https://www.techpowerup.com/286897/some-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3060-cards-based-on-heavily-cut-down-ga104-found-in-china
 
With the need for SLI compatibility out of the way, NVIDIA has been harvesting its larger GPUs to create lower-end SKUs to good effect, since the GeForce 10-series. Its latest such creation is select batches of GeForce RTX 3060 graphics cards sold through its AIC partners, which are based on the larger "GA104" silicon, over the "GA106" that it's natively based on. Nearly half of the 6,144 CUDA cores physically present on the chip are disabled to arrive at the 3,584-core count of the RTX 3060, besides a narrowing of the memory bus down to 192-bit. Since it is based on a different silicon, these RTX 3060 cards come with a different device-ID of "2487." The TechPowerUp GPU Database, which interoperates with the TechPowerUp GPU-Z Validation Database, localizes these oddball RTX 3060 cards to China.
 
I'm curious if these are RTX 3070 cards which didn't pass testing but were good enough to become RTX 3060 cards. 

mbien0225
so I live in the US, and just recieved one of these from evga yesterday.

The fact that nvidia can salvage more GA104 chips and use them to feed the demand is a good thing, IMO.  EVGA's board design for the 3060 XC (3655/3657) and 3060Ti XC (3663) are the same part number, EVGA232.  It works with both GA104 and GA106 chips.
 
Hopefully you have good luck with this card.

seen some 3060 Ti's in a store recently.
2 of them along with the rest of the components, each on top of the pc case they where going to be mounted
im sure its was for 2 different builds no doubt.
so far they where the only 3000gen i've seen in person