This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this folio. Terms of use.

RTX-Feature-Eye

When Nvidia launched the RTX family unit, it purposefully confined itself to the pinnacle three GPUs in the stack: the RTX 2070, 2080, and 2080 Ti. The company focused on refreshing the elevation of its production mix and on pushing new GPUs at college price points into the market rather than launching a top-to-bottom refresh. This was partially caused, co-ordinate to Nvidia, past a massive overcalculation that left hundreds of thousands of GPU inventory unsold past the cease of Q3 2018 (that's Nvidia's FY Q3 2019, for those keeping rail). Nvidia announced that it would ship very few midrange Pascal cards in Q4 to give inventory time to draw down — merely the company is conspicuously planning to follow its existing trio of RTXSEEAMAZON_ET_135 See Amazon ET commerce launches with a new GPU, the RTX 2060. Rumors take begun to pop up suggesting an announcement at CES and launch shortly thereafter.

Tom's Hardware has rounded up the rumors, which includes one we've heard before — that Nvidia will launch both a GTX and an RTX version of the 2060. Andreas Schilling of HardwareLuxx.de has revealed what he claims are the RTX 2060's marketing materials, and nosotros meet no such distinction there. It's not clear, in whatever case, that this would exist a winning strategy. Splitting the market between GTX and RTX runs the risk of confusing gamers who buy i card when they intended to purchase the other, and could risk pinning too much on Turing'south ray tracing performance when the GPU in question is to the lowest degree likely to offering that functioning at a sustainable level.

Even later the Battleground 5 DXR patch that substantially improved overall performance, it's hard to come across how an RTX 2060 will offer much in the mode of ray tracing excitement. The RTX 2070 hits 63-70fps in 1080p, but the RTX 2060 is estimated to offer merely most 83 percent the resources of its larger brother (like the RTX 2070, the RTX 2060 is reportedly built on TU106).

At this indicate, we simply don't know plenty nigh how well Nvidia'southward RTX GPUs volition perform in future DXR games to make a call on this — beyond noting that the lower in the GPU stack you get, the less chance that these cards will be able to deliver playable frame rates over the long-term evolution of the future. While GPUs aren't sticking around every bit long as CPUs these days, we've still seen an increment in overall time between upgrades and information technology'due south not unusual to meet readers talk virtually wanting 3 or four years of useful life from a GPU upgrade.

As far as expected price and price operation, THG has data showing that the RTX 2060 lands just behind the 1070 Ti and nearly xxx percent faster than the GTX 1060. Unfortunately, unless Nvidia shows a sudden willingness to price its GPU's reasonably, it will accompany that performance spring with a price increase. Right now, the RTX 2070 is a $500 GPU, the GTX 1070 Ti is $379, and the GTX 1070 is selling for around $335. The 6GB flavor of the GTX 1060, meanwhile, is selling for equally fiddling as $209.

There's no way Nvidia is going to leave a hole that large in its lineup, and it wouldn't make much sense for the company to stop charging a premium for RTX features halfway downwards the stack. AMD's RX 590 offers no real competition and is priced fairly high as well, at ~$280. Given this, we'd look an RTX 2060 between $300 – $400 at debut, with $350 a reasonable target given Nvidia'south pre-existing targets.

At present Read:

  • Nvidia Stock Slides on Rumors of Major Investor Departure
  • New DXR Patch Substantially Improves Nvidia RTX Ray Tracing Performance in Battlefield 5
  • Nvidia Announces Monster RTX Titan GPU