The Card

EVGA's card looks very similar visually to the company's RTX 2070 cards. A backplate is not available.


Installation requires two slots in your system.


Display connectivity options include two DisplayPort 1.4, one DVI port, and one HDMI 2.0 port. Note how the USB-C connector that's been available on all other GeForce RTX 20 Series cards so far has been removed, probably to reduce cost.

NVIDIA has updated their display engine with the Turing microarchitecture, which now supports DisplayPort 1.4a with support for VESA's nearly lossless Display Stream Compression (DSC). Combined, this enables support for 8K@30Hz with a single cable, or 8K@60Hz when DSC is turned on. For context, DisplayPort 1.4a is the latest version of the standard that was published in April, 2018.

At CES 2019, NVIDIA announced that all their graphics cards will now support VESA Adaptive Sync (aka FreeSync). While only a small number of FreeSync monitors have been fully qualified with G-SYNC, users can enable the feature in NVIDIA's control panel, no matter whether the monitor is certified or not.


The board uses a single 8-pin power connector. This input configuration is specified for up to 225 watts of power draw.


The GeForce RTX 2060 does not support SLI.


We shine the light from a self-leveling line laser on to the card, which shows no sagging.

Disassembly

EVGA's cooler uses three heatpipes with a dense aluminium heatsink that dissipates the heat in the airflow of the fans.


Once the main heatsink is removed, a black piece of plastic comes off, which serves to extend the length of the card so that the larger cooler can fit. The actual PCB is a bit shorter.


The metal baseplate provides cooling for the memory chips and VRM circuitry.

On the next page, we dive deep into the PCB layout and VRM configuration.