https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-rtx-2060-12-gb-makes-official-debut-a-turing-graphics-card-2-years-later-for-the-gaming-market/
 
NVIDIA's board partners have officially launched the GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB graphics card in several custom flavors.
 
NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB Graphics Card Launched But Is It Coming To Gamers Or?
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB graphics card should make for a nice mainstream graphics card until the entry-level Ampere graphics cards arrive. It still packs a punch and with double the memory capacity, it should make for a decent gaming graphics card if priced below the $ 329 US MSRP of the RTX 3060 12 GB.
 
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB Graphics Card Specifications
Specifications wise, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB will carry the TU106 GPU plotted on the 12nm process node with 2176 CUDA cores, 136 Tensor Cores, and 64 RT cores. The GPU is clocked at 1470 MHz base and 1650 MHz boost. Due to being based on the Turing GPU, the new card won't be as feature-rich as the Ampere cards that have more RT / Tensor cores, PCIe Gen 4.0 support, a brand new NVENC encoder, or even a Resizable Bar.
 
The same GPU was featured on the RTX 2060 SUPER however the main difference is the memory. The card will retain a 192-bit bus versus the full 256-bit bus featured on the SUPER variant. This will allow the card to hit 12 GB GDDR6 memory capacity running at 14 Gbps pin speeds for a total bandwidth of 336 GB / s. It will also come with a similar TDP of 185W, the same as the RTX 2060 SUPER variant. The card will be available in custom models from NVIDIA AIB partners but there is not going to be any Founders Edition variant
 
So far, almost all AIBs including ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte, GALAX, ZOTAC, Inno3D, Gainward, Colorful, etc have started to introduce their custom variants which boast dual/triple fan cooling solutions and feature a single 8-pin power connector to boot at the very least. You can see some of the variants below.
 
 
My thoughts: INNO3D, GALAX Japan and ZOTAC already twitted out about the new 2060 12GB being available, although so far the prices seem unreasonable to me. I will wait to see if EVGA will have a variant maybe in proper MSRP, otherwise I'll just wait for 3050 or the 40series refresh with the super line. I am saving money but I won't be paying more than I should.

i agree prices seem kinda high, but more gpus being available to buy has to help. the current 30 series prices are a joke.

Honestly, there's no point to the 12GB 2060 cards.  The way the GPU's memory controller works, it sees NO benefit from the extra memory.

aka_STEVE_b

charlesborner
Honestly, there's no point to the 12GB 2060 cards.  The way the GPU's memory controller works, it sees NO benefit from the extra memory.

I was gonna say the same - gpu isn't fast enough to make use of the 12gb....

That is why I wanted an RTX Ampere card
 

Flint 1760
 
Yes this might help some who having nothing right now for whatever reason.  The big downside is who is going to pay the above prices for this?

The miners probably as it seems to be pretty good on that area, let's just hope that they will leave the upcoming cards for us and get those ones instead.

aka_STEVE_b

charlesborner
Honestly, there's no point to the 12GB 2060 cards.  The way the GPU's memory controller works, it sees NO benefit from the extra memory.

I was gonna say the same - gpu isn't fast enough to make use of the 12gb....

It's not a matter of "speed".  But of neutered bit depth of the memory controller.