Don't worry, guys! Going from a 2060 to a 4060 will give you a whole TWO EXTRA gbs in vram! At this rate, a 60-class GPU will finally have 10gbs by 2025!
The 2060 Super is a gem. Everybody forgets that it has 2 more gigs of VRAM. Also, it's a bigger performance jump from the regular 2060 than you'd think.
@@glens18account No, it's not. A PS5's GPU is more comparable to a 6700 XT, which is closer to a 2080 ti in performance if we're talking about RTX 20 series GPUs
Hope you can try a 2070 Super after the 4060 comes out - they should have very similar performance on paper, so it would be interesting to see if that holds up across different games and especially different ray tracing settings!
You should make a video testing the 2060 12gb today, you did another video bashing it over a year ago. But now it might be interesting to see how it performs in vram constrained scenarios, especially against the 3060 or even the upcoming 4060.
Looking at other benchmarks it seems as though there is only maybe a 7-8 fps frame drop down from a 12GB RTX-3060 to 12GB RTX-2060 which is pretty negligible, but as the 2060-12GB is currently selling for more than a 12GB-3060 then you might as well go for the 3060-12GB. The cheapest 3060-12GB on eBay is around 220 where as the cheapest 2060 12G is around 254,. I assume the only reason is that it is much harder to find card. Only really worth buying one if it can be had for 170-180 or under in my opinion
@@LC-ig5hp that's pretty interesting, I just checked local prices, and while the 3060 12gb isn't cheaper, it's about the same price than the 2060 12gb. And yes, it's also more ubiquitous, so your scarcity theory must be right. BTW, I don't get why the difference in performance is so small, the 3060 should be a lot better given the core config. Bandwidth is similar to the 2060, but I don't think it's a limiting factor, I don't know what I'm missing here.
@@sovo1212Yes that was based off eBay listenings here in the UK. I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that the 2060 12gb was less limited/cutdown than the other cards but the generation on generation performance is almost none existent especially when compared to the 3070, 3080 where the higher uplift in performance is substantial compared to 2070, 2080 cards.
@@sovo1212 I found some information below which explains why the 12gb is faster.....Having the same CUDA core count as the RTX 2060 SUPER means the RTX 2060 12 GB has more RT cores (34 vs. 30) and Tensor cores (272 vs. 240) than the original RTX 2060. Interestingly, the card's typical board power is higher, at 185 W, as opposed to 175 W with the RTX 2060 SUPER. This probably has to do with the double-density memory chips, or NVIDIA simply giving it more boosting headroom. The maximum boost frequency is set at 1650 MHz, which is the same as the RTX 2060 SUPER.
Very enjoyable and informative videos. Always loved your PC part reviews. Been watching you since 2017. The style has stayed the same since then which I love the most to be honest. Keep it up mate! :)
I literally received an EVGA bstock 2060 SC that I got on a great deal for $130, today. I've been incredibly excited for this GPUs, especially with DLSS/FSR, and some minor ray tracing. What a great card for it's age.
I bought the 2060 when my 660 ti croaked. 3 years later, and I still don’t regret my decision. You could probably get away with pairing it with a 4th-6th Gen i7 and it would still run very well over 60fps in most games. You’ll probably have a little bottleneck but nothing too egregious.
I got a 2060 mobile laptop for less than $600 used, and this little thing is a trooper. Plays everything I want it to play, and even can do 1440p in the older titles I enjoy the most. Best part--it doesn't kick ridiculous amounts of heat into my room during the hot ass TX summer. Super glad with my purchase.
@@RandomGaminginHD you are partly the reason of why I love computer hardware and finding the best for the cheapest price. Thank you for the content you produce.
Ive been running a zotac 2060 for a few years now and i love it. I dont think they will have a card worth upgrading to for at least a few years given how small of an improvement the 4000 series is over the 3000.
dude just finished watching this video, was planning on selling my RTX 2060 to buy a RX 7600 but after watching this video i am going to wait rather for a gpu that makes sense for it's price. Geez it holds up well.
@@eltonwaynewilliams4152 Yeah, generally i think waiting atleast 3 generations to get a new card of the same tier is the best way to go about it. There are GPUs with good price for performance now, like a cheap 6700xt, but nothing that i think makes for a worthy upgrade to a 2060 on the same card tier.
I'm impressed by how well it still holds up. I remember back when it launched a lot of people said "just get a cheaper 1060 or 1660 instead" or "if you want ray tracing then save up and get a 2070 instead" so that led me to believe that this card was very undesirable. Seeing it perform this well in 2023 showed me otherwise.
I was looking for a new graphics card when the 20 series was the top tier, but my budget was my limiting factor, so I was indeed looking at a 2060 or a 1660 super. At that time, I think the 1660 super made more sense. It was quite a bit cheaper and performance was really not much worse. The extra features of the 2060 such as DLSS and raytracing weren't really a thing yet back then, so I can imagine that that's why a lot of people that were in a situation comparable to mine said to get a 1660 instead. That being said, it indeed does not perform poorly at all, but I still think that of my 1660 super too, so perhaps I am not the right person to ask 😆
@@16xthedetail76it didn’t improve because of drivers. rtx 2060 was good at launch, people just didn’t buy it because of the price + the fact that the price seems unjustified and it seemed like nvidia just wasted money on rt cores while ray tracing was still garbage.
My first and only Founder's Edition card was a RTX 2060 Super in 2020...I paid $419 USD for it brand new, at the time the most I'd ever spent on a GPU!! BOY have things changed in a major way since purchasing the RTX 4080 a couple of months ago! Good video, I think the 2060 is a decent card for what it is.
@@thomasb282 Same situation! I got one used for $270 in 2020 and it got me through the pandemic until 2022 when I eventually upgraded. I gave the 2060 to my cousin who plays a bunch of esports titles
@@rustyclark2356 haha yeah its definitely a weird feeling being the owner of a 4000 card right now. I didn't like that I spent $800 on a 4070ti, but at the end of the day it had the performance and power consumption I wanted in a card. If anything, you actually have the better price to performance gpu. The 4090 was the only card to have a very sizable uplift in performance over its predecessor compared to the others. That card will last you years to come and crush any game you need it to!
