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.
Source:
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
However,that is not the point.AMD themselves tried to deflect the fact that Vega series is simply worse than nvidia's offerings by blind tests (that's the dumbest thing a gpu manufacturer has done in the last decade or ever IMO,our card is as good if you don't look at the fps counter :rolleyes: ) or including a freesync monitor in the price,what followed was this fake msrp scam where they tried to sway the public and reviewers that V64 was a $400 card while in reality it cost somwhere between 1080 and 1080Ti.
Those blind tests and fake msrp was the reason I started to percieve RTG in completely different light,and I laugh when I see peole blindly defending it while bashing nvidia for being shady.
In the end, by lowering the need of high-end cards, AMD is saving their asses. That's why those cards aren't relevant in current market, there's few people in need for such power except 4K.
Let's wait for Navi.
Edit :
@lexluthermiester : got your attention, no need for insults
RTX have the same problem (without consumption problems)
It´s important to compete in the high-end, for a matter of market perception. The brand who have the top performance products, is more likely to sell the rest of the range better! This happens in everything, not only in PC hardware!
That's why AMD is stuck on 20%~25% of market share, despite having good cards in the mid-range for a few years now! Competing only in the mid-range is not enough to gain meaningful market share, as recent years have proved us!
My Afterburner overlay stays the same color no matter what color my gpu bleeds.
I get that in your case your stance is reasonable,but some people choose to go by whatever standard fits their narrative. Blind testing - sure,why not. Nvidia Kepler cards lose a couple of frames in a few games after a driver update - shady nvidia clearly gimping performance,AMD is the only choice. Where were they in those circumstances to tell us 1-2 fps in a couple of games across the board is not somehing anyone will percieve.Wait till they fix the drivers in the next update - hell no. Wait for drivers/cards from AMD - no problem apparently.
I'm not arguing the value of freesync,just the stuff they did try to sway us with when Vega launched. Pure performance wise it was a match for a year old GTX 1080,at higher price and way higher power draw.That's the whole reason for doing blind tests and counting freesync into the price. Good points for some,moot points for me. End of story.
They can always upgrade their lineup, that's good, but before AMD will catch up with nvidia, they have nearly a full year ahead. They already outperform AMD by far.
So instead of putting higher and higher prices, they could go same price and a small + in perf. AMD can't compete if they have better perf for same price point.
And going too far doesn't make you sell more. Ferrari can have the fastest car, it won't get all people to get a Ferrari. It's good publicity, sure, but they have that for 10 years now. They have nothing to prove (talking about nvidia here).
The entire point of the chart was to show that prices did not increase with each new generation. No adjusted value required.
the 4gb 128-bit variant will easily match 1070 at 1080p/1440p if the 2060 6gb leak is true. and how is navi gonna be crap ? even if they took polaris at 7nm and ddr6 that'd make a good card.