It’s still hilarious that the 2060, that in the us is commonly found for $100-130, is just 30% worse than the 4060 Nvidia is attempting to sell for $300. Still working backwards 5 years later.
A 2060 gets 66% the performance of a 4060 so it's about 50% better. A 3060 is a much better price/performance competitor given it can be had for around ~$200 used with 12GB of VRAM and gets anywhere from 81% to 88% the performance of a 4060.
Ive seen 2050 max tgp gpus in laptops as low as $449. Imagine being a 10 year old playing minecraft on that instead of integrated graphics with only 8gb system ram. Id buy my kids one but thats it
@@yougotdropped9741 2050's had the same core configuration as the 1650, the memory configuration of a 1650ti, with a few RT and Tensor cores thrown in. It's not a bad GPU, just a bit weird that they made such a slow ray tracing card
It is surprisingly good and I was surprised it allows Cyberpunk playing "fine" with some tweaking at 4K It's the last "old piece" in my PC and probably retiring soon but has been a worth upgrade back when CP2077 was released for 1080p
Honestly, those who bought gtx 1080 or the Ti version don't even need to upgrade (if you don't care about all the new AAA games with "max settings"). One of the best gpus or even THE BEST in my opinion.
A new API can and probably will come out relatively soon that doesn't support 10-series cards. If you can find one, a 2060 Super is a better buy than a 1080 and performs better too. Not as good as a 1080ti though, when comparing it with the vanilla 1080, it's a no-brainer since they can be found for around the same price on the used market.@@ItzMeKarizma
Unless you're looking for 1440p or 4K high refresh modern gaming, you shouldn't have to upgrade till Nvidia kills driver support for that series of cards. Or if you want RT, but that remains incredibly niche even five years after it was first implemented in games.
Got a 2060 12 gb version last month (in India) which is by my testings quite faster than the standard 2060 6gb as it has the cores of the 2060 super and is built on the board of a 3060 12 gb. It also overclocks quite well. Overall am much happy with this deal which i got for 160 usd or 13500 rs! (Comes with 4 years of warrantt as provided by zotac)
If it's found for a decent price, I must say it's quite a good value for money. Especially for college students like me. Runs everything at ultra to max settings easily and the extra vram helps in titles like witcher 3 and cyberpunk especially with RT on. I even tried the overdrive mode in cyberpunk and it ran...well at acceptable above 30+ frames with performance dlss at 1080p though it did not look very acceptable🤡
@@kotalsyndrome6350 i use 2060 6 gb in 2023 games 6 gb vram is big limitation still usable with lower texture quality i also have zotac 2060 the fact that it does nt have a fan stop function when idle bothers me else its a great card
I loved my 2060! I upgraded to a 2060 and 3600x in 2020 right before the 3000 series released. I bought the 2060 used for $270 back then and used it from 2020-2022. It really kept me busy during the pandemic and played any game I wanted at 1080p high settings. I ended up upgrading in late 2022 but I gave my 2060 to my cousin who plays a bunch of esports titles so it is more than enough for that at 1080p nowadays. Great to see its still chugging along with newer games with tweaked settings
With my Palit RTX 2060 what impressed me most is that at 700mV (lowest available), I can run it at 1600MHz and only lose 7-9% of my fps. This results in a power draw of 85 watts, down from 160 watts. With my tuned Ryzen 5 5600, which draws 45 watts while gaming, my combined power draw is only 130 watts at the heaviest moments of any game. It's crazy efficient. I have a 1440p monitor, and if I don't aim for high settings and instead tune them manually and turn on DLSS, I can still get around 90 fps. This is what I do, because I can't play at 60 fps.
Impressive. I got my 4070ti from 285w down to about 170 with next to no performance loss. I think it's like 4% on average and I could claw back that performance if I overclocked the VRAM but not gonna both as gddr6x can run quite hot.
Id love to see more DLSS with this card especially at 4k. My favorite idea about DLSS is how it can be used to boost visuals on these cards to play games like consoles do.
As an AMD guy, their recent frame generation tech is very very nice. DLSS has been badass for years, and I can't wait to see how both companies develop frame gen in the future.
Picked up a 2060 12GB new for $180 USD tax in. Where I am, you couldn't even get a 6600 new for that. It was minimum $214, and at the time $230. About 16% savings for about as much in cut performance. Not bad with 3 year warranty. If you go used, 2060 and even 2060 Supers can be found locally for $113.
I wish pictures could be posted in the comments section.. The 2 PC builds i saw at work last night was jaw dropping. Both were Dell workstations sporting TWO 4090 strix cards EACH and the newest gen Xeon W7 processors with 56 cores clocked up to 4ish Ghz.
you should make a video reviewing the dell optiplex 9020 midtowers for cheap gaming pc options by slapping graphic cards and new psu's into them, id feel like that would be really interesting
Playing TLOU on this card was the wake up call that convinced me it was finally time to upgrade. The VRAM demand at launch (before all the patches) completely blindsided me, even at 1080p. Before that, I was running a 980 from 2014 up until 2021, where I managed to snag a 2060 6GB for cheap amid the shortage craze. It fought like a champ for those two years, but between TLOU and Jedi Survivor, playing games at higher settings just wasn't panning out anymore. Upgraded to a 4080 in May and the jump was absolutely insane. I'm kinda glad I didn't wait for the 4060 and saved up the extra cash for the higher tier card, because the state of the 060 cards for this gen is truly pathetic.
In regards to the 5700xt, it would be very interesting to see a 2060+DLSS comparison with a 5700xt native performance. Food for thought, and as always, a very entertaining video!
@@narottamakarunanidhi1731 No, the new requirements imply the use of upscalers for all Presets and GPUs listed there. I can't remember if it's Quality or Performance preset, but definitely Upscalers are used in their charts.
