. The dealer goes on to justify the pricing by blaming the high tariffs and import prices for this card which are simply excuses that these distributors and dealers are known to hide behind and have been doing for quite a while now.

The other thing is that these prices won’t just drop when the official launch takes place on February 25th. Unlike the preliminary pre-order prices in the EU and US markets, Pakistani prices will remain intact and will only increase given the rising inflation and the steadily declining value of the PKR against the USD.

We have been told that these ZAH computers have sold several units and are readily available to buyers who are willing to pay tiered prices. With the same amount of money you can get NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3070 or, if you’re lucky, even an RTX 3080 graphics card, but that’s the price you have to pay to live in an entirely non-market. regulated.

While NVIDIA cannot take any action on the current scalping situation, we hope that at least distributors like these will be treated with more stringent actions given that they are officially in partnership with Palit which happens to be a major NVIDIA AIB partner in the region. .

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series ‘Ampere’ graphics card specifications:

Graphics card name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
GPU name	Ampere GA106-300	Ampere GA104-200	Ampere GA104-300	Ampere GA102-200	Ampere GA102-300
Process node	Samsung 8nm	Samsung 8nm	Samsung 8nm	Samsung 8nm	Samsung 8nm
Die Size	TBC	395.2 mm2	395.2 mm2	628.4 mm2	628.4 mm2
Transistors	TBC	17.4 billion	17.4 billion	28 billion	28 billion
CUDA colors	3584	4864	5888	8704	10496
TMU / ROP	112/64	152/80	184/96	272/96	328/112
Tensor / RT hearts	112/28	152/38	184/46	272/68	328/82
Basic clock	1320 MHz	1410 MHz	1,500 MHz	1440 MHz	1,400 MHz
Boost Clock	1780 MHz	1665 MHz	1730 MHz	1710 MHz	1700 MHz
FP32 calculation	13 TFLOP	16 TFLOP	20 TFLOP	30 TFLOP	36 TFLOP
RT TFLOP	25 TFLOP	32 TFLOP	40 TFLOP	58 TFLOP	69 TFLOP
Tensor-TOP	101 TOP	192 TOP	163 TOP	238 TOP	285 TOP
Memory capacity	12 GB of GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6	10 GB GDDR6X	24 GB GDDR6X
Memory bus	192 bits	256 bits	256 bits	320 bits	384 bits
Memory speed	16 Gbit / s	14 Gbit / s	14 Gbit / s	19 Gbit / s	19.5 Gbit / s
Bandwidth	384 Gbit / s	448 Gbit / s	448 Gbit / s	760 Gbit / s	936 Gbit / s
TGP	170 W	175 W	220 W	320 W	350 W
Price (MSRP / FE)	$ 329	US $ 399	US $ 499	US $ 699	$ 1,499
Launch (availability)	25 February 2021	December 2, 2020	October 29, 2020	September 17, 2020	September 24, 2020