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welcome back to Hard Rock's today it's time to benchmark another one of invidious new laptop RTX graphics cuts the GeForce r-tx 2016 given the high popularity and widespread use of the gtx 1060 in gaming laptops the RT x 2060 is said to be one of the key offerings in invidious latest lineup and judging by our comments section it definitely seems like it's one that you guys are most interested in it's in my previous review of the RT x 2070 max-q i spent a lot of time talking about how invidious naming scheme for their laptop GPUs pretty much sucks and is misleading for potential buyers that's still the case with the RT X 2060 but I'm not going to spend as much time on this issue if you're interested in my in-depth thoughts on it check the previous review so the RT x 2064 laptops uses the same tu 106 GPU as the desktop card with the same core configuration so we're getting 1920 cuda cores 240 10 circles and 30 ray tracing cause it also has the same memory configuration so 6 gigabytes of gddr5 10 gigabits per second on a 192 bit bus for 336 gigabytes per second of bandwidth it's still built on TSM sares12 nanometer process as well however the laptop RT x 360 isn't clocked anywhere near what the desktop card can achieve the desktop card has a base clock of 1365 megahertz and a boost of 1680 megahertz with GPU boost taking the GPU even higher the laptop variant is clocked at just 960 mega Hertz base with a boost of 1200 megahertz so the boost clock is even lower than the desktop cards base clock Nvidia did this to shave the TDP down from 160 watts to 80 to 90 watts which is more suitable for laptop designs and this is where buyers can get a bit misled you simply won't get our TX 2060 performance from the laptop very despite both having the same name truing laptop GPU is also more aggressively undercooked relative to the desktop cards than pascal ever was so I'm not expecting to see the same margins or performance improvements on the desktop I would prefer if this GPU is instead called the r-tx 26 TM but enough on that let's move on for the upcoming blue benchmarks I've used the brand new asus rog strict sky 2 GL 5 or 4 GV that name is a bit of a mouthful but essentially this is a typical 15-inch gaming notebook it's not a slim and light machine like this so Sepphoris it's just a regular design that's 25 millimeters thick and about 2.4 kilograms heavy there's no max QR TX 2060 so this GPU is suited to these sorts of thicker designs the CPU here is Intel 6 core Core i7 8750 H the go-to offering for gaming laptops these days the same CPU is used for our Pascal laptops and other architects laptops we've tested so far so we really are looking at just the differences in GPU performance today this laptop came with 16 gigabytes of RAM in a single channel configuration but for testing I swap that out for 32 gigabytes in dual channel to keep it apples to apples with other laptops in our database I also use the laptops balanced fan mode because in gaming I found no difference in performance between ears and the louder turbo mode finally I've done all testing at 1080p the standard resolution for gaming laptop displays with this unit packing a 144 Hertz panel so we're going to kick this one off with a look at battlefield one it's not the most recent battlefield title but it's one that plays well on laptops the ITX 360 he manages to squeeze marginally ahead of the gtx 1070 max q providing over 100 FPS on average with a similar one percent low to the gtx 1070 max q it's also 28% faster than the gtx 1066 gigabyte in this title however it can't quite match the gtx 1070 falling 10% behind the older Pascal GPU now if you've been following our desktop coverage of the our tech series these results might seem a little strange on the desktop side the ITX 2060 is more than 50% faster than the gtx 1060 in this title and more than 10% faster than the gtx 1070 however on the laptop side the margins are much smaller and the comparisons are very different with the nutrient GPU failing to Beit the gtx 1070 this is again why i feel the naming is a bit misleading if any buyers have seen our TX 2060 desktop coverage they might believe then you r-tx 2016 laptop will outperform an older gtx 1070 model but that's really not the case why the ITX 2060 easily clocks above 1800 megahertz on the desktop in our soos laptop it sits around 1450 megahertz hence the large performance discrepancy meanwhile our laptop gtx 1070 clocks at 1800 megahertz compared to slightly over 1900 megahertz on the desktop pascal laptop GPU simply clocked a lot higher and closer to their desktop counterparts than these nuturing gps do that's not to say performance is overall bad here we're looking at Wolfenstein 2 which is very favorable to invidious current GPU architecture the