@@narottamakarunanidhi1731 I'd expect CB77 to become heavier on both the GPU and CPU with the revamp they're trying to do with patch 2.0/Phantom Liberty. So it's expected.
Hey, I was after an RX 580 from that miner, they seemed nice. I recognised the seller's listings in your last video (how sad is that.) Love the channel by the way.
I have it, but I bought it at a terrible time when the price dropped a bit and I didn't know how the crypto market was, if I waited a couple of months I would buy an RX 6700 or at least a 3060 (or a second-hand rtx 2080 ), even so it has served me so far and I have not had an urgency to change it. I like how easy it is to undervolt and go down to 30W-20W in consumption.
May I ask how cause I tried on mine using MSI afterburner and even though the voltage went down the tdp is still the same (by the reading of MSI afterburner) I benchmark on furmark
I also use MSI afterburner, I tried 1 program and a game (3DMark and CP77 the ultra with RT) after the normal procedure which is to see the maximum frequency in the 2 softwares (although I think one was enough, it was the first Undervolt that I was doing) that it reached in stock I started adjusting the curve a bit, I set the voltage to 0.931 at the maximum frequency that it reached, which was 1935Mhz and there it stopped crashing with the programs I used, the watt range that I lowered was that between 20 to 30w, take into account that the exact model is a ventus MSI OC
@@giorgiogalli6176 Yes, lower the power limit with addition to the undervolt for the voltage curve doing trial and error with a couple of programs to see that everything is fine, you can raise the memory clock a bit to see, but honestly I couldn't tell you since it gave me some glicht and I'm not very expert in the undervolt
There’s a lot of value there. With how underwhelming the recent mid-range offerings have been, it might be worth grabbing one of these and muddling through until there’s a serious generational improvement in GPU’s (if you really need a GPU).
My RTX 2060 is still hangin in there. Just checked the vram other day to see if I have Micron or Hynix with 08 date code. I have Samsung, thankfully not prone to the same failure as the other two.
Interesting, it holds up decently especially when one considers that 2000 series was considered pretty bad when it launched. The price is ok but considering that RT isn't great on it a 5700xt might be a better buy as it is a similar price. Still, DLSS seems really good and cool (I can't personally say as I've never had a GPU with access to it) but it is a shame that it lacks later RTX card functions. My cousin has a 2060 and hes happy with it so I imagine most people are - I do wonder how much life it will have in it as VRAM gets more and more demanding and the 6gb is already being squeezed.
I always felt a lot of the negativity around the 20 series was down to perception. Prices went up by a lot in some cases, and the highlight features of RT and DLSS didn't have much use at the time. They were always solid performers, just pricey for what they offered. And yes, I'm far more in favour of the RX 5700 XT, especially at its current price!
Yeah the price hike was actually pretty similar to what Nvidia and AMD(lesser extent but still applicable) are trying now. The 2060 was priced like a 1070 and was mostly better but the 10 series in general offered massive performance jumps at great prices.
I just kinda did that same upgrade, except I traded my RX580 for a common 2060 6gb. I kinda miss its 8gb vram, but it runs great. But, if I were to do the same again, I'd probably wait a bit more and get a 2070 or a 2060 super.
I don’t know if you’ve done something like it yet but I’ve been wondering how the 2060 super compares in 2023? as I personally recommended it to a friend of mine given the great used market pricing in my area😊
I was on a 2060 super until February (new PC, a 4070 Ti), and it's definitely still a good value card. The last big game I played on it was Hogwarts Legacy, and I was pretty easily able to stay around 70-80fps with settings tweaks (no RT)
Honestly Nvidia should've just called this card the GTX 2060, then give the rest of the line up the RTX branding since this card was barely able to put out anything playable with RT on.
They for sure didn't mean native resolution. DLSS2 replaces game's TAA implementation which isn't very good, and DLSS2 Quality at 1440p is only 960p internal render resolution.
07:00, as we can see the gpu ran out of vram, power draw dropped heavily. You should have decreased settings further to make sure the game doesn't use more than 6gb, fps would definitely be up in the 60s. CDPR always targets 30fps with their system requirements btw, cause they always forget to optimize their games.
I bought the Super variant for the 8 chip memory config, the 1060 it replaced started struggling with bandwidth even in 2020. I remember the abuse Nvidia got from this release when it was in fact the last big upgrade in a 60 card, it is around 50% stronger than a 1060 6GB.
50% stronger than a 1060 6GB, but it came to market for £350. Pretty much a couple of months later, the RX 5700XT's were £330. The AMD card being some 40% faster, and costing LESS. Lets be honest, even the 2060S wasn't a good deal, with it pretty much equalling a 5600XT, but costing 30% more. Definitely a good upgrade from an old card, but then .... so is everything else. 2060 just totally incapable of RTX. Overpriced. Might look good vs an ancient 1060 6GB. But was a very bad choice to make at the time. Even though 6x more people made the bad choice, over the smart kids who bought the 5700XT.
@@TheVanillatech The 1060 was £280 in reality in 2016, context. Yes the 5700XT is a brilliant card, I wanted an RX5700XT but the best I could get a retail was a 2060S. If I'd gone 1 day earlier I'd have bought a 2070Super.
@@darthwiizius It wasn''t brother. The 1060 3GB was around £215, and the 1060 6GB could be had for £240. The price came down even further, once the RX580 came out a few months later. Used to sell tons of 1060's at the computer shop. I dunno. Way I see it, anyone who bought a 2060 or 2060S, was making a terrible decision. I get it that, 80% of people buy nVidia "no matter what". At the shop, we sold 8x more 1050Ti's, for example, at £190, when the RX570's were 30-40% faster and cost £190 ALSO! Even when we showed people, on the test bench before their eyes, how much faster the AMD card was! It's surreal. Reason we did it, not just being kind to our gaming customers, but our trade supplier gave us more margin on 570's than 1050Ti's. Didn't matter! People just bought the crappier card! Over and over! But yeah - I always kept a close eye on cards back then. And eBuyer were literally selling 2060's for the same price as the lowest priced 5700XT's. Same with Scan, Overclockers, all of them. I used to joke with the guy at Overclockers when buying bulk through trade ... why do you have SO many 5700XT's in stock, when they are so fast for the money? He said the same. "People just love the Nvidia brand......". Insane.
