NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Launching at $349 US on 15th January – Gaming Performance Numbers Leaked, Will Deliver 60 FPS With RTX & DLSS Enabled at 1080p

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 is launching next month but we have a new leak today which covers its pricing and performance details, straight from Videocardz. Just like we mentioned before, the RTX 2060 will be an entry level Turing Ray Tracing GPU option aimed at the mainstream market and is aiming to become the most popular Turing option amongst gamers since it targets the 1080p HD resolution, which is still the most widely used display resolution by mainstream gaming audiences today.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Pricing and Performance Leaks Out – $349 US For 1080P/60 FPS Ray-Tracing, Faster Than The 1070 TI

A few days back, we got to see the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Founders Edition pictures leak out along with specifications. Today, we are getting the full package with not only the pricing but also the performance numbers being detailed at 1080p and 1440p.  It looks like the GeForce RTX 2060 would cost $349 US, for both Founders Edition and Custom models. But we know the RTX 2060 will be offered in at least two different variants so we can see one of the models going for around $299 US too.

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 – These are the full specifications

Coming to the specifications first, we know that the card will be using the TU106 GPU core. This GPU SKU will be slightly cut down from the full variant on the RTX 2070, featuring 1920 CUDA cores, 240 Tensor Cores, 30 RT cores, 120 TMUs, and 48 ROPs. The card will feature clock speeds in the 1365 MHz (Base) and 1680 MHz (Boost) range while delivering up to 6.5 TFLOPs of Compute performance.

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Since the card has 6 lower RT cores than the RTX 2070, it may end up with around 4-5 Giga Rays per second worth of ray tracing performance. I think NVIDIA will try to make 5 Giga Rays a bare minimum for designating a card as RTX. It will make sense since anything below would not be playable unless dropping the resolution below 1080p which doesn’t make a whole lot of sense in this time and age.

When it comes to memory specifications, the card would feature 6 GB of GDDR6 memory along with a 192-bit bus interface, running at 14 Gbps. This would deliver 336 GB/s of bandwidth for the card which is higher than the GeForce GTX 1080 with 10 Gbps GDDR5X dies.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 Series Graphics Cards Official Specifications

Graphics Card Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
GPU Architecture	Turing GPU (TU106)	Turing GPU (TU106)	Turing GPU (TU104)	Turing GPU (TU102)
Process	12nm NFF	12nm NFF	12nm NFF	12nm NFF
Die Size	445mm2	445mm2	545mm2	754mm2
Transistors	10.6 Billion	10.6 Billion	13.6 Billion	18.6 Billion
CUDA Cores	1920 Cores	2304 Cores	2944 Cores	4352 Cores
TMUs/ROPs	120/48	144/64	192/64	288/96
GigaRays	~5 Giga Rays/s	6 Giga Rays/s	8 Giga Rays/s	10 Giga Rays/s
Cache	4 MB L2 Cache	4 MB L2 Cache	4 MB L2 Cache	6 MB L2 Cache
Base Clock	1365 MHz	1410 MHz	1515 MHz	1350 MHz
Boost Clock	1680 MHz	1620 MHz 1710 MHz OC	1710 MHz 1800 MHz OC	1545 MHz 1635 MHz OC
Compute	6.5 TFLOPs	7.5 TFLOPs	10.1 TFLOPs	13.4 TFLOPs
Memory	Up To 6 GB GDDR6	Up To 8 GB GDDR6	Up To 8 GB GDDR6	Up To 11 GB GDDR6
Memory Speed	14.00 Gbps	14.00 Gbps	14.00 Gbps	14.00 Gbps
Memory Interface	192-bit	256-bit	256-bit	352-bit
Memory Bandwidth	336 GB/s	448 GB/s	448 GB/s	616 GB/s
Power Connectors	8 Pin	8 Pin	8+8 Pin	8+8 Pin
TDP	150W	185W (Founders) 175W (Reference)	225W (Founders) 215W (Reference)	260W (Founders) 250W (Reference)
Starting Price	$349 US	$499 US	$699 US	$999 US
Price (Founders Edition)	$349 US	$599 US	$799 US	$1,199 US
Launch	January 2019	September 2018	September 2018	September 2018

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 – These are the full performance numbers

As for the performance numbers, Videocardz posted both 1080p and 1440p results for the RTX 2060 while comparing it to the GeForce GTX 1060, GTX 1070, GTX 1070 Ti and GTX 1080. At 1080p, the GeForce RTX 2060 had a clear lead over the GTX 1070 in several AAA titles. In 12 out of the 20 titles tested (excluding RTX titles), the RTX 2060 was faster than the GTX 1070 Ti. It was also faster than the GTX 1080 in 3 titles while being neck-on-neck in other titles.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Performance Numbers at 1080p (Image Credits: Videocardz)

When comparing performance at 1440p, the RTX 2060 leads or matches the GTX 1070 Ti in 15 different AAA titles. This is a bigger improvement over 1080p while over the GTX 1080, the RTX 2060 leads in 3 titles and coming really close to the rest. We can see overclocked variants closing the difference between the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 Ti (both cards which are really close to each in terms of performance and feature 8 GB GDDR5X memory compared to 6 GB GDDR6 on the RTX 2060.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Performance Numbers at 1440p (Image Credits: Videocardz)

Over the GTX 1060 and GTX 1070, we can see the RTX 2060 as a clear winner with good gen over gen improvement in performance.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 – This what RTX On and RTX Off Looks Like

There’s also RTX numbers as many were speculating that the RTX 2060 may have underperformed when it comes to the ray tracing feature. That may not be the case and the performance is actually similar to that of the RTX 2070 with RTX enabled. Following are some numbers:

1. Battlefield V: RT Off: 90 FPS
2. Battlefield V: RT On + DLSS Off: 65 FPS
3. Battlefield V: RT On + DLSS On: 88 FPS

Here you can see that NVIDIA is putting more emphasis on the use of DLSS with RTX enabled to gain the same performance numbers as you would with RTX disabled. One more thing to note is that with RTX on Ultra at 1080p, the card scores 58 FPS while with Medium preset, it scores 66 FPS. Similarly, at 1440p, the card has a 10 FPS difference between RTX Ultra and RTX Medium preset.

So When Can I Buy One and For How Much?

As mentioned before, the GeForce RTX 2060 would be available for $349 US and that would be the base price for the custom models. The card will be introduced on 7th of January with an official availability planned for 15th January. The card would get a bundle promotion with the selected AAA titles being either Battlefield V or Anthem, a copy of which users will be able to redeem for free on the purchase of the GeForce RTX 2060. Stay tuned for more information in the coming week.

 

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