NVIDIA today announced the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060. According to the press release, the RTX 2060 GPU aims to deliver exceptional performance on modern games, with graphics enhanced by ray tracing and AI capabilities.
The RTX 2060 is said to be 60 percent faster on current titles than the prior-generation GTX 1060, NVIDIA’s most popular GPU, and beats the gameplay of the GeForce GTX 1070Ti.
Across 23 benchmarks and games at 2560×1440 resolution, the RTX 2060 on average is 60 percent faster than the original GTX 1060. Tests included but are not limited to: Ashes of the Singularity, Battlefield V, Deus Ex: Mankind, The Division, Doom, Fallout 4, Far Cry 5, Ghost Recon: Wildlands, Hitman 2, Hitman Pro, Middle-Earth: Shadow of War, PUBG, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Sniper Elite 4, Strange Brigade, VRMark, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Wolfenstein II and Unigine Superposition.
Furthermore, with Turing’s RT Cores and Tensor Cores, it can run Battlefield V with ray tracing at 60 frames per second (with DLSS enabled).
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang said:
“Next-gen gaming starts today for tens of millions of gamers everywhere. Desktop gamers are demanding, and the RTX 2060 sets a new standard — an unbeatable price, extraordinary performance and real-time ray tracing that blurs the distinction between movies and games. This is a great moment for gamers and our industry.”
The RTX 2060 features a major upgrade of the core streaming multiprocessor to more efficiently handle the compute-heavy workloads of modern games. It supports concurrent execution of floating point and integer operations, adaptive shading technology and a new unified memory architecture with twice the cache of its predecessor. Modern games can utilize these features to achieve up to 2x the performance of the GTX 1060 GPU.
The RTX 2060 comes equipped with 6GB of GDDR6 memory and 240 Tensor Cores that can deliver 52 teraflops of deep learning horsepower, which can improve gaming performance through a feature known as Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS).
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX2060 will be available on January 15th and will be priced at 349 USD.
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Mid range videocard, more powerfull than 1070 ti…350
Come on nvidia admit it, you dont want to make a x60 you rather make a x70 ti and call it a x60..for the moneys.
This is not even a competitor to 1060 series…
launch prices
1060 3G 199
1060 6G 249
1070 8G 379 (two and a half years ago…)
Is this so great at 349, after all this time…? With 6gigs of vram?
Current pricing for RTX 20 series is still way higher than where it should be, true.
However still: 2060 is faster than a 1070 and about on par or slightly faster than a 1070 Ti. And with DLSS, it was the potential to be on par or faster than a 1080. So there’s that.
Yeah, the new card is fast, but I feel like this is not at all what people were waiting for as a replacement for 1060 series. Also- in this price bracket, in 2019- it should be equipped with 8 gigs, not 6. Then it would have been a good all around card, that justifies its price. Still probably wouldn’t have been an option for 1060 owners, as- if they’d want a 350$ card, they’d have bought a 1070 long ago. And now they’d look up to 2070 series.
As it is today, this card sits with one leg in lower-mid range (vram, a RX580 8GB was 230$ 1.5years ago, amd pushes 8GB on pretty much everything nowadays) and the other leg in lower-high range (1070/ti performance) while being at precisely lower-high range price.
I figured the 2060 6GB would be considerably faster than the 1060 6GB considering it has 50% more CUDA cores. Also the 2060 has faster VRAM. Whether all of that is worth $50 more than the 1060 6GB released for is up to the individual.
Tbh Nvidia fans should cross fingers and pray that AMD can bring out good cards, so the price would need to go down.
I am one of those as well. It’s not that I need 2060 badly. it’s just I want to switch to 1440p.
How about the other 2060 models, the ones that are sporting 5GB GDDR5 or 3GB of GDDR5?!
From what I’ve heard the 2060 will have 6 variants. A 3GB, 4GB and 6GB model each with either GDDR5 or GDDR6 but there may also be a difference in the number of cores among the models kind of like with the 1060 6GB having 10% more cores than the 1060 3GB. Until we know the final specs it’s hard to guess what exactly the difference in performance will be or what the prices will be.
That’s what I was implying… we shouldn’t take PR b***it as truth. The article’s writer seems oblivious that there will be many 2060 models on the market, with significant performance variance (and price). This must be pointed out, because the uninformed buyer might end up with a sub-par card.
Next-gen gaming starts today for tens of millions of gamers everywhere.”
looks in 349$
Not for everyone.
Imagine 2080 being 60% faster than 1080 and 2080ti 60% faster than 1080ti.
Even THAT wouldn’t justify ACTUAL price tags of these products.
Crossing fingers for AMD to give a big blow with their 7nm and Intel to fk all this up with a surprise dGpu powerful enough to get enough consumers.
Nvidia needs to get off their high horses. It’s funny they’re doing the freesync compatibility (been compatible but locked behind drivers from the get go) now right after the RTX fail.
Damage control much ?
They probably could have hit that 60% increase in performance with the 2080 and 2080 Ti if they hadn’t added the RT and Tensor cores and just upped the CUDA cores some more.
As far as pricing goes I agree. All of the RTX line is overpriced imo. Especially the 2080 Ti. I would expect an increase in price over the 1080 Ti just because it’s getting more expensive to manufacture GPUs on smaller and smaller nodes and the 2080 Ti GPU is a considerably larger chip at 754 mm² over the 1080 Ti which was 471 mm².
Also the increased cost of the GDDR6 VRAM. TPU had an article a while back that said that it increased the cost to manufacture a 2080 Ti card by $22 just for the faster VRAM.
New tech is almost always expensive and early adopters pay the price for the rest of us.
Having said all of that I still think Nvidia has priced the RTX cards beyond reason though.
But but but rAyTraCiNG!!11!!!1
So this is how the mid range dies: with thunderous applause from the tech press.
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https://videocardz.com/79627/nvidia-geforce-rtx-2060-review-roundup