NVIDIA launches GeForce RTX 2060 12GB, a perfect card for crypto miners

NVIDIA launches GeForce RTX 2060 with 12GB and TU106-300 GPU, overpriced gaming GPU for miners

Multiple NVIDIA board partners unveiled its GeForce RTX 2060 12GB graphic cards.

The seemingly highly anticipated cure for the mid-range GPU market has been turned into a complete disaster. Despite the official launch today, it is very hard to find the new card in stock and even if there are any offers, the pricing starts at 600 EUR, but it can easily go up to 700 EUR.

NVIDIA RTX 2060 12GB pricing, Source: @momomo_us, @davideneco25320

The card is equipped with a TU106-300 graphics processor featuring 2176 CUDA cores. It makes use of 16Gb (2GB) GDDR6 modules clocked at 14Gbps. This Turing card is exactly what we expected it to be, an RTX 2060 SUPER variant with lower memory bandwidth.

Interestingly, NVIDIA did not encourage board partners to seed the review samples to the press. Yet, Hongkongese PCMarket managed to obtain ZOTAC RTX 2060 12GB Twin Edge, clearly labeled as a sample. Their review brings some interesting results, but gaming aside, this card is actually better in crypto mining than RTX 3060, which pretty much kills this card the moment it launches.

ZOTAC RTX 2060 12GB in cryptomining, Source: PCMARKET

With all that in mind, the RTX 2060 12GB launch is definitely one of the most depressing GPU launches in recent months. NVIDIA did not even make a single blog post about this new card, nor they have publicly confirmed the MSRP for it.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX x60 Series
VideoCardz.com	GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER	GeForce RTX 2060 12GB	GeForce RTX 2060 6GB	GeForce RTX 3060 Ti	GeForce RTX 3060
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Architecture	NVIDIA Turing	NVIDIA Turing	NVIDIA Turing	NVIDIA Ampere	NVIDIA Ampere
Board	PG150	PG161	PG160	PG190/PG142	PG190
GPU	12nm TU106-410	12nm TU106-300	12nm TU106-200	8nm GA104-200	8nm GA106-300
Boost Clock	1650 MHz	1650 MHz	1680 MHz	1665 MHz	1777 MHz
CUDA : RT : Tensor	2176 : 64 : 136	2176 : 64 : 136	1920 : 48 : 120	4864 : 38 : 152	3584 : 28 : 112
Memory	8GB GDDR6	12GB GDDR6	6GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	12GB GDDR6
Memory Clock	14 Gbps	14 Gbps	14 Gbps	14 Gbps	15 Gbps
Memory Bus	256-bit	192-bit	192-bit	256-bit	192-bit
Bandwidth	448 GB/s	336 GB/s	336 GB/s	448 GB/s	360 GB/s
TGP/TBP	175W	185W	160W	200W	170W
MSRP	399 USD	TBC	349 -> 299 USD	399 USD	329 USD
Release Date	July 9th, 2019	December 7th, 2021	January 14, 2019	December 2nd, 2020	Late February 2021