NVIDIA AIBs Silently Reintroducing GeForce RTX 2060 & RTX 2060 SUPER Graphics Cards To DIY & OEM Segments, Pricing Close To RTX 3070

If you thought the whole situation surrounding GPU availability and pricing couldn't get any worse, then be prepared for what AIBs are planning to do which is reintroducing the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 series with prices close to the RTX 3070. Yes, you heard that right, a year old graphics card for the same price as a higher-performant and current-gen product.

The rather surprising piece of information comes from overclocking.com who have confirmed with their sources, which happen to be 3 major AIBs, that they are indeed planning to revive the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 series. NVIDIA is given the green light to its partners and it looks like there could be several reasons why this decision was made.

NVIDIA may possibly still be sitting on a huge inventory of Turing GPUs, mainly the mainstream TU 104 and TU 106 chips. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 series consists of graphics cards based on the two GPUs. The GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB is powered by the TU106 GPU while the GeForce RTX 2060S (SUPER) is powered by the TU104 GPU and features 8 GB memory. Since there is already a shortage of GPUs in the market and demand is ever rising within the DIY and OEM segments, NVIDIA and its AIBs could be taking advantage of the situation by selling off the access inventory.

The GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB was priced at $299 US after a price cut by NVIDIA while the GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER was priced at $399 US. The prices are good but here's the thing, the two cards will never be sold at that rates again. Starting February which is when both of these cards will re-enter the retail segment, The GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER will be priced over $400 US while the GeForce RTX 2060 will be priced at over $300 US. So based on the price figures alone, the GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB will be close to the GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB while the GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER should end up close to the GeForce RTX 3070's MSRP.

Even as of right now, the cheapest GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB variants are listed anywhere from $450 to $550 US so it's kind of hard to think that the 300/400 Euro prices being mentioned will be real or not.

News Source: Videocardz