![]() ![]() On the AMD side of things, we’re testing the $290 XFX Radeon RX 390 Fatboy, $400 Radeon Vega 56, and $500 Radeon Vega 64. Rounding things out for Team Green is EVGA’s customized, overclocked GeForce GTX 1060 SSC, to represent the RTX 2060’s predecessor. We’re comparing the $350 Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Founders Edition against last-generation’s $3, $4 Ti, and $6 Founders Edition models, as well as this generation’s GeForce RTX 2070. Let’s see how this card handles in a bunch of others game. ![]() To 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. While Nvidia didn’t share configuration information about the test system, the stated results were generated on the Arras multiplayer map. 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. In Battlefield V, the only game to support real-time ray tracing thus far, Nvidia says the RTX 2060 can nearly hit 60fps at 1080p resolution with all graphics settings-including ray tracing-set to Ultra, or easily clear 60fps if you set ray traced reflections to Medium instead. 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. Nvidia restricts multi-GPU support to the RTX 20 Ti alone this generation. One thing you won’t find? An SLI connection. Once compatible headsets start coming out, that is. Nvidia 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. (The RTX 2060 is more power-hungry than its predecessor, demanding 160 watts rather than 120W.) Nvidia It’s a shorter card, measuring just nine inches in length, and draws its power via a single eight-pin power connection on the end of the board, rather than the side. Nvidia carried the same aesthetic over to the RTX 2060 FE. It’s an utterly gorgeous enclosed design. A forged aluminum shroud covers those cooling components, curving around the end of the card to transform into a sleek backplate with the graphics card’s name emblazoned across it. They’re sitting atop a card-length heat sink with a heat pipe embedded in the base plate, and a full-length vapor chamber to dissipate heat from the GPU and other components. The GeForce RTX 20-series Founders Edition cards upgrade to dual axial fan design, and those fans-spread farther apart than you see in most graphics cards-come equipped with 13 blades each. Here’s how we described it in our GeForce RTX 2080 Ti review: That’ll make it hard for entry-level models by Nvidia’s board partners (like EVGA and Asus) to stand out, because the Founders Edition is utterly stunning this generation. While the Founders Edition versions of the RTX 2070, 2080, and 2080 Ti all come with a mild overclock and premium pricing, the RTX 2060 Founders Edition sticks to the stock specifications outlined above, and the card’s $350 MSRP. Moving on, the RTX 2060 Founders Edition strays from the path beaten by Nvidia’s other RTX FE options. Maybe in a year or two games will come along that need the full 8GB of memory, but we’re just not seeing that right now, and by the time it does happen we’ll probably be on another generation of GPUs beyond Turing and GDDR6 memory prices will be lower than they are today. Right now the faster memory bandwidth is more important than the larger memory size. And given that today’s games don’t take advantage of the additional memory, it made sense to price the card more aggressively at the cost of a little frame buffer size. We could’ve certainly outfitted the RTX 2060 with 8GB of GDDR6, but hitting $349 wouldn’t have been feasible. But Nvidia’s Brandon Bell told me via email that the company chose the lesser capacity in order to utilize cutting-edge GDDR6 memory, rather than the much slower GDDR5 memory that came on the GTX 1060: Most 1440p-capable graphics cards include 8GB of VRAM. The move to GDDR6 memory greatly improves overall bandwidth for the RTX 2060 versus the GTX 1060, but the 6GB capacity might not be enough to run textures and other memory-intensive graphics options at maximum settings in all games if you’re playing at 1440p resolution. The only potential minor blemish on the spec sheet: memory capacity. Here’s a look at the GeForce RTX 2060’s specs, and how they compare against the GTX 1060. ![]()
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