The Card

Galax is going for a straight-edged, understated look with their card. The dominant color is "black" with some white highlights. On the back, you'll find a high-quality metal backplate. Dimensions of the card are 29.0x12.5 cm.


Installation requires three slots in your system.


Display connectivity options include one HDMI 2.0 and two DisplayPort 1.4 ports. Compared to the Founders Edition, one DisplayPort and one USB-C connector have 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 regardless of whether the monitor is certified or not.


The board uses one 6-pin and one 8-pin power connector. This input configuration is specified for up to 300 watts of power draw.


The GeForce RTX 2060 Super does not support SLI.


These voltage-measurement points are located near the top edge of the card; they are partially covered by the backplate, though.

Disassembly

Galax's cooler uses four heatpipes and provides cooling for the VRM circuitry and memory chips, too.


The backplate is made out of metal and protects the card against damage during installation and handling.

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