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Palit has launched a new RTX 3060 model with 12GB of VRAM

This continues a recent theme of old GPUs being resurrected

These GPUs may pack 12GB of video RAM at a relatively affordable price, but they don't make sense compared to current-gen pricing

We might not have seen any new graphics cards so far from Nvidia this year — and no RTX 5000 Super refreshes are in sight ( although there are rumors again ) — but we're continuing to witness the resurrection of some old GeForce GPUs, with Palit officially revealing a new RTX 3060.

That popular workhorse of a gaming GPU has already made something of a comeback, returning to the shelves of retailers like Newegg as an alternative budget graphics card in a RAM-starved climate where prices of many of these current-gen boards are being hiked up (alongside other PC components, of course).

As flagged by VideoCardz , Palit has trumpeted the launch of its new GeForce RTX 3060 Infinity 2 OC graphics card as "the return of a classic", which is certainly one way of putting it.

Although to be fair, even today, the RTX 3060 remains a very popular GPU , ranking second on the Steam hardware survey for June 2026 (behind only the RTX 4060 laptop GPU in a rather bizarre twist I won't get into here).

Palit observes: "Combining a massive 12GB GDDR6 memory capacity with a clean, all-black dual-fan shroud, the Infinity 2 delivers honest, dependable performance without the premium price tag."

Analysis: let's hope for a Palit-able price tag, but so far, RTX 3060 pricing has been out of whack

(Image credit: Palit) The key selling point for these RTX 3060 models is that they're loaded with 12GB of video RAM (VRAM), as Palit emphasizes with this new Infinity 2 OC model. Where this is side-stepping the RAM crisis (to some extent) is that these past-gen Nvidia cards use GDDR6 VRAM, a different memory supply to tap than the GDDR7 used in RTX 5000 graphics cards (except the RTX 5050, which goes with GDDR6, but that's the outlier here).

This means Nvidia can get its partners to produce graphics cards that have 12GB of GDDR6 VRAM (a loadout a good few gamers put a priority on securing), but sit at the cheaper end of the market. Due to cost issues, these days it's a lot less tenable to sell lower-end GPUs which stack up the GDDR7 VRAM (like the RTX 5060 Ti with 16GB).

It's sad that the RAM crisis has forced us to this point , but that's the reality of the GPU world at the moment. What's also problematic for me here is that the RTX 3060 might have 12GB of VRAM at a relatively affordable price point, but looking at current pricing in the US as an example, it's not meaningfully cheaper than the RTX 5060 with 8GB.

Yes, you're getting a lean RAM configuration with the latter current-gen graphics card, but it's still a much faster GPU — one that benefits from DLSS 4, too — and only just over 5% more expensive (at the time of writing). At this kind of price differential, the RTX 3060 12GB doesn't make a lot of sense.

If these RTX 3060 models were a lot cheaper, then there might be more of an argument. To be fair to Palit, we don't have a price tag on this new offering yet, but pricing needs to be a lot more compelling than what I'm seeing right now (especially in the UK, where the RTX 5060 8GB is actually cheaper than the 3060 at some retailers, although there isn't much stock of the latter).

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Updates from the 179.1km stage to Chalon-sur-Saône

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Here’s a quick look at today’s stage:

A farewell to the fast men. It’s stage 12 and there is every chance some of the sprinters knock it on the head after flogging themselves for a final time in Chalon-sur-Saône. From tomorrow it’s all about the climbers and the rouleurs, which means this is the final opportunity for the likes of NSN’s Biniam Girmay and Jasper Philipsen, who was bailed out by his Alpecin-Deceuninck teammate Mathieu van der Poel in Ussel on Sunday, to break their ducks at this year’s tour. Nothing in the route map should particularly worry the sprinters, even if there is 1800m of climbing in the back-end of this stage. Should they be succsessfully delivered to the final kilometre then it will be all about who has the speed in their legs after yesterday’s effort and 11 days of draining riding in the heat. Tim Merlier has looked the best of them so far and is the favourite, according to the bookies.

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Robert Downey Jr. had an iconic response to getting cast in Avengers: Doomsday . The actor, who famously bowed out as Tony Stark in Avengers: Endgame, was called by Kevin Feige with the news.

"His exact words were: 'I played the best hero, I can play the best villain,'" Feige revealed at the Bilibili World 2026 convention in Shanghai, China. What a response, right?

Now, we can get into an argument about whether or not Iron Man is the "best hero" in the MCU (for what it's worth, I agree), but what's got me most excited is that Downey Jr. thinks Doom will be the "best villain". There have been some iconic baddies in the MCU so far, including Thanos, Ultron, and pre-redeemed Loki.

However, ever since Marvel announced Doom as the next big bad, I've been really excited about how they'll tackle him. Not only is he an iconic comic book villain that we haven't seen on screen before, but casting Downey Jr. in the role is inspired.

We know the Oscar-winner will bring his talent to the role with his ease of navigating between comedy and drama effortlessly. But the fact that he'll share a physical resemblance with Stark, a character who means so much to the other Avengers, is going to add some darkness to this portrayal.

We know it will be addressed too, with the Russos teasing it will be part of the Doomsday storyline. "No better actor in the world than Robert Downey," Joe Russo said about the characters looking the same. "I'm not going to give away anything. It will all make sense when you watch the movies."

Despite Marvel's highs and lows in recent years, I'm really excited to see how this all plays out in the new movie. December 17 can't come soon enough.

For more, check out our guides to all the upcoming Marvel movies and shows on the way and how to watch the Marvel movies in order .

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Former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden says that while GTA 6 will be monumentally huge, devs need to do more to appeal to people who don't care about the biggest AAA games.

Speaking to Kotaku , Layden says that for a potential PS6, iterative hardware that promises a bit of a higher framerate or better ray tracing isn't going to cut it, and that console makers need the software to justify spending money on a new console. "I think we’re already kind of limiting our reach just because of the games we’re building now. I mean, variety and range seem to be narrowing," Layden says, singling out popular genres like "a zombie apocalypse game, or it’s a space marine game, or it’s guys with really long swords and not much armor and dragons."

"Of course, Grand Theft Auto is going to be like an asteroid piercing the atmosphere and hitting the gaming universe with great force and power." Layden says, adding, "But there are a lot of people in the world who really don’t care about Grand Theft Auto, the non-gaming community."

He explains, "We talk about how big we are, $220 billion, $250 billion industry, but our social impact is the reverse. Everybody has a favorite song. That’s probably the least revenue-generating entertainment category, music, compared to gaming and film and television. But yet it has the widest impact."

Layden says, "gaming, it’s huge on the revenue side of things, but it’s a very select group that are doing it. We’re getting more money from the same people all the time and not necessarily bringing in new people into the experience."

He adds, "If these people who aren’t in the gaming experience have already said 'we don’t care about Call of Duty, we don’t care about Grand Theft Auto, we don’t care about Gran Turismo,' doing more of those same games is obviously not going to appeal to those people either."

Layden continues, "We need to bring out more games for more people, which means actually you have to have more people making games and in different places and different experiences. I want to find out what games from Uruguay look like and what kind of game designers we have in Bulgaria."

Granted, Layden's tenure as head of PlayStation was when Sony's first-party output began to focus on the cinematic third-person action game style that permeates its output today (or rather, did before Jim Ryan and Herman Hulst's live service pivots). And with the closure of the likes of Japan Studio, I think it's pretty unlikely Sony's output will be much more diverse in the future.

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