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welcome back to harbor unboxed after much delay I can finally bring you our g-force r-tx 2060 coverage the first round of reviews based on the Nvidia foundation model they went out on the seventh but sadly we weren't included that on the 15th the RT X 2060 series was officially released into the wild and all major retailers began selling them at or around these $350 us MSRP ball partner cards could also be reviewed on the 15th but since I only got our samples the day before I decided not to rush that one and a lot of you expressed interest in not having us rush well it wouldn't be day one coverage but our delayed coverage and take a bit of time to provide an in-depth benchmark comparison that covers our whole Libre games so that's what we've done so hopefully this content will be in-depth enough for you so today on the menu we have a 36 game benchmark with over a dozen different GPUs all have been tested at 1080p and 1440p then we have a number of big performance breakdowns at the end of the video along with the usual cost per frame stuff so by the time you're done with this video you should know exactly where the r-tx 2060 stands and what it has to offer gamers but before we get to the benchmarks today's video sponsor is Skillshare the online learning community where you can learn real-world skills I've always found it easiest to learn by watching others and with Skillshare you can do exactly that as professionals create project-based classes covering topics such as design business technology film photography and much more it's a great resource for those looking to improve their skill set assure a passion or advance their careers and the best bit is for the first 500 viewers to sign up you will get the first two months of Skillshare premium for free so it doesn't get much better than that check the link in the video description ok so a few quick notes before we get into it on here for testing I have the gigabyte RCX 2060 gaming OC pro nice quick catchy name there and I also have MSI's r-tx 2060 gaming Z both look really great but since the gigabyte card arrived first I'm going use it for all the testing that's that I will provide detailed reviews on both models at a later date so this video won't include stuff like thermals as that is reserved for the graphics card review as for the RT X 2060 GPU well it is an interesting one whereas the RT X 2070 comes at an MSRP of $500 the RT X 2060 is 30% cheaper at 350 dollars and you literally pack 17% fuel recruiter cause that said the memory bus has been cut down by 25% and given that it uses the same four 10 gigabits per second GDI six memory that also means memory bound has been reduced by 25% still the RT X 2060 shouldn't be a great deal slower than the 2070 so in terms of value it's likely going to be a better value product it's also priced to compete with AMD's vega 56 so i'll be interesting to see how those two compare getting on with the benchmark results as usual we're going to be discussing results for a dozen of the games and then jump into our performance breakdowns for this video I will be focusing on the 1440p data but for those interested in terry p performance you can find all those graphs via a link in the video description just lastly the test system used includes the kora 919 okay clocked at 5 gigahertz with 32 gigabytes of ddr4 3200 memory as for the drivers were using adrenalin 2019 Edition nineteen point one point one for the Radeon GPUs and game ready for 17 point 35 wher for the GeForce GPUs ok let's get into the results kick starting things we have shadow of the Tomb Raider and here the ITX 2060 was good for 63 FPS on average using the highest in game quality preset this placed it on par with the GeForce GTX 1080 and Vega 64 making it just 5% slower than the RT X 2070 it was also 9% fast in the GTX 1070 Ti though just 3% faster than value 56 moving on to strange Brigade and here the RT x 2060 was good for 86 FPS on average which meant it was just 15% slower than the 2070 this time it was also 7% slower than Vega 56 though that is somewhat unsurprising given how well this tunnel runs on AMD Hardware still the 2060 did edge at the gtx 1070 TI so overall performance was very respectable next up we have battlefield 5 and again the r-tx 2060 performance very well this time trailing the r-tx 2070 by a mere 4% margin this meant it was able to beat the gtx 1070 TI and vega 56 so far i have to say the 2060 is making the 2070 look rather pointless the 2070 does pull away when testing with Sniper Elite 4 and here the r-tx 2060 was 15% slower not a massive margin given it cost 30% less but at least the 2070 doesn't look quite as pointless in this one also we again see that