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Nick Evanson

Steam's favourite GPU, the RTX 3060, is nearing its end as Nvidia gets ready to issue the last batch of chips

Zotac RTX 3060 12GB Twin Edge graphics card.

Is three years too early to discontinue one of the most popular GPUs in recent times? According to a report, Nvidia is getting ready to distribute the final batches of its GA106 graphics processor, the chip that powers the GeForce RTX 3060, and if that's the case, it would mean the jolly green giant has officially closed the doors on the GPU that's been top of the Steam hardware charts for ages.

Launched in early 2021, the GeForce RTX 3060 stood out for all kinds of reasons. At the time, global supplies of graphics cards were extremely poor, thanks to the effects of the global pandemic and cryptominers snapping every GPU around the globe.

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