36 PCWorld FEBRUARY 2019REVIEWS NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 2060 FOUNDERS EDITION
SPECIFICATIONS: NVIDIA GEFORCE
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GEFORCE GTX 1060 GEFORCE RTX 2060
SMs 10 30
CUDA Cores 1,280 1,920
Tensor Cores N/A 240
Tensor FLOPS (FP16)s N/A 51.6
RT Cores N/A 30
Texture Units 80 120
ROPs 48 48
Rays Cast 0.44 Giga Rays 5 Giga Rays
RTX OPS (Tera-OPS) N/A 37
GPU Boost Clock 1,708 MHz 1,680 MHz
Memory Data Rate 8 Gbps 14 Gbps
Total Video Memory
Size and Type6,144 MB GDDR5 6,144 MB GDDR6Memory Interface 192-bit 192-bit
Memory Bandwidth 192 GB/sec 336.1 GB/sec
TDP 120 Watts 160 Watts2080 costs as
much as last
generation’s GTX
1080 Ti; the $500
RTX 2070 (go.
pcworld.com/
gf70) mirrors the
price of the GTX
1080; and while
the last-gen GTX
1060 cost $260,
this new RTX 2060
moves into the GTX
1070’s previous
territory with a $90
price hike.
But while the
RTX 2070 and 2080
largely delivered
performance in
line with their
similarly priced
predecessors, you
get a bit more with
the GeForce RTX- Not only
does the card pack the dedicated RT and tensor
core hardware that gives RTX GPUs their
cutting-edge ray-tracing capabilities, it trades
blows in traditional game performance with the
$450 GTX 1070 Ti (go.pcworld.com/ti70)
rather than the $380 GTX 1070. So does that
make Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 2060 Founders
Edition a worthwhile purchase? Let’s dig in.
SPECS AND FEATURES
The GeForce RTX 2060 packs a slightly
cut-down version of the TU106 GPU found
inside the RTX 2070. 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. And extensive tweaks found in