The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 is the entry-level Turing RTX consumer GPU, launched in January 2019. It brought ray tracing and DLSS to the mainstream market for the first time, making RTX features accessible to budget-conscious gamers.
The RTX 2060 uses the TU106 die with 6GB of GDDR6 memory providing 336 GB/s bandwidth (12GB variant released later). It includes 1,920 CUDA cores, 240 first-generation Tensor Cores, and 30 first-generation RT cores. TDP is 160W.
The 6GB memory capacity was criticized as limiting even at launch, particularly for ray tracing which increases memory usage. NVIDIA later released a 12GB variant addressing this concern, though the original 6GB model remained more common.
The RTX 2060 made RTX ray tracing accessible to mainstream gamers, though performance in ray-traced titles was limited. DLSS support provided more value at this tier, offering meaningful performance gains in supported titles.