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NVIDIA Launches $349 GeForce RTX 2060, Will Support Other Adaptive Sync Monitors (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes from a report via Hot Hardware: NVIDIA launched a new, more reasonably-priced GeForce RTX card today, dubbed the GeForce RTX 2060. The new midrange graphics card will list for $349 and pack all the same features as NVIDIA's higher-end GeForce RTX 2080 and 2070 series cards. The card is also somewhat shorter than other RTX 20-series cards at only 9.5" (including the case bracket), and its GPU has a few functional blocks disabled. Although it's packing a TU106 like the 2070, six Streaming Multiprocessors (SMs) have been disabled, along with 20% of its Tensor and RT cores. All told, the RTX 2060 has 1,920 active CUDA cores, with 240 Tensor cores, and 30 RT cores. Although the GeForce RTX 2060 seems like the next-gen cousin to the 1060, the RTX 2060 is significantly more powerful and more in line with the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti and GTX 1080 in terms of raw performance in the benchmarks. It can also play ray-tracing enabled games like Battlefield V with decent frame rates at 1080p with high image quality and max ray-tracing enabled. NVIDIA has also apparently decided to support open standards-based adaptive refresh rate monitor technology and will soon begin supporting even AMD FreeSync monitors in future driver update.
Since when do mid-range graphics cards cost more than a gaming console? Every mid-range graphics card I've bought has been $99 to $199. Low end cards $50+ and high-end graphics cards between $250 and $400.
But they’re still thinking the crypto makret is going to buy it. Ethererum dropped to less than $80 from its $1400 peak. It’s dead but Nvidia still has a whole field of tulips to sell.
nVidia is charging about twice what this card is actually worth. Wait a while.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Given the tepid response to the 2070 and above, I'd say your analysis of the 2060 pricing is spot on. But hey, this is what you get when AMD is nowhere to be found in the marketplace. :-(
A lot of Slashdot comments here are saying the card is too expensive without justifying why. The RTX 2060 matches or significantly outperforms the GTX 1070 Ti depending on the load and is priced at about $100 lower RRP. This is quite the opposite to the ludicrous launch prices of the RTX 2070 and RTX 2080.
At the same time it's worth remembering that this is not a low end card and rumours are the non-RTX line will continue to develop with a cheaper GTX 1160 in the works to say nothing of the even cheaper cards NVIDIA has on the market.
Now with all that said and done, rumours also say that AMD is about to eat nvidia's lunch. AMD has confirmed that Navi won't raytrace but so far every rumour also says that it will double the price performance ratio of NVIDIA's cards, and my guess is when that happens we should actually have a justified reason to call all the NVIDIA cards overpriced including the RTX 2060.