Nvidia's existing range of RTX Turing GPUs is populated by high-end cards only -- there isn't one that can be had for anything less than $500. However, new benchmarks for what appears to be an RTX 2060 have appeared online and they show it as being a reasonably powerful card, approaching performance of the GTX 1070, thanks Hexus.
The results are from a test in the Final Fantasy XV Windows benchmark running at 4K resolution with all settings on high. They put the RTX 2060 ahead of notebook GPUs like the Radeon Pro Vega 56 and the GTX 1070 Max-Q, but behind fully fledged versions of both of those cards and around 10 percent slower than a GTX 980 Ti. That's good performance for a mid-range card at 4K resolution, although it seems unlikely that the RTX 2060 will really be used for that kind of detail settings. It's likely to be more of a 1440P and 1080P card, albeit a strong one at both those resolutions.
Much of it will come down to pricing and features too. As it stands, Nvidia's 1060 is around the $280 mark, while its main competition, the RX 580 is closer to $200. The 1070 is typically found at closer to $350, which the RTX 2060 will need to undercut if it wants to be a viable purchase. However, the use of RTX branding suggests it may use the RT and tensor cores that have made the range so expensive -- and so woefully underperforming when ray tracing is enabled.
If Nvidia can get the 2060 down to around $300 at launch, it could well be a fantastic card, but it is unlikely to release it this side of the new year anyhow. All reports point to Nvidia having a backlog of GTX 1060 cards from the mining boom days and it will want to shift those before it introduces a true replacement.
