[Hardware] NVIDIA Reportedly Stops MSI From Selling GeForce RTX 3060 Ti SUPER 3X Custom Graphics Card

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MSI recently introduced its brand new GeForce RTX 3060 Ti SUPER 3X graphics card but NVIDIA has reportedly asked MSI to halt sales and recall the product.

NVIDIA Might Not Be Happy With MSI Using The "SUPER" Branding, Asks AIB To Recall All Custom GeForce RTX 3060 Ti SUPER 3X Graphics Cards
The MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Ti SUPER 3X which was later named SUPER3X is a weird graphics card in the sense that it comes as a brand new RTX 3060 Ti SKU years after the 3060 Ti launched and the first with SUPRIM X cooling. MSI's naming choice for the new 3060 Ti may not have been the best decision by the company as it clashes with NVIDIA's own "SUPER" series branding, making it seem like the 3060 Ti from MSI is a brand new SKU, which it isn't.

HKEPC (via Videocardz) reports that NVIDIA has notified and asked MSI to recall the graphics card regardless of whether it is called SUPER 3X or SUPER3X. As mentioned above, MSI tried altering the name of the card to avoid confusion but it isn't enough for NVIDIA. The graphics cards have already been supplied to distributors and retailers which will make it hard for MSI to recall every single unit back.

It is likely that some of these graphics cards have been sold to customers and retailers will not go to the extent to ask customers to give them back the cards which they paid for. This would mean that the few who got this card will end up having one of the rarer RTX 3060 Ti graphics cards in their hands.

 

 

The product pages for the MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Ti SUPER3X have also been deleted and removed. The card is definitely going to appear with a new branding and the best decision for MSI is to use the SUPRIM X or SUPRIM label. It is also confusing why MSI went with a different name in the first place as all cards that use the new SUPRIM cooler are branded as SUPRIM cards. This would have avoided all the confusion and no recall would've been required.

 

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