I have a 3060, running a 1440p monitor, and in Spider-Man DLSS just doesn't work that well, it doesn't seem to make any difference for me even on the Performance setting. FSR on the other hand works really well and helps me stick above 60FPS even with the settings all on High using a Ryzen 5 1600AF. To be fair ever since I upgraded to the 5600X as a CPU I've not needed any upscaling to achieve that 60FPS. It perhaps drops below 60 a little more often but if I didn't have a frame counter on I don't think I'd actually notice.
@@SummonerArthur I would like to think it wasn't on purpose but I am silly that way. After all the PS5 is a AMD powered system and FSR working better on a game built to run on AMD hardware isn't a great surprise.
i actually put a Gigabyte RTX 2060 into my old alienware X51 R2 and the only adjustment was getting a 2 6 pin adapter to 8 pin adapter and setting the power limit to 90%. works great as an emulation machine that connects to my 4k TV.
I have bought 5600xt, 5700, and 5700xt locally on second hand market for less than what a 2060 goes for. Those are much better deals as they perform equal or better than a 2060. AMD is the value buy right now for budget builds, and this is coming from someone that's been team green for his entire life 😅
5600XT is around 10% faster than a 2060. 5700XT is around 40% faster than a 2060. You can get a 5600XT for £80-£90 here in the UK from Gumtree. 5700XT's for around £140. It's a no brainer. No point discussing RTX. The 2060 was incapable of turning on those features even back on release. Today, it would die a death.
@@WanderfalkeAT Come again? Please explain what you mean, in detail, so I can follow what you're saying. Be sure to include references and statistics from credible sources, obviously multiple, so we aren't just talking in riddles. "DEATH like all those Radeons" is so incredibly fucking vague! Isn't it? Theres a good chap.
i was planning on getting a 12gb 2060, but could only found the 6gb version in my country, so decided to get a 2060 super 8gb instead, waiting for it to arrive
I really do think the 2060 is a good price atm, it’s one of those cards you can almost definitely buy off a friend for £100 and get a really decent card and it runs most games. Most ppl who got one when it’s new are upgrading now so loads are on the market
But it also cost 0 to keep 1060 if you own one already and play at 1080p, suprisingly it still can handle latest games. So far looked into upgrading to 3060 then to 4060 but it seems i will also skip 5060 and might get 6060 if this continues.
The problem is that some non-Super RTX 2000 series, are at risk of having faulty VRAM, warns northwestrepair, who is phenomenal at repairing video cards. If it's got Micron VRAM manufactured before 2019.
I bought a second hand system 2700x CPU, 32gb ram, 2x1tb nvme, and rtx 2060 8gb. I have to say I'm not disappointed with it the graphics card certainly holds up to most games on high settings
I just finished building my first PC, which has a Ryzen APU. for the first time In my life I'm looking at graphics cards with real consideration. As someone who has literally been gaming for only 1 week. I have to say the GPU market can be super confusing and even more expensive in my country. They are selling a PAlit 1650 4GB for $200. used 1060s for $80. 4060s for $450. RX 580s for $150... it's all over the place. The RX 7600 is $367.... so as a new-comer to this, I think I will wait a year or two for everyone to get their Sh** together. In a 3 years they won't know what to do with these GPus they're holding on to
I still have it afther 3 years now paired with the R5 5600, and i must say continues to be a decent 1080p 60fps gpu if you dont mind to low the settings in some games, thinking to upgrade to a 4060 if it drops below 300€ tho, but im not worried if i have to keep it for like 1 or 2 more years if that doesnt happen soon tbh.
Why would you even consider a 4060? Did you not see every single benchmark review online calling it an absolutely TERRIBLE card? Get a used 2080Ti or 6800.
I would get the AMD 5600XT over the 2060, its a little faster in most games (5-7%) and a lot cheaper in the used market ($30 less). That's a double plus in value that is impossible to ignore. Useful video, thank you.
I would love to see a side by of a nvidia vs amd picture quality with dual systems and different screens on film, Last year i had a 6800xt and wound up being gifted a rtx 3080 yes free and i was excited as that was the gpu i wanted since 2020 yet after i took out the 6800xt and plopped in the 3080 i was just not impressed at all. I went from thinking i settled for the 6800xt upgrading a from a 1080 ti then getting a 3080 and selling it after i tried gifting it back as i didn't want to hurt any feelings, text was blurrier even after doing all i could in nvidia control panel colors just weren't as good either and ray tracing wasn't even worth the perf loss and realized i loved my rx 6800xt lmfao. I feel like if any youtuber could pull it off it would be u man way underrated channel but the quality is fantastic! keep up the good work.
@@IcebergTechohh lol i see its not even that i think i figured out watching videos today anyway yeah nvidia just looks more blurry less detail as far as i can see like its not even rendering all of the image.
Would recommend the 2060 or 1660 super ? Asking because I’m making a pc for a lit cousin that’s turning 12 later this month but don’t want to break the bank.
Of the two, I'd say the 2060 is worth the money. If you have the option, the Radeon RX 5700 or 5700 XT are even better performance , and sell for very similar prices.
I have an EVGA 2080ti and 2070 super but i really want to get a EVGA 3060 or a 3080ti or 3090 ect.. before its to late and there are no more evga cards left for a reasonable price. Ive always loved the performance the brand has been known for but im not sure how much of performance gain i will see compared to my 2080ti. Is it even worth the cost to upgrade to a 30 series? Especially if driver support probably won't last more than a couple years at best?
