Wednesday, December 8th 2021
GIGABYTE Rolls Out its GeForce RTX 2060 12GB Graphics Cards
GIGABYTE joined the 12 GB GeForce RTX 2060 comeback party with two custom-design graphics card models, the RTX 2060 D6 12G, and the larger RTX 2060 WindForce OC 12G. NVIDIA formally released the RTX 2060 12 GB on December 7. This isn't just an RTX 2060 with double the memory amount (12 GB vs. 6 GB), but also an increase in CUDA cores, to 2,176, up from 1,920 on the original. What sets the RTX 2060 12 GB apart from the RTX 2060 SUPER is that the memory bus is still 192-bit wide, compared to 256-bit on the latter.
The GIGABYTE RTX 2060 12 GB D6 features a more compact (22.4 cm long) WindForce 2X cooling solution that uses a pair of 90 mm fans. This SKU sticks to NVIDIA-reference clock speeds of 1650 MHz boost. The RTX 2060 12 GB WindForce OC, on the other hand, features a larger 26.5 cm-long board design, with 100 mm fans, and a heavier heatsink. This card packs a mild factory-overclock, running the GPU at 1680 MHz boost. Both cards rely on a single 8-pin PCIe power connector for power. The company didn't reveal pricing.
The GIGABYTE RTX 2060 12 GB D6 features a more compact (22.4 cm long) WindForce 2X cooling solution that uses a pair of 90 mm fans. This SKU sticks to NVIDIA-reference clock speeds of 1650 MHz boost. The RTX 2060 12 GB WindForce OC, on the other hand, features a larger 26.5 cm-long board design, with 100 mm fans, and a heavier heatsink. This card packs a mild factory-overclock, running the GPU at 1680 MHz boost. Both cards rely on a single 8-pin PCIe power connector for power. The company didn't reveal pricing.
39 Comments on GIGABYTE Rolls Out its GeForce RTX 2060 12GB Graphics Cards
PC gaming is really screwed.
These aren't fast miners, but they are very power efficient. I hear +-80 Watts for around 31MH/s.
I wonder if nGreedia actually made this card to be attractive to miners, so that it would maybe free-up the 3060... The 12nm node is not as slammed as the more advanced production, so maybe they think they can get some real quantity and profit on these old GPU's.
And the only value of that vapor is that you can sell it to others in the future (as it has that lovely, Ponzi vibes, feature in it of "becoming more expensive over time")
I think crypto-bazinga "investments" highlight just how ridiculous stock market "investments" are in general.
Don't people buy stock to sell it for more later on anyhow?
And in the end, does it matter whether "final" value is zero or non-zero?
Tesla, a company "worth 1 trillion" with annual revenue of 30 billion anyone? Cause... no freaking idea, some "bright" analysts still could not figure that other car manufacturers are going electric because of "zero emissions" driven restrictions and not because Tesla's revenue reached 10% of Volkswagen's?
Uh, oh, doh.
The only difference between the 12GB 2060 specs and the 2060S is that the 12GB 2060 is keeping the 192 bus that the original RTX 2060 has, everything else is the spitting image of the 2060S (aside from the amount of VRAM).
I wouldn't expect this release to be any better than the 2060S.
2$ ethermine multiply by 365 days ROI, market price of $730 just forget about it. Im not paying $700 for anything less than a RTX 4070S.
The card is irrelevant and unobtainable, and unworthy of this front page clutter.
on an unrelated note it’s interesting to see that we have reached a point where processes have become so complex that market competition is no longer an option. In years past we would have seen 30 upstarts all trying to sell their xyz knockoff cards. No longer…
as for pricing. Between old design but addition of ram and cores the price should be same as original 2060 at launch. But I doubt that.