Turing · 2018
Launched in 2018, the laptop RTX 2060 brought real-time ray tracing down to the mid-range for the first time, built on Turing with 1920 cores, 6GB of GDDR6 and a 192-bit memory bus. At a typical 90W, it handled 1080p gaming at high settings comfortably in the vast majority of games from its era.
Like most Turing-generation laptop GPUs, NVIDIA let manufacturers configure its power limit across a range, so a lower-wattage version of this chip in a thin laptop will fall noticeably short of a higher-wattage version in a bulkier gaming chassis carrying the same name.
As a Turing-generation chip, the RTX 2060 supports DLSS 2 - NVIDIA's general-purpose AI upscaling model, plus DLAA and Ray Reconstruction for its ray-traced lighting - but not the Frame Generation NVIDIA reserved for RTX 40-series cards and later. NVIDIA never officially extended Resizable BAR support back to Turing laptops, so this card runs without that particular efficiency gain.
Laptop manufacturers configure this GPU's power limit (TGP) per model. The 90W figure above is a typical point within the chip's published TGP range - actual power limits, and real-world performance, can vary significantly between laptops using the same GPU name.
Comfortable 1080p gaming and everyday creative tasks.
6 GB GDDR6 memory.
Push performance beyond base clock.
Soldered (Mobile)
Real-world specs can differ by laptop model - see the note above.
The NVIDIA RTX 2060 is a mid-range dedicated GPU with 6GB of GDDR6 memory, suited to mainstream gaming and everyday graphics tasks.