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Background
The GeForce RTX 2060 is a mid-tier discrete graphics card, designed by Nvidia. The card was announced in a press release on January 6, 2019, and was released on January 15.
The RTX 2060 is built on a locked Nvidia TU106 chip, using the Turing architecture on the TSMC 12 nm process. The RTX 2060 uses the same chip as the RTX 2070, but in a locked configuration.
The RTX 20 series is the first Nvidia consumer graphics card line to have hardware ray tracing. The series introduces DLSS 1.0 upscaling and uses second-generation Tensor Cores.
Identification
The GeForce RTX 2060 features multiple graphic card partners and vendors with different specifications and appearances. The GPU model can usually be found on the product sticker, often on the GPU's backside.
To identify your graphics card in Windows, open:
- Nvidia Control Panel
- Select Help from the navigation bar
- The GPU model name will be shown in the items tab.
To identify your graphics card in a Linux environment, see this How-To-Geek's guide.
Troubleshooting
- TechPowerUp has many reviews with teardowns and high resolution PCB images for the RTX 2060 from multiple vendors.
- Scroll down to the "Retail boards based on this design" section.
- Find your specific graphics card.
- The GPU models that has reviews, teardown and high-resolution PCB images has the TechPowerUp logo next to them.
- This page has electrical diagrams and schematics for the RTX 2060 graphics card from multiple vendors.
Specifications
The following is the GeForce RTX 2060 base configuration, features, functionality and performance may vary depending on vendor.
Release date: 2019
Body:
- Type: discrete GPU
- Segment: Desktop
GPU:
- GPU name: TU106
- Raytracing gen.: 1
- Tensor gen.: 2
- TDP: 160 W
Memory:
- Size: 6
- Type: GDDR6
I/O:
- No. of Displays: 5
- Type:
- 1x DVI
- 1x HDMI 2.0
- 2x DisplayPort 1.4a
- 1x USB Type-C
Technologies:
- DirectX 12 Ultimate