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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB is a graphics card released on December 7, 2021, built on the Turing architecture. It has 12 GB of video memory and a 185 W board power rating. It scores 15,922 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.4 and CUDA compute capability 7.5.

TuringTU106-300

5/10 key specs recorded · 22 facts

Depth: 31 recorded fields, 3 features, 5 PassMark workloads

Specification data last verified August 11, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark. Coverage: 5 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

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Shading units

n/a

Memory

12 GB

Boost clock

n/a

Board power

185 W

Performance

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB scores 15,922 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 94.3% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #157), measured across 1,277 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 851.

PassMark G3D Mark

15,922

Rank #157
Faster than 94.3% of 2,658 GPUs
1,277 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

PassMark workload tests

DirectX 9 203 fps

reference: fastest recorded 526 fps · faster than 91.2% of 1,675 GPUs

DirectX 10 105 fps

reference: fastest recorded 231 fps · faster than 91.4% of 1,602 GPUs

DirectX 11 119 fps

reference: fastest recorded 362 fps · faster than 87.1% of 1,430 GPUs

DirectX 12 62 fps

reference: fastest recorded 213 fps · faster than 85.8% of 1,274 GPUs

GPU Compute 6,748 ops/s

reference: fastest recorded 26,591 ops/s · faster than 88.8% of 1,447 GPUs

Averages of PassMark PerformanceTest submissions; frames/sec are PassMark test-scene rates, not game FPS. Tests PassMark does not report for this card are omitted. PassMark listing

In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB averages DirectX 9 203 fps, DirectX 10 105 fps, DirectX 11 119 fps, DirectX 12 62 fps and GPU Compute 6,748 ops/s, across 1,277 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.

As stated by PassMark

Category Desktop

Bus interface PCIe 3.0 x16

Max memory 12 GB

Core clock 1470 MHz

Memory clock 14000 MHz

DirectX 12

OpenGL 4.6

Max TDP 185 W

First benchmarked 2022-01-09

Samples 1,277

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB states the PCIe 3.0 x16 interface, up to 12 GB of memory, a core clock of 1470 MHz, DirectX 12 and OpenGL 4.6, first benchmarked on 2022-01-09. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.

Graphics processor

Architecture Turing

Codename TU106-300

Chip Not recorded

Process node Not recorded

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Die size Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB is based on the Turing architecture and uses the TU106-300 graphics processor.

Memory

Size 12 GB

Type Not recorded

Bus width Not recorded

Bandwidth Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB is equipped with 12 GB of memory.

Board and power

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB has a board power rating of 185 W and it connects over PCIe 3.0 x16.

Board power (TDP) 185 W

Total board power Not recorded

Suggested PSU Not recorded

Power connectors Not recorded

Slot width Not recorded

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Height Not recorded

Cooler Not recorded

Max temperature Not recorded

Bus interface PCIe 3.0 x16

Market

Launched December 7, 2021

Launch price Not recorded

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Form factor Not recorded

Segment Desktop

Series GeForce RTX 20 Series

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB was released on December 7, 2021.

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 15,922

PassMark G2D 851

Rank #157

Samples 1,277

Graphics and compute APIs

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB supports DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.4 and CUDA compute capability 7.5.

DirectX 12

OpenGL 4.6

Vulkan 1.4

CUDA compute capability 7.5

Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB.

Features

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB has 3 supported features recorded outside the media engine. A feature that no source mentions is shown as not listed, never as unsupported.

Rendering

Supported: Hardware ray tracing 1st Generation

Dedicated GPU hardware that speeds up ray-traced lighting, reflections and shadows in supported games and apps.

Not listed (3)

No source Feex holds states whether the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB supports DirectX 12 Ultimate, NVIDIA DLSS and Vulkan ray tracing. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB supports Hardware ray tracing (1st Generation) under Rendering.

Compute and AI

Supported: CUDA Compute capability 7.5

Support for NVIDIA's CUDA computing platform, used by many creative, scientific and AI applications.
Supported: Tensor cores 2nd Generation

NVIDIA's dedicated matrix-math units used for AI workloads such as DLSS and machine-learning inference.

Not listed (1)

No source Feex holds states whether the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB supports NVLink / SLI. That is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB supports CUDA (Compute capability 7.5) and Tensor cores (2nd Generation) under Compute and AI.

Naming and aliases

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB is also known by other names: PassMark also lists it as NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060.

Other names (PassMark) NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

Frequently asked questions

How much VRAM does the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB have?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB has 12 GB of video memory.

How much power does the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB use and what power supply does it need?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB has a board power rating of 185 W.

How fast is the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12GB scores 15,922 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 94.3% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #157. In the PassMark DirectX 12 test it averages 62 fps.