The 2060 is a great card. I run the 12gb version, as it was the same price as the 6gb version. I use it primarily for VRC and Neos. It delivers a decent for vr experience. I will say that vr chat cranked settings in a busy world will eat all 12gb of ram.
i have a laptop with a mobile 2060 running at 90w and i typically get 150-190fps on Overwatch 2 at high-ultra, and 120-150fps on apex at med-high. I know these are not exactly hard games to run but the GPU is still pretty good even in a laptop imo
I bought the EVGA Rtx 2060 KO model and it does awesome. I think the Vram issue is a little overblown. You can count on one hand the games that need more than 8 gb of ram. It will be 4 or 5 years til you reliably need more then 8 gb vram. Reminds me of the 4 cores is not enough to game argument. Great video thanks for sharing.
The problem is that these games that need more than 8gb of vram are all new games. And I believe the number of new AAA games that do not need more than 8gb of vram to run are even fewer than those that do.
@@mingyi456 You can count on one or maybe two hands how many games actually need more then 8 GB of Vram to run. Yes more and more games will start to need more then 8 Gb but it will take years til even 50% require that. Do you thing game devs want to eliminate a HUGE portion of their game sales by requiring so much Vram just to plat the game?
@@johntotten4872 There is such a huge backlog of old pc games that it will take many years for games that require more than 8gb of vram to make up a significant proportion of all pc games. But it is stupid to benchmark a gpu based on old games, especially considering that gpu prices have been increasing way faster than inflation can account for. Of course a 3060ti or 4060ti can play all games released in 2018 and earlier, but would you spend a highly nontrivial amount of money on a brand new gpu just to play old games? Of course your goal of buying that 8gb gpu is to play modern games, but many recent games are starting to overwhelm the 8gb buffer even at 1080p. Game devs risk alienating the vast population of 8gb gpu owners by releasing games that require more than 8gb, but 8gb has been the norm for very long already. They have been warning people for quite some time that this has been limiting them, and they need to move forward at some point. At this point, their only options besides simply using more than 8gb of vram are to : 1) Make their new game the same way as older games are made, without making use of new technologies made available by newer game engines. This will result in a game that does not look significantly better than an older game, and gamers will complain about this anyway. 2) Spend a disproportionate amount of time on optimisation to fit within the 8gb buffer, which leads to long delays (and the game studio needs to release the game at some point, or else they cannot afford to keep paying their devs without the revenue). Delay too long and a game originally meant to release in 2023 with breathtaking visuals for a 2023 game might end up releasing in 2025 instead, and end up looking much more mundane compared to other 2025 games. Basically, gamers want to play games with better visuals, and game devs want to make games with better visuals, but 8gb of vram has been limiting the devs for years, and the optimisation work required to fit better and better looking games into a 8gb buffer is getting more and more time consuming, to the point it is going to become unviable soon.
I do think you need to point out to people that the team behind the graphics in Forza are basically the best programmers of their current generation. What they have done really shows up the lack of professional standards in the rest of the industry - in my opinion.
I was going to get a 2060 around 2019 but ended up getting a 1660 super instead. That lasted me until the end of 2022 when I got a big upgrade, a 6700xt! Next gen gaming is awesome on the 6700xt.
Just copped this exact HP model from everyone's favourite high street trade in store this week to put in a small build of mine. I was a bit uncertain but glad to hear it still holds up. Should be finishing the build later today so fingers crossed 🤞
I bought a 6GB RTX 2060 a year ago after switching from console to PC. I bought a 1440p 165Hz monitor with it a i5-10400F processor. It runs Rust with 70+ fps on high/max settings. It runs Arma 3 with high/ultra high settings on 40-50 fps. It runs Valheim, Enshrouded type open world games with high settings 50+ fps. I played RDR2 on high settings with 60+ fps. Mind you these all ran on 2560x1440 resolution. The only game my pc struggles to run is Gray Zone Warfare but that game is a hot mess right now. Im not an expert in PC's but this card is amazing and shocks me how good it performs honestly. If you run a 1080p screen, this card is more than enough to run any game.
I m one of those oldies still rocking a rtx 2060 and I ain't in no rush to grab, I play dying light 2 with RT ON and DLSS BALANCED at constant 60FPS. this is one of those rare gems from Nvidia aging like a fine wine.
This all correlates with my experience with the 2060 ti I purchased during the "pandemic". Works even better when overclocked too ,consider making a video.
The 2060 is still pretty capable except for the slim vram margins. There are 2060s with 12gb of vram out in the wild too. Be interesting to see you do a comparison of the two if you can pick one up because they're supposed to have more cuda cores and such as well so might have a bit more poke. By a cool experiment anyway!
I also have one of the 12gb versions. More memory but same bus width as the 6gb version rather than the improved 256 bit bus width of the Super. That has it landing between the 6gb and Super in gaming performance, sometimes favoring one or the other. Where I enjoyed testing it was in the recent memory hungry titles, it did pretty well after first trying my 3070 8gb.
TechPowerUP reviewed a Zotac model (same clocks as reference specs), and on average it was 7% faster then the 2060 6GB and 6% slower than a 2060 Super.
@@offspringfan89 Yeah it doesn't seem additional ram really helps much. I have a 2060 6gb and a Radeon RX 580 4gb. I've looked at comparisons between 6gb and 12gb / 4gb and 8gb and the difference is really negligible. You might get 5fps better but that's about it.
after watching this video i am not going to sell my RTX 2060, this reminded me how good this GPU is. I was thinking of going for a RX 7600 but price for the performance i might as well save up for a better gpu.Once again great video dude.
I have been building PCs for a long time and yeah, hold on to stuff. I look back at every video card I have owned and I either gave them away to friends or sold them and I wish I hadn't. Well the only card I didn't care for was the GeForce 4 which I actually have no idea what I did with it. Luckily my GeForce 3 is still working and it's in a friend's retro PC, he loves it as much as I did.
