There are rumors that the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 is nearing end of production.According to Chinese engineers forum post, citing supply chain sources, both the GeForce RTX 2060 and RTX 2060 Super will be discontinued soon. GPUs in these graphics card models are no longer arriving at board partners, so stocks arriving at retailers will eventually start to decline, sources say. Until the official announcement, please take this news with a pinch of salt.
The above forum post image was captured by IT homeA machine translation of the body copy is: “The latest upstream news has learned that certain chip series of graphics cards may soon be out of supply. The current supply situation of all brands is analyzed as follows: NV has stopped supplying the RTX2060\2060S series chips.The graphics card brand has not had much supply this month and will end it after digesting them.They will no longer supply them in the future.
The Nvidia Turing architecture GeForce RTX 2060 launched in early 2019 as a ray tracing capable replacement for the hugely popular Pascal architecture GTX 1060. It makes sense to do away with the RTX 2060 line. However, due to the extraordinary demand for gaming GPUs, Nvidia gave his GeForce RTX 2060 / RTX 2060 Super a reprieve.
While making history in the RTX 2060 pot, the line got another life when the 12 GB version began rolling out at the end of 2021. Claimed to give gamers additional options, the GPU was seen by some as a slightly ironic way for Nvidia and partners to make more money out of the then-crazed cryptomining market. Recall that Nvidia started packing his LHR technology into his Ampere (RTX 30) cards, but left the RTX 2060 12GB unlimited.
If rumors about the demise of the RTX 2060/Super are true, there are some obvious ramifications to watch out for. First, the demise of the old Turing card was good news for the RTX 3050, and the card wasn’t good enough to take away his RTX 2060. Positions are open to challengers.Third, this is probably end RTX 2060 tops Steam hardware survey. Now it looks like the GeForce RTX 3060 has definitely taken that top spot.
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