I did a Step-Up on my 3050 XC Gaming card and the 3060 Ti card was not a card I could select, even though EVGA listed it as a card I could Step-Up to.
 
Going to send a message to EVGA about this as they either need to remove the card from the list or offer it in the Step-Up.
 

Hiya Lee, all I'm asking is if I purchase a RTX 3050 XC will I have the opportunity to step up to a 3060 ti XC or am I going to be restricted to purchasing the more expensive 3060 ti FTW? Just a suggestion but maybe you folks could list in the step up guidelines exactly which model you can step up to as some of us are rocking itx builds and are limited to the smallest size possible.
 
I could be wrong here but I remember seeing some 3060 ti XC's for sale a week or two ago so in this instance the queue should be fulfilled shouldn't it?
 
Thanks!

ccosborne3
Hiya Lee, all I'm asking is if I purchase a RTX 3050 XC will I have the opportunity to step up to a 3060 ti XC or am I going to be restricted to purchasing the more expensive 3060 ti FTW? Just a suggestion but maybe you folks could list in the step up guidelines exactly which model you can step up to as some of us are rocking itx builds and are limited to the smallest size possible.
 
I could be wrong here but I remember seeing some 3060 ti XC's for sale a week or two ago so in this instance the queue should be fulfilled shouldn't it?
 
Thanks!

Step up queue is completely different stock than sales queue, so don’t use that as a gauge for step up availability.

EVGA lists exactly which cards are part of the step up list at this time. The 3060ti is currently not listed at all on the USA list, probably due to step up queue backlog. The European list shows the 3060ti FTW3 ultra as their available option for step up, and that will directly coincide with what the US queue would have once it is available again.

Your safest bet is to try to buy a 3060ti XC outright, rather than risking the queue not being fulfilled by the time you can enter, and then the FTW3 Ultra being the option that you don’t want.

The 3060 XC is currently on the list.

ccosborne3
Thanks for chiming in folks, I'll hold for a week or so and see if the 3060 ti pops up in stock. There's a couple other cards from different manufacturers that would fit in the case but I'd prefer the EVGA. 

I hope you get one soon :-)

ccosborne3
Hiya Lee, all I'm asking is if I purchase a RTX 3050 XC will I have the opportunity to step up to a 3060 ti XC or am I going to be restricted to purchasing the more expensive 3060 ti FTW? Just a suggestion but maybe you folks could list in the step up guidelines exactly which model you can step up to as some of us are rocking itx builds and are limited to the smallest size possible.
 
I could be wrong here but I remember seeing some 3060 ti XC's for sale a week or two ago so in this instance the queue should be fulfilled shouldn't it?
 
Thanks!

Our thinking with Step-Up in the 30 Series is that we wanted to only list the cards we expected to have the most availability for so that we could help people get through the queues (both Auto-notify and Step-Up) faster.  This is why the FTW3 Ultra cards were generally the only ones listed.  It's hard to say at this point if you'll see other non-FTW3 models show up on the Step-Up list for this generation.  It's a possibility that might see some XC3 cards if we eventually have a lot of stock at some point, but I couldn't tell you when or if that might happen before your 90 days runs out.
 
Availability is better, but not enough for us to put new models onto the Step-Up queue.
 
Regarding guidelines, this is how you should look at it - Look at the chart first to see which GPU families your card can step-up to.  Then look at the Inventory List to see which cards are available for the Step-Up Queue in real-time.  Within that Inventory List, if you see a card that is within the GPU families you can step-up to, then it will be an option.