Evga rtx 2060 ko uses a tu104 and not tu106 gpu

The EVGA RTX 2060 KO series announced at CES 2020 quickly caught everyone's attention due to a bold offer - they would sell for $ 279, but how is that possible?

RTX 2060 KO does not use the NVIDIA TU106 chip, but uses the TU104-150

The RTX 2060 KO series launched at $ 279 (for a limited time) and is currently available at $ 299, which is the new official MSRP for all non-SUPER 2060 models. Now we learn that this model of the KO series does not use the NVIDIA TU106 chip, but instead uses the TU104-150 chips instead. This is a cost effective solution for both EVGA and NVIDIA.

TU104 chips are basically faulty GPUs that do not meet RTX 2070/2080 standards. This could mean CUDA clusters that are not working (2060 series only requires 62% of TU104 CUDA cores to be effective), RT, Tensor, TMUs or ROPs. CUDA / TMUs and ROPs set to certain power limits are the main performance limiting factor of the GeForce series. Therefore, even though the chip could have more working cores, the actual gaming performance will remain the same.

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However, GamersNexus found that the RTX 2060 with the TU104 GPU is better than the one based on the TU106 in a very specific test scenario, as is the case with Blender:

NVIDIA confirms the use of this GPU

Thus, there can be two variants of this graph with TU106 or TU104. We will keep you informed.

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