Tips for improving Vram usage. Use DLSS or FSR in every game that is very vram demanding using any upscaling tech would decrease your resolution hence leaving you more vram space
Had this hp model. Common issue with it is vram overheating. There no contact with the terrible shroud. Any shooter I ran other then CSGO crashed. Replaced it with a 5600xt. No regrets
I love my 2060. I mainly play older titles at 1080p 165hz and it runs amazing. Plus I have the Zotac model and it looks sleek, so I’m just gonna keep it as long as I can.
I have a Dell rtx 3080 that I bought used that had a blinding white "GEFORCE RTX" on top of the gpu. I took the shroud off and disconnected the connector going to the light. No more blinding white light for me now.
Still using my 12GB 2060 at 1080p & honestly it’s doing what I need it to quite well. Not a card for Ray Tracing, Quake 2 RTX runs great but mostly not a card for Ray Tracing.
Funny, I have one of those from my first PC, an Omen prebuilt. It had a brief stint as an overkill media encoder in my media server, and now does Blender and CAD work for designing my 3D prints.
So I got the 2060 in October 2022 for my first ever pc build. I researched a lot and got a twin fan zotac amp 2060 OC. Literally no game has given me trouble, even when people reported problems for hogwarts Legacy, besides Hogwarts itself, the open world gave me 60+ fps on high. DLSS 2.0 is a joy. Every game till 2023 is amazing. I'm a 1080p gamer so yeah, I'm set for a while.😊
Have one in my streaming system and it works great as long as you don't expect 100+fps with everything turned up. Keep the settings conservative and it will still be relevant in the next few years
i have the exact same looking card in 2060 SUPER version since Dec 2019, and there is no way I am going to sell it anytime soon. Sufficient grunt for most games in 1440p/50-60fps/MEDIUM-HIGH settings even today. Only one fan and barely makes noise even under load!
I’ve had the same model, was a BEAST! I overclocked it at +250 on core and +1000 on memory, last year I upgraded to a 6800 XT and now my old friend rocks in my brother’s pc
I bought the same model in 2021, used for about 400$, in crypto bubble, as a temporary solution but I still use it to this moment. Unfortunetly my model makes very loud noises because of coil whine and inceased fan speed in fan curve in msi afterburner (to keep gpu temp below 90 degrees...).
@@RandomGaminginHD i play the Pico 4 VR with it! at 2048x2048 per eye i'm pretty sure, all games on low settings but I'm reaching 90fps at some and 60/45 on others
I upgraded one of my older machines, after GPU prices came back down to normal levels, with a 2060 Super. I had been running a GTX 1080 in it. I passed over the 6gb 2060, because of it's lower amount of VRAM and narrower memory bus. If anyone is considering a 3050, or an 8gb 3060, I'd pass those over, and get a 2060 Super, or 2070 non-Super, instead. You'll get better performance, for less money. Any RTX 20 card, with the exception of the 6gb 2060, would make a decent upgrade for the money, if you're still using something older. Any RTX 30 card, excluding the 3050, and 8gb 3060, would also be good options. The 128 bit memory bus on those cards, really holds them back from achieving their full potential.
I bought it in 2024; arrives in 2 days! Needed something on the cheap and newegg has refurbished 12GB models. Would have gone with the RX 6600 but for same money DLSS + more vram and about the same perf. Downside is it's more power hungry.
I paid 350 for my GIgabyte 2060 back in 2020. Bitwit said I could do medium 1440 gaming with it so I got a nice 1440 monitor and said id upgrade my gpu later to utilize the 144 hz. I still havent felt the need to upgrade. Its been smooth cruising and was a good investment.
Ayyyy, I just got a defective Dell OEM rtx 2060super and I’ve been fiddling with it for about 2 days now. It crashes under full load in benchmarks and gpu heavy games but I’ve since found out you can lock the voltage and alleviate the problem, unfortunately the only voltage that works in every game is .831mv so I’m losing a ton of performance. It still beats my msi ventus 2060 and is on par with my gamingX 1080 but only barely.
540p at 1080p resolution would mean ur at 50% resolution scale which means you would be using dlss performance mode. dlss performance mode looks completely garbage at 1080p. the only setting that looks pretty good at 1080p is quality dlss. higher resolutions you can turn down the dlss setting.
@@eliothummer8919or you can realize that it's way better than fsr at same 540p resolution. Anyway,it's all about making your gou live longer . And dlss is great at it
@@jeofthevirtuoussand what i’m saying is dlss and fsr are both shit at 540p… it doesn’t matter if fsr is slightly more shit when both are completely awful.
I had a 3600x and 2060 from 2020-2022 and it treated me well for 1080p 60-144fps gaming. I ended up giving it to my cousin who plays esports titles no problem. 2060 still holds up well especially if you tweak settings
I use my rtx 2060 for 1440p gaming and I get just above 60fps in a few games although I use dlss which looks better than playing in 1080p tbf but I'm wondering if I should get a rtx 4060 ti 🤔
Recently picked up a 2060 XC direct from EVGA B-Stock for $130 USD and an i3-13100F from Best Buy for $75 USD with the plan of a budget build for my nephew, from the looks of the above, he will be quite happy!
Rtx 20 series cards are still really good. I had rtx 2060 a few months ago and it can still run games at 1440p60 with reasonable settings. DLSS and FSR2 pretty much made this gpu one of the best budget cards. 6gb vram is enough for rtx 2060 since you will probably be bottlenecked by the actual speed of the card and not the vram limitation. It is crazy how in 4 years we only went from 6 to 8gb of slower vram. I hope fsr3 frame generation will be good and rtx 2060 will still be able to play games at high settings even after 4 years.
What an incredibly sleek shroud design. Could use a littke polish on the led and backplate, but I'd love to see similar designs be more prevalent. Plain black boxes!
I still use my 2060 from 2020, and I don’t intend to swap it anytime sooner! I’ll probably redo my whole computer soon enough, I’m still running a 2700x and it’s starting to show it’s age(Bought in 2019) But I won’t change my gpu! I’ll wait for better cards, I mean, I’m still playing in 1080p.
A new in box rx 6600 is now 184 quid, i wouldnt pay more than 120 quid for a 2060. jenson gimped the vram on that to shorten its lifespan, deliberately.
Bullshit, a 12gb version of the 2060 was released. AMD fanboys live in a delusional echo chamber bubble, the 6600 is MUCH WORSE at raytracing than the 2060.
