Nvidia RTX 2060 review: GTX 1070 Ti gaming at a fraction of the price

Despite Nvidia throwing analysts and journos off the scent with its “too much mainstream inventory” schtick a few months back, it has now official announced the 20-series mainstream equivalent: the RTX 2060. While lacking the GTX 1060’s budget-conscious price tag, this card joins the RTX 20-series pack as the most budget-friendly SKU going. And retains enough specialised silicon to grant entry into ray-traced heaven. Or thereabouts. With about five Giga Rays per second of RT Core performance residing in the Turing GPU at its core, the RTX 2060 scrapes the absolute minimum rated spec for real-time ray tracing. But with just one game in the DXR arsenal, Nvidia can’t rest on newfangled features alone to sell its latest card. No, if it’s to sway swathes of gamers like its Pascal predecessor, it still needs to have the rasterized gaming chops to appeal to the masses. But that shouldn’t be too much of an issue thanks to the cut-down TU106 GPU torn right out from a poor, unsuspecting RTX 2070. With 50% more CUDA Cores than the GTX 1060, this fifth-tier card (including the Titan RTX) has more than enough firepower to make a name for itself, ostensibly taking the reins from the GTX 1070 in its price/performance bracket.

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