the 2060 was just able to edge out the gtx 1070 TI and vega 56 here we see that monster hunter well plays quite well with the ITX 2060 at 1440p and using the highest quality preset we saw an average of 54 FPS in our test and they spent the 2060 was just a frame slower on average when compared to vega 64 and the gtx 1080 it was also 4 to 5 FPS fast on the gtx 1072 and vega 56 while it was 11% slower than the RT x 2070 so again another solid result seen here the nuturing GPUs don't stack up that well in warframe when compared to their Pascal predecessors the RT X 2070 for example is 8% salt in the GTX 1080 while the RT X 2060 was seen to be 6% slow on the gtx 1070 TI that said it was also just 2% slower than vega 56 moving on we have the just calls for numbers and here the 2060 average 59 FPS making it just a few frames slower than the GTX 1080 and Vega 64 it was also just 11% slow in the RT X 2070 and Vega 64 liquid and interestingly we see that frame time performance was similar from the gtx 1070 right up to the 1080 moving on we have the grand theft auto 5 results and they're quite interesting here the RT x 2016 managed to roughly match the gtx 1080 and this minute was 6% faster than the gtx 1070 TI once again it was also just 10% slower than the RT x 2070 once again making the 500l option a rather pointless in my opinion the RT x 2060 again beat or rather matched the gtx 1080 this time we're testing with assassin's creed Odyssey this merit was 7% fast in the GTX 1070 Ti and just 10% slower than the 2070 should note that I was also 17 percent faster than Vega 56 as well performance in hitman 2 will likely be improved there were a few titles where frame time performance was down for the r-tx 2016 where you would expect it to be I don't believe this is a VRAM capacity issue either so it will likely get solved with a driver update we did see the odds study here and there when testing with the 2060 and this led to a 7% drop-off for the 1% low result when compared to the gtx 1070 TI frame time performance was also down 13% we compared to vega 56 so again I expect performance here to be addressed with a future drive version Rainbow six siege is a very complex post FX heavy title and it seems as though cheering's concurrent FP 32 and 32 execution is providing a handy performance boost the Archie ex 2060 for example was 15% faster than the GTX 1080 which is an impressive increase it was also 25% faster than the 1070 Ti and that's a GPU that it is typically matched or slightly beaten in most of the titles that we've looked at so far it was also just 10% slower than the 2070 so a great result for the 2060 in this title now the last game that we're going to discuss the results for is World of Tanks and here we see the RT X 2060 able to match Vega 64 liquid as well as the gtx 1070 TI this minute was 13% slower than the 2070 but 15% faster than vega 56 before moving on we'll quickly look at power consumption the RT X 2060 looks to only consume slightly less power than the 2070 placing it roughly on par with the GTX 1080 of course this means it was able to reduce total system consumption by around 20% when compared to Vega 56 but that's hardly surprising given what we already know overall power efficiency hasn't really changed much since Pascal okay so it appeared like the art seok's 2060 held its own really well against the more expensive 2070 it was rare to see it much more than 10% slower it also seemed as though it was more often than not fast in the gtx 1070 TI and therefore faster than vega 56 by a comfortable margin all that said let's take a closer look at how the 2060 stacked up to the competition across the 36 games tested when compared head-to-head the r-tx 2070 we see at the 2060 was up to 16 percent slower and that's a pretty impressive worst-case scenario meanwhile there were a handful of titles with the margin was well under 10 percent and overall this meant the 2060 was an average just 11 percent slower at 1440p you have to wonder why anyone would now spend over 40 percent more on a graphics card that's not even 15 percent faster then when we compare the 2060 to the gtx 1070 TI we see that on average it was 4% faster and there were just half a dozen instances where the 2060 was slower by a 4% or greater margin so far the only tiles to really hand the Turing GPUs a massive advantage over Pascal is Rainbow six siege but this will be something to keep an eye on with future game releases for the most part the RT X 2060 was superior to Vega 56 in terms of performance and there was just a single title where it lost by in excess of a 10% margin and while that title was Forza horizon 4 meanwhile there were 15 titles where the 2060 was faster by a 10% margin or greater the last comparison