Finally after an inevitable delay, it'southward time for our hands-on GeForce RTX 2060 coverage. The first reviews based on Nvidia's Founders Edition card went out on Jan 7th, the same twenty-four hours Nvidia officially introduced the card, but sadly we weren't included. So cards started to appear on shop shelves on the 15th, selling effectually the $350 MSRP. Past then we had received our review samples but since nosotros were technically already tardily, rather than rush in nosotros decided to take our time and prove an extremely in-depth criterion comparison.

Today nosotros accept a 36 game benchmark with over a dozen dissimilar GPUs. You will likewise notice included a number of big performance breakdowns at the end of the article, forth with the usual cost per frame stuff. By the time we're done you'll know exactly where the RTX 2060 stands, and what it has to offer gamers.

For testing nosotros take the Gigabyte RTX 2060 Gaming OC Pro and the MSI RTX 2060 Gaming Z. Both are groovy looking boards, but since the Gigabyte card arrived start that's what we used for all the testing. Later on we'll look into providing better detail about thermals and other elements that are reserved for individual graphics bill of fare reviews as those will vary from ane model to the next.

As for the RTX 2060 GPU... information technology's an interesting proffer. Whereas the RTX 2070 comes in at $500, the RTX 2060 is 30% cheaper at $350 yet packs simply 17% fewer CUDA cores. It uses the aforementioned 14Gbps GDDR6 memory but the memory bus has been cut down by 25%, meaning retentiveness bandwidth has been reduced by that amount. RT cores accept also been lowered from 36 to 30.

Still the RTX 2060 shouldn't be a corking deal slower than the RTX 2070, and then in terms of value it's likely a meliorate product. It'south also priced to compete with AMD'south Vega 56, so information technology'll exist interesting to see how those two compare.

Getting on with the benchmark results, out of the 36 games tested we'll talk over individually the most noteworthy ones and and so jump into our breakup assay with all the data. Our GPU test organization consisted of a Core i9-9900K clocked at v GHz with 32GB of DDR4-3200 memory. We used AMD'southward Adrenalin 2022 Edition 19.one.one drivers for the Radeon GPUs and Game Ready 417.35 WHQL for the GeForce GPUs.

Benchmarks

To kickstart things off we have Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Here the RTX 2060 was good for 63 fps on average using the highest in-game quality preset. This placed it on par with the GTX 1080 and Vega 64, making it just 5% slower than the RTX 2070. Information technology was too 9% faster than the GTX 1070 Ti, though simply three% faster than Vega 56.

Moving on to Strange Brigade, the RTX 2060 was adept for 86 fps on average or 15% slower than the RTX 2070 this fourth dimension. It was also 7% slower than Vega 56, though that's not surprising considering how well this championship runs on AMD hardware. Still the RTX 2060 edged out the GTX 1070 Ti, so overall functioning was very respectable.

The RTX 2060 performs very well in Battlefield V, trailing the RTX 2070 by a mere 4% margin. It was able to beat the GTX 1070 Ti and Vega 56, so far the RTX 2060 is making the RTX 2070 expect rather pointless.

The RTX 2070 does pull away when testing with Sniper Elite 4, hither the RTX 2060 was 15% slower but that's not a massive margin given it costs xxx% less. Also we see that the 2060 is able to sit down on superlative of the GTX 1070 Ti and Vega 56.

Monster Hunter World plays quite well with the RTX 2060 at 1440p. Using the highest quality preset we saw an average of 54 fps and this meant the 2060 was barely any slower than Vega 64 and the GTX 1080. It was also iv to 5 fps faster than the GTX 1070 Ti and Vega 56 on average. Moreover, information technology was just 11% slower than the RTX 2070.

The new Turing GPUs don't stack up that well in Warframe when compared to their Pascal predecessors. The RTX 2070, for example, is 8% slower than the GTX 1080, meanwhile the RTX 2060 is vi% slower than the GTX 1070 Ti and just ii% slower than Vega 56.

Moving on we have Just Cause 4. Here the RTX 2060 averaged 59 fps making it simply a few frames slower than the GTX 1080 and Vega 64. It was also eleven% slower than the RTX 2070 and Vega 64 Liquid. Frame time performance was similar from the GTX 1070 right upwardly to the GTX 1080.