With Intel soon to enter the GPU boat race, Nvidia and, to some extent, AMD are going to want to drown out the new competitors with as much metaphorical noise as possible. With Intel's Arc products looking to best the competition, there is a real chance that it could offer a solid alternative to the main two tech giants who have been vying for supremacy for some time now. With that, "team green" are not only looking to put out some new products, but have been keen to bring back some old gear as well.
According to a recent report, Nvidia is bringing back the RTX 2060, a product which was released in January 2019, with the 2060 Super coming the summer of that year. However, this won't be just a re-release of a nearly-three-year-old graphics card, as it's been given a memory boost and some slight performance increases in other areas as well. Instead of the 6 GB of RAM that the original GPU had, this new iteration will have twice as much, with 12 GB of GDDR6. This even beats the Super, which had 8 GB of RAM.
Nothing is known about the potential release date, at the time of writing, but other details suggest it will have more CUDA cores than the Nvidia RTX 2060, with 2,176 as opposed to 1,920. It will still be built on the Turing architecture, on a 12nm TSMC die, as well as having the same 192 bus width as its predecessor, but will have tweaks in other parts of its specs which sort of puts it on par with the Super, just with more memory. This means that the 2060 12 GB won't be able to best the likes of the 3090, which is generally considered one of the most powerful graphics cards on the market, but it could provide a low-mid range product as a stopgap.
Rumors about Nvidia rebranding the RTX 2060 have been circulating for some time now. At the time, it was speculated that it could be reintroduced into the market by early 2022, possibly even January. This puts it in the line of sights of Intel's upcoming "Alchemist" GPU, with the laptop variant expected Q1 2022 and desktop equivalents coming in Q2.
It makes sense that Nvidia would want to crush its new rivals with an onslaught of new, or in this case rebranded, hardware. It's already been suggested that the RTX 3090 Ti may be in the pipeline, which could also be out around the same time. In any case, it looks like the tech giant is on the war path the flood to market with all manner of GPUs in an effort to silence the competition.
Source: Tom's Hardware