If it’s TRUE … this will be my first purchase of the year in 2019!
According to Videocardz, they’ve worked through their industry sources in confirming the headline we’re bringing to you – there really is an RTX 2060 chip incoming from NVIDIA. Pictured is GIGABYTE’s take on a factory-overclocked graphics card based on that silicon, with a dual-fan cooling system, an 8-pin power connector (which Videocardz says should stay at a 6-pin count on the reference design). According to the report, the new RTX 2060 will see the core count reduced to 30 CUs – which amounts to some 1920 CUDA cores, down from the 36 CUs and 2304 CUDA cores in the RTX 2070.
NVIDIA’s new Turing architecture’s launch and performance reviews of RTX-enabled games showed considerable difficulties in enabling the raytracing tech in slower hardware than NVIDIA’s RTX 2070 – and the RTX 2060 will likely see the new stars of the show, the RT cores, cut down in number form the RTX 2070. I imagine there could be a scenario where NVIDIA kept the same number of raytracing resources as in the RTX 2070, keeping that as the baseline for this generation’s raytracing performance, but that’s daydreaming. New patches (such as the one for Battlefield V), however, have increased performance of raytracing on existing graphics cards, so maybe the RTX 2060 will be able to offer good experiences on the lowest RT settings?
Source: Videocardz via TPU
