Please note that this post is tagged as a rumor .
NVIDIA to bring GeForce RTX 3060 12GB back
NVIDIA may be shifting its budget desktop plans back to Ampere. MEGAsizeGPU says the GeForce RTX 5050 9GB has been delayed, and that newly produced GeForce RTX 3060 cards are now expected to fill that spot in June 2026 . The leaker later clarified the rumor refers to the RTX 3060 12GB model.
That would line up with the production restart story that appeared last month. As we reported earlier, industry sources tied the return of GeForce RTX 3060 production to Samsung Foundry’s 8nm line, bringing back a card NVIDIA launched in 2021 with 12GB of GDDR6 on a 192-bit bus.
RTX 5050 9G is delayed, launch becomes pretty uncertain now. The newly produced RTX 3060 will fill the gap, ETA June 2026.
— MEGAsizeGPU (@Zed__Wang) April 17, 2026
RTX 5050 9GB taking a backseat
The card that now looks pushed back is the rumored GeForce RTX 5050 9GB. Earlier reports pointed to a variant using 9GB of GDDR7 on a 96-bit bus, with a Computex period target, according to other sources, timing had already moved to TBD before today’s delay claim.
If NVIDIA does use the RTX 3060 12GB as a stopgap, the logic is easy to follow. The official GeForce RTX 5050 desktop uses 2,560 CUDA cores and 8GB of GDDR6, so a returned RTX 3060 12GB would still offer more memory even as it comes from an older Ampere generation. More importantly, it uses GDDR6 memory instead of GDDR7, which may be easier to procure.
NVIDIA refused to comment
We reached out to NVIDIA specifically about the rumored return of the GeForce RTX 3060 12GB, but the company declined to comment. That was a bit surprising given that is not a new product NVIDIA has announced, but a reported return of a board that has been on the market for years.
Source: MEGAsizeGPU
