Despite the fact that there are global shortages, which is causing the tech and gaming industry to struggle to get new products into the hands of customers, company's such as Nvidia are still trying to keep on top of the market by putting out hardware. Recently, a rumor suggested that the graphics card conglomerate was getting ready to move into the next GPU generation. Now, another rumor has been doing the rounds, which says that it could be doing basically the opposite of that.
A recent report has said that, while the deficit rages on, Nvidia could be about to reintroduce an older graphics card, but one that will be souped up for more modern gaming. According to the rumor, the company could be bringing back the RTX 2060, which was originally launched in January 2019, with the SUPER iteration being released a few months later.
Nvidia already announced the reintroduction of its 2060 back in January, but it seems this time there will a significant improvement to the card. In particular, the report claims that this version will be given more memory to make it more suitable for this generation of games. The original RTX 2060 had 6 GB of RAM, whereas, if the rumors are true at least, this reintroduced version will have 12 GB of GDDR6, instead. The company has allegedly already made the board aware of the plan to bring this card back, and has said that it could be out by January 2022.
Of course, it's worth saying at this stage that Nvidia has not confirmed, nor has it denied, any of these speculations. However, with the company's own CEO believing the tech shortages could last through the majority of next year, it would make sense that old technology would make a comeback. While gamers and PC enthusiasts are struggling to get hold of any of the Nvidia 30 series, or AMD equivalent, bringing back the RTX 2060 with double the VRAM could help plug the gap for now.
This also is not the first time speculations of old hardware being reintroduced to the market has been mentioned. Back in July, MSI were looking to re-launch the GT 730, a graphics card that is seven-years-old at this point. On top of issues with the global deficit, both AMD and Nvidia are now up against a third competition in the GPU arms race. With Intel recently announcing its up-and-coming range of cards, with its first model due out some time next year, the market is likely to be flooded with hardware choices. Let's just hope people are able to get hold of any of it, old and new.