Geforce Rtx 2060 Review
What could he say to alleviate the concerns of fans who felt that the new RTX 20-series GPUs were overpriced and trying to force ray tracing technology on customers who don’t have much use for it? “2060,” he said as if those four numbers were the secret to life and all of Nvidia’s success. Huang was referencing the just announced Nvidia RTX 2060 GPU, a card that’s pricier than its equivalent in previous generations, but still your most accessible entry point to the future of graphics. Having a smaller TU106 silicon with close to 11 Billion transistors it doesn’t run too hot.
It’s cheaper than the 1070 or 1070 Ti and on par with the similarly priced AMD Vega 56. Only unlike the 56, the 2060 will support ray tracing when games finally start sticking it in. The RX 590 is, admittedly, still a lot cheaper than the (with most cards going for the same price as Nvidia’s 6GB GTX 1060 at time of writing), and offers a smidge more performance than both its GTX rival and RX 580 predecessor.
Thing is, though, you probably don’t need to spend this kind of money on a 1080p graphics card if all you’re after is something that can do 60fps on high or max settings. That’s pretty impressive considering the gtx 1090‘s GPU also has lower base and boost clock speeds than Nvidia’s GTX 1060 and GTX 1070 families, with its base coming in at just 1365MHz, while its boost tops out at 1680MHz. These numbers may well be slightly higher on other third party cards out there that have been overclocked straight out of the factory, but the fact remains that the RTX 2060 pulls some serious weight in spite of its slower-running GPU. It was a fantastic card when it launched for $249, and it continues to be one now for even less, with some of today’s cheapest 6GB cards going for $240 / £220.
This review covers the reference card, also referred to as founder edition. This 160 Watts rated graphics card has 1920 activated shader processors . It has a proper 1680 MHz boost clock for the standard founder version and there will be no differentiation for the reference values compared to the AIB partners. The card has 6 GB of the now familiar GDDR6 memory running a 192-bit wide bus (336 GB/s), the price is 349 USD. The GeForce RTX 2060 does have dedicated RT cores, though—30 of them, compared to 36 in the RTX 2070, 46 in the RTX 2080, and 72 in the $1,200 GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. A future BFV update will add in Nvidia’s performance-enhancing Deep Learning Super Sampling technology, too, and Nvidia claims that will boost ray tracing performance even more, as shown in the chart below.
Whenever that happens, as a company you need to set things right. The first attempt at that will be what we review today, a product that most people can afford, the GeForce RTX 2060. It’s another £100 / $100 more expensive than the GTX 1060, with Nvidia’s Founders Edition on test here going for £329 / $349 while third party cards currently start at £350 / $350, but when it comes to speed, it’s in another league altogether. Whereas the GTX 1060 struggled to hit 60fps on higher quality settings at 1440p, the RTX 2060 sails past that number and then some.
Regardless of which card you buy, though, every RTX 2060 comes with 6GB of super fast GDDR6 memory clocked at 14Gbps, as well as 1920 CUDA cores . The latter is actually the same number you’ll find in Nvidia’s GTX 1070, and a whole 640 more than what you’ll find on the 6GB GTX 1060. Most gamers would be better off with the $399 RTX 2060 Super and Radeon RX 5700 XT. They’ll give you a bit more power to handle demanding next-gen games like Cyberpunk. If you’ve been dreaming of getting something powerful like the RTX 2080, then the $499 RTX 2070 Super will get you close. And if you’re intrigued by ray tracing, your only choice is to pick one of the NVIDIA cards.
People had been very interested and were warmed up for the DLSS features and the ability to play Battlefield V in that hybrid Raytraced way. NVIDIA initiated massive internet gtx 1090 virals to gain media coverage. But then the bubble exploded in their face as end-users looked the other way when they learned about the incredibly steep price level.