This is the card I have in the computer I use at my wife's office when visiting (retiree). Works fine! I play The Witcher 3 without RT and get decent frames (on a Z97 modded to a 4C/8T Xeon setup).
Local marketplace has a Dell single fan variant of this with green pcb (i know how much RGHD loves a good DELL OEM) for a shade over £100. Im currently running a 1060 so i think i may get it.
I have the 12GB version and while such VRAM is not need used by most games even at 1440p, it's very useful for scientific applications that eat system and video memory for breakfast.
even though i still game on a GTX 1080Ti, i also have a RTX 2060KO but for a dedicated livestreaming PC for Touring Nvenc though i would consider turning off shadows as a suggestion because it's tha old school way of squeezin' out more performance if u wanna turn quality up higher
The thing is that the 2060 and the 2060 Super are good 1080p cards. It's just that people want to play things directly with out of the box settings. Well I've got news for them, you need to modify and tweak settings. If we are to judge games by the latest releases none of them are optimized, they come out full of bugs and you need to learn to adapt.
In each Nvidia generation the x060 cards are probably 50% of sales, the x070 cards are 33% of sales, and all the other cards amount to a measly 16% ...
Been wondering if "sidegrading" from 1070Ti to say 2060 or preferrably 2060 Super would be good. Been itching for DLSS and testing out RT stuff :D Wouldn't be the first time sidegrading since b4 my R5 3600 I had 6700K :D
I have that same card in the HP it came in. I can play most games at 4k60 at around medium settings. DLSS and FSR are absolute godsends for this card. Without them it would be 1440p60 with medium settings at most.
People who test all types of GPU's and CPU's often underestimate cards that are not new and not high end even on release. To me it shows how someone is spoiled by high end gpu's when the 2060 even the 6gb version is made to be like a 960 being surprised it runs well...
I asked a similar question on a prior video-someone pointed out the channel has the word “gaming” in it. 😉 That said, I would appreciate a slide covering non-gaming tasks (video rendering, etc.), seeing as this is one that tests a lot of non-current-Gen cards.
Don't worry, guys! Going from a 2060 to a 4060 will give you a whole TWO EXTRA gbs in vram! At this rate, a 60-class GPU will finally have 10gbs by 2025!
just get a 3060 with future proof 12gb
Bruhhhhh 3060 was 12 gb 4060 is barely an upgrade to a 3060 Ti to a 2060 however it's quite decent. Better to go for amd at this point
Why does it matter and honestly who cares.
@@Skyfight smart guy
If you have the 6GB version that is, there was a 12 GB 2060 too!
The 2060 Super is a gem. Everybody forgets that it has 2 more gigs of VRAM. Also, it's a bigger performance jump from the regular 2060 than you'd think.
Only 12 %
it's basically a 2070
@@MaxIronsThird really? i have a zotac 2060super and i overclocked it a lot so well good to know
@@alvinys6691 how much energy is it using.
@@MaxIronsThird170w
i've been enjoying it for over 3 years now and I'm still impressed how it holds up to todays standards
I am sure that at 1080p medium settings it will still be getting 60fps. It is around the same power as the PS5.
@@glens18accounti think dlss make it have a longer life, i have a super version
@@glens18account No, it's not. A PS5's GPU is more comparable to a 6700 XT, which is closer to a 2080 ti in performance if we're talking about RTX 20 series GPUs
@@syncmonismno it's not wtf... ps5 comparable GPU is rtx 2070. Not even a ti, just base 2070 lol
@@jponz85 which is around the performance of a 2060. fuck me.
Hope you can try a 2070 Super after the 4060 comes out - they should have very similar performance on paper, so it would be interesting to see if that holds up across different games and especially different ray tracing settings!
always been a fan (haha) of the smaller single-fan cards, although at a certain point you just can't get enough performance at that size
1060 SC by EVGA is pretty legendary
About that i have this card do you know if there is a water block for this card?
You should make a video testing the 2060 12gb today, you did another video bashing it over a year ago. But now it might be interesting to see how it performs in vram constrained scenarios, especially against the 3060 or even the upcoming 4060.
Yeah definitely worth a revisit
Looking at other benchmarks it seems as though there is only maybe a 7-8 fps frame drop down from a 12GB RTX-3060 to 12GB RTX-2060 which is pretty negligible, but as the 2060-12GB is currently selling for more than a 12GB-3060 then you might as well go for the 3060-12GB. The cheapest 3060-12GB on eBay is around 220 where as the cheapest 2060 12G is around 254,. I assume the only reason is that it is much harder to find card. Only really worth buying one if it can be had for 170-180 or under in my opinion
@@LC-ig5hp that's pretty interesting, I just checked local prices, and while the 3060 12gb isn't cheaper, it's about the same price than the 2060 12gb. And yes, it's also more ubiquitous, so your scarcity theory must be right. BTW, I don't get why the difference in performance is so small, the 3060 should be a lot better given the core config. Bandwidth is similar to the 2060, but I don't think it's a limiting factor, I don't know what I'm missing here.
@@sovo1212Yes that was based off eBay listenings here in the UK. I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that the 2060 12gb was less limited/cutdown than the other cards but the generation on generation performance is almost none existent especially when compared to the 3070, 3080 where the higher uplift in performance is substantial compared to 2070, 2080 cards.
@@sovo1212 I found some information below which explains why the 12gb is faster.....Having the same CUDA core count as the RTX 2060 SUPER means the RTX 2060 12 GB has more RT cores (34 vs. 30) and Tensor cores (272 vs. 240) than the original RTX 2060. Interestingly, the card's typical board power is higher, at 185 W, as opposed to 175 W with the RTX 2060 SUPER. This probably has to do with the double-density memory chips, or NVIDIA simply giving it more boosting headroom. The maximum boost frequency is set at 1650 MHz, which is the same as the RTX 2060 SUPER.
Very enjoyable and informative videos. Always loved your PC part reviews. Been watching you since 2017. The style has stayed the same since then which I love the most to be honest. Keep it up mate! :)
I literally received an EVGA bstock 2060 SC that I got on a great deal for $130, today. I've been incredibly excited for this GPUs, especially with DLSS/FSR, and some minor ray tracing. What a great card for it's age.