"Ratchet and Clank" usinng almost 16GB of VRAM for 1440p High with iGTI enable, "no, theres no problem/bad optimization in the THRASH games launched these days, this is a users VRAM lack"...
Nice video, while the used RTX 2060 is nice , the 5700xt is the budget kind at the used market right now. the RT at this performance level is useless, and while DLSS is better FSR 2 does decent enough job at 1440 and above at the balanced and quality preset, at 1080p both FSR and DLSS look bad so it's to avid using them.
cant believe I spent £500 on this card and seeing it go for the price it is now. nothing bad to really say about the card, tbh, just payed way too much for it.
Good video. Stay away from the Gigabyte "Windforce" rtx 2060 & 2070's, they use the same fans and they are absolute garbage, I've changed the 2060's fans 3x's and the 2070's fans 2x's. The 2070 also runs hot. The next time their fans die, they go on marketplace for dirt cheap.
Last Feb I bought a second hand rtx 2060 for $380 USD while swapping it for my 1050 2GB. I was desperate at the time as my GPU was showing its age and thought it was a steal since the GPU prices at the time looked like they'd only follow an upwards trend. Looking back, I'm not sure if I made the right choice but I'm still happy with it now and am enjoying games like RE4 Remake without any hiccups and Halo Infinite's multiplayer at over 120fps on low :).
It’s still hilarious that the 2060, that in the us is commonly found for $100-130, is just 30% worse than the 4060 Nvidia is attempting to sell for $300. Still working backwards 5 years later.
@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716 and?
@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716not worth it for more than double the price
A 2060 gets 66% the performance of a 4060 so it's about 50% better. A 3060 is a much better price/performance competitor given it can be had for around ~$200 used with 12GB of VRAM and gets anywhere from 81% to 88% the performance of a 4060.
Not to mention the legendary 1060 6GB
@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716 pov: your a 4060 owner
You should look at the 3050 too, somehow the slowest RTX desktop card. They also made an RTX 2050 exclusive to laptops that was abysmal LOL
well if it somehow made it to 500$ Laptops then Vega 7 can f themselves lol
Ive seen 2050 max tgp gpus in laptops as low as $449. Imagine being a 10 year old playing minecraft on that instead of integrated graphics with only 8gb system ram. Id buy my kids one but thats it
3050 is slower than 2060 😂 2060 super is comparable to 3060 12gb
@@yougotdropped9741 2050's had the same core configuration as the 1650, the memory configuration of a 1650ti, with a few RT and Tensor cores thrown in. It's not a bad GPU, just a bit weird that they made such a slow ray tracing card
@@johndrippergaming2060 is just above 3050. Not even close to 3060
It is surprisingly good and I was surprised it allows Cyberpunk playing "fine" with some tweaking at 4K
It's the last "old piece" in my PC and probably retiring soon but has been a worth upgrade back when CP2077 was released for 1080p
I got a 2060S for dirt cheap, it works really good for VR
The Super is an ever so slightly shortened 2070. Just got one myself very very inexpensively.
and the S gives you 8GB instead of 6
@@joshbrobud8358 Not to mention the 256-bit memory bus 🔥
@@greatwavefan397 and more core count
I haven't change my GTX 1080 since i got it when it released, to be honest it's one of the best purchases i ever made
Nah Nvidia just screwed up on their pricing from their pov as of now😅
I have one of those as well. It plays everything and has been remarkably durable.
Honestly, those who bought gtx 1080 or the Ti version don't even need to upgrade (if you don't care about all the new AAA games with "max settings"). One of the best gpus or even THE BEST in my opinion.
A new API can and probably will come out relatively soon that doesn't support 10-series cards. If you can find one, a 2060 Super is a better buy than a 1080 and performs better too. Not as good as a 1080ti though, when comparing it with the vanilla 1080, it's a no-brainer since they can be found for around the same price on the used market.@@ItzMeKarizma
Unless you're looking for 1440p or 4K high refresh modern gaming, you shouldn't have to upgrade till Nvidia kills driver support for that series of cards.
Or if you want RT, but that remains incredibly niche even five years after it was first implemented in games.
Got a 2060 12 gb version last month (in India) which is by my testings quite faster than the standard 2060 6gb as it has the cores of the 2060 super and is built on the board of a 3060 12 gb. It also overclocks quite well. Overall am much happy with this deal which i got for 160 usd or 13500 rs! (Comes with 4 years of warrantt as provided by zotac)
amazing find
oh yea i forgot nvidia brought back the rtx 2060 12gb to combact the scalpers in 2020
up until now i haven't heard of 2060 12GB , to find one in Malaysia is near impossible
If it's found for a decent price, I must say it's quite a good value for money. Especially for college students like me. Runs everything at ultra to max settings easily and the extra vram helps in titles like witcher 3 and cyberpunk especially with RT on. I even tried the overdrive mode in cyberpunk and it ran...well at acceptable above 30+ frames with performance dlss at 1080p though it did not look very acceptable🤡
@@kotalsyndrome6350 i use 2060 6 gb in 2023 games 6 gb vram is big limitation still usable with lower texture quality i also have zotac 2060 the fact that it does nt have a fan stop function when idle bothers me else its a great card
I loved my 2060! I upgraded to a 2060 and 3600x in 2020 right before the 3000 series released. I bought the 2060 used for $270 back then and used it from 2020-2022. It really kept me busy during the pandemic and played any game I wanted at 1080p high settings. I ended up upgrading in late 2022 but I gave my 2060 to my cousin who plays a bunch of esports titles so it is more than enough for that at 1080p nowadays. Great to see its still chugging along with newer games with tweaked settings
With my Palit RTX 2060 what impressed me most is that at 700mV (lowest available), I can run it at 1600MHz and only lose 7-9% of my fps. This results in a power draw of 85 watts, down from 160 watts. With my tuned Ryzen 5 5600, which draws 45 watts while gaming, my combined power draw is only 130 watts at the heaviest moments of any game. It's crazy efficient.
