Nvidia makes the 12GB GeForce RTX 2060 unofficially official

How laborious is it to construct up a brand recent graphics card excellent now? Exhausting sufficient that Nvidia is sending its product line nearly literally backward. After weeks of rumors, a brand recent version of the GeForce RTX 2060 — which used to be first released in January of 2019 — looked on the official Nvidia spec page. It has double the GDDR6 RAM, a whopping 12GB, and a tiny more CUDA cores. A free up date and rate aren’t mentioned, however “soon” and “more than you will must hold” appear to be the likely answers.

Moreover to to the boosted RAM, the recent variant of the RTX 2060 bumps up its CUDA cores (tiny, highly-ambiance pleasant parallel processors) from 1920 to 2160. It also boosts the unpleasant GPU clock from 1365MHz to 1470MHz. Except for a tiny downtick in the stock boost clock from 1680MHz to 1650MHz, the cardboard is a connected to the RTX 2060 released just about three years ago. The RTX 2060 launched at a $300-350 retail label and Nvidia might maybe well elevate out one thing the same here, though there’s no telling what the highly-competitive market will label these playing cards accurate now they reach store shelves (and secondary listings).

Reading between the lines, the looks of this recent SKU means that Nvidia is finding it loads more straightforward to fabricate the excessive-bustle reminiscence it makes utilize of in its card designs than the ingredients obligatory to assemble its Ampere processors in the RTX 30xx series. The de facto announcement of a brand recent 2060 card manner we’re likely no longer going to gape funds-pleasant (in relative terms) RTX 3050 or 3050 Ti desktop playing cards any time soon.

Even secondhand RTX 2060 playing cards are peaceful fetching $500-600 on the secondary market — double their retail price years later! — so there’s no telling how costly these recent playing cards would maybe be as soon as they inevitably cruise out of retailer stock. Scalpers and cryptocurrency miners aren’t scaling assist their operations in any noticeable ability. We’re going to finest hope that a recent injection of offer will lower the opponents and thus the price for affordable PC gaming hardware.