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Can I run Red Dead Redemption 2 with a GeForce RTX 2060 6GB?

High in Red Dead Redemption 2 is drawn around a GeForce RTX 2070 and its 8 GB. The GeForce RTX 2060 6GB has the core for it and not the memory, which is the one shortfall no setting recovers.

The GeForce RTX 2060 6GB is the fastest card we track that still stops here in Red Dead Redemption 2: everything above it on our index reaches further, and 7 slower cards land in the same place.

estimated index 12 · 6 GB · 2019
Ceiling with a Ryzen 7 9800X3D and 32 GB

Runs well

Clears the recommended tier, which is the target the publisher designs against.

Headroom
exactly on the line on VRAM
Bottleneck
VRAM
Confidence
estimated

Tier ladder

  1. minimum cleared
  2. recommended cleared
  3. high blocked by VRAM + GPU
  4. ultra blocked by GPU + VRAM

The weakest link is video memory: this rig brings 6 against the 8 that Red Dead Redemption 2 asks for at the high tier. Everything else in the rig is already past that line.

That readout is the best this card can do in Red Dead Redemption 2: it assumes nothing else in the machine holds it back. Your own processor and memory can only lower it, never raise it.

The same card with three different processors

In Red Dead Redemption 2 the processor beside a GeForce RTX 2060 6GB changes the answer, which is why a card-only verdict is not worth much here. Each row assumes 16 GB of system memory.

Processor Index Verdict Bottleneck
Ryzen 5 1600 30 Will not run processor
Ryzen 9 5900X 70 Runs well video memory
Ryzen 7 9800X3D 95 Runs well video memory

Cheapest way up one tier

video memory: GeForce RTX 3060 12GB

The GeForce RTX 2060 6GB carries 6 GB of video memory and the high tier needs 8 GB. Video memory is a hard limit: no amount of core speed substitutes for it.

That is the smallest part in our catalogue that clears the high tier - not the fastest one, and not a price claim: we hold no price data, so "cheapest" here means "least upgrade that does the job".

This part alone will not get you there. graphics card also falls short of that tier.

Where to look: GeForce RTX 3060 12GB (no store links yet)

Thresholds, against this card

Green means the GeForce RTX 2060 6GB clears that number, red means it does not. The processor and memory columns are yours to fill in with the checker below.

System requirement thresholds for Red Dead Redemption 2, by tier
Requirement minimum recommended high ultra your rig
GPU index 2 6 14 30 12
CPU index 42 45 55 78 0
Video memory 2 GB 6 GB 8 GB 10 GB 6 GB
System memory 8 GB 12 GB 16 GB 16 GB 0 GB
Storage 150 GB 150 GB 150 GB 150 GB -

The CPU and system memory rows show zero because this page knows the card and nothing else.

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GeForce RTX 2060 6GB

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Questions

Will a GeForce RTX 2060 6GB run Red Dead Redemption 2?
High in Red Dead Redemption 2 is drawn around a GeForce RTX 2070 and its 8 GB. The GeForce RTX 2060 6GB has the core for it and not the memory, which is the one shortfall no setting recovers. Above that the video memory is what stops it.
Is 6 GB of video memory enough for Red Dead Redemption 2?
Not for every tier. Red Dead Redemption 2 asks for more video memory than the 6 GB on this card at the tier above recommended, and video memory is a hard limit rather than something extra core speed can cover.

More on this card: what the GeForce RTX 2060 6GB runs across every game we track.