Confirmed: Though nosotros're already well into the life cycle of RTX 30-series cards, rumors have been floating effectually that suggest Nvidia is working on a new, 12GB 2060 model. With adjacent-gen titles increasing texture sizes substantially, an affordable, RT-ready menu with twice the VRAM of its predecessor is a pretty appealing notion to many. However, the carte hadn't been confirmed officially by Nvidia... until now.

In today's Game Ready Driver release notes, for driver version 497.09 WHQL, Nvidia distinctly mentions calculation support for what it calls the "GeForce RTX 2060 12GB." Upon first glance, it might seem odd that the company didn't attach the "Super" moniker to this carte. Later on all, all signs signal to the specs lining upwardly closely with the 8GB 2060 Super rather than the older 6GB 2060.

It will probable accept the same number of CUDA, RT, and Tensor cores, and the heave clock is also predicted to be identical. However, in that location are still differences, co-ordinate to Videocardz. Specifically, the 2060 12GB volition ship with a 192-chip memory bus and 336 GB/s retention bandwidth, which is what the base 2060 had. For dissimilarity, the 2060 Super has a 256-bit bus and 448 GB/s of retentiveness bandwidth.

A few things are nevertheless unclear at the moment, though. We aren't sure precisely when the card will release -- rumors bespeak toward December 7 -- nor do we know how much information technology volition cost. We wouldn't expect an MSRP too unlike from the 2060 Super, which sat right at the $400 marker.

Either style, we probably won't be waiting long for answers to these unknowns. Presumably, Nvidia wouldn't list it as a newly-supported device if a release appointment isn't on the horizon. Of course, that assumes the company didn't mistakenly mention the 2060 in its latest GRD changelog, which is possible.

Ordinarily, the re-release of what is effectively a terminal-gen card with some extra VRAM might not be crusade for and so much buzz. However, the PC hardware marketplace is in terrible shape right now, with crypto miners and bot-equipped scalpers buying upwards every GPU they can get their hands on in majority. As such, almost every new bill of fare launch is worth paying attending to for ordinary gamers.