ITX 2060 comes in 34 percent ahead of the GTX 1060 although it still gets beaten badly by the GTX 1017 watchdogs 2 is one of those games that tends to be more CPU constrained in a laptop although we're still seeing a handy 25 percent performance uplift in this older Ubisoft title with that said this is one of the few games I tested where the r-tx 2060 performed below the gtx 1070 max q in far cry 5 again we're looking at a 25% performance improvement over the gtx 1060 however this time it doesn't lose his barely 2 other GPUs outperforming the GTX 970 max Q by 6 percent and only slotting in 3% behind the RT X 2070 max Q with the RT x 2060 consistently delivering above 60 FPS ultra settings here this is a handy improvement over the gtx 1060 Resident Evil 2 is one of the newest games in our test suite using the ballast quality preset which is nearly visually identical to the maximum preset laptops in general performed really well achieving over 100 FPS for the most part the RT X 2060 is 35% faster than the GTX 1060 only 7% slower than the GTX 1070 and a decent 11% faster than the gtx 1070 max q hitman 2 is a punishing title for CPU constraint hardware but current generation laptops are still capable of a 60 FPS experience at 1080p using maximum quality settings the ITX 2060 is just 23% faster than the gtx 1060 here but other margins that in line with what we've previously seen impressively the artex 2060 is 4% faster than the RT x 2070 max in this title dirt foresees the art x26 t hold a 37% performance advantage over the GTX 1060 while still coming in 12% behind the GTX 1070 and 10% behind the newer RT X 2070 max Q even with eight times msaa in this game at 1080p is still in for a rock solid experience probably time to throw an older title into the mix how about Deus Ex mankind divided this game has one of the smallest margins between the r-tx 2060 and the gtx 1070 with the 2060 only 7% behind it's also 8% faster than the gtx 1070 max-q and 36% ahead of the gtx 1066 gigabyte you're probably wondering about battlefield 5 performance as well here the new RT x 2060 is only 23 percent faster than the gtx 1060 however other margins that in line with what we've seen previously at 1080p paid with a high refresh laptop display the ITX 2060 is very capable and delivers a great experience rounding this performance comparison out with a tenth title I've settled on 'pray this represents a game that really doesn't benefit all that much from the faster GPU it's only 13% faster than the GTX 960 here 7% slower than the gtx 1070 and 7% faster than the gtx 1070 max-q i'm guessing you probably want to see some more graphs assassin's creed Odyssey is one of the hardest games to get running smoothly on a laptop I think it's down to the CPU and for some reason gigabytes error laptops get destroyed in this title that said with the very high preset you're looking at a 60 FPS average at 1080p with the RT X 2016 this is the final comparison here we have Middle Earth shadow of Wharf the art X 2060 is 32% faster than the GTX 1060 10% slower than the gtx 1070 and 9% behind at the RT X 2017 max Q I'm guessing you want some performance summary see I actually benchmarked a total of 20 games on this GPU and refresh the data for a number of other GPS just for this comparison so this is probably the best look at performance yet the big one here is the RT X 2060 vs. the GTX 1060 well probably not the best comparison in terms of laptop pricing which I'll talk about in a moment the RT X 2060 is a good 28 percent faster than the GT 66 gigabyte on average that's a much better margin than I was expecting off the ITX 2070 max-q review which only clocked in around 10% faster than its direct naming predecessor the gtx 1070 max-q speaking of the gtx 1070 max-q the r-tx 2060 is also faster than that GPU to the tune of a 6% average it's not faster in every title but it's only in older games right appears to struggle anything recent and the ITX 2060 pulls away to my surprise the artex 2060 isn't much slower than the r-tx 2017 max-q on average we're talking four percent slower on average with some games clocking in faster than was supposed to be a higher tier GPU this could place prospective r-tx 2017 max-q buyers in an awkward position with the cheaper option providing almost as good performance where the comparison isn't as favorable is when comparing the r-tx 2060 to the gtx 1070 the art text when 60 is 11% slower on average losing in every single game by between 2% and 20% and this is where we start to see the weaknesses of invidious r-tx laptop lineup once again with desktop GPUs the r-tx 2060 is on average 53% faster than the GTX 1066 gigabyte here with laptop GPUs is only 28% faster and this also means that rather than being more than 10 percent faster than a gtx 1070 it's 11% slower not a good situation for