The reported sales advice concerns China
In its 28 October update, ChannelGate describes an uneven picture. Some suppliers had reportedly almost exhausted their RTX 50 stock, while others could still ship small quantities. The alternatives named were the 12 GB and 8 GB RTX 3060, the RTX 3050 and unspecified Radeon cards. VideoCardz and Igor’sLAB both trace the story to that report. Their articles are not independent accounts from two distributors.
ChannelGate mentions Chinese online shopping promotions and mining-related demand, without quantifying either factor. NVIDIA has announced no such global directive, and the report offers no evidence that French wholesalers received the same advice.
New cards had returned before the autumn shortages
Colorful’s 12 GB RTX 3060 cards were back on sale in China in June. In July, Palit unveiled its Infinity 2 cards. The OC version, part number NE63060U19K9-PG190L, pairs 12 GB of GDDR6 with a dual-fan cooler. That timeline helps explain wholesalers’ options: the first deliveries predated the October report by several months.
The two RTX 3060 models differ in more than memory capacity
NVIDIA lists 3,584 CUDA cores for both desktop RTX 3060 models. The 12 GB GDDR6 version has a 192-bit bus, while the 8 GB version has a 128-bit bus. A listing that simply says “RTX 3060” therefore tells you too little to compare two offers.
Check both capacity and bus width before comparing prices. For the Radeon cards mentioned by ChannelGate, even the model numbers are missing, so no precise equivalent can be identified.
Related reading: NVIDIA denies discontinuing the RTX 5090 as stocks remain under pressure.
Key takeaways
What is new is the choice of alternatives suggested to Chinese resellers. The report does not say how many of these older GeForce cards might reach the shelves.