In recent years, NVIDIA has adopted a biennial update rhythm. The official release of the RTX 30 in August 2020 is two years old by the second half of next year, and if it is no accident, players will be on time to welcome the new RTX 40. Until then, NVIDIA will continue to expand its existing RTX 30 product line.
Just when everyone was waiting for a series of new cards such as RTX 3090 Ti 24GB, RTX 3080 12GB, RTX 3070 Ti 16GB, RTX 3050 8GB and so on, NVIDIA quietly "reproduced" an old product - RTX 2060 12GB. So under the pricing of 3999 yuan, can this product become the answer to the 4000 yuan graphics card? Today we will study it.
For NVIDIA's relaunch of RTX 2060, Che Ge was not surprised at all. In order to give way to the RTX 30 series, the RTX 2080 and RTX 2070 have been gradually discontinued in the middle of last year, and the supply of the RTX 2060S continued until November last year. And in February of this year, in order to cope with the shortage of graphics cards, the RTX 2060 was also re-shipped. Although the price has also risen a lot, the RTX 2060 has always been available in the market.
RTX 2060 12GB specifications are between RTX 2060 and RTX 2060S, of which the graphics card uses a 12nm process-based TU106 core, 2176 CUDA units, 64 optical chase units and 136 tensor units, in terms of GPU specifications, RTX 2060 12GB has surpassed RTX 2060, and is on par with RTX 2060S. However, the RTX 2060 12GB has 4GB more memory than the RTX 2060S, but the memory width is reduced from 256bit to 192bit.
So why is NVIDIA introducing graphics cards based on the previous generation of Turing architecture at this time? There are rumors that in order to alleviate the tight supply of RTX 3060, Che Ge personally disagrees. Compare the RTX 2060 12GB to the consumer market and you can see that it is not very good.
First of all, the price of RTX 2060 12GB 3999 yuan is really outrageous, and it is already like the price after the markup. To know that the official guidance price of RTX 3060 is only 2499 yuan, RTX 2060 12GB what virtue can directly price 1500 yuan higher? According to the current market situation, the possibility of price increases on the channel is not small. At present, on a treasure, rainbow tomahawk RTX 2060 12G generally sells 4199 yuan ~ 4299 yuan, this price and RTX 3060 is very close, there is this budget why not buy RTX 3060 directly?
The high efficiency of mining is a hidden concern. A few days ago, foreign media exposed that there was an anonymous OEM disclosure that RTX 2060 12GB is designed for miners. According to PCMarket's test RTX 2060 12GB hashing power of 31.65MH/s, very close to RTX 2070S, has surpassed RTX 3060 and RX 6600XT, and its power consumption is only less than 84W, it can be said that the mining efficiency is quite outstanding. If the RTX 2060 12GB is targeted by miners, it will be difficult for the average gamer to buy it. And according to the revelations of foreign media,
An anonymous OEM reports that the RTX 2060 12GB video memory version is designed for miners.
Opponents at the same price point are stronger. In the meantime, let's not overlook the AMD RX 6600XT at the same price. After all, the price of this graphics card is now between 3899 yuan and 4199 yuan, which is exactly facing RTX 2060 12GB and RTX 3060, and RX 6600XT is obviously stronger in performance, and then consider its price, in terms of cost performance, RX 6600XT is indeed a relatively excellent product at this price.
Che Ge has something to say: For players who want to buy graphics cards, RTX 2060 12GB is average cost-effective, may not be as foreign media said is not for ordinary gamers, or directly consider RTX 3060 or RX 6600XT. Next, at CES in January, the RTX 3050 that has been rumored for a long time will be officially released, coupled with the AMD RX 6500 and Inter's new entry-level unique display, next year's low-end unique display market will have a good show opening, and players who want to install the machine may wish to wait and sell it.