NVIDIA has launched without too many flash what will be the GPU for the low-mid-range intended for hidden mining with aerial games. The market is a disaster and this range is no longer synonymous with quality / price and this GPU by implementing the Turing architecture and being a remake had to be able to take back these positions which now RTX 3060 he can not. But this will not be the case, because the performance is better than expected in games and especially in mining.
Without a single official blog post, this is how this graphics card arrived just a few days ago and it didn’t seem like it had anything in store that we haven’t seen before beyond the eye-catching 12GB of GDDR6. Well, we now have more data two days later and it turns out that it is extremely competitive despite being a mix between the two variants that launched almost two years ago.
NVIDIA RTX 2060 12 GB, better option than RTX 3060?
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New data provided leaves quite a complicated outlook for the market, since not only is this card between the RTX 2060 and its SUPER version, but it is also integrated in the fight with its counterpart RTX 3060 and in direct competition with the RX 6600. .
It is true that the price does not accompany speculation, but without a doubt the GPU surprised and the specs are nothing to write home about:
- GPU TU106-300
- 2176 shades
- 64 RT cores
- 136 tensor colors
- 12 GB 14 Gbps GDDR6
- 192 bits of bus
- 336 GB / s of bandwidth
- 185 W of TDP
Basically it has the same Shaders as the RTX 2060 SUPER with the bandwidth of the RTX 2060 due to its smaller bus, a bit more TDP and of course 12 GB which is the source of said increase. So how do you want it to be competitive? It should be slower than its sister SUPER, and it is, but with so little difference that it is considered a current midrange rival for those 12GBs.
Almost an RTX 2070 in mining
If this data is already good in itself, the mining data is even more spectacular and shows that the GB of VRAM is crucial and especially the fact that it is not limited. Performance is out of the question with 31.65 MH / s
With that and given current prices and especially the fact that NVIDIA has not, oddly enough, released its MSRP price, manufacturers have free rein to speculate on what they want and need, as well as the stores. Unsurprisingly, many of us have already seen prices over $ 600 on some models, whereas two years ago they were much cheaper.
Ultimately, the RTX 2060 12GB is the stuffy big one in every way. No one bet on this in games and it was surprising, but it was obviously a mining focused card because even miners don’t want / can buy GPUs at the outrageous price they are at.