I7 4790k Rtx 2070 Super Bottleneck
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 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.
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 RTX 2060’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.
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.
On Ultra High, the gtx 1090 averaged an impressive 47fps at 1440p when I ran put it through its internal benchmarking tool, and an even silkier 59fps on Very High. Indeed, only the GTX 1070Ti proved an adequate match for the RX 2060 at this resolution, managing an average of 46fps on Ultra High and 54fps on Very High. But wait a minute, I hear you cry, doesn’t the GTX 1070 have 8GB of memory?
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.