Nvidia to Respond to RTX 3000 Shortages With RTX 2060
Ampere GPUs are still a rare visitor on store shelves, and it often takes a lot of luck to acquire one. Does Nvidia have an idea to remedy the situation? According to some information, the company may reintroduce RTX 2060 to the market.
- GeForce RTX 2060 is making a comeback! A leak suggests that Nvidia is planning to bring the older graphics cards back to stores, at least until RTX 3060 is released.
What do you do when demand for a product exceeds your production capacity? When it's in short supply in stores and prices go up? Invest in more capacity? It turns out that you can simply bring back the older generation to store shelves. As Overclocking reports, citing sources among manufacturers, Nvidia probably came up with the idea to compensate for the shortages of GeForce RTX 3000 graphics cards... by restarting production of GeForce RTX 2060 (Super) chips.
These models, representing the Turing generation, would return to stores and remain there until mid-February, as RTX 3060 is scheduled for release at the end of that month. The prices of the rebooted RTX 2060 and RTX 2060 Super are expected to be 300 euros and 400 euros, respectively. This means that you would have to spend more for the more powerful version than for the new RTX 3060 (339 euros).
Performance of Nvidia's XX60 line of cards across three generations in games. Source: Nvidia
RTX 3060's performance could be comparable to RTX 2070 (Super), so will it be worth paying more for a weaker last-gen card? We'll see, as long as the information turns out to be true and indeed Turings will again be delivered to stores.
