IMO, Nvidia has painted themselves into a corner here. The RTX cards have no real performance advantage over their similarly priced predecessors, just a superficial step down in naming tier. Efficiency is also identical, though at idle they're worse thanks to the massive die. Then there are these massive dice in question, making them very expensive to produce. And we know RTRT isn't viable even on the 2070, so including it on the 2060 would be a waste of silicon. So, where do they go from here? Launch a 2060 without RT that matches the 1070, costs the same, uses the same power, but has a new name? If so, what justified the price for a 60-tier card? Why not just keep the 1070 in production? Or do they ditch RT but keep the tensor cores for DLSS? That would do something I suppose, but you'd still expect a hefty price drop from losing the RT cores. The thing that makes the most sense logically is to launch a card without RT that matches the 2070 at a cheaper price (losing both RT and normal gaming perf ought to mean double savings, right?), but then nobody would buy the 2070, as RTRT won't be viable for years.
Knowing Nvidia and the realities of Turing, they'll launch an overpriced mid-range card that performs decently but has terrible value.
I'll wait for Navi, thanks.
