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The GeForce RTX 20-series Founders Edition cards upgrade to dual axial fan design, and those fans-spread farther apart than you see in most graphics cards-come equipped with 13 blades each. Here’s how we described it in our GeForce RTX 2080 Ti review: That’ll make it hard for entry-level models by Nvidia’s board partners (like EVGA and Asus) to stand out, because the Founders Edition is utterly stunning this generation. While the Founders Edition versions of the RTX 2070, 2080, and 2080 Ti all come with a mild overclock and premium pricing, the RTX 2060 Founders Edition sticks to the stock specifications outlined above, and the card’s $350 MSRP. Moving on, the RTX 2060 Founders Edition strays from the path beaten by Nvidia’s other RTX FE options.
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Maybe in a year or two games will come along that need the full 8GB of memory, but we’re just not seeing that right now, and by the time it does happen we’ll probably be on another generation of GPUs beyond Turing and GDDR6 memory prices will be lower than they are today. Right now the faster memory bandwidth is more important than the larger memory size. And given that today’s games don’t take advantage of the additional memory, it made sense to price the card more aggressively at the cost of a little frame buffer size. We could’ve certainly outfitted the RTX 2060 with 8GB of GDDR6, but hitting $349 wouldn’t have been feasible. But Nvidia’s Brandon Bell told me via email that the company chose the lesser capacity in order to utilize cutting-edge GDDR6 memory, rather than the much slower GDDR5 memory that came on the GTX 1060: Most 1440p-capable graphics cards include 8GB of VRAM. The move to GDDR6 memory greatly improves overall bandwidth for the RTX 2060 versus the GTX 1060, but the 6GB capacity might not be enough to run textures and other memory-intensive graphics options at maximum settings in all games if you’re playing at 1440p resolution. The only potential minor blemish on the spec sheet: memory capacity.


Here’s a look at the GeForce RTX 2060’s specs, and how they compare against the GTX 1060. And extensive tweaks found in Nvidia’s Turing GPU architecture make the RTX 2060’s cores much more capable than the GTX 1060’s, as we’ll see in the benchmarks section. The card has only 20 percent fewer CUDA cores than its bigger brother, but crams in a whopping 33 percent more CUDA cores than its predecessor, the GTX 1060. The GeForce RTX 2060 packs a slightly cut-down version of the TU106 GPU found inside the RTX 2070. Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 specs and features
