Videocardz: EVGA preparing GeForce RTX 2060 KO

Really though, the 5700Xt is behind the 2070 super, and that is at equal Memory Bandwidth.

Here AMD is giving up Memory Bandwidth, and they tend to be a little less efficient in using it than NVidia.

Benchmarks will be interesting probably for some big Swings. Some games hit the memory hard, and there AMD will be held back, OTOH, on games that don't hit memory hard they will pull ahead with the big unit count advantage.

On top of that you have games that favor AMD, and games that Favor NVidia. Now when you get games that favor AMD, and are not memory dependent, it will boost that win even more, but NVidia favoring game that is more memory dependent, it will probably favor the loss more.

Might be in for some wild results.
thefpsreview found the 5700xt to be equal to 2070 super in all but one of the games they tested, in an November article.

https://www.thefpsreview.com/2019/11/12/asus-rog-strix-rx-5700-xt-o8g-gaming-review/13/

read the "performance" section of the conclusion.
 
Correction they found "THE FASTEST RX 5700 XT YET" to be that. Essentially you are doing a bit of cherry picking here, comparing the fastest 5700Xt they tested to the Founders Edition 2070 super.
did you read the "performance" section?
 
thefpsreview found the 5700xt to be equal to 2070 super in all but one of the games they tested, in an November article.

https://www.thefpsreview.com/2019/11/12/asus-rog-strix-rx-5700-xt-o8g-gaming-review/13/

read the "performance" section of the conclusion.

Fine, in this review it happened. The problem is, that it's just 5 games, and with a handful of games, the outcomes change a LOT depending on the games tested. This particular mix came out about equal, I can show half dozen other reviews, using more games, where 2070 Super is ahead.
 
Fine, in this review it happened. The problem is, that it's just 5 games, and with a handful of games, the outcomes change a LOT depending on the games tested. This particular mix came out about equal, I can show half dozen other reviews, using more games, where 2070 Super is ahead.
Indeed. What's interesting to me is that the games FPS used for the review were some of the newest at the time. Compared to many other reviews, which used a lot more "older" games. Seems like maybe AMD is giving new games a little more attention on performance enhancements.
 
AMD doing all the best in their "power" to deliver competitive performance out of the gate

It seems the memory frequency was only software limited & not hardware limited.

Apparently AMD now allows board partners to match memory frequency of 5600XT to the 5700 series

with these new reported specs, the RX 5600 XT would practically match the RX 5700, except for having 2GB less memory, reduced memory bus and lower TBP


https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-rx-5600-xt-specs-nvidia-rtx-2060
 
Fine, in this review it happened. The problem is, that it's just 5 games, and with a handful of games, the outcomes change a LOT depending on the games tested. This particular mix came out about equal, I can show half dozen other reviews, using more games, where 2070 Super is ahead.
They're pretty similar, but it seems the 2070 is a bit ahead. Not much, as far as price they are a fair bit apart. Cheap 2070S being $500 and cheap 5700XT being $400.

Also the critique of the FPSreview using a high clocked card is unwarranted. That may be the highest they got, but if you go to the owners thread at OCN basically all the XT's can do 2ghz.



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if you actually read thefps reviews performance section in the review I linked, they say that the reference 5700XT matched the 2070S in their tests.
The main article is for a factory overclocked 5700XT with better cooling. But they also retested the reference card along side it.
 
Techpowerup reviews the "new" EVGA 2060 KO.

One oddity, this is this board uses the TU104, not the TU 106, and the board design is the same at 1660Ti. It looks like NVidia made most of their parts pin compatible which makes a lot of sense.

Peformance wise it's a tiny bit higher than the factory 2060 they tested, and only a little behind (~6%) the the regular 5700. I expect that the 5600Xt will come in behind the 2060 KO, at least on this set of games. Different game sets will deliver different results.
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/evga-geforce-rtx-2060-ko/
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It turns out, having the bigger die improves some workstation performance on 2060 KO:
 
A TU104 RTX 2060 will have access to the resources of an extra GPC over a TU106 RTX 2060.
 
It turns out, having the bigger die improves some workstation performance on 2060 KO:


Assuming that is what is used on all the KO cards, which we have no information on. Well, it will generate more EVGA sales if nothing else, assuming they actually get them on store shelves.
 
I guess AMD "jebaited" the reviewers this time. :rolleyes:

And yet, it is still greater performance for 5600XT purchasers and owners. On the other side, only one 2060 card and only one is going to be $299, all others are not.
 
Assuming that is what is used on all the KO cards, which we have no information on. Well, it will generate more EVGA sales if nothing else, assuming they actually get them on store shelves.
Microcenter has stock of KO. Two Evga SKU for $300 and $315.
 
Assuming that is what is used on all the KO cards, which we have no information on. Well, it will generate more EVGA sales if nothing else, assuming they actually get them on store shelves.
EVGA store has the ultra for $319. Granted not that good of a deal compared to the base price. But there is stock available.

Actually Amazon is showing stock for the $299 model, sold by EVGA, not sure if this would actually ship or not.

https://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-Gaming-Backplate-06G-P4-2068-KR/dp/B083GH7LXW?th=1
 
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And yet, it is still greater performance for 5600XT purchasers and owners. On the other side, only one 2060 card and only one is going to be $299, all others are not.

It looks like NVidia cut the official price of the 2060 to $299, including their own FE card. ABI can charge higher, but I expect there will be many drifting down to $299.
 
It looks like NVidia cut the official price of the 2060 to $299, including their own FE card. ABI can charge higher, but I expect there will be many drifting down to $299.

Can charge higher? The last I looked, almost all the 2060's, the non Super ones, are $349 or higher on Newegg.
 
Can charge higher? The last I looked, almost all the 2060's, the non Super ones, are $349 or higher on Newegg.

Hence they are charging higher. What is hard to figure out?

NVidia lowered the price, and probably cut the price on chips it sells AIB partners. That isn't going to instantly lower all 2060 cards.

It has to percolate through the system, and it's likely the $300 cards will sell out before more expensive models so you have to watch stock if want one at $300, and of course there are premium models that will stay above $300.

But there is a Gigabyte model right now, at newegg, that is $299 after MIR.
 
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