are you tired of gaming in boring old 4k
well this sucks i could barely even make out the individual pixels
how am i even gonna know it's a video game are you tired of having all that extra
money in your wallet introducing the new rtx 2060 the more
expensive version of the gtx 1160 we accidentally leaked a few weeks ago now
you can play all your compatible games at half the frame rate
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all kidding aside we've been pretty negative about product releases from
NVIDIA lately and while it's good to get our frustrations out every once in a
while it gets pretty boring if everything is crap you know so for this
review i'm going to give the rtx 2060 every
chance i can for it to impress me and i'm gonna try not to think too much
about my problems with the rest of the rtx launches
and that should be pretty easy on paper this
thing actually has a lot going for it compared to the gtx 1060 it's got more
cuda cores and way faster memory uh that
is depending on which version of the card you get more on that later and
that's to say nothing of the inclusion of the usb type-c based virtual link
connector in fact the rtx 2060 looks
more like a beefed up gtx 1070
which is great because it's priced that way too okay all right sorry i'm letting
a little bit of salt seep in here but at 3 49 NVIDIA's newest real-time ray
tracing accelerator is a cool hondo more
than its direct predecessor 60 tier card
anywho like the gtx 1070 we are down to
one 8-pin pci express power connector and while our founders edition is still
rocking the new rtx style dual fan cooler design we're treated to a smaller
lighter card overall that on the surface looks a lot friendlier to small form
factors than his bigger brothers in practice though this shorter pcb
design ends up being less helpful than you'd think thanks to the rear position
of the pci express power connector bummer
partner boards don't have to end up that way though so all that really matters
about our founders edition is how it performs
since launching two uproarious applause rtx ray tracing and deep learning super
sampling anti-aliasing have been hot new features announced for dozens of games
so we should have plenty to look at now that it's been on the market for several
months
rats that was more salt there wasn't it but it's okay it's okay at least we have
something to look at now the shadow of the tomb raider team's only birthday
present to me ended up being empty promises but battlefield 5 and final
fantasy xv respectively had support for these features though a new card
supporting them doesn't tell us much that we didn't already know our FPS is
roughly halved for the privilege of turning rtx on which in this case
unfortunately takes a GPU that is capable of playable frame rates at 4k
medium settings and drops us to 1080p is
the difference between 1080p and 4k that noticeable
maybe not so much like we're really in the heat of battle but as we discussed
in our recent video on resolution versus frame rate the inability to run at
greater than 60 FPS is going to put you at a competitive disadvantage in
competitive games and that difference in resolution is noticeable in sightseeing
titles as for dlss it performs pretty
well but it's locked at 4k
which means that this card translates to a passable score in the final fantasy 15
benchmark it's not a great benchmark but it does show us a pretty representative
performance difference between taa and dlss
now whether or not you like the lss anyway and the shimmering that it
retains on thin edges versus taa that's another story on to more
traditional gaming scenarios the rtx 2060 runs significantly faster than the
gtx 1070 a pretty solid place to be
considering its similar specs and launch price directx 12 in particular
exemplifies the improvements to asynchronous compute that turing brings
to the table and as a result we've got a decent uplift pretty much across the
board and the rtx 2060s prospects improve even
further in our productivity suite where it beats out the gtx 1070 by a
significant margin in luxmark and for that matter actually most workstation
tasks budget workstation use actually might be
this card's calling especially when you look at its performance across all but
one test in specuperf now while we didn't run any deep
learning tests today armchair ai researchers should directly benefit from
the tensor course and the fact that the GeForce rtx 2060 is the cheapest card
that has them it should come as no surprise though but with all this tech
packed into it power consumption is up along with thermal output showing us
exactly why the card still rocks the
dense fin arrangement and dual fan cooler design it's not terrible though
because the thing about power and thermals is that you always have to look
at it relatively and AMD's closest
performance competitor vega isn't even in the same ballpark
helping matters further partner cards will probably have some interesting
board layouts and cooling solutions that should make this a very versatile little
GPU with all of that in mind
who exactly is the rtx 2064 well at risk
of sounding negative for the life of me i can't think of a reason to use its
premiere feature you know the one that's printed several times on the card
i mean even at medium settings it still
halves your frame rate which is unacceptable for a competitive shooter
like battlefield 5 especially if you use a high refresh rate monitor
and yes dlss is faster than taa but that
assumes that a 6 gig card can run future
supported games in 4k well enough to even use the feature
as for traditional rendering well it's faster than a gtx 1070 at a similar
launch price but then you're paying a hundred dollar
premium on a 60 series card compared to
the previous 60 series anyway just for the privilege of that rtx badge that
you're not using so the real conclusion here seems to be the one that we haven't
been given the information to draw and that's that you should buy the rumored
upcoming rtx list gtx 1160 that was
leaked with otherwise identical specs
now workstation performance seems really promising at first but the 1160 should
come with the same benefits there as well unless you're into deep learning
which leaves us today then with a card that occupies a tidy little
decent gaming and also light workstation use niche until NVIDIA undermines its
own product with a lower priced alternative so
buy it quickly then to ensure that it's not irrelevant by the time it arrives oh
but buy the right version because rumor has it there's three different memory
configurations across three different capacities so
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