Nvidia Launches The $349 Geforce Rtx 2060
For months, AMD has been hyping how much faster they are than the first RTX cards. The only solution for NVIDIA was a surprise batch of faster cards, which, in turn, led to AMD announcing a price drop at the last minute. The GeForce RTX™ 2060 is powered by the NVIDIA Turing™ architecture, bringing incredible performance and the power of real-time ray tracing and AI to the latest games and to every gamer. The GeForce gigabyte gtx 1060 3gb packs a slightly cut-down version of the TU106 GPU found inside the RTX 2070. The card has only 20 percent fewer CUDA cores than its bigger brother, but crams in a whopping 33 percent more CUDA cores than its predecessor, the GTX 1060. And extensive tweaks found in Nvidia’s Turing GPU architecture make the RTX 2060’s cores much more capable than the GTX 1060’s, as we’ll see in the benchmarks section.
The foundation engine supports a realistic representation of water and snow and shows the game characters detailed. The display of hair is also very realistic thanks to the support of TressFX or HairWorks . But the 2060, unlike the 1060, does ray tracing and is the cheapest card available that’s capable of the technology.
Both Sony and Microsoft have confirmed ray tracing will be in their next-generation consoles , so it makes sense that game makers are finally starting to take it seriously. NvidiaNvidia equipped the GPU with the typical Founders Edition port loadout; you’ll find HDMI, dual DisplayPorts, DVI, and a VirtualLink USB-C port for standardized VR headset connectivity. Nvidia restricts multi-GPU support to the RTX 2080 and 2080 Ti alone this generation. What’s clear from looking at the comprehensive table is that the all-new RTX 2060 isn’t that new. High-level specs reveal that it is based on a modified TU106 die rather than a much smaller, leaner die.
While Nvidia didn’t share configuration information about the test system, the stated results were generated on the Arras multiplayer map. The $399 RTX 2060 Super is more in line with the previous RTX 2070 spec-wise, instead of the plain 2060. It now has 8GB of RAM, 256 more CUDA cores and a healthy base clock speed bump up to 1,470MHz instead of 1,365MHz. NVIDIA says the 2060 Super is around 15% faster than the 2060, and it almost keeps up with the original 2070. That’s a compelling amount of performance for that price, especially if you don’t mind overclocking to eke out a bit more speed. You’ll find three DisplayPort connections, an HDMI port and USB-C “VirtualLink” on both cards.
But I can’t help think that if AMD had decided to release the RX 590 after the gtx 1090, it probably would have been dismissed within 3.87 seconds of its untimely arrival. GeForce RTX® 2060 features a dedicated hardware encoder that unlocks the ability to game and stream simultaneously with superior quality. RTX graphics cards are optimized for your favorite streaming apps to provide maximum performance for your live stream. This CPU will result in reduced performance in some titles, if you go for a 2070 or a 2070 super. I have this configuration myself – i7 6700k , rtx 2070 super, 1440p 144hz monitor.
A patch and driver or two later did improve overall performance, however, with graphics cards sitting in an 800 USD/ EUR and 1250 USD/ EUR range while not coming down things became difficult. The primary perf issues with Battlefield V had been solved mostly shortly after release and a card with a 500~550 EUR/USD price tag feels better while still being very expensive. The past few months RTX became a tough sell and NVIDIAs popularity declined in a negative spiral.