Thursday, December 2nd 2021
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB Has CUDA Core Count Rivaling RTX 2060 SUPER
NVIDIA's surprise launch of the GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB graphics card could stir things up in the 1080p mainstream graphics segment. Apparently, there's more to this card than just a doubling in memory amount. Specifications put out by NVIDIA point to the card featuring 2,176 CUDA cores, compared to 1,920 on the original RTX 2060 (6 GB). 2,176 is the same number of CUDA cores that the RTX 2060 SUPER was endowed with. What sets the two cards apart is the memory configuration.
While the RTX 2060 maxed out the "TU106" silicon, the RTX 2060 12 GB is likely based on the larger "TU104," in order to achieve its CUDA core count. The RTX 2060 SUPER features 8 GB of memory across a 256-bit wide memory bus, however, the RTX 2060 12 GB uses a narrower 192-bit wide bus, disabling 1/4th of the bus width of the "TU104." The memory data-rate on both SKUs is the same—14 Gbps. The segmentation between the two in the area of GPU clock speeds appears negligible. The original RTX 2060 ticks at 1680 MHz boost, while the new RTX 2060 12 GB does 1650 MHz boost. The typical board power is increased to 185 W compared to 160 W of the original RTX 2060, and 175 W of the RTX 2060 SUPER.
Update 15:32 UTC: NVIDIA has updated their website to remove the "Founders Edition" part from their specs page (3rd screenshot below). We confirmed with NVIDIA that there will be no RTX 2060 12 GB Founders Edition, only custom designs by their various board partners.
NVIDIA is getting its add-in card partners to come up with several custom-design products based on the new SKU, which should occupy price-points below those of the RTX 3060 "Ampere." This could be an answer to AMD's Radeon RX 6600 (non-XT), which beats the RTX 2060 SUPER by 3% and the original RTX 2060 by 13%, at 1080p, in our testing. Technologically, the older "Turing" architecture won't find itself obsolete in the current market, as it maintains full DirectX 12 Ultimate compatibility.
Source:
VideoCardz
While the RTX 2060 maxed out the "TU106" silicon, the RTX 2060 12 GB is likely based on the larger "TU104," in order to achieve its CUDA core count. The RTX 2060 SUPER features 8 GB of memory across a 256-bit wide memory bus, however, the RTX 2060 12 GB uses a narrower 192-bit wide bus, disabling 1/4th of the bus width of the "TU104." The memory data-rate on both SKUs is the same—14 Gbps. The segmentation between the two in the area of GPU clock speeds appears negligible. The original RTX 2060 ticks at 1680 MHz boost, while the new RTX 2060 12 GB does 1650 MHz boost. The typical board power is increased to 185 W compared to 160 W of the original RTX 2060, and 175 W of the RTX 2060 SUPER.
Update 15:32 UTC: NVIDIA has updated their website to remove the "Founders Edition" part from their specs page (3rd screenshot below). We confirmed with NVIDIA that there will be no RTX 2060 12 GB Founders Edition, only custom designs by their various board partners.
99 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB Has CUDA Core Count Rivaling RTX 2060 SUPER
I paid 420 for my 1080. Go figure. But do cheer for this release, go go
As i already said above , in my opinion, this seems a brilliant move by nVIDIA to dominate the mainstream market before Intel even launches their lineup , thus making their offerings unecessary to gamers.
1) Pay +100$ for a total crap like a GT1030
2) Pay a small fortune for something like an RTX3060 or better
3) Will buy this card , which as i said , probably it will be only 10-15% slower (edit: to the RTX3060 ) , but at more reasonable price , since the quantities that can produced , can be massive , if nVIDIA chooses that way.
( By the way , MSI doesn't set the msrp prices , nVIDIA does , so i'll wait for the official announcement by nVIDIA. )
If Nvidia and AMD don't have reasonably priced cards, and Intel delivers in volume, you could wind up with a whole generation of Intel GPU "brand fans" simply because the competition was too busy making bank on crypto. A lot of this will depend on how Intel does on Crypto, they could be gobbled up by miners as well, but it might be a strategy to intentionally cripple mining on the cards in order to dominate the PC gaming GPU space.
A longer term strategy to gain permanent market share quickly. The "Brand Loyalty" factor is a big one - not just in GPUs. You have Ford people and GM people, Harley people and BMW people and Honda people. It's an odd thing but it is real.
Considering that their best GPUs are estimated around RTX3060Ti/RTX3070 level ( meaning not very far from something like an RTX2060Super) that's why i'm saying that if nVIDIA makes the right move with the price (combined with the massive quantities that are able to produce ) they can dominate the mainstream gaming market.
Right now , from the 3 companies , only nVIDIA seem to be able to push massive quantities in the gaming market.
Anyway, AMD doesn't get all of TSMCs production capacity. They get about 9% of it, and that is divided between CPUs GPUs including server and workstation (EPYC / Threadripper). Intel has about 7% and as far as I know is using virtually all of it for GPU / HPC (essentially the same thing). HPC isn't that big now that they are wrapping up Aurora.
So... it is at least possible that Intel will unload a ton of GPUs using that capacity.
An old TSMC partner like AMD has 9% for their entire CPU and GPU lineup , while the newcoming Intel managed to get an almost identical percentage only for their GPUs:eek: ????
If it's accurate it's incredible , never thought something like that!!!
With image scaling/DLSS etc, they're going to be fine for 1080p performance for a while still.
www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/nvidia-tu104.g854
Stop acting better than others online.
But there are to much lemmings out there they will buy anything, cause theyr addiction.
videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-launches-geforce-rtx-2060-12gb-a-perfect-card-for-crypto-miners
They will be just as rare as other graphics cards for the DIY market.
The miners dont be made this overrated prices, those prices come from 4 Instances:
AMD/Nvidia
Board Manufactures
major sellers
Customers
Miners dont buy the whole market, if no Customer buy a 3090TI for about 3000€ its price would not be 3000€.
But there are many sheeps out there they buy what they need for theyr addiction.
But let me say one thing:
U will hurt ure self if u push the prices even higher = less Consumers with powerfull GPU = less interesting to release Console Games to PC / to make Graphical intense Games for PC
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Still i remain confident about its availability(thus price) in the near future ,since the 12nm manufacturing process can guarantee the quantities the market needs (hopefully:D )
--P.S. Also i'm curious about its performance at 1080p + RayTracing/DLSS , since as far as i understood , larger memory can provide a boost in RT performance.
Hopefully Wizzard :)will check that part ....
Sure no good for Ray Tracing. But it was 15-25% faster than the 1660 Super and 1660 Ti, which many were saying (incorrectly) were equivalent non RT parts.
I really felt the 3060 non Ti was and is a waste, and that shows in your video and in the review benchmarks.
That 3060 is basically a 2060 Super :
1080P:
1440P