Geforce Rtx 2060 Graphics Card
Among these contenders, it’s important to note that besides being the cheapest, the 2060 also has the least memory. It ships with 6GB of GDDR6 memory, while the 2080 ships with 8GB and the 2080Ti ships with 11GB. The 1080, being the oldest, ships with 8GB of slower GDDR5X memory, while AMD opted for 8GB of HBM2 memory, which tends to be faster than both GDDR5X and GDDR6. But that’s just what the RTX 2060 can do in terms of raw performance. Add in all of other clever RTX gubbins, such as their really very nifty DLSS support , and some of those aforementioned toughies become really quite tamable. Take Final Fantasy XV, which stuttered along at 34-39fps on Average at 4K with all of Nvidia’s extra effects turned off, but whizzed up to a much smoother 43-45fps when I turned on DLSS in its anti-aliasing menu.
£329 / £349 compared to $430 / $480 is an appreciable saving in my book, which is why it’s my recommended card for 1440p gaming, period. The rest, DLSS and ray-tracing games alike, are all still MIA and really need to hurry the hell up. Where the gigabyte gtx 1060 3gb really comes into its own is gaming at 2560×1440. Here, the RTX 2060 trounces its cheaper competition and roundly smashes its more expensive rivals, producing near flawless 60fps frame rates on maximum or so-very-near-Ultra-it-might-as-well-be settings pretty much across the board. At $499, the RTX 2070 Super is a better bet for enthusiasts.
And it’s a downright bargain when you note that Nvidia claims that the 2060’s true competitor isn’t the 1060, but the 1070 and 1070 Ti. Those had an MSRP of $380 and $450 respectively—though it can be difficult to find them at those prices. Disable VXAO and you’ll be back up at a full 60fps+ in no time at all.
The second issue is price vs. performance, with the cheapest RTX 2070 fetching £450 but barely any faster than the GTX 1080 from the Pascal generation. The most compelling thing about the RTX 2060, though, isn’t all the Turing stuff that makes it special. It’s the price, which is something the RTX 2080, RTX 2080Ti and even the RTX 2070 didn’t really have on their side when they launched at the end of last year. The tide has turned a bit now, but when those first came out, they were all either more expensive than their nearest GTX counterpart, or only a teensy bit more powerful. The RTX 2060, on the other hand, sits firmly on the right side of the power/price line for me, offering as much, if not more juice than the GTX 1070Ti for a fraction of its cost.
Yet even that kind of snip isn’t enough to fully differentiate the x70 and x60 cards. Nvidia goes further by taking the proverbial hammer to the back-end, too, and strikes a few key performance blows by reducing the memory width from 256 bits to 192 bits, ROPS from 64 to 48, and framebuffer size from 8GB to 6GB. Thankfully for the RTX 2060, the fast GDDR6 memory, operating at 14Gbps, is left intact. Typically offering an excellent mix of gaming performance and keen pricing, it is no surprise to see the last-generation GTX 1060 hold clear domination in the most recent Steam hardware survey. Part of the reason is the lack of gaming content that can truly leverage Turing’s forward-looking technologies, though that is changing slowly but surely.
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.
Then when Battlefield V launched, lots of people where like, that’s it? That is the difference while looking at eye soaring low framerates while they need to put hundreds of dollars and euros on the table to make use of new RT and Tensor technology. The company demoed the new card with an exquisite real-time gtx 1080 8gb demo of Battlefield 5, optimized for using its new RTX ray-tracing technology and running at a resolution of 1440p. The new card will cost $349, which is quite a bargain compared to the existing 20xx cards. NVIDIA’s dual-fan coolers on both GPUs managed heat much better than AMD’s single-fan blower design.
While Nvidia didn’t share configuration information about the test system, the stated results were generated on the Arras multiplayer map. The $399 gigabyte gtx 1060 3gb 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.
GeForce RTX™ graphics cardsare powered by the Turing GPU architecture and the RTX platform. This gives you up to 6X the performance of previous-generation graphics cards and brings the power of real-time ray tracing and AI-powered DLSS 2.0 to games. It uses the third version of the “Frostbite Game Engine” developed by the manufacturer DICE. The engine is available for Windows, PS4, PS5, XBox One or XBox Series X. Many physics-based calculations are carried out directly in the game engine, which results in very realistic calculations. Due to its current features, Battlefield 5 is very suitable as a graphics card benchmark.