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GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB
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VRAM
12 GB
CUDA
2,176
FP32
7.181 TF
Bandwidth
336 GB/s
TDP
184W
Boost
1650 MHz
Strengths at a Glance
How it stacks up to the flagship
Each metric is shown as a percentage of the GeForce RTX 5090 D, the strongest card we track.
FP32 compute7.181 TFLOPS7%
vs RTX 5090 D: 104.8 TFLOPS
Memory bandwidth336 GB/s19%
vs RTX 5090 D: 1790 GB/s
VRAM capacity12 GB38%
vs RTX 5090 D: 32 GB
Shading units2,17610%
vs RTX 5090 D: 21,760
Power efficiency12/10021%
vs RTX 5090 D: 58/100
Synthetic Benchmarks
Estimated benchmark results
Each result is shown as a share of the RTX 5090 D's score in the same test.
3DMark Time Spy13,680pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 36,000 pts
3DMark Port Royal (RT)7,020pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 18,000 pts
Blender (samples/min)1,976spm
vs RTX 5090 D: 5,200 spm
Geekbench Compute96,000pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 240,000 pts
Performance breakdown
Gaming38
Ray tracing39
AI / Compute40
Creator / 3D38
Power efficiency12
Real-World Gaming
FPS Across Resolutions
1080p · Ultra preset1440p · Ultra preset4K · Ultra preset
Cyberpunk 2077avg 33 fps
1080p
45
1440p
33
4K
21
Call of Duty: MW IIIavg 46 fps
1080p
63
1440p
46
4K
29
Alan Wake 2avg 27 fps
1080p
36
1440p
27
4K
17
Forza Horizon 5avg 48 fps
1080p
65
1440p
48
4K
30
Baldur's Gate 3avg 39 fps
1080p
53
1440p
39
4K
24
Community Feedback
What Owners Say
Owners love the extra VRAM for modern games without paying a fortune. The main gripe is it runs noticeably hotter and louder than the original 6 GB model.
Pros
- Plays modern games without stuttering
- Twelve gigs future-proofs your library
- Keeps cool under extended sessions
- Great for creative and rendering work
Cons
- Not a true 12GB card internally
- Still uses old Turing architecture
- No real performance uplift over 6GB
Supported technologies
Ray TracingDLSSNVENCAV1 Encode
Full specifications
Core configuration
- CUDA Cores
- 2,176
- RT Cores
- 34
- Tensor Cores
- 272
- TMUs
- 136
- ROPs
- 48
- L2 cache
- 3 MB
Memory
- Size
- 12 GB
- Type
- GDDR6
- Bus width
- 192-bit
- Bandwidth
- 336 GB/s
- Memory clock
- 1750 MHz
Clocks & throughput
- Base clock
- 1470 MHz
- Boost clock
- 1650 MHz
- FP32 (float)
- 7.181 TFLOPS
- FP16 (half)
- 7.181 TFLOPS
- Pixel rate
- 79 GPixel/s
- Texture rate
- 224.4 GTexel/s
Board & power
- TDP
- 184W
- Suggested PSU
- 350W
- Power connectors
- 1x 8-pin
- Bus interface
- PCIe 3.0 x16
- Length
- 229 mm
- Slot width
- 2-slot
Display & outputs
- Max resolution
- 7680×4320
- Outputs
- 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
API and SDK support
- DirectX
- 12 Ultimate (12_2)
- Shader Model
- 6.6
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- OpenCL
- 3.0
- Vulkan
- 1.3
- CUDA
- 7.5
Verdict
Our verdict on the RTX 2060 12 GB
The RTX 2060 12GB is a late-era refresh that trades modern features for an oddly large memory buffer on aging Turing hardware.
Get it if you need more VRAM for modded games or budget creative work without paying for a current-gen card. Skip it if you can afford a newer card with faster architecture and better efficiency.
Buy it if…
- You want to play modern games at high settings without breaking the bank.
- You need extra video memory for mods or texture packs in older titles.
- You are building a budget VR rig that needs solid performance and 12GB.
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