We knew this one was coming, but the form it would take has been a hot topic in hardware circles. Some rumours suggested that Nvidia's successor to the massively successful GTX 1060 wouldn't have ray tracing features at all, while support for other Turing architecture technologies was also in doubt. Happily, the reality turns out to be very different indeed - RTX 2060 is a full-blooded Turing product, with all of the RTX features enabled. The question is really how viable the new card is for ray tracing when the hardware is inevitably pared back, and of course, how fast it is for non-RTX tasks.
On the latter point, Nvidia is bullish in its reviewer's guide, suggesting that the RTX 2060 wipes the floor with the (much cheaper) GTX 1060, while significantly outperforming GTX 1070 and bringing the fight to GTX 1070 Ti and even GTX 1080. If those numbers pan out in our own tests (spoilers: they do) then by extension we're also looking at a challenge facing AMD, bearing in mind the performance profile of its Vega products, not to mention the RTX 2060's £330/€369/$350 price-point, which undercuts both Vega products.
In terms of the basics surrounding the RTX 2060 set-up, what we're effectively looking at here is a significantly pared back rendition of the existing GeForce RTX 2070. At its core, the same TU106 processor is used and so by extension, the Founders Edition card we were sent for review is similar in form factor, IO and power inputs compared to the RTX 2070 FE. A single eight-pin power socket sits at the front of the card, while two DisplayPorts, USB-C and HDMI 2.0 are found at the rear. Pleasingly, Nvidia includes a dual-link DVI port here - opening the door for direct support to the vast array of older 2560x1440 monitors in the market - and the RTX 2060 really is a decent 1440p performer.
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