The Nvidia RTX 2060 has been confirmed from leaked marketing materials. A model was leaked earlier but now we have a look at the official marketing material. It was speculated that the 2060 would not be part of the RTX series and would be released under the GTX brand. It turns out that everyone was wrong.
Nvidia RTX 2060 Supports Ray Tracing?
The Nvidia RTX 2060 seems to be the entry-level card in the RTX series which is a bit confusing. We know that the RTX 2070 is the minimum requirement for real-time ray tracing and from the performance in Battlefield V we know that it does not do an impressive job.
RTX 2060 Specifications
The whole point of the RTX brand is that you get real-time ray tracing and if the RTX 2070 is unable to deliver that decently then what can we expect to see from the little brother? From what we know so far, the RTX 2060 will come with 6 GB of GDDR6 memory and that it will offer 1920 CUDA cores based on the TU106 GPU.
The specifications are not out yet so it is possible that even though the 2060 is included under the RTX series, it will not support real-time ray tracing. It might support DLSS to boost performance in games. The graphics card is supposed to released early next year, so it is too early to speculate much at this point in time.
Pricing
Keeping in mind that the GTX 1060 was one of the most popular cards in the last 2 years and that the card is priced close to the RX 590, the Nvidia RTX 2060 could be priced around $380. The RTX 2070 costs $500 so that would be an intelligent guess. I think that RTX is not ready and that Nvidia should have marketed this as work in progress rather than something that is ready.
Should You Buy?
The performance of these graphics cards with RTX on is not all that impressive and you need to spend some serious money in order to take advantage of all these effects at 1080p 60 FPS. RTX is not something that I am sold on and I cannot recommend this series of graphics cards without hesitation.
If I were you, I would skip this series and wait for the next generation to drop. For now, you are better off with a mid-range of high-end Nvidia Pascal graphics card which is reasonably priced right now.
The upcoming Nvidia MX250 discrete graphics solution has also been spotted in a recent listing for an HP laptop. This upcoming GPU could also be based on the Turing architecture just like the 2060 which will also be coming to laptops in the future.
Let us know what you think about the Nvidia RTX 2060 and whether or not this is something that you would be interested in getting for your next upgrade.
