A few weeks have passed since the official presentation of the new generation of NVIDIA, the long-awaited RTX 40 series that, in view of its specifications, as well as the technologies associated with them, promise to reach performance milestones unimaginable until recently, to the point that we see how it is the hardware that pushes the software, and not the other way around, as is usual. As we told you a few days ago, we are testing a GeForce RTX 4090, and the results are promising, but this should not make us forget about the still very current RTX 30 series.
And it is that they already told us, in the presentation, that NVIDIA’s plans go through the coexistence in the market of RTX 30 and RTX 40as this image made clear
This, of course, makes us wonder both about future additions to the RTX 40 series, and whether we can expect something new in the RTX 30, something that before this announcement did not seem very likely, but that became much more feasible with this new model proposed by NVIDIA. And it is that if, at least in the short term, RTX 40 is going to be a high-end proposal, with prices that are far from the budget of ordinary mortals, the company should reinforce-update its proposals for the rest of the market.
And today we find ourselves, at Wccftech, with an interesting change in this regard. Do you remember the RTX 3060 Ti that we tested at the time? Well, a UK distributor has temporarily published (it has already been removed from their website), a GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition with 8 gigabytes of GDDR6X memory. Indeed, the change is found in the type of memory, since the original model mounts 8 gigabytes of GDDR6 memory.
Reviewing its specifications, it seems that the only change between the current model and this new version would be the type of memory used and, more interestingly, it seems that the price of both models is the same, 369 pounds sterling, which indicates that the new version with GDDR6X would not come to coexist with the one that mounts GDDR6, but to replace it. Thus, we can expect to see similar movement, in the future, in other models of the RTX 30 series.
And what can we expect? Well, it is possible that here we haven additional element of pressure for manufacturers and distributors when disposing of their current stock. And it is that since the change of memory type does pose an improvement, which can affect performance or efficiency (maintaining performance would result in lower consumption), and now that the lack of availability is already just a bad memory of the past, it is likely that not a few users prefer to wait to get an RTX 3060 Ti with GDDR6X memory, unless they find an offer interesting enough to finally opt for a model with GDDR6.