I'm gonna make is with the GTX 1060 a GPU the 2060 definitely isn't replacing despite the naming when compared to the GTX 1060 the r-tx 2060 was on average 53% faster which is a very nice performance boost that said when you acknowledge the 40% increase in MSRP it becomes a lot less impressive and we'll talk more about that in a moment for now let's check out the cost per frame figures okay so here we see the ITX 2060 came out at a cost of four dollars and six cents per frame based on these three hundred and fifty dollar MSRP that gives it a slightly better price to performance ratio and the gtx 1070 vega 56 and the RX 590 it also makes it around 22% more cost-effective in the RT x 2070 so obviously a step in the right direction there that said bang for your buck it's nowhere near as good as the GTX 1060 which is nowhere near as good as the rx 580 granted we've always paid a bit of a premium for the higher end stuff but generally that premium only really kicked in right at the extreme high end these days it seems anything above the sort of entry-level stuff will cost you an arm and a leg as it stands the r-tx 2060 that question the best value mid-range graphics card hands on right now at $350 it basically eliminates the $500 2070 which was just 11% faster on average and at most up to 16% faster so do I recommend the GRT ex 2060 well yeah there's nothing better at this price point unless you can get Vega 56 for $300 or less I wouldn't bother with that it's slightly slower it consumes loads more power and there are limited aib models available and generally it's really only the crappy reference cards that seem to go on sale okay so now that we got that out of the way I should probably dig into why anything mid-range or better I will set you back more than it has before and I'd say there are multiple reasons for why this is and NVIDIA being greedy buggers is just part of the equation and even then there are multiple reasons as to why they're able to be such greedy little buggers I'm not trying to justify prices but there are a few factors worth considering today's GPUs more complex and there were a few years ago I have manufacturing costs increased we know that the cost to build a modern fab is astronomical and yields for these complex all these big GPUs aren't that great also is more investment being made into research and development I think the answer to that one is unquestionably yes having said all that a big reason for why chewing is such a massive and complex GPU is because a ray tracing a rendering technology supported by the inclusion of dedicated hardware known as T cause these technologies basically being crammed down the throats of gamers and as far as I can tell nobody really wants it at least in its current form and that's the real problem the current hardware implementation really isn't good enough to be of any real benefit speaking of ray tracing Tim will test ray tracing performance with the RT X 2060 soon basically that needs to be a separate video as there will be a lot of stuff to cover and not a lot of games of course but plenty of performance and visual stuff to go over anyway I believe gamers would be magnitudes more accepting of the GeForce 20 series if it never had any RT course either removing them entirely to reduce the silicon size and therefore or replacing them with more crude a cause for greater performance in all the games just tested either would lead to gamers receiving far more bang for their buck unfortunately though that's not the situation we find ourselves in at least for now it seems like the GeForce 11 series will do away with the RT course but that's yet to be seen at the extreme high end we have the NVIDIA Titan RT X an absurd two and a half thousand dollar graphics card that packs just 6% more cause than the already grossly overpriced RC X xx atti sure it has twice the GDD r6 memory with 24 gigabytes but good luck putting that to use meanwhile the RT X xx atti which is meant to cost $1000 for LOB models is more like $1200 at best and typically you can expect to pay $1,300 u.s. and even if we were getting at the $1000 MSRP I'm pretty sure a lot of people still wouldn't be happy with that we were expecting that product to come in at around $700 and I think if there was competition from AMD plus a few other things that we will discuss then I think that would have been possible anyway moving on we ended up with the RT X 2084 $700 basically it's a step in for the GTX 1080i offering basically the same performance at the same price so probably wasn't worth the 18-month weight then we've got the RT X 2070 it's about 5 to 10% fast and the GTX 1084 the same price so that's something but 28 months later it's not a whole lot of something now we have