I have a 1440p monitor, and if I don't aim for high settings and instead tune them manually and turn on DLSS, I can still get around 90 fps. This is what I do, because I can't play at 60 fps.
Smart move my guy, sadly here it goes for 170euros on second hand and its very rare😅
Impressive. I got my 4070ti from 285w down to about 170 with next to no performance loss. I think it's like 4% on average and I could claw back that performance if I overclocked the VRAM but not gonna both as gddr6x can run quite hot.
I have rtx2060 6gb and play bf5 in 2k at high settings and get stable 85-95 fps with frame cap at 95
Id love to see more DLSS with this card especially at 4k. My favorite idea about DLSS is how it can be used to boost visuals on these cards to play games like consoles do.
As an AMD guy, their recent frame generation tech is very very nice. DLSS has been badass for years, and I can't wait to see how both companies develop frame gen in the future.
Picked up a 2060 12GB new for $180 USD tax in. Where I am, you couldn't even get a 6600 new for that. It was minimum $214, and at the time $230. About 16% savings for about as much in cut performance. Not bad with 3 year warranty. If you go used, 2060 and even 2060 Supers can be found locally for $113.
I didn't even know 2060 came in 12gbs. That's pretty cool
Where can I find one? The still sell online?
@@T.Lspitz It was a chain PC shop clearing out their last 2060 stock.
@@bumbaclot813 more than the 4060
Used rtx 2060 pricing are about the same as used 6600s over here.
Though 6600 at this price is harder to find because it almost sells out instantly
I wish pictures could be posted in the comments section..
The 2 PC builds i saw at work last night was jaw dropping. Both were Dell workstations sporting TWO 4090 strix cards EACH and the newest gen Xeon W7 processors with 56 cores clocked up to 4ish Ghz.
....but why?
Truly unbeatable value
you should make a video reviewing the dell optiplex 9020 midtowers for cheap gaming pc options by slapping graphic cards and new psu's into them, id feel like that would be really interesting
Yes, i think that's interesting idea.
It's a neat idea, but it has been done litteraly a 100 times by tech youtubers.
I can't promise that exact video, but I have something coming up in August and September which might interest you.
Still rocking my STRIX OC GTX 970 at 1080p for about 8 years now. No problems what's so ever.
do you plan to upgrade anytime soon?
I think I'll wait until next year when i replace my whole system. Maybe a 5070@@RonMarrionTChan
hoping for a great new build. props to your current pc for lasting that long@@joshbrobud8358
Playing TLOU on this card was the wake up call that convinced me it was finally time to upgrade. The VRAM demand at launch (before all the patches) completely blindsided me, even at 1080p. Before that, I was running a 980 from 2014 up until 2021, where I managed to snag a 2060 6GB for cheap amid the shortage craze.
It fought like a champ for those two years, but between TLOU and Jedi Survivor, playing games at higher settings just wasn't panning out anymore. Upgraded to a 4080 in May and the jump was absolutely insane. I'm kinda glad I didn't wait for the 4060 and saved up the extra cash for the higher tier card, because the state of the 060 cards for this gen is truly pathetic.
In regards to the 5700xt, it would be very interesting to see a 2060+DLSS comparison with a 5700xt native performance. Food for thought, and as always, a very entertaining video!
The 5700XT can use FSR and, despite being much more powerful than the 2060, you can have it for roughly the same price, what would be the point?
The Cyberpunk requirements basically imply upscalers enabled, confirmed by a dev (or community manager) on the CDPR forums.
Only for the rt overdrive right? With the 4080?
@@narottamakarunanidhi1731 No, the new requirements imply the use of upscalers for all Presets and GPUs listed there. I can't remember if it's Quality or Performance preset, but definitely Upscalers are used in their charts.
@@raresmacovei8382 damn, the 2060 with dlss is the minimum req? Scary
@@narottamakarunanidhi1731 I'd expect CB77 to become heavier on both the GPU and CPU with the revamp they're trying to do with patch 2.0/Phantom Liberty. So it's expected.
Hey, I was after an RX 580 from that miner, they seemed nice. I recognised the seller's listings in your last video (how sad is that.) Love the channel by the way.
I have it, but I bought it at a terrible time when the price dropped a bit and I didn't know how the crypto market was, if I waited a couple of months I would buy an RX 6700 or at least a 3060 (or a second-hand rtx 2080 ), even so it has served me so far and I have not had an urgency to change it. I like how easy it is to undervolt and go down to 30W-20W in consumption.
May I ask how cause I tried on mine using MSI afterburner and even though the voltage went down the tdp is still the same (by the reading of MSI afterburner) I benchmark on furmark
I also use MSI afterburner, I tried 1 program and a game (3DMark and CP77 the ultra with RT) after the normal procedure which is to see the maximum frequency in the 2 softwares (although I think one was enough, it was the first Undervolt that I was doing) that it reached in stock I started adjusting the curve a bit, I set the voltage to 0.931 at the maximum frequency that it reached, which was 1935Mhz and there it stopped crashing with the programs I used, the watt range that I lowered was that between 20 to 30w, take into account that the exact model is a ventus MSI OC
I forgot to mention that along with that I lowered the power limit to 87%-90%
@@jose2822 so probably was that cause otherwise for me the power use is the same
@@giorgiogalli6176 Yes, lower the power limit with addition to the undervolt for the voltage curve doing trial and error with a couple of programs to see that everything is fine, you can raise the memory clock a bit to see, but honestly I couldn't tell you since it gave me some glicht and I'm not very expert in the undervolt
The 2070 super can be found around £150 used, for that price it's fantastic
There’s a lot of value there.