those who might accidentally use desktop data for their laptop buying decision it does seem that within a generation though the comparisons make sense the GTX 1017 laptops is about 40 percent faster than a laptop GTX 1060 which is similar to the desktop margin the ITX 2060 is 4 percent slower than the r-tx 2070 max QM while we haven't tested the full laptop RTX 2070 yet with desktop cards the 2060 is 11% slower than the 2070 on average so the margins we've seen so far also seem to make sense there if you're looking for a direct desktop comparison to the r-tx Android 60 it's hard to give a specific one but so far it looks to be between the GTX 1660 Ti and the GTX 1060 I did cop a bit of flat for making these lat Desktop comparisons in the last video but again the r-tx twist 60 laptop and desktop GPUs will have the same name and with the Pascal card like the gtx 1070 laptop performance was only slightly behind desktop performance but here the margins are much more significant so why talk about all these laptop desktop comparisons and why are they relevant well that's down to typical laptop price in videos RTX locked our pricing is more in line with the desktop products than what makes sense for laptops given their performance with the ITX 2060 we're looking at a typical price for a chorus of an 80 758 system of around 1800 US dollars for much of the GTX 260 s life you could find a typical laptop for around the $1,300 mark so that's a 38% increase in price for 28% more performance on the desktop side though the RT X 2060 at 350 dollars came in around 40% more expensive than the gtx 1066 gigabyte and $250 so the margins are similar but the desktop RT external 60 is more than 50 percent faster than a 1066 gigabyte making it good value with laptops you're not getting the same margins so value is much worse and that's only talking about typical mid generation gtx 1060 laptop pricing today gtx 1060 laptops are easily available for less than 1100 us so you're facing spending $700 more for an equivalent r-tx 2060 machine which is a serious price jump it doesn't get much better comparing the ITX 2060 to the gtx 1070 on the desktop this actually made sense both GPUs were about the same price the are checks between 60 is a decent amount faster so it ended up better value and therefore the better Buy in that price tier with laptops it's not quite the same again here we see the ITX 2060 laptops coming in around the typical price for a gtx 1070 system $1,800 u.s. but the value simply isn't there because the laptop r-tx 2016 is 11 percent slower and with today's prices often sitting at $1500 or less for a gtx 1070 laptop it really is a no-brainer to choose the older pascal option it's hard to say what will happen when it GT x10 semi laptops leave the market especially as a lot of models are currently on an end-of-life fire sale but right now we're facing a situation where you'll have to spend as much as a typical gtx 1070 laptop last year while receiving less performance and that's a pretty terrible situation to be in the pricing situation also throws into question the r-tx 2070 max-q typical laptops with that GPU around 2400 US dollars which is 33% more than our Tex 2060 laptops for only a four percent performance uplift sure you get the added portability but geez that is a lot to pay for it with that said this hasn't really changed compared to Pascal models where the gtx 1070 laptops were considerably cheaper than slower gtex 1070 max2 units for the most part there's really no other way to put it this laptop GPU is disappointing it does present a performance gain over the gtx 1060 but it's not priced in the same product category it's slower than gtx 1070 laptops which launched at the same price and am now cheaper so i'm really gobsmacked in this situation given the Artic story 60 is actually a good buy for desktop owners right now I honestly could not recommend an RT ex 2060 laptop over a gtx 1070 option and I'm definitely concerned about that pricing being around the same for less performance for your laptops moving forward for RTX 2060 laptops to be worth buying they need to be priced around 1400 US dollars and that's a $400 price cut which seems like a tough ask and yes you can get in our text we're 60 laptop for 1400 right now but it only has a quad core Core i5 8300 8 CPU inside not the standard 6 core 8750 eights it is a better deal but it's not an equivalent comparison and I still wouldn't buy it over $1500 gtx 1070 system so those are my thoughts on the r-tx 2064 laptops are highly disappointing product right now certainly one that doesn't live up to the expectations set by the generally quiet good desktop card subscribe for more coverage of Nvidia saertex laptop GPUs as we get them in for testing consider supporting us on patreon and I'll catch you in the next one you