Nvidia - Geforce Rtx 2060 Super 8gb Gddr6 Pci Express Graphics Card - Black/silver Review

Manufacturer: Gigabyte

UK cost (as reviewed): £429.98 (inc. VAT)

US price (every bit reviewed): $419.99 (exc. tax)

Since our review of the RTX 2060 Super Founders Edition, nosotros've likewise looked at MSI'southward Gaming Ten version. Given its cost tag and flagship status (as far every bit RTX 2060 Super goes, anyway), we were pretty underwhelmed; hopefully Gigabyte fares better with its RTX 2060 Gaming OC.

This is a mid-tier product within Gigabyte's stack, with the Aorus-branded bill of fare above claiming the 'most bells and whistles' crown. The retail price of £430 is the same as nosotros saw from MSI, though: £50 (13 percent) more expensive than the reference pricing of £380. This positions it as a realistic merely expensive culling to the Founders Edition, which is currently out of stock. Pricing for RTX 2070 Super starts at £475 (in theory at least), so Gigabyte is actually on the border of adequate for RTX 2060 Super pricing.

When it first arrived in our labs, initial testing put Gigabyte's card equally faster out of the box than the MSI Gaming X menu was even with a transmission overclock applied, and information technology was this finding that made us so disquisitional of MSI in the get-go place. If we look at the specs below, we can start to see why this is. Whereas MSI's carte du jour has a measly three percentage overclock, Gigabyte has cranked the heave clock upwards a hefty 10 percent to i,815MHz. This makes it, nominally at least, one of the fastest cards on the market place; disappointingly, near other cards are closer to MSI and sit down beneath 1,700MHz.

	Nvidia RTX 2060 Super Founders Edition	MSI RTX 2060 Super Gaming X	Gigabyte RTX 2060 Super Gaming OC
Base Clock	1,470MHz	1,470MHz	one,470MHz
Boost Clock	one,650MHz	ane,695MHz (+3%)	one,815MHz (+10%)
OC Style (S/W)	N/A	1,710MHz (+4%)	Due north/A
Memory Information Charge per unit	14Gbps	14Gbps (+0%)	14Gbps (+0%)
OC Mode MDR	Due north/A	14.3Gbps (+2%)	N/A
TDP	175W	175W	215W (?)
Ability Connectors	1x 8-pivot	1x 8-pin	1x 8-pin, 1x 6-pin
Display Connectors	2x DP, 1x HDMI, 1x DVI-D, 1x USB-C VL	3x DP, 1x HDMI	3x DP, 1x HDMI, 1x USB-C VL
Length	229mm	248mm	280mm
Tiptop	115mm	128mm	116mm
Slots	ii	3	ii
Power Phases	6+ii	vi+two	6+2
RGB	No	Yes	Yes
Cipher RPM Mode	No	Yes	Yep
Warranty	Three years	Three years	Three years

Turing is pretty power-hungry when it comes to raising clocks, and the other key function of making this card faster is the power limit. Gigabyte doesn't list this in its official specifications, but GPU-Z readouts signal at a 215W limit on this card, a solid 40W more than either the Founders Edition or the MSI Gaming Ten. This should allow for more consequent, college boosting in games. Supporting this is an extra vi-pin PCIe power plug, giving the card a theoretical maximum power cap of 300W.

Gigabyte unfortunately hasn't included a memory overclock, but few exercise these days. There are as well no software-driven overclock/downclock modes bachelor, but these are normally niggling more than token inclusions anyhow, and we don't lament their omission.

Build quality is fine, and the bill of fare itself is rather bland and unassuming with a mostly black exterior broken up past a few silver/greyness zones, although Gigabyte is also producing a white version of this card. This monochrome artful makes information technology a viable candidate for RGB-laden builds, and to that end the top Gigabyte logo is RGB-illuminated. These LEDs can be controlled (or disabled) using Gigabyte'due south Fusion ii.0 software. A metal backplate covers the PCB tidily and adds rigidity, and thermal padding means it likewise gets involved with heat dissipation.

A length of 280mm is relatively long, but these days few cases volition struggle to house it. Gigabyte hasn't extended the height much past the standard PCI AIC height, and it also sticks properly to a dual-slot form factor.

Gigabyte has installed two tiny LEDs above the power plugs. These will blink white if the power supply is deemed 'aberrant', potentially helping you diagnose a problem when troubleshooting, admitting a very specific one.

Too as the usual combination of three DisplayPorts and one HDMI port, Gigabyte has chosen to implement USB-C with VirtualLink support on the rear I/O. This is something Nvidia does simply which is often skipped by partners. It'southward a frontward-looking standard with no physical support nevertheless, but it does have industry bankroll from key players, so if VR has really taken your fancy this could be worth considering. VirtualLink requires up to 27W of additional power, which makes that actress six-pin PCIe connector a necessity given the assumed 215W TDP of the GPU alone.

The cooler design is nothing new and has been seen before on RTX 2060 and RTX 2070. Near partners will take this recycling approach, because both those cards are based on the same physical GPU (TU106) as RTX 2060 Super, just with a different configuration. In that location are three 80mm fans, with the middle one spinning in a different direction to the outer two supposedly as a means of reducing air turbulence between the fans. We suspect it doesn't make a keen deal of difference, however, as the plastic shroud already effectively divides the fans, limiting the influence they're likely to have on each other. Either way, all the fans will switch off whenever the GPU is below virtually 60°C, just this behaviour can be disabled in software.

The heatsink connects to the GPU via 4 directly-touch copper heat pipes, though only the 2 fundamental ones have full contact; the outer two overhang the GPU'southward edges. The pipes feed iii separate aluminium fin stacks, and the fin alignment will pb to most air being dumped back into your chassis. The metallic makes good employ of the card's volume, and we really similar that the heatsink is connected to all of the GDDR6 modules also every bit the chokes, capacitors, and MOSFETs with thermal pads. With the backplate also connected directly to the PCB at key points with more than thermal padding, Gigabyte's cooling solution is comprehensive.

Like the Founders Edition, Gigabyte is using a 6+2 phase power configuration on this card. The chokes and capacitors are certified by the company as Ultra Durable.

A three-yr warranty is what we expect to see from partners, as this is also what Nvidia offers every bit standard, so no complaints against Gigabyte there.

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Source: https://bit-tech.net/reviews/tech/graphics/gigabyte-geforce-rtx-2060-super-gaming-oc-review/1/

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