Nvidia Geforce Rtx 2060 Review
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.
Well, a lot of that’s down to the RTX 2060’s nippier memory, which lets it chew through data at a much higher rate – 336GB/s worth, to be precise, compared to just 256GB/s on the GTX 1070 and its Ti counterpart. And as we’ll see in just a second, this gives it better overall performance despite the fact it only has 6GB of the stuff as opposed to the 8GB of GDDR5 memory you’ll find on the GTX 1070 and GTX 1070Ti. Both cards also get slightly better ray-tracing performance, though we’re still unsure how NVIDIA measures that. The 2060 Super offers 6 Giga Rays — NVIDIA’s term for counting ray-tracing speeds — instead of five. In real-world usage, those numbers mean they’ll both be able to handle things like realistic reflections, shadows and lighting — the key features of NVIDIA’s RTX real-time ray-tracing tech — without hurting your framerate as much.
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.
£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 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.
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 gigabyte gtx 1060 3gb 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.
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.
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 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.