Monday, January 7th 2019
NVIDIA Unveils the GeForce RTX 2060 Graphics Card
NVIDIA today at its CES 2019 event launched the GeForce RTX 2060 graphics card. The card is being purported as being capable of playing "Battlefield V" at 1440p resolution with RTX on. Priced at USD $349, the top-spec variant of the RTX 2060 is capable of 5 gigarays/second, or roughly half the performance of the RTX 2080 Ti, but double the performance of its "Maxwell" based predecessor, with roughly the same performance as the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti from the previous generation, with RTX added to the mix. The RTX 2060 is slated to come out on January 15, in a number of variants, and custom-designs from NVIDIA partners.
Update: We have posted our review of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Founders Edition.
Update: We have posted our review of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Founders Edition.
55 Comments on NVIDIA Unveils the GeForce RTX 2060 Graphics Card
This card offers performance close to Vega 64, at a lower price.
a normal human beingvendor agnostic, and still complain about something being expensive. And we all complain about AMD's stupid decisions on the GPU front.The cost of the RTX line is high, of course it is, but it's still expensive and offering too little now. We don't have a portfolio of games using RTRT, just some benchmarks and a loot-fest FPS, DLSS seems cheaper than FXAA, and it only works on an abandoned port... We don't have a justification for the high cost, just promises. It sounds just like the "Rapid Packed Math" of Vega, smoke and mirrors.
hexus.net/tech/reviews/graphics/125768-nvidia-geforce-rtx-2060-founders-edition/
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Overall, it typically beats the Vega 56 and ties with a GTX1080
Something tells me nvidia, and their AIBs, won't be in a hurry to show off low end SKUs of same name... would expect only a few reviews from daring reviewers who bought it themselves to get some type of exclusive at the risk of angering big green...
6GB is enough for what the card can do. 3GB or possibly 4GB models will be a tougher sell, though. At the end of the day, yes, 6GB seems like the bare minimum at $300-350.
Then there's also this: www.techspot.com/news/78126-nvidia-might-paying-70-more-memory-rtx-cards.html
If there will be GDDR5 models down the road, those should be priced much more attractively.
And 6GB really isn't enough for cards in the $350 price range.
I have yet to play a game on my GTX 1070 that uses anywhere NEAR 8GB of VRAM, in fact the highest I think I've seen it go is slightly over 4GB - and I play everything at 1440p. For 4k I imagine 6GB will be more than sufficient, but even so, the RTX 2060 isn't intended to be a 4k card. NVIDIA made absolutely the right call of 6GB VRAM for a mid-range product.
If NVIDIA releases a GDDR5(X) version of the 2060, it will absolutely destroy anything and everything AMD has to offer in terms of both price and performance.