With how underwhelming the recent mid-range offerings have been, it might be worth grabbing one of these and muddling through until there’s a serious generational improvement in GPU’s (if you really need a GPU).
i have this exact model of 2060, honestly it runs everything i want to run but its loud like very loud
Thank you so much, I was waiting for this review
I enjoyed the video and your weather forecast on upcoming lows
My RTX 2060 is still hangin in there. Just checked the vram other day to see if I have Micron or Hynix with 08 date code. I have Samsung, thankfully not prone to the same failure as the other two.
Interesting, it holds up decently especially when one considers that 2000 series was considered pretty bad when it launched. The price is ok but considering that RT isn't great on it a 5700xt might be a better buy as it is a similar price. Still, DLSS seems really good and cool (I can't personally say as I've never had a GPU with access to it) but it is a shame that it lacks later RTX card functions.
My cousin has a 2060 and hes happy with it so I imagine most people are - I do wonder how much life it will have in it as VRAM gets more and more demanding and the 6gb is already being squeezed.
I always felt a lot of the negativity around the 20 series was down to perception. Prices went up by a lot in some cases, and the highlight features of RT and DLSS didn't have much use at the time. They were always solid performers, just pricey for what they offered.
And yes, I'm far more in favour of the RX 5700 XT, especially at its current price!
Yeah the price hike was actually pretty similar to what Nvidia and AMD(lesser extent but still applicable) are trying now. The 2060 was priced like a 1070 and was mostly better but the 10 series in general offered massive performance jumps at great prices.
Far better buy imo is a 2060 Super as at least that does have that extra 2Gb of VRAM and overall is a nifty little card.
im looking forward to replacing my good old RX580 to a 2060 Super sometime in the near future since the price is super competitive right now
I have a rtx 4080
5700xts are super cheap on ebay, some even less than 150 dollars here in the US.
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I just kinda did that same upgrade, except I traded my RX580 for a common 2060 6gb. I kinda miss its 8gb vram, but it runs great. But, if I were to do the same again, I'd probably wait a bit more and get a 2070 or a 2060 super.
Get 6600, 8gb and can do 1440p much better
hey I have the exact same one, replaced the thermal paste and pads recently, suprisingly quiet
I don’t know if you’ve done something like it yet but I’ve been wondering how the 2060 super compares in 2023? as I personally recommended it to a friend of mine given the great used market pricing in my area😊
I was on a 2060 super until February (new PC, a 4070 Ti), and it's definitely still a good value card. The last big game I played on it was Hogwarts Legacy, and I was pretty easily able to stay around 70-80fps with settings tweaks (no RT)
The super is excellent. Good recommendation.
I've not seen any compelling deals on the 2060 super lately, but I may be getting my hands on a 2070 soon.
@@alan-danielbut why did you upgrade then?
@@mart43 because I wanted more than 70-80 fps on 1080p medium-ish settings
Now I get 100+ fps on 1440p max/high settings in most things
love these longer videos!
Still waiting on that Titan XP video, hopefully, you will have access someday soon!
It seems to have gotten pushed down my priority list lately, sorry!
Honestly Nvidia should've just called this card the GTX 2060, then give the rest of the line up the RTX branding since this card was barely able to put out anything playable with RT on.
RTX 2060 + CRT Monitor + DisplayPort to VGA cheap converter = tru enlightenment
Good luck enabling Raytracing on that card heh. Still a solid rasterization card.
the 2070 and 2080 are only a bit more expensive they are much better value and can play 1440p very well
no man they draw lots of power,3000 series is cheaper so they dont make sense
@@lebedev6954 rtx 3060 is more expensive than 2070 super and the 2070 super is faster. you dont understand.
@@LolJolk still,more power efficent and dlss 2
@@lebedev6954 bruh you are paying more for less performance you dont understand, if you wanna spend more just get rtx 4060
I think CDPR meant the 12GB 2060 for CP2077 at 1440p.
But if they did, they should probably mention it.
They for sure didn't mean native resolution. DLSS2 replaces game's TAA implementation which isn't very good, and DLSS2 Quality at 1440p is only 960p internal render resolution.
07:00, as we can see the gpu ran out of vram, power draw dropped heavily. You should have decreased settings further to make sure the game doesn't use more than 6gb, fps would definitely be up in the 60s. CDPR always targets 30fps with their system requirements btw, cause they always forget to optimize their games.
I bought the Super variant for the 8 chip memory config, the 1060 it replaced started struggling with bandwidth even in 2020. I remember the abuse Nvidia got from this release when it was in fact the last big upgrade in a 60 card, it is around 50% stronger than a 1060 6GB.
50% stronger than a 1060 6GB, but it came to market for £350. Pretty much a couple of months later, the RX 5700XT's were £330. The AMD card being some 40% faster, and costing LESS.
Lets be honest, even the 2060S wasn't a good deal, with it pretty much equalling a 5600XT, but costing 30% more.
Definitely a good upgrade from an old card, but then .... so is everything else.
2060 just totally incapable of RTX. Overpriced. Might look good vs an ancient 1060 6GB. But was a very bad choice to make at the time. Even though 6x more people made the bad choice, over the smart kids who bought the 5700XT.
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The 1060 was £280 in reality in 2016, context. Yes the 5700XT is a brilliant card, I wanted an RX5700XT but the best I could get a retail was a 2060S. If I'd gone 1 day earlier I'd have bought a 2070Super.
@@darthwiizius It wasn''t brother. The 1060 3GB was around £215, and the 1060 6GB could be had for £240. The price came down even further, once the RX580 came out a few months later. Used to sell tons of 1060's at the computer shop.
