Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Launch Date, Pricing and Benchmarks Leaked

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Graphics card website VideoCardZ released leaked photographs, benchmarks, availability and pricing for Nvidia's soon-to-be-released GeForce RTX 2060 graphics card.

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The GeForce RTX 2060 is Nvidia's upcoming mid-range graphics card built around the chipmaker's Turing architecture. The graphics card supposedly uses the TU106 silicon, which is product of TSMC's 12nm FinFET manufacturing process.

VideoCardZ claims that the GeForce RTX 2060 comes equipped with 120 TMUs (Texture Mapping Units) and 48 ROPs (Render Output Units), which result in 1920 CUDA cores, 240 Tensor cores, and 30 RT cores. It's also expected to come with 6GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 1,750MHz (14,000MHz effective) across a 192-bit memory interface.

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The GeForce RTX 2060 Founders Edition purportedly employs the same reference cooling solution as the other RTX 20-series models, like the GeForce RTX 2070, RTX 2080, and RTX 2080 Ti. The graphics card draws power from a single 8-pin PCIe power connector and provides two DisplayPort 1.4 outputs, one HDMI 2.0b port, and a DVI-D connector for display output. As usual, there is also a USB Type-C port designed for VirtualLink.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Performance

Although the leak seemingly confirms some of the GeForce RTX 2060's technical specifications, VideoCardZ's performance numbers are more interesting. The leaked numbers purportedly come from Nvidia's GeForce RTX 2060 Reviewer Guide, which says the upcoming mid-range graphics card should trade blows with the existing GeForce GTX 1070 Ti.

The leak also affirms that the GeForce RTX 2060 is capable of providing a decent playing experience in Battlefield V with ray tracing enabled at the 1920 x 1080 resolution. The graphics card reportedly pumps out 90 FPS with ray tracing disabled. With ray tracing on and Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) off, the GeForce RTX 2060 delivers up to 65 FPS. That jumps to 88 FPS with DLSS on.

VideoCardZ got its hands on the official results for the GeForce RTX 2060 as well. The test system consists of an Intel Core i7-7900X deca-core Skylake-X processor and 16GB of DDR4 memory.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 1920 x 1080 Benchmarks

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Header Cell - Column 0 GeForce GTX 1080 GeForce GTX 1070 Ti GeForce RTX 2060 GeForce GTX 1070 GeForce GTX 1060
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation 65 60 55 49 38
Battlefield 1 153 141 154 122 101
Battlefield V: RT Off 113 104 110 94 72
Battlefield V: RT Medium N/A N/A 66 N/A N/A
Battlefield V: RT Ultra N/A N/A 58 N/A N/A
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided 87 82 81 73 54
Tom Clancy's The Division 94 89 81 74 56
Doom 4 178 168 154 144 110
Fallout 4 133 128 126 120 104
Far Cry 5 102 99 101 91 71
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands 66 61 62 55 44
Hitman 2 88 86 84 86 72
Middle-earth: Shadow of War 99 94 98 86 63
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds 123 113 122 105 98
Rise of The Tomb Raider 90 82 79 68 52
Shadow of The Tomb Raider 63 58 59 48 37
Sniper Elite 4 124 115 111 91 71
Strange Brigade 128 115 116 101 73
VR Mark (Cyan) 194 180 222 153 114
Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 99 94 94 78 57
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus 121 116 138 98 74
Unigine Superposition 83 77 77 66 48

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 2560 x 1440 Benchmarks

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Header Cell - Column 0 GeForce GTX 1080 GeForce GTX 1070 Ti GeForce RTX 2060 GeForce GTX 1070 GeForce GTX 1060
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation 54 52 48 42 32
Battlefield 1 115 105 114 92 73
Battlefield V: RT Off 89 78 85 72 54
Battlefield V: RT Medium N/A N/A 53 N/A N/A
Battlefield V: RT Ultra N/A N/A 43 N/A N/A
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided 59 54 55 48 35
Tom Clancy's The Division 68 61 57 50 38
Doom 4 126 119 108 99 75
Fallout 4 107 101 101 88 66
Far Cry 5 81 75 77 66 49
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands 52 48 48 43 33
Hitman 2 79 77 78 69 51
Middle-earth: Shadow of War 69 63 72 56 41
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds 83 77 82 65 59
Rise of The Tomb Raider 56 52 50 42 32
Shadow of The Tomb Raider 41 38 38 31 23
Sniper Elite 4 91 83 81 66 52
Strange Brigade 91 81 83 72 51
VR Mark (Cyan) 123 113 140 96 71
Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 74 70 70 58 43
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus 84 81 94 67 50
Unigine Superposition 15 16 19 14 9

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Pricing and Availability

According to VideoCardZ, Nvidia will announce the GeForce RTX 2060 on January 7 and cards will land in stores January 15, 2019. Both the Founders Edition and custom models will cost $349 (~£274.86). The graphics card will come with either a copy of Battlefield V or Anthem. 

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35 Comments Comment from the forums
  • Diabl0
    This is mad. I had many 60 series cards and always paid some 200 Euro. Now I am supposed to pay 350? No thank you nvidia.
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  • hotaru251
    RTX should never of bee ntheir "mainstream" lineup.

    It should ofbeen their "optional" lineup.

    RTX is a niche market where most ppl wont care about it and msot just want a good card to enjoy their games as they have the past decade.
    Let alone there was nothing to USE its niche rtx and even still months later it is extremely limited.


    though that pricing means the 1160 is likely gonna be around 300...yikes.
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  • ingtar33
    they claim 350, but we all know they'll be on sale for 400; none of their other RTX cards are selling close to MSRP
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  • FunSurfer
    Oh! you once mighty GTX 1070!... Once scored 75 FPS on SotTR @1080p and now just 48...
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  • shmoochie
    I'm not sure I believe the RTX enabled FPS numbers they have listed. Several other sites are showing the 2080 hitting those at 1080p. Also, why don't the tables include the fps for BF5 with ray tracing on? They only show it with ray tracing off. Am I blind?

    Edit: looks like they went back and added BF5 with ray tracing. Still not sure I believe them.
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  • buweep
    i know it's farfetched... but why aren't you putting the most popular game on the planet in your benchmarks for FPS? Do I even need to name it for you?
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  • nitrium
    Well I guess GTX 1070Ti like performance for about US$100-$150 less than those currently sell for is pretty good(?). Shame about the 6GB of VRAM though - would have liked to see 8GB on it like the two cards it's competing with from the previous gen (i.e. GTX 1070 and 1070Ti).
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  • hixbot
    So its 30% faster than gtx 1060 (a 3 year old card), and it costs 40% more. I don't understand how Nvidia plans on selling mid-range cards that offer less value than their 3 year old predecessors.
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  • buzznut
    ..which means that the actual price will be about $100 more, with limited supplies, coming straight from nVidia's playbook. Have fun NOT enjoying the new tech.
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  • wwaaacs5
    welp back to praying ADM has somthing, and keeps the value pants on. that aside, i still have to stay that the rtx2000 Founders Edition cards are pretty to look at
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