There was also the RTX 3070M graphics card which we talked about a few months ago here. But it's a good thing that GPU shortages are over. It is too bad that the cards never made it outside China's marketplace, as they could have assisted with the crisis, even just a little. The video is interesting because it allows the public to see how these hybrid cards performed. Confusingly, NVIDIA appears not to show any interest in stopping the sale of any of these cards, which have a reasonably great demand on Chinese retailer websites. Due to NVIDIA's lack of official support, it is speculated that the cards were manufactured illegally. The specific driver, the 512.12 release, is incredibly older. These hybrid NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series cards are a Frankenstein monster of graphics cards, so there are no drivers created by the company manufacturing the GPUs, meaning they require custom drivers. Wilson Intel 13th Gen Raptor Lake Mobile CPUs Confirmed For Late 2022 Launch But now that mining is pretty much useless on these cards, they are entering the used market segment.
The reason is the lack of an LHR limitation but still offering close to the exact memory specifications for Ethereum mining. The hybrid desktop NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060M graphics card was not built for gaming but crypto mining. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060M laptop graphics chip and the graphics card that uses a laptop GPU for the desktop card share the same name, the GN20-E3. Surprisingly, the card performs like a desktop graphics card and is much better than the 105W laptop series. During the review, the review sample used by BullLab Jay is locked at 80W. The TDP on the mobile-based desktop GPU is 115W, whereas the full desktop variant would demand 170W.
Interestingly, the CUDA core count is upgraded from a desktop variant's core count of 3584 cores to 3840 CUDA cores. There is only 6 GB of GDDR6 memory available instead of the typical 12 GB we would see on the GeForce RTX 3060.
As stated above, this unique graphics card is a laptop-based GPU in a desktop graphics card.