Great price!
New top bought one for 135e ..next is a 3060 for 200 ..if I manage to find a good deal
Literally??
I bought the 2060 when my 660 ti croaked. 3 years later, and I still don’t regret my decision. You could probably get away with pairing it with a 4th-6th Gen i7 and it would still run very well over 60fps in most games. You’ll probably have a little bottleneck but nothing too egregious.
I can confirm this and will do some benchmark vids soon on this topic i have a i5 4690+RTX 2060 combo so far i enjoy every game at above 60fps.
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This would be interesting
@@erikbritz8095 they say Haswell chips wouldn’t be able to pull it off, but that’s far from the truth. Still very capable chips.
@@capitalofTX yes ill use this vid as reference to see the differences in performance 😎
I got a 2060 mobile laptop for less than $600 used, and this little thing is a trooper. Plays everything I want it to play, and even can do 1440p in the older titles I enjoy the most. Best part--it doesn't kick ridiculous amounts of heat into my room during the hot ass TX summer. Super glad with my purchase.
I love these videos!
Thanks :)
@@RandomGaminginHD you are partly the reason of why I love computer hardware and finding the best for the cheapest price.
Thank you for the content you produce.
Really hope rdna4 igpu performs like this nxtyear
2060 or atleast 1660super shud be good
That pond looks to have seen better days! 😂
Ive been running a zotac 2060 for a few years now and i love it. I dont think they will have a card worth upgrading to for at least a few years given how small of an improvement the 4000 series is over the 3000.
Really like zotac cards :)
Small improvements are one thing, but if they could've at least made the prices make sense it could've been overlooked
@@RandomGaminginHD They really cut corners though, I usually avoid Zotac & Gigabyte for a good reason.
dude just finished watching this video, was planning on selling my RTX 2060 to buy a RX 7600 but after watching this video i am going to wait rather for a gpu that makes sense for it's price. Geez it holds up well.
@@eltonwaynewilliams4152 Yeah, generally i think waiting atleast 3 generations to get a new card of the same tier is the best way to go about it. There are GPUs with good price for performance now, like a cheap 6700xt, but nothing that i think makes for a worthy upgrade to a 2060 on the same card tier.
You need to do a comparison with the 6600 non-XT. Lots of ex-mining cards are sold for cheap, cheaper than the 2060 sometimes and you get extra VRAM.
I'm impressed by how well it still holds up. I remember back when it launched a lot of people said "just get a cheaper 1060 or 1660 instead" or "if you want ray tracing then save up and get a 2070 instead" so that led me to believe that this card was very undesirable. Seeing it perform this well in 2023 showed me otherwise.
I was looking for a new graphics card when the 20 series was the top tier, but my budget was my limiting factor, so I was indeed looking at a 2060 or a 1660 super. At that time, I think the 1660 super made more sense. It was quite a bit cheaper and performance was really not much worse. The extra features of the 2060 such as DLSS and raytracing weren't really a thing yet back then, so I can imagine that that's why a lot of people that were in a situation comparable to mine said to get a 1660 instead. That being said, it indeed does not perform poorly at all, but I still think that of my 1660 super too, so perhaps I am not the right person to ask 😆
At launch the 20 series was rubbish. Now it has improved because of drivers.
Problem was that is was quite expensive
But time showed it aged quite well
@@16xthedetail76it didn’t improve because of drivers. rtx 2060 was good at launch, people just didn’t buy it because of the price + the fact that the price seems unjustified and it seemed like nvidia just wasted money on rt cores while ray tracing was still garbage.
rtx 2060 is only 20% slower than a 3060.
My first and only Founder's Edition card was a RTX 2060 Super in 2020...I paid $419 USD for it brand new, at the time the most I'd ever spent on a GPU!! BOY have things changed in a major way since purchasing the RTX 4080 a couple of months ago! Good video, I think the 2060 is a decent card for what it is.
@@thomasb282 Same situation! I got one used for $270 in 2020 and it got me through the pandemic until 2022 when I eventually upgraded. I gave the 2060 to my cousin who plays a bunch of esports titles
@@rustyclark2356 haha yeah its definitely a weird feeling being the owner of a 4000 card right now. I didn't like that I spent $800 on a 4070ti, but at the end of the day it had the performance and power consumption I wanted in a card. If anything, you actually have the better price to performance gpu. The 4090 was the only card to have a very sizable uplift in performance over its predecessor compared to the others. That card will last you years to come and crush any game you need it to!
this is my gpu, and i'm happy with the performance that it delivers as long as i am playing my favourites games
The 2060 is a great card. I run the 12gb version, as it was the same price as the 6gb version. I use it primarily for VRC and Neos. It delivers a decent for vr experience. I will say that vr chat cranked settings in a busy world will eat all 12gb of ram.
Nice, which model do you have? Mine is an MSI Ventus OC, while it's their entry level line, it gets the job done.
Even the 1060 can still run games in 2023. The 2060 is decently solid still if you can get it at its fair price
I appreciate you saying the fps this time. I often "listen" rather than watch due to driving a commercial vehicle (FedEx).
I have the 12gb version. Paid too much, but was still half the price of a 3060 at the time and it was available!
thats how i ended up with a 2060 6gb lol no 3060s in stock.
Hey, I recognise this card... Oh wait I've got an HP Omen with one!
😁
Nice to see the same Card as mine on your channel haha
Hello.
Does this HP connect to the PC like any other card? normal?
i have a laptop with a mobile 2060 running at 90w and i typically get 150-190fps on Overwatch 2 at high-ultra, and 120-150fps on apex at med-high. I know these are not exactly hard games to run but the GPU is still pretty good even in a laptop imo
Used to have the EVGA ko 2060, the one with a cut down 2080 die. It was an extremely good performer in 1080p
A 2060 with a 2080 die? That sounds crazy
Yep, usually in the KO variant, making good use of binned 2080 chips.
I bought the EVGA Rtx 2060 KO model and it does awesome.
