Sunday, December 30th 2018
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Founders Edition Pictured, Tested
Here are some of the first pictures of NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce RTX 2060 Founders Edition graphics card. You'll know from our older report that there could be as many as six variants of the RTX 2060 based on memory size and type. The Founders Edition is based on the top-spec one with 6 GB of GDDR6 memory. The card looks similar in design to the RTX 2070 Founders Edition, which is probably because NVIDIA is reusing the reference-design PCB and cooling solution, minus two of the eight memory chips. The card continues to pull power from a single 8-pin PCIe power connector.
According to VideoCardz, NVIDIA could launch the RTX 2060 on the 15th of January, 2019. It could get an earlier unveiling by CEO Jen-Hsun Huang at NVIDIA's CES 2019 event, slated for January 7th. The top-spec RTX 2060 trim is based on the TU106-300 ASIC, configured with 1,920 CUDA cores, 120 TMUs, 48 ROPs, 240 tensor cores, and 30 RT cores. With an estimated FP32 compute performance of 6.5 TFLOP/s, the card is expected to perform on par with the GTX 1070 Ti from the previous generation in workloads that lack DXR. VideoCardz also posted performance numbers obtained from NVIDIA's Reviewer's Guide, that point to the same possibility.
In its Reviewer's Guide document, NVIDIA tested the RTX 2060 Founders Edition on a machine powered by a Core i9-7900X processor and 16 GB of memory. The card was tested at 1920 x 1080 and 2560 x 1440, its target consumer segment. Performance numbers obtained at both resolutions point to the card performing within ±5% of the GTX 1070 Ti (and possibly the RX Vega 56 from the AMD camp). The guide also mentions an SEP pricing of the RTX 2060 6 GB at USD $349.99.
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VideoCardz
According to VideoCardz, NVIDIA could launch the RTX 2060 on the 15th of January, 2019. It could get an earlier unveiling by CEO Jen-Hsun Huang at NVIDIA's CES 2019 event, slated for January 7th. The top-spec RTX 2060 trim is based on the TU106-300 ASIC, configured with 1,920 CUDA cores, 120 TMUs, 48 ROPs, 240 tensor cores, and 30 RT cores. With an estimated FP32 compute performance of 6.5 TFLOP/s, the card is expected to perform on par with the GTX 1070 Ti from the previous generation in workloads that lack DXR. VideoCardz also posted performance numbers obtained from NVIDIA's Reviewer's Guide, that point to the same possibility.
234 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Founders Edition Pictured, Tested
Vulkan really doesnt seem to have taken hold since its release. Not sure how it can gain traction. Time isnt on its side.
I.E. both oldish AAA games Witcher 3 and GTAV works very well with DXVK.
*I like where this topic is going now, by the way.Its not surprising for a new gen to sell out in the early days. You saw my userbenchmark adoption rate graph, it peaks, then it plateaus. Its the same with every new product release and doesn't tell us much, because the product is still scarce. There have been multiple press releases about delays and limited stock.
My point was to share things that didnt exactly take hold or make as big of waves as they could have in the market. Details arent really relevant here. ;)
Details....not relevant here. But appreciate the extra info for any who may not know.
....hey look a balloon!!!....drifts away from the subject.......... :p
gpu.userbenchmark.com/
1. 9xx series to 10xx series adaptation over the same length of time upon 10 series launch to form a base/context. What if 10 series was similar? We dont know..
2. This same chart in a year after it's been in the market.
But I think the most telling of it all is User Ratings. The people who reported here also rated their GPU. Not a single RTX GPU gets past 71% rating, most Pascals are much higher.
The proof in the pudding is adaptation from the the previous gen. Considering the blown out of bm proportion issues, I bet it flattens a bit... but well see it go back up as time goes on.
It's good information...but lacks a proper context to be worth much. :)
Useless statistics are, well useless.
Statistics are always a slice of reality, and these numbers are pretty solid for statistical purposes:
I politely asked for what kind of market shares these represent? People on that webpage? Statistics from certain stores?
It should be clear that this does not match the real market, as you can see in the Steam Hardware Survey, the GTX 1060 market share is over 11 times greater than RX 580 and RX 480 combined!
Again, no context... so it's hard to say there is a difference in adaptation without knowing past info or having more data moving forward.
Premature conclusion drawn.... but I agree the writing is on the wall.
This card is about 33% faster than a GTX 1060 6GB, which is an above average generational jump. It's supposed to be selling for $350 (which is a lot), but the GTX 1060 6 GB FE was already $300, almost two years ago. Non-FE could be had for $50 less.
The rumored variant without DXR should be an exact replacement for the GTX 1060, as far as price is concerned.
Its 3 months worth of data on 2xxx series... hard to call it anything with such a small dataset, none the less a trend.
Edit: it also isnt proven by these graphs adaptation is slow as we do not have the data to compare last gen over this gen. While that theory is believable, extrapolation of this data to form that conclusion is patently premature from the data we have. Again, I can believe it, but, we dont know as the graphs domt show the info needed to make a conclusion based on facts.