the RT X 2060 it's slightly cheaper than the MSRP of the GTX 1070 and offers around 5 to 10 percent more performance so that's slightly better than what we got with the 2070 but again after more than two years it's not exactly amazing progress either so there are really two ways you can look at this we can judge the RT X 2060 based on what you historically expect after two years of development or we can judge it based on current market conditions after two years you'd expect at least a 30% boost in performance for the same money so the RT X 2060 which is really a gtx 1070 replacement should be providing the kind of performance we're seeing from the RT x 2080 for $700 the problem with that being that to you when i silicon is 72% larger than the GP 104 silicon use by the gtx 1070 1070 TI and 1080 yet you're only getting a 15% increase in Korea cause of course the crude of course are much improved but even so that's only resulted in a performance boost of about 30% on average when comparing the r-tx 2080 to the GTX 1080 the other way to look at this is that it's a result of current market conditions gamers have already proven time and time again they're willing to pay far too much for a gaming graphics card and I laugh every time it's us the reviewers that are blame for how things have panned out apparently it's all on us these high graphics card prices we didn't do enough to keep Nvidia in line like we have that kind of power sure having more educated buyers is a good thing but how many gamers actually read tech sites and watch tech channels on YouTube I'm guessing it's not the majority I could be wrong about that but I would have thought it was a pretty safe bet that yeah it would be the minority of gamers I'm not saying that there are any media outlets that didn't gush over what the RT X xx series has to offer but that's not the reason why we have RT X xx atti cards selling for $1200 plus and it's certainly not the reason why we have a two and a half thousand dollar Titan Nvidia seems to keep raising the bar in a somewhat of an experiment to see what gamers will pay and I suspect that they are near the limit with the Titan RT X or at least oh I hope they're near the limit as a ridiculous as things have gotten by the way how many reviewers said the Pascal Titan X was worth buying as well as the Titan XP we repeatedly mocked the value of those products and we even went as far to say that would be embarrassed to admit if we'd purchased one of those graphics cards so it's not really about showing off at least in our view it's it's more embarrassing than showing off I guess is what I'm trying to say then we have the competition the competition that's historically helped to drive pricing down well Vega 64 graphics cards are scarcely available and have been pretty much ever since released there's just a handful of AIB models and most are very expensive at the time of making this video new egg had just a single a sous model selling for four hundred and six dollars though there were two reference design models for $400 but those are pretty horrible if I'm honest then we have models from MSI gigabyte and Sapphire all priced upwards of $550 so more than that of the base model RTX 20 70s so for all these reasons and more we're looking at best at around a 10% improvement in performance at the same MSRP with no improvement in efficiency given what we saw from the r-tx 2080 in 2017 I was expecting the eventual 2060 part to come in at around 350 to 400 dollars u.s. and offer performance somewhere between the 1070 and 1070 TI ultimately making it a pointless product and just a continuation of what we already had the reality is a bit better than that though we're getting performances typically between the 1070 TI and 1080 with pricing that's slightly better than that of the 10 70s MSRP so for an RT X graphics card that's actually a pretty massive win it also makes the RT X 2060 the best value mid-range offering beating out Vega 56 and all other Pascal cards priced over $300 us of course if you're already own a Vega 56 or gtx 1070 graphics card then the upgrade to the 2060 simply won't be worth it likewise if you have a flagship maxwell GPU so the gtx 980ti the upgrade also just isn't worth it but then that was a six hundred and fifty dollar graphics card so the fact that the RT X 2060 is faster I suppose is impressive I guess and just finally all the opinions expressed in this video we're all entirely based on facts and figures so if you don't like the current market situation then don't buy any of these overpriced graphics cards getting our X 570 and hope that everyone else does the same and on that note I am going to be running for cover you 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