MARCH 2020 PCWorld 73KO includes a metal
backplate that looks nice
and clean in your case,
while the two large fans
adorning the shroud
support the crucial idle fan
stop feature. Idle fan stop
prevents the fans from
spinning when the GPU
isn’t under heavy load,
creating an utterly silent
environment when you’re
just tooling around on
your desktop. EVGA’s Precision X1
monitoring and overclocking software
remains among the best available, too.
Of course, as a GeForce RTX 20-series
graphics card, the EVGA KO can run real-time
ray tracing in the games that support it, and it
supports all Nvidia’s latest hardware
innovations. Check out our Turing architecture
deep-dive for more information on that frontYou’ll notice some cost-saving measures
as soon as you take the EVGA RTX 2060 KO
out of the box. It’s a tiny card that reuses the
design of the $240 EVGA GeForce GTX 1660
Super SC (go.pcworld.com/spsc), eliminating
development costs for another custom cooler.
The shroud’s plastic, rather than metal, and
lacks the RGB lighting options found on most
modern custom graphics cards. The KO also
sticks to a very basic port
configuration, with singular
DisplayPort, HDMI, and DVI
connections. Those are all
reasonable downgrades to
shave $50 off the normal
cost of RTX 2060 models, in
our opinion.
EVGA still managed to
sneak some nice extras onto
the card despite its budget
price, however. The RTX 2060Port report.