I think the Vram issue is a little overblown. You can count on one hand the games that need more than 8 gb of ram. It will be 4 or 5 years til you reliably need more then 8 gb vram. Reminds me of the 4 cores is not enough to game argument. Great video thanks for sharing.
The problem is that these games that need more than 8gb of vram are all new games. And I believe the number of new AAA games that do not need more than 8gb of vram to run are even fewer than those that do.
@@mingyi456 You can count on one or maybe two hands how many games actually need more then 8 GB of Vram to run. Yes more and more games will start to need more then 8 Gb but it will take years til even 50% require that. Do you thing game devs want to eliminate a HUGE portion of their game sales by requiring so much Vram just to plat the game?
@@johntotten4872 There is such a huge backlog of old pc games that it will take many years for games that require more than 8gb of vram to make up a significant proportion of all pc games. But it is stupid to benchmark a gpu based on old games, especially considering that gpu prices have been increasing way faster than inflation can account for.
Of course a 3060ti or 4060ti can play all games released in 2018 and earlier, but would you spend a highly nontrivial amount of money on a brand new gpu just to play old games? Of course your goal of buying that 8gb gpu is to play modern games, but many recent games are starting to overwhelm the 8gb buffer even at 1080p.
Game devs risk alienating the vast population of 8gb gpu owners by releasing games that require more than 8gb, but 8gb has been the norm for very long already. They have been warning people for quite some time that this has been limiting them, and they need to move forward at some point. At this point, their only options besides simply using more than 8gb of vram are to : 1) Make their new game the same way as older games are made, without making use of new technologies made available by newer game engines. This will result in a game that does not look significantly better than an older game, and gamers will complain about this anyway. 2) Spend a disproportionate amount of time on optimisation to fit within the 8gb buffer, which leads to long delays (and the game studio needs to release the game at some point, or else they cannot afford to keep paying their devs without the revenue). Delay too long and a game originally meant to release in 2023 with breathtaking visuals for a 2023 game might end up releasing in 2025 instead, and end up looking much more mundane compared to other 2025 games. Basically, gamers want to play games with better visuals, and game devs want to make games with better visuals, but 8gb of vram has been limiting the devs for years, and the optimisation work required to fit better and better looking games into a 8gb buffer is getting more and more time consuming, to the point it is going to become unviable soon.
For the anti RGB this is perfect
Yeah my favourite 😁
I do think you need to point out to people that the team behind the graphics in Forza are basically the best programmers of their current generation. What they have done really shows up the lack of professional standards in the rest of the industry - in my opinion.
see also: id software
yeah, the Forza benchmark is always something of a palate cleanser in tech-review videos. Refreshing to see something that runs consistently flawless.
This is the card my brother has. He upgraded from a GTX 960, 4GB. Still impressed how it holds up.
I was going to get a 2060 around 2019 but ended up getting a 1660 super instead. That lasted me until the end of 2022 when I got a big upgrade, a 6700xt! Next gen gaming is awesome on the 6700xt.
Just copped this exact HP model from everyone's favourite high street trade in store this week to put in a small build of mine. I was a bit uncertain but glad to hear it still holds up.
Should be finishing the build later today so fingers crossed 🤞
Just upgraded to a 6800 from a 2060, and it has served me very well over the years. Solid budget card.
Im guessing it wasn't the largest jump in performance?
@@erikbritz8095 The RX 6800 is almost twice as fast as the 2060.
@@RedundancyDept Wow so it and the Rx 6900 xt will be good jumps later on or just something new at the time.
I bought a 6GB RTX 2060 a year ago after switching from console to PC. I bought a 1440p 165Hz monitor with it a i5-10400F processor. It runs Rust with 70+ fps on high/max settings. It runs Arma 3 with high/ultra high settings on 40-50 fps. It runs Valheim, Enshrouded type open world games with high settings 50+ fps. I played RDR2 on high settings with 60+ fps. Mind you these all ran on 2560x1440 resolution. The only game my pc struggles to run is Gray Zone Warfare but that game is a hot mess right now. Im not an expert in PC's but this card is amazing and shocks me how good it performs honestly. If you run a 1080p screen, this card is more than enough to run any game.
I m one of those oldies still rocking a rtx 2060 and I ain't in no rush to grab, I play dying light 2 with RT ON and DLSS BALANCED at constant 60FPS. this is one of those rare gems from Nvidia aging like a fine wine.
I just went from a 760 to a 2060 haha still haven’t tried it yet just got it today but it’s an upgrade
This all correlates with my experience with the 2060 ti I purchased during the "pandemic". Works even better when overclocked too ,consider making a video.
i went from a 2060 to a 3070 and wasnt too disappointed (i did get the 3070 for £305 with an alphacool waterblock included so great deal)
Nice!
The 2060 is still pretty capable except for the slim vram margins. There are 2060s with 12gb of vram out in the wild too. Be interesting to see you do a comparison of the two if you can pick one up because they're supposed to have more cuda cores and such as well so might have a bit more poke. By a cool experiment anyway!
Have the 12gb version. Performs closer to 2060 super
I also have one of the 12gb versions. More memory but same bus width as the 6gb version rather than the improved 256 bit bus width of the Super. That has it landing between the 6gb and Super in gaming performance, sometimes favoring one or the other. Where I enjoyed testing it was in the recent memory hungry titles, it did pretty well after first trying my 3070 8gb.
TechPowerUP reviewed a Zotac model (same clocks as reference specs), and on average it was 7% faster then the 2060 6GB and 6% slower than a 2060 Super.
@@offspringfan89 Yeah it doesn't seem additional ram really helps much. I have a 2060 6gb and a Radeon RX 580 4gb. I've looked at comparisons between 6gb and 12gb / 4gb and 8gb and the difference is really negligible. You might get 5fps better but that's about it.
after watching this video i am not going to sell my RTX 2060, this reminded me how good this GPU is. I was thinking of going for a RX 7600 but price for the performance i might as well save up for a better gpu.Once again great video dude.
Yeah hold on to it for a bit longer!
You might as well just buy something used with the money you'd spend on a new 7600 and get better performance for the same money or even less.
