NVIDIA Confirms GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB Graphics Card

December 21, 2021
Following two or three months of tales, Nvidia has completely affirmed the presence of the RTX 2060 12GB in the fix notes for its new Game Ready Driver 497.09 that dispatches today, with 497.09 being the main Nvidia driver to help the new designs card. Will it be perhaps the best realistic cards? Presumably not, yet it’s possibly a somewhat less expensive option than the current RTX 3060 cards.
Until further notice, the sum total of what we have is an authority affirmation of the card, with no word yet from Nvidia on the real particulars. Clearly, it will highlight twofold the memory of the first RTX 2060 that dispatched quite a while prior and stays as the least level of the RTX series (except if you count the portable RTX 3050 and 3050 Ti). We’re wanting to get a card for testing, to see what the additional memory (and possibly other changed specs) accomplish for its remaining in our GPU benchmarks order.
Notwithstanding its age, the transition to make another RTX 2060 with twofold the memory limit of the first seems OK in the present market. The TSMC 12nm interaction that the TU106 (potentially TU104) GPU in the RTX 2060 is moderately unused, making it an incredible undiscovered asset for Nvidia as the silicon lack proceeds. Simultaneously, the RTX 2060 possesses a sensible centre ground between the GTX 1660 Super and the RTX 3060. (Note that the above picture is of the first RTX 2060 Founders Edition; we speculate Nvidia will not be making another 12GB FE, in any case.)
In that sense, we accept the RTX 2060 12GB will be Nvidia’s most up to date passage level illustrations card for the standard gaming market. We may see RTX 3050 or RTX 3050 Ti cards, later on, however, the versatile variations are hamstrung by a 128-bit memory interface with just 4GB VRAM. The presentation of the RTX 2060 is completely sufficient to fill in as a standard gaming GPU, and multiplying the memory should assist it with remaining important for some time longer.
What we don’t know is the last determinations on CUDA centre count and power draw. Late tales have shown that the RTX 2060 12GB could really be utilizing a similar bite the dust and CUDA centre set up like the 2060’s greater sibling, the RTX 2060 Super. Nonetheless, the 192-piece transport width would continue as before, conceivably making the RTX 2060 Super still quicker than the 2060 12GB, notwithstanding having similar centre counts. In any case, these are profoundly speculative bits of gossip, so take them with the typical spoonful of salt.
Regardless of whether the RTX 2060 12GB just gets a knock in memory limit and no more, the exhibition advantages could be awesome. We’ve as of now seen the current 6GB model battle in games, for example, Cyberpunk 2077 and particularly Battlefield 2042, where empowering any beam following elements and expanding surfaces to their greatest settings will more than maximize the 6GB casing cradle of the first 2060 and tank framerates subsequently.
Strangely, we’ve seen an adjusted RTX 2060 that was moved up to 12GB from Russian modder VIK-on. In a new video, YouTuber Pro Hi-Tech took VIK-on’s RTX 2060 12GB and ran it through two or three gaming and usefulness tests to check whether the updated memory limit had any effect. He observed that in usefulness errands and in Watch Dogs: Legion, the exhibition of the RTX 2060 12GB was most certainly better compared to that of the 6GB model, particularly in the branch of 0.1% and 1% lows.
Why Release a 2060 12GB Now?
Nvidia still can’t seem to declare an authority date or MSRP of the new 2060 GPU, however, some are guaranteeing the cards will appear as right on time as December 7. That appears to be a sensible assumption, given the card’s essence in the most recent driver discharge notes. However, there are different variables in Nvidia delivering a warmed-over rendition of the RTX 2060 almost three years later the first card was dispatched.
Recently, during the tallness of the digital currency mining blast, Nvidia reported its CMP cards, donning a new “Cryptographic money Mining Processor” brand. But, these were simply old Turing GPUs less the video yields, frequently sold at premium evaluating.
That leaves Nvidia conceivably with some abundance Turing GPUs still, so in an unexpected bit of destiny, it’s not gamers getting the mining extras. Twofold the memory as a symbolic contribution of enhancements and we end up with the “new” RTX 2060.
We expect the illustrations card to highlight an authority MSRP someplace south of the RTX 3060’s $329 asking cost, however presumably higher than the GTX 1660 Super’s ostensible $229 price tag. All things considered, given GPU costs on those two GPUs on eBay as of now sit at near $700 and $525, individually, we don’t expect numerous RTX 2060 12GB cards will hit the market for under $500.