Geforce Rtx 2060 Review
If you’re after a new graphics card for nigh-on perfect 1440p gaming at 60fps, this is your next upgrade. I’m not just parroting marketing fluff at you, either, as I myself rather reluctantly bought a GTX 1070 for £320 back in 2016, just when prices were starting to creep up before they went completely insane. It was a decent price at the time I wanted to buy one, as I really wanted something that could play The Witcher III at 1440p on pretty much max settings. The GTX 1060 wasn’t good enough for that, and the GTX 1080 was way out of my price range. Even once I’d got the GTX 1070 home, though, I still wasn’t completely happy with it. If I’d had the option to buy something like the instead for the same kind of money, though?
NvidiaTo show off the promise of the cutting-edge ray tracing technology, if you buy a GeForce RTX 2060, Nvidia will toss in a free copy of Battlefield V, or Bioware’s upcoming Anthem. Thus the attractive FE card, which appears the same as the RTX 2070, further cementing their similarity, is set to cost $349 (£329) and be released with a core boost speed of 1,680MHz and that fast GDDR6 humming along at 14Gbps. The one glaring issue is also intended to be the selling point of the 2060. It, unlike its direct competitors or anything from the 10-series, is capable of ray tracing, which produces more realistic shadows and reflections in graphics by tracing light from the source to the end point. It’s cool technology, and Nvidia has repeatedly said that a wide variety of games will support it. At CES a reporter had a question for Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
It can even push into the realms of 4K without throwing a hissy-fit. In truth, this is what today’s GTX 1070 owners should be looking to for their next upgrade, because this, dear readers, is one seriously powerful graphics card that goes way beyond what we’d normally call ‘mid-range’. The card will offer 52 teraflops of Tensor Core processing power, can handle 5 gigarays per second and features a 6GB frame buffer. Traditionally, the xx60 series has always been the low-end version of the GeForce series, though they are no slouch either. The 2060, Nvidia promises, will offer somewhere between 1.4 and 2x performance benefit over its 1060 counterpart. The Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Founders Edition delivers superb 1440p and 1080p gaming as well as real-time ray tracing in an affordable package.
Borderlands 3 is the only game I play regularly where my CPU has been holding me back, but I’m sure the list will grow as more games optimise for 6, 8+ cores. 3DMark is a benchmark that mainly measures the graphics card. As in almost every graphics card gtx 1090 benchmark, however, the system’s processor has an effect on the result. We therefore use a fast processor in order not to limit the graphics card during the test. The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision in TFLOPS.
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.
During benchmarks and gameplay, they maxed out at 82 Celsius. The Radeon cards, meanwhile, consistently warmed up to 90C under load. While AMD will likely get some help from third-party designs, those numbers aren’t great if gigabyte gtx 1060 3gb you’re concerned with long-term stability and overclocking. But looking ahead, some developers are banking heavily on everything ray tracing offers — Remedy has been showing off the tech’s potential for years with Control.
The problem is that most games don’t support ray tracing yet. While Battlefield V is a very pretty game, the ray tracing is only a tiny aspect of that beauty, and certainly not enough to warrant upgrading. So for now, if you have a 1070 or 1070 Ti or better, or an AMD Vega 56 or better, then you shouldn’t upgrade. But if you’ve been sitting on an older GPU waiting for something to suck less and give you good performance in 1440p or lower resolutions, then the 2060, for $350, is a pretty dang good deal.