I have been building PCs for a long time and yeah, hold on to stuff. I look back at every video card I have owned and I either gave them away to friends or sold them and I wish I hadn't. Well the only card I didn't care for was the GeForce 4 which I actually have no idea what I did with it. Luckily my GeForce 3 is still working and it's in a friend's retro PC, he loves it as much as I did.
Good as Always ... your content with great looking garden background on Tech
Still using my rtx 2060 4 years old now still an awesome card
Nice card i found a rx 5700xt for 130 usd for a buddy of mine, entire build was under 300usd, (I threw in some parts i had), his first pc for 1080p.
I have one of these and i cant complain so far!
G'day Random,
0:30 So this is the GPU you buy when your mum keeps telling you "TURN OFF THAT COMPUTER & GO OUTSIDE TO GET SOME SUN" 😂
Tips for improving Vram usage. Use DLSS or FSR in every game that is very vram demanding using any upscaling tech would decrease your resolution hence leaving you more vram space
fsr seems to have very little impact tho, at least on RE4 I get like 300mb of vram back
DLSS has very little overall impact on VRAM in most games.
@@Wobbothe3rd Yeah, you gain VRAM from the reduction to resolution, but you lose some to the upscaler itself.
Had this hp model. Common issue with it is vram overheating. There no contact with the terrible shroud. Any shooter I ran other then CSGO crashed.
Replaced it with a 5600xt. No regrets
5th year with my 2060, such an awesome card! maybe i will upgrade when gta 6 comes out, till then i'm fine with its performance!
I love my 2060. I mainly play older titles at 1080p 165hz and it runs amazing. Plus I have the Zotac model and it looks sleek, so I’m just gonna keep it as long as I can.
This card performs quite well
I have a Dell rtx 3080 that I bought used that had a blinding white "GEFORCE RTX" on top of the gpu. I took the shroud off and disconnected the connector going to the light. No more blinding white light for me now.
pf100
Still using my 12GB 2060 at 1080p & honestly it’s doing what I need it to quite well. Not a card for Ray Tracing, Quake 2 RTX runs great but mostly not a card for Ray Tracing.
It runs ray tracing pretty well, Quake 2 RTX is among the most demanding path traced tech out.
@@Wobbothe3rd if you’re going to comment make sure you actually have experience of the thing you’re talking about.
It's not surprising it does so well. The 2060 Super offers the same performance as the 2070.
Haha your forza 5 test had plates 3000GOMG. Must've been from your old days review of the AMD athlon 3000G 😂. Love it
Funny, I have one of those from my first PC, an Omen prebuilt. It had a brief stint as an overkill media encoder in my media server, and now does Blender and CAD work for designing my 3D prints.
Nice :)
thank you for recognizing this card. nice seeing u reviewing a mid-low graphics card.
I have a zotac 2060 and it's more than enough to play most games at 1440p with medium or low settings. great card
Got the RTX 2060 in early 2020 for around 300, great investment, still kicking until now.
So I got the 2060 in October 2022 for my first ever pc build. I researched a lot and got a twin fan zotac amp 2060 OC. Literally no game has given me trouble, even when people reported problems for hogwarts Legacy, besides Hogwarts itself, the open world gave me 60+ fps on high. DLSS 2.0 is a joy. Every game till 2023 is amazing. I'm a 1080p gamer so yeah, I'm set for a while.😊
Have one in my streaming system and it works great as long as you don't expect 100+fps with everything turned up. Keep the settings conservative and it will still be relevant in the next few years
i have the exact same looking card in 2060 SUPER version since Dec 2019, and there is no way I am going to sell it anytime soon. Sufficient grunt for most games in 1440p/50-60fps/MEDIUM-HIGH settings even today. Only one fan and barely makes noise even under load!
How about the temperature?
@@yudhapermana6831 I have sold it since then, but temp never rose beyond 80 Celsius. :)
man, think id recommend 2060 for entry budget pc builds now, itll replace the 1060 back then
I literally just got one of these. Mine is SO HOT, even after a cleanup AND new paste.
I’ve had the same model, was a BEAST! I overclocked it at +250 on core and +1000 on memory, last year I upgraded to a 6800 XT and now my old friend rocks in my brother’s pc
I bought mine while prices were bad, but it's an EVGA 2 fan affair, and I havent had a problem with it
went from a RX 550 to a GTX 1060 3g to a RTX EVGA 2060, I can't be more happy!
I bought the same model in 2021, used for about 400$, in crypto bubble, as a temporary solution but I still use it to this moment. Unfortunetly my model makes very loud noises because of coil whine and inceased fan speed in fan curve in msi afterburner (to keep gpu temp below 90 degrees...).
Just traded this exact model in for a 3060ti FE. the 2060 is a 1080p beast did me proud for 3 years
FINALLLYYYY! using this since 2022! its amazing!
It really surprised me!
@@RandomGaminginHD i play the Pico 4 VR with it! at 2048x2048 per eye i'm pretty sure, all games on low settings but I'm reaching 90fps at some and 60/45 on others
on dec.23 i bought a used i7 4790 with rtx2060....all my faved games runnig soo well in stable 60 in 1080!!! just renewed the thermalpaste
I upgraded one of my older machines, after GPU prices came back down to normal levels, with a 2060 Super. I had been running a GTX 1080 in it. I passed over the 6gb 2060, because of it's lower amount of VRAM and narrower memory bus. If anyone is considering a 3050, or an 8gb 3060, I'd pass those over, and get a 2060 Super, or 2070 non-Super, instead. You'll get better performance, for less money. Any RTX 20 card, with the exception of the 6gb 2060, would make a decent upgrade for the money, if you're still using something older. Any RTX 30 card, excluding the 3050, and 8gb 3060, would also be good options. The 128 bit memory bus on those cards, really holds them back from achieving their full potential.
I bought it in 2024; arrives in 2 days! Needed something on the cheap and newegg has refurbished 12GB models. Would have gone with the RX 6600 but for same money DLSS + more vram and about the same perf. Downside is it's more power hungry.
Just undervolt it with MSI afterburner. It will run cooler and less wattage. It will increase your GPU lifespan too.
I paid 350 for my GIgabyte 2060 back in 2020. Bitwit said I could do medium 1440 gaming with it so I got a nice 1440 monitor and said id upgrade my gpu later to utilize the 144 hz. I still havent felt the need to upgrade. Its been smooth cruising and was a good investment.
