Introduction

GeForce RTX 2060 Market Segment Analysis Price Shader

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Clock GPU Transistors Memory RX 580 $185 2304 32 1257 MHz 1340 MHz 2000 MHz Ellesmere 5700M 8 GB, GDDR5, 256-bit RX 590 $260 2304 32 1469 MHz 1545 MHz 2000 MHz Polaris 30 5700M 8 GB, GDDR5, 256-bit GTX 1060 3 GB $200 1152 48 1506 MHz 1708 MHz 2002 MHz GP106 4400M 3 GB, GDDR5, 192-bit GTX 1060 $210 1280 48 1506 MHz 1708 MHz 2002 MHz GP106 4400M 6 GB, GDDR5, 192-bit GTX 980 Ti $390 2816 96 1000 MHz 1075 MHz 1750 MHz GM200 8000M 6 GB, GDDR5, 384-bit R9 Fury X $380 4096 64 1050 MHz N/A 500 MHz Fiji 8900M 4 GB, HBM, 4096-bit GTX 1070 $320 1920 64 1506 MHz 1683 MHz 2002 MHz GP104 7200M 8 GB, GDDR5, 256-bit RX Vega 56 $370 3584 64 1156 MHz 1471 MHz 800 MHz Vega 10 12500M 8 GB, HBM2, 2048-bit GTX 1070 Ti $380 2432 64 1607 MHz 1683 MHz 2000 MHz GP104 7200M 8 GB, GDDR5, 256-bit RTX 2060 FE $350 1920 48 1365 MHz 1680 MHz 1750 MHz TU106 10800M 6 GB, GDDR6, 192-bit GTX 1080 $460 2560 64 1607 MHz 1733 MHz 1251 MHz GP104 7200M 8 GB, GDDR5X, 256-bit RX Vega 64 $400 4096 64 1247 MHz 1546 MHz 953 MHz Vega 10 12500M 8 GB, HBM2, 2048-bit GTX 1080 Ti $675 3584 88 1481 MHz 1582 MHz 1376 MHz GP102 12000M 11 GB, GDDR5X, 352-bit RTX 2070 $500 2304 64 1410 MHz 1620 MHz 1750 MHz TU106 10800M 8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit RTX 2070 FE $600 2304 64 1410 MHz 1710 MHz 1750 MHz TU106 10800M 8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit

NVIDIA at its rather brief CES 2019 GeForce Update event announced what is perhaps the least glamorous yet most important graphics card for the company's bottom-line, the GeForce RTX 2060. Priced at a suggested retail price of $349, this is the graphics card most PC gamers are likely to buy this generation owing purely to its price. It succeeds the GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB, but is being launched at a $100 higher price.The RTX 2060 was rumored to come in half a dozen sub-variants based on memory size and type, although in the end, NVIDIA only launched the top-spec varient with 6 GB of GDDR6 memory. Perhaps, NVIDIA is saving the other SKUs up for when its GTX 1060 inventories are sufficiently off the shelves and spring-summer sets in.NVIDIA carved the RTX 2060 out from the same silicon as the RTX 2070, the 12 nm Turing "TU106." This means you very much do get RT cores and Tensor cores, and NVIDIA wants you to enjoy real-time ray-traced gaming with this card, particularly with RTX enabled, and NVIDIA's ambitious new image-quality innovation, DLSS (deep-learning super-sampling).The RTX 2060 is equipped with 1,920 CUDA cores, which is a huge step up from the GTX 1060 6 GB (1,280), spread across 30 out of 36 streaming multiprocessors on the "TU106." You hence get 30 RT cores and 240 tensor cores. NVIDIA narrowed the memory bus width of this chip down to 192-bit and equipped it with 6 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 14 Gbps, resulting in 336 GB/s of memory bandwidth (roughly on par with that of a GTX 980 Ti).NVIDIA in its CES 2019 unveil of this card focused on this card's 1440p performance, which roughly gives us an idea of what the company wants this card to do. It wants to bring about 1440p RTX-on gaming as the new mainstream option, and wants people to step up from 1080p.In this review, we test the de facto reference-design RTX 2060 Founders Edition card by NVIDIA. The card looks and feels similar to the RTX 2070 Founders Edition because it's largely based on the same PCB and cooler.