Nvidia expects RTX 2060 12GB stock to ‘ramp end of December through January’ as retailers remain barren
The RTX 2060 12GB launched yesterday, but might not really be here until late December and into 2022.
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The Nvidia RTX 2060 12GB is quite the enigma. It’s not quite the graphics card you expect it to be in terms of specifications, memory bandwidth, or capacity, and while it wasofficially launched yesterdaywith decent enough fanfare from board partners, we’re yet to see one legitimately on sale.
I’ve searched the web for genuine retailers with available RTX 2060 12GB stock—Newegg, Best Buy, Micro Center, B&H, Scan, Overclockers, Box, Ebuyer… most major retailers in the US and UK—and not found a single listing.
That’s despite most major graphics card manufacturers, includingAsus, Zotac, Palit, Gigabyte, and more, all announcing new (if limited) RTX 2060 12GB cards.
If it wasn’t for asingle reviewposted yesterday, it would be as if the RTX 2060 12GB launch never happened.
It wouldn’t be the first time a PC component has been launched without availability, but we’d usually see a few pre-orders fulfilled on launch day at the very least. That’s not the case today, so I was beginning to wonder if the actual on-sale date differed from the announcement date.
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Nvidia tells me that’s not the case. The on-shelf date for the RTX 2060 12GB began December 7, 2021, meaning partners were free to distribute their cards from that time. It will be down to partners as there’s noRTX 2060 12GB Founders Edition, after all.
Though I’m also told Nvidia expects “partner card availability to ramp starting the end of December through January.”
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So if you’re keen to get your hands on this card, you may have to wait a little longer for things to really get moving. Though until we see genuine availability, we won’t have any idea on its price. Without that, we’re at a loss as to whether it’s worth your money over newer cards such as theGeForce RTX 3060orAMD’s Radeon RX 6600.
The release of the RTX 2060 12GB has certainly been a strange one. Though I suppose as a rerelease of an RTX 20-series card, this was to be expected. If one thing is clear, however, it’s that it’ll be a little while longer if the RTX 2060 12GB is to help any gamers out of a graphical pinch. And that’s ifcryptocurrency miners don’t fancy it all for themselves.
Jacob earned his first byline writing for his own tech blog. From there, he graduated to professionally breaking things as hardware writer at PCGamesN, and would go on to run the team as hardware editor. He joined PC Gamer’s top staff as senior hardware editor before becoming managing editor of the hardware team, and you’ll now find him reporting on the latest developments in the technology and gaming industries and testing the newest PC components.
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