I dunno. Way I see it, anyone who bought a 2060 or 2060S, was making a terrible decision. I get it that, 80% of people buy nVidia "no matter what". At the shop, we sold 8x more 1050Ti's, for example, at £190, when the RX570's were 30-40% faster and cost £190 ALSO! Even when we showed people, on the test bench before their eyes, how much faster the AMD card was! It's surreal. Reason we did it, not just being kind to our gaming customers, but our trade supplier gave us more margin on 570's than 1050Ti's. Didn't matter! People just bought the crappier card! Over and over!
But yeah - I always kept a close eye on cards back then. And eBuyer were literally selling 2060's for the same price as the lowest priced 5700XT's. Same with Scan, Overclockers, all of them. I used to joke with the guy at Overclockers when buying bulk through trade ... why do you have SO many 5700XT's in stock, when they are so fast for the money? He said the same. "People just love the Nvidia brand......".
Insane.
in my experience, a 6gb 2060 with a decent cpu is more than enough for ultra 1080 60fps, even in cyberpunk thanks to dlss
I have a 3060, running a 1440p monitor, and in Spider-Man DLSS just doesn't work that well, it doesn't seem to make any difference for me even on the Performance setting. FSR on the other hand works really well and helps me stick above 60FPS even with the settings all on High using a Ryzen 5 1600AF. To be fair ever since I upgraded to the 5600X as a CPU I've not needed any upscaling to achieve that 60FPS. It perhaps drops below 60 a little more often but if I didn't have a frame counter on I don't think I'd actually notice.
Yeah, I think sony broke the DLSS feature
@@SummonerArthur I would like to think it wasn't on purpose but I am silly that way. After all the PS5 is a AMD powered system and FSR working better on a game built to run on AMD hardware isn't a great surprise.
i actually put a Gigabyte RTX 2060 into my old alienware X51 R2 and the only adjustment was getting a 2 6 pin adapter to 8 pin adapter and setting the power limit to 90%. works great as an emulation machine that connects to my 4k TV.
My 2060 in my laptop will do me just fine for many years, got in in 2018 I think.
1080p it's great.
Still a perfectly good midrange GPU.
I have bought 5600xt, 5700, and 5700xt locally on second hand market for less than what a 2060 goes for. Those are much better deals as they perform equal or better than a 2060. AMD is the value buy right now for budget builds, and this is coming from someone that's been team green for his entire life 😅
5600XT is around 10% faster than a 2060. 5700XT is around 40% faster than a 2060. You can get a 5600XT for £80-£90 here in the UK from Gumtree. 5700XT's for around £140. It's a no brainer.
No point discussing RTX. The 2060 was incapable of turning on those features even back on release. Today, it would die a death.
@@TheVanillatech You mean even more DEATH than all those Radeon's?
@@WanderfalkeAT Come again? Please explain what you mean, in detail, so I can follow what you're saying. Be sure to include references and statistics from credible sources, obviously multiple, so we aren't just talking in riddles.
"DEATH like all those Radeons" is so incredibly fucking vague! Isn't it?
Theres a good chap.
@@TheVanillatech bro, 2nd 5700xt here in Vietnam is somewhere 90-130 USD.
Yeah mate. Deep in the rainforest, that tribe of 5700XT hoarding pygmies.
in September 2023 I bought a rtx 2060 6gb for 140 euros used like new.
Never overclocked
I have ordered the exact one , got it on eBay for 145 Pounds
I love Watching this as my rtx 3060 Laptop GPU 105w TDP Gigabyte G5 laptop is Around the performance to a RTX 2060 Desktop and both are 6GB.
i was planning on getting a 12gb 2060, but could only found the 6gb version in my country, so decided to get a 2060 super 8gb instead, waiting for it to arrive
get the rtx 3060 12gb then
@@kenkusagami well too late, already ordered it
im still rocking rtx 2060, but the 6gb version (also galax) with r5 2600 and 16gb 3200mhz ram, too broke for a upgrade💀💀
I had a Golden sample Rtx2060 and overclocked it near 2060 super levels of performance awesome little card.
6:26 That is quite a high resolution :0
160:9 is a perfectly reasonable aspect ratio imo
@@IcebergTech You should put whatever monitor you're using on the list of things to review XD
I recently bought a 2060 for £110, I played Death Stranding 4k with DLSS and it worked well. A very good buy.
I really do think the 2060 is a good price atm, it’s one of those cards you can almost definitely buy off a friend for £100 and get a really decent card and it runs most games. Most ppl who got one when it’s new are upgrading now so loads are on the market
Although I'm more of a console player, this card still impresses me even today
But it also cost 0 to keep 1060 if you own one already and play at 1080p, suprisingly it still can handle latest games. So far looked into upgrading to 3060 then to 4060 but it seems i will also skip 5060 and might get 6060 if this continues.
I have a Rtx 3070ti and I don’t plan on upgrading till 60 series as well
The problem is that some non-Super RTX 2000 series, are at risk of having faulty VRAM, warns northwestrepair, who is phenomenal at repairing video cards. If it's got Micron VRAM manufactured before 2019.
I hate to say it but 6 GB really isn't enough at 1080p anymore.
"We have RT at home" type of card
I bought a second hand system 2700x CPU, 32gb ram, 2x1tb nvme, and rtx 2060 8gb. I have to say I'm not disappointed with it the graphics card certainly holds up to most games on high settings
I just finished building my first PC, which has a Ryzen APU. for the first time In my life I'm looking at graphics cards with real consideration. As someone who has literally been gaming for only 1 week. I have to say the GPU market can be super confusing and even more expensive in my country. They are selling a PAlit 1650 4GB for $200. used 1060s for $80. 4060s for $450. RX 580s for $150... it's all over the place. The RX 7600 is $367.... so as a new-comer to this, I think I will wait a year or two for everyone to get their Sh** together. In a 3 years they won't know what to do with these GPus they're holding on to
Tomorrow i'm getting 1080ti for 150 euro :D Can't wait!
