EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 KO

[londiste]

TU104 and TU106 are not exactly the same architecturally. TU104 has 8 SM per GPC as opposed to 12 SM in TU106 and TU102. TU116 (GTX1660Ti) on the other hand also gets 8 SM. I wonder if that makes any difference. The architectural part related to GPC is Raster Engine, so possibly a little bit more capable in rasterization?

 

[kings]

It seems that the chip used in the EVGA KO has greater compute capabilities than the first RTX 2060.

 

[InVasMani]

It seems that the chip used in the EVGA KO has greater compute capabilities than the first RTX 2060.

Wonder how any of this ties in with variable rate shading and RTX mesh shading.

 

[Solid State Soul ( SSS )]

Mixed up my bearings (lol), it's actually sleeve bearing:

EVGA advertise all their new cards use hydraulic bearing which as i understand a marketing term for rifle bearing, so would you consider that a con ?

i hear It is optimal to buy cards that has ball bearing cause they are more resilient to high temperatures like the one on heat sinks

 

[bug]

EVGA advertise all their new cards use hydraulic bearing which as i understand a marketing term for rifle bearing, so would you consider that a con ?

i hear It is optimal to buy cards that has ball bearing cause they are more resilient to high temperatures like the one on heat sinks

Rifle bearing is fine, sleeve bearing is what you may want to stay away from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_fan#Bearing_types

 

[Xuper]

Compare to AMD cards , do All nvidia cards have VRM/MEM temp ? I checked all Nvidia cards and they only show GPU temp.If they can be visible with MSI afterburner , Why Doesn't TPU write those Numbers in Review?

 

[londiste]

Compare to AMD cards , do All nvidia cards have VRM/MEM temp ? I checked all Nvidia cards and they only show GPU temp.If they can be visible with MSI afterburner , Why Doesn't TPU write those Numbers in Review?

Nvidia reference cards do not expose VRM temp. Not sure about the memory temp, AFAIK memory temperature is not exposed as standard on reference cards of either Nvidia or AMD (except cards with HBM).

 

[Xuper]

Nvidia reference cards do not expose VRM temp. Not sure about the memory temp, AFAIK memory temperature is not exposed as standard on reference cards of either Nvidia or AMD (except cards with HBM).

well , almost all AMD cards(5700,5600 except 5500 with no VRM temp ) that I checked in TPU review and they do have VRM/MEM temp.I just wanted to check Price of 2070 super and due to various price , i had to check all Nvidia cards (Temp/Noise) and noticed they don't.Hope Nvidia and AIB add this important feature sooner or later.I think this is mandatory feature because this helps consumers.

 

[W1zzard]

Why Doesn't TPU write those Numbers in Review?

As others mentioned, the sensors are not exposed on NVIDIA. Only GPU temperature is available

Hope Nvidia and AIB add this important feature sooner or later.I think this is mandatory feature because this helps consumers.

While I hope so too, I'm having doubts. At the end of the day all the AMD cards I tested are fine, even mem OC is close enough, and the only difference is the number displayed in monitoring software.
So why would NVIDIA bother adding this feature that just causes drama in social media?

 

[londiste]

Hope Nvidia and AIB add this important feature sooner or later.I think this is mandatory feature because this helps consumers.

For midrange cards at 150W-ish power consumption VRMs are fine in their bare form. Anything above that - as long as there is anything on VRM (even if it is a crappy heatsink or sevel mm of thermal pad) it will still be fine. There are minor efficiency boosts to be gained from lower VRM temp but these are very limited. Having VRM temperature being reported is cool and useful for us but not really important in the big picture.

There are examples of contrary but these are either unusually high power cards (I am looking at you, 290 series) or totally borked cooling - and by that I mean something like tape left on thermal pad.

 

[Xuper]

For midrange cards at 150W-ish power consumption VRMs are fine in their bare form. Anything above that - as long as there is anything on VRM (even if it is a crappy heatsink or sevel mm of thermal pad) it will still be fine. There are minor efficiency boosts to be gained from lower VRM temp but these are very limited. Having VRM temperature being reported is cool and useful for us but not really important in the big picture.

There are examples of contrary but these are either unusually high power cards (I am looking at you, 290 series) or totally borked cooling - and by that I mean something like tape left on thermal pad.

for Low/Medium Tier cards , yeah It might be true.but Asus Strix 5700XT will have word with you.GPU temp were ok but thanks to Mem sensor , It was reported 106'c ( according to Hardware Box ).That's why Nvidia/AIB should provide this feature.

edit: Oh don't forget about EVGA GTX 1080 ! they screwed up it due to lack of VRM heatsink , People couldn't see VRM temp ( I'm not so sure If this card does have VRM sensor or not)

 

[Parn]

Since x60 is at the market sweet spot, I suppose it isn't unusual to see so many variant of the same card. I believe the same happened with GTX1060 before.

 

[Ruru]

Since x60 is at the market sweet spot, I suppose it isn't unusual to see so many variant of the same card. I believe the same happened with GTX1060 before.

Yeah. 3GB, 5GB for the Chinese, 6GB, 6GB with 9Gbps VRAM and the 6GB GDDR5X versions of 1060 were released.

 

[Scougar]

I went with an RTX 2060 for $230. * Big grin *

Gigabyte 3 fan OC model. I couldnt pass it up. Been superb so far. No way I was gonna be gouged by either company.

 

[bug]

Since x60 is at the market sweet spot, I suppose it isn't unusual to see so many variant of the same card. I believe the same happened with GTX1060 before.

Yes, but before 1060 the midrange was 1-2 cards going back over a decade.
At the same time, I can't imagine a person that bashes Nvidia for having too many variations of the same card would have been happy if Nvidia only released the original 2060 and called it a day.