The Card

Palit's cooler comes with a bulky design that is dominated by its shiny black surface. Two fans ensure the card stays cool, and there is no backplate.


Installation requires two slots in your system.


Display connectivity options include one HDMI 2.0, one DisplayPort 1.4 port and one DVI port. Compared to the Founders Edition, the USB-C connector and the second DisplayPort 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, 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.

Disassembly

Palit's cooler uses four heatpipes paired with a copper baseplate to soak up heat from the GPU. The heatsink assembly also provides cooling for the memory chips and VRM circuitry.

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