As a 2060 owner, I’m super happy with it
MY GPUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
11:00 nice👌
Looking at those prices and laughing about the £270 I sold my 2060 for 2 years ago.
I use an RTX 2060 Palit GP 6gb and im very satisfied with it, it plays all my games with more than ok settings.
King level card.
Where I live the RTX 2060 and 2070 have so much price overlap you might as well get the 2070
Growing up playing the PS2 and Xbox 360 the PAL 50FPS experience is the minimum for me certainly.
I still have it afther 3 years now paired with the R5 5600, and i must say continues to be a decent 1080p 60fps gpu if you dont mind to low the settings in some games, thinking to upgrade to a 4060 if it drops below 300€ tho, but im not worried if i have to keep it for like 1 or 2 more years if that doesnt happen soon tbh.
Why would you even consider a 4060? Did you not see every single benchmark review online calling it an absolutely TERRIBLE card?
Get a used 2080Ti or 6800.
My friend's been running an RTX 2060 (ITX version) with an i7-3770k with a decade old motherboard and he says its very good for 1080p gaming.
I would get the AMD 5600XT over the 2060, its a little faster in most games (5-7%) and a lot cheaper in the used market ($30 less). That's a double plus in value that is impossible to ignore. Useful video, thank you.
5600xt 2nd market is between the rage 60-90$.
I would love to see a side by of a nvidia vs amd picture quality with dual systems and different screens on film, Last year i had a 6800xt and wound up being gifted a rtx 3080 yes free and i was excited as that was the gpu i wanted since 2020 yet after i took out the 6800xt and plopped in the 3080 i was just not impressed at all.
I went from thinking i settled for the 6800xt upgrading a from a 1080 ti then getting a 3080 and selling it after i tried gifting it back as i didn't want to hurt any feelings, text was blurrier even after doing all i could in nvidia control panel colors just weren't as good either and ray tracing wasn't even worth the perf loss and realized i loved my rx 6800xt lmfao.
I feel like if any youtuber could pull it off it would be u man way underrated channel but the quality is fantastic! keep up the good work.
It's a good idea, but I am red-green colour blind. I don't think anyone's gonna take my advice regarding colour reproduction!
@@IcebergTechohh lol i see its not even that i think i figured out watching videos today anyway yeah nvidia just looks more blurry less detail as far as i can see like its not even rendering all of the image.
Would recommend the 2060 or 1660 super ? Asking because I’m making a pc for a lit cousin that’s turning 12 later this month but don’t want to break the bank.
Of the two, I'd say the 2060 is worth the money. If you have the option, the Radeon RX 5700 or 5700 XT are even better performance , and sell for very similar prices.
im very happy to be running the rtx 2060
I have an EVGA 2080ti and 2070 super but i really want to get a EVGA 3060 or a 3080ti or 3090 ect.. before its to late and there are no more evga cards left for a reasonable price.
Ive always loved the performance the brand has been known for but im not sure how much of performance gain i will see compared to my 2080ti.
Is it even worth the cost to upgrade to a 30 series?
Especially if driver support probably won't last more than a couple years at best?
The background music really hits different.
Add Metro Exodus to benchmarks. Thank you.
I love my 12GB OC 2060. And this is on a 9th gen with 32GB DDR4. I run a 34 EW MSI at high 1440P.
For Spider-Man pc the reason why frames dropped is because Dlss also uses vram resources
"Ratchet and Clank" usinng almost 16GB of VRAM for 1440p High with iGTI enable, "no, theres no problem/bad optimization in the THRASH games launched these days, this is a users VRAM lack"...
wow i wish i could buy gpu with those price.
Nice video, while the used RTX 2060 is nice , the 5700xt is the budget kind at the used market right now. the RT at this performance level is useless, and while DLSS is better FSR 2 does decent enough job at 1440 and above at the balanced and quality preset, at 1080p both FSR and DLSS look bad so it's to avid using them.
Got an RTX 2060 Super for $220. Best deal I ever got for the price.
cant believe I spent £500 on this card and seeing it go for the price it is now. nothing bad to really say about the card, tbh, just payed way too much for it.
Used market is amazing
My friend got lately rtx 2070 super for just 130€, great deal.
Just found a RTX 2060 Super for £100 flat. Extremely tempted to nip it up.
Good video. Stay away from the Gigabyte "Windforce" rtx 2060 & 2070's, they use the same fans and they are absolute garbage, I've changed the 2060's fans 3x's and the 2070's fans 2x's. The 2070 also runs hot. The next time their fans die, they go on marketplace for dirt cheap.
Last Feb I bought a second hand rtx 2060 for $380 USD while swapping it for my 1050 2GB. I was desperate at the time as my GPU was showing its age and thought it was a steal since the GPU prices at the time looked like they'd only follow an upwards trend. Looking back, I'm not sure if I made the right choice but I'm still happy with it now and am enjoying games like RE4 Remake without any hiccups and Halo Infinite's multiplayer at over 120fps on low :).
*it was overpay but enjoy what can i say
@@lebedev6954 That should give you an idea for what prices are in the secondhand market for my country at the time
RTX 2060 is more powerful than 3050 lol
even in ray tracing? I thought rtx 3050 has better ray tracing
@@idk_eon maybe 3050 has better ray tracing
11:01 Nice
What can you say about rtx 2060 specifically for video editing in 2023? I use premiere pro
Thanks!
From my understanding you wouldn't use DLSS at 1080p ANYWAY since it kills image quality.
This test actually shows how 6gb vram limits nvdia card performance these days. what if 2060 had at least 8gb, fps would've been more.
Bro i bought it when it was $800 aud because i couldnt wait for prives to go down 💀
Thank you
If you don't ill say it. NOICE. 11:01
If only gaming on a laptops can be affordable as desktop
I just search our local used market(7/29), the cheapest one is 3000 NTD which is around 75£.
Oh, and it seems like the same model in the video.