Monday, December 10th 2018
First Renders of GIGABYTE RTX 2060 Graphics Card Surface
According to Videocardz, they've worked through their industry sources in confirming the headline we're bringing to you - there really is an RTX 2060 chip incoming from NVIDIA. Pictured is GIGABYTE's take on a factory-overclocked graphics card based on that silicon, with a dual-fan cooling system, an 8-pin power connector (which Videocardz says should stay at a 6-pin count on the reference design). According to the report, the new RTX 2060 will see the core count reduced to 30 CUs - which amounts to some 1920 CUDA cores, down from the 36 CUs and 2304 CUDA cores in the RTX 2070.
NVIDIA's new Turing architecture's launch and performance reviews of RTX-enabled games showed considerable difficulties in enabling the raytracing tech in slower hardware than NVIDIA's RTX 2070 - and the RTX 2060 will likely see the new stars of the show, the RT cores, cut down in number form the RTX 2070. I imagine there could be a scenario where NVIDIA kept the same number of raytracing resources as in the RTX 2070, keeping that as the baseline for this generation's raytracing performance, but that's daydreaming. New patches (such as the one for Battlefield V), however, have increased performance of raytracing on existing graphics cards, so maybe the RTX 2060 will be able to offer good experiences on the lowest RT settings?
Source:
Videocardz
NVIDIA's new Turing architecture's launch and performance reviews of RTX-enabled games showed considerable difficulties in enabling the raytracing tech in slower hardware than NVIDIA's RTX 2070 - and the RTX 2060 will likely see the new stars of the show, the RT cores, cut down in number form the RTX 2070. I imagine there could be a scenario where NVIDIA kept the same number of raytracing resources as in the RTX 2070, keeping that as the baseline for this generation's raytracing performance, but that's daydreaming. New patches (such as the one for Battlefield V), however, have increased performance of raytracing on existing graphics cards, so maybe the RTX 2060 will be able to offer good experiences on the lowest RT settings?
30 Comments on First Renders of GIGABYTE RTX 2060 Graphics Card Surface
..., oh, sorry, you also get 4fps of RTX in Battlefield. :D :D :D
apparently the rtx 2060 is going to be slower than the gtx 1070
and I am sure it will probably cost more
I have seen the gtx 1070 going for under 320 usd
and gtx 1070Ti 370 usd
I bet the rtx 2060 will be around 400 usd and gives very low fps with RT on
Besides, the 10 series have heat issues, well.. compared to 20 series.I'm happy to pay a little extra for a card that's not 3 years old, produces less heat and is somewhat futureproof on the secondhand market.
I don't really care about RT, all I want is something that's not 3 years old, I don't want to help a company clear it's dusty old excess inventory.
The upgrade over the Pascal cards are far from as noticeable as from Maxwell to Pascal.
If Nvidia kept the same performance gain we would have a RTX 2080 that is 30% faster than the Gtx 1080ti, in reality its less than 10%
and RTX 2070 should be on par with gtx 1080Ti, in reality its closer to the gtx 1080 or some 20% slower than the gtx 1080Ti
and RTX 2060 should be faster than the GTX 1070, according to some review sites its going to be slower... while the GTX 1060 6gb is faster than the gtx 970 and very close to the gtx 980
also define future proof. How many RT games do you think will be released in the next year? and how many RT games are out now, over 3 months after the rtx cards have been released?
By futureproof I mean a very simple thing: I'll get more for a 4 year old card than for a 7 year old card when i'm ready to upgrade in 2023, as simple as this.
The 2060 still has some advantages to the 1060.
which are really cheap now and most likely cheaper AND faster than the rtx 2060
maybe its time to move to another country? ;-)
also,
$60-70 more for 2060 with 30% better performance than 1060 sounds good to me.
I don't really understand the 2060 hate, and the hate directed towards me. I just want to finally upgrade to the 60's line, and i want to buy a fresh card that will feel nice for a few years.
the comment about heat issues on the 10 series cards is also totally wrong..
trog