I do max out the VRAM but with DLSS its been very nice!
Ayyyy, I just got a defective Dell OEM rtx 2060super and I’ve been fiddling with it for about 2 days now. It crashes under full load in benchmarks and gpu heavy games but I’ve since found out you can lock the voltage and alleviate the problem, unfortunately the only voltage that works in every game is .831mv so I’m losing a ton of performance. It still beats my msi ventus 2060 and is on par with my gamingX 1080 but only barely.
man i hope devs started putting "Ultra Quality" FSR/DLSS cus that option gives performance boost w/ significant no visual changes.
And thanks to dlss . You can even play at 540p 60fps with decent in game preset.
Dlss is truly magical.
540p at 1080p resolution would mean ur at 50% resolution scale which means you would be using dlss performance mode. dlss performance mode looks completely garbage at 1080p. the only setting that looks pretty good at 1080p is quality dlss. higher resolutions you can turn down the dlss setting.
@@eliothummer8919or you can realize that it's way better than fsr at same 540p resolution.
Anyway,it's all about making your gou live longer .
And dlss is great at it
@@jeofthevirtuoussand what i’m saying is dlss and fsr are both shit at 540p… it doesn’t matter if fsr is slightly more shit when both are completely awful.
@@eliothummer8919erception can differ, personally, I think it's alright
And factually speaking dlss reconstruct much better
I had a 3600x and 2060 from 2020-2022 and it treated me well for 1080p 60-144fps gaming. I ended up giving it to my cousin who plays esports titles no problem. 2060 still holds up well especially if you tweak settings
This particular model is very good at OC it can reach +225mhz at the core! its 10-15% performance gain.
I use my rtx 2060 for 1440p gaming and I get just above 60fps in a few games although I use dlss which looks better than playing in 1080p tbf but I'm wondering if I should get a rtx 4060 ti 🤔
If you dont mind used and higher power draw, get a 6800, 6800xt or 3080. Much better card than the 4060 ti
Recently picked up a 2060 XC direct from EVGA B-Stock for $130 USD and an i3-13100F from Best Buy for $75 USD with the plan of a budget build for my nephew, from the looks of the above, he will be quite happy!
Rtx 20 series cards are still really good. I had rtx 2060 a few months ago and it can still run games at 1440p60 with reasonable settings. DLSS and FSR2 pretty much made this gpu one of the best budget cards. 6gb vram is enough for rtx 2060 since you will probably be bottlenecked by the actual speed of the card and not the vram limitation. It is crazy how in 4 years we only went from 6 to 8gb of slower vram. I hope fsr3 frame generation will be good and rtx 2060 will still be able to play games at high settings even after 4 years.
What an incredibly sleek shroud design. Could use a littke polish on the led and backplate, but I'd love to see similar designs be more prevalent.
Plain black boxes!
I still use my 2060 from 2020, and I don’t intend to swap it anytime sooner! I’ll probably redo my whole computer soon enough, I’m still running a 2700x and it’s starting to show it’s age(Bought in 2019)
But I won’t change my gpu! I’ll wait for better cards, I mean, I’m still playing in 1080p.
Got one for $180 CDN, works good enough on latest games.
A new in box rx 6600 is now 184 quid, i wouldnt pay more than 120 quid for a 2060.
jenson gimped the vram on that to shorten its lifespan, deliberately.
Bullshit, a 12gb version of the 2060 was released. AMD fanboys live in a delusional echo chamber bubble, the 6600 is MUCH WORSE at raytracing than the 2060.
This is the card I have in the computer I use at my wife's office when visiting (retiree). Works fine! I play The Witcher 3 without RT and get decent frames (on a Z97 modded to a 4C/8T Xeon setup).
Local marketplace has a Dell single fan variant of this with green pcb (i know how much RGHD loves a good DELL OEM) for a shade over £100. Im currently running a 1060 so i think i may get it.
Im actually quite surprised by the performance of the rtx 2060 , its really good!
I have the 12GB version and while such VRAM is not need used by most games even at 1440p, it's very useful for scientific applications that eat system and video memory for breakfast.
even though i still game on a GTX 1080Ti, i also have a RTX 2060KO but for a dedicated livestreaming PC for Touring Nvenc
though i would consider turning off shadows as a suggestion because it's tha old school way of squeezin' out more performance if u wanna turn quality up higher
The thing is that the 2060 and the 2060 Super are good 1080p cards.
It's just that people want to play things directly with out of the box settings. Well I've got news for them, you need to modify and tweak settings.
If we are to judge games by the latest releases none of them are optimized, they come out full of bugs and you need to learn to adapt.
I have my 2060 and it runs Skyrim just perfect
Skyrim is a breeze for most systems.
In each Nvidia generation the x060 cards are probably 50% of sales, the x070 cards are 33% of sales, and all the other cards amount to a measly 16% ...
Been wondering if "sidegrading" from 1070Ti to say 2060 or preferrably 2060 Super would be good. Been itching for DLSS and testing out RT stuff :D Wouldn't be the first time sidegrading since b4 my R5 3600 I had 6700K :D
I have that same card in the HP it came in. I can play most games at 4k60 at around medium settings. DLSS and FSR are absolute godsends for this card. Without them it would be 1440p60 with medium settings at most.
People who test all types of GPU's and CPU's often underestimate cards that are not new and not high end even on release. To me it shows how someone is spoiled by high end gpu's when the 2060 even the 6gb version is made to be like a 960 being surprised it runs well...
Back in January this year I upgraded from 1060 6gb to RTX 3060 12GB graphics card and 32gb of ram and still uesing amd ryzen 5 2600x
Consider doing some *Automatic1111* benchmarks with some CivitAI models. That's a good use for those older RTX GPUs and their tensor cores.
I asked a similar question on a prior video-someone pointed out the channel has the word “gaming” in it. 😉 That said, I would appreciate a slide covering non-gaming tasks (video rendering, etc.), seeing as this is one that tests a lot of non-current-Gen cards.
It is a good card. I haven't had any issues running games at 1080p.