NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3060 is back on sale in Germany nearly five years after its original debut. Several retailers are now selling new graphics cards from ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, and PNY, with prices starting at €333.64. The fresh stock follows earlier reports of renewed availability in China and confirms that the RTX 3060 has returned to European retail.
German price comparison website Geizhals currently lists more than 30 offers for the ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3060 OC V2. Stock is available from multiple retailers instead of a single seller, giving buyers several models to choose from, including factory-overclocked versions from different board partners.
The RTX 3060 first reached the market in 2021 with a launch price of $329. Even today, its 12GB of GDDR6 memory remains a key selling point. Several newer graphics cards in the same price range still come with 8GB of VRAM, making the RTX 3060 a reasonable choice for games that require larger texture packs and for workloads that benefit from additional graphics memory.
The higher price is the biggest change this time around. Hardwareluxx reports that similar RTX 3060 models sold for around €245 during the summer of 2025. Today’s starting price of €333.64 is almost €90 higher, making the card noticeably more expensive than it was a year ago.
The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3060 OC V2 keeps the same hardware as previous versions. It comes with 12GB of GDDR6 memory, 3,584 CUDA cores, a 170W power rating, dual Axial-tech fans with 0dB fan mode, one HDMI 2.1 port, and three DisplayPort 1.4a outputs. The card continues to target smooth 1080p and 1440p gaming.
Performance is no longer the RTX 3060’s strongest advantage. Hardwareluxx reports that newer graphics cards such as NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5050, RTX 5060, RTX 5060 Ti, and AMD’s Radeon RX 9060 XT deliver higher frame rates in modern games. However, the RTX 3060 still stands out for buyers who prefer 12GB of VRAM over higher raw performance.
The graphics card supports hardware ray tracing, DLSS Super Resolution, DirectX 12 Ultimate, Vulkan 1.3, AV1 decoding, and NVIDIA’s seventh-generation NVENC encoder. It does not support newer features such as DLSS Multi Frame Generation and Dynamic Frame Generation, which are available only on GeForce RTX 50-series graphics cards.
The RTX 3060’s return gives buyers another option in the €300 graphics card market. While newer GPUs offer better gaming performance, the combination of 12GB of VRAM and wider retail availability could still make the RTX 3060 a practical choice for users who value memory capacity over the latest gaming features.
Source: Geizhals
