38 PCWorld FEBRUARY 2019REVIEWS NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 2060 FOUNDERS EDITION
Asus) to stand out, because the Founders
Edition is utterly stunning this generation.
Here’s how we described it in our GeForce
RTX 2080 Ti review (go.pcworld.com/ti80):
“The GeForce RTX 20-series Founders
Edition cards upgrade to dual axial fan
design, and those fans—spread farther apart
than you see in most graphics cards—come
equipped with 13 blades each. They’re
sitting atop a card-length heat sink with a heat
pipe embedded in the base plate, and a
full-length vapor chamber to dissipate heat
from the GPU and other components. A
forged aluminum shroud covers those
cooling components, curving around the
end of the card to transform into a sleek
backplate with the graphics card’s name
emblazoned across it. It’s an utterly
gorgeous enclosed design.”
Nvidia carried
the same aesthetic
over to the RTX
2060 FE. It’s a
shorter card,
measuring just nine
inches in length,and draws its
power via a
single eight-pin
power
connection on
the end of the
board, rather
than the side. (The RTX
2060 is more power-hungry than its
predecessor, demanding 160 watts rather
than 120W.)
Nvidia equipped the GPU with the typical
Founders Edition port loadout; you’ll find
HDMI, dual DisplayPorts, DVI, and a
VirtualLink USB-C port for standardized VR
headset connectivity. Once compatible
headsets start coming out, that is. One thing
you won’t find? An SLI connection. Nvidia
restricts multi-GPU support to the RTX 2080
and 2080 Ti alone this generation.
The GeForce RTX 2060 does have
dedicated RT cores, though—30 of them,
compared to 36 in the RTX 2070, 46 in the
RTX 2080, and 72 in the $1,200 GeForce RTX
2080 Ti. In Battlefield V, the only game to
support real-time ray tracing thus far, Nvidia
says the RTX 2060 can nearly hit 60fps at19x10 RTX 2060
Battlefield V: RT Off 90 fps
Battlefield V: RT On and DLSS Off 65 fps
Battlefield V: RT On and DLSS On 88 fps