In accordance with a Tweet by @HKEPC, Nvidia has pressured MSI to recall its RTX 3060 Ti G6X Tremendous 3X graphics card mannequin one week after the corporate launched the product in China. Apparently, the “tremendous” nomenclature was too just like Nvidia’s personal Tremendous nomenclature present in its refreshed RTX 20 collection GPUs and would make folks consider this RTX 3060 Ti is a brand new RTX 30 collection SKU quite than a brand new AIB associate mannequin.
It’s comprehensible why MSI canceled this card attributable to its complicated nomenclature. However, unusually, the corporate waited till after the SKU launched earlier than taking motion. If we needed to speculate, Nvidia could possibly be making one other Tremendous refresh of its RTX 30- or RTX 40-series GPUs, which might intervene with MSI’s nomenclature.
Given how costly Nvidia’s RTX 40-series GPUs have grow to be, a Tremendous refresh would not be stunning. It could deliver down RTX 40-series pricing to extra palatable ranges for shoppers on the expense of some efficiency. This was how Nvidia’s RTX 20-series mid-cycle refresh was constructed, providing new SKUs with a greater price-to-performance ratio than the usual variations.
To refresh your reminiscence, the MSI RTX 3060 Ti Tremendous 3X was a brand new AIB associate mannequin made solely for the Chinese language market. The SKU’s complicated “Tremendous 3X” nomenclature referred to the graphics card’s beefy triple-fan cooling answer, based mostly on MSI’s flagship “SUPRIM” cooler designs. MSI most likely referred to as this card “tremendous” as a result of it’s the largest RTX 3060 TI MSI has ever created, measuring 335 x 140 x 62mm. On high of this, MSI additionally added GDDR6X reminiscence to this mannequin for a slight bump in efficiency over the usual GDDR6 RTX 3060 Ti variant.
We do not know if Nvidia influenced the cancelation of this card attributable to an upcoming tremendous refresh or if it was an harmless mistake. Nonetheless, it’s considerably fascinating that MSI’s canceled the cardboard proper after launch. Nonetheless, we suspect MSI is discussing renaming this 3060 Ti GDDR6X mannequin so the cardboard’s growth and manufacturing prices do not go to waste.