Earlier this year, Nvidia had announced that it will be relaunching some of its older graphics cards to help offer more low cost options in the market. And staying true to its word, the company has just rereleased the GeForce RTX 2060, which now features 12GB of VRAM.
For those unaware, the world is suffering
from a global shortage of chipsets/semiconductors. During this time, Team Green
had launched its highly anticipated RTX 3000 series. However, lack of supply
paired with scalpers and crypto miners buying these GPUs in bulk meant that
regular gamers and other customers couldn’t get their hands on the new cards.
This even drove up the market prices for older cards and the second hand market
as well. But now, these older cards could help ease this issue since scalpers
and crypto miners are likely steer clear away from these low cost graphics
card.
The new RTX 2060 will be available starting
from 7th December 2021 and features slightly bumped up specs as well. This
includes a higher base clock speed and a slight higher count of CUDA cores,
with the newer model featuring 2,176 over the original’s 1,920. In certain
ways, the specs are more in line with the refreshed RTX 2060 SUPER rather than
the base 2060 from the last generation. Another notable difference is the VRAM
that is now a sizeable 12GB, which is even higher than the high end RTX 3070
and RTX 3080.
Meaning, this could be a “premium” refresh
of the RTX 2060. But unfortunately, Nvidia has yet to official reveal the
pricing details for this GPU. Although, the RTX 2060 that launched back in 2019
retailed for 349 US Dollars. So, we can expect a price tag that is similar to
this. While the effort to help ease the GPU shortage and scalping issue is a
welcomed one, a single GPU in front of an overall chip shortage might not be
quite effective as of right now.
