Nvidia RTX 2060 Founders Edition 6GB Review

1. Introduction2. Nvidia RTX 2060 Founders Edition 6GB3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark (1080p, 1440p, 4K)5. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (1080p, 1440p, 4K)6. Far Cry 5 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)7. Ghost Recon: Wildlands (1080p, 1440p, 4K)8. Middle Earth: Shadow of War (1080p, 1440p, 4K)9. Shadow of the Tomb Raider (1080p, 1440p, 4K)10. Battlefield V w/ DXR (1080p, 1440p, 4K)11. Final Fantasy XV w/ DLSS (4K)12. Clock Speed13. Temperatures14. Acoustics15. Power Consumption16. Overclocking: 3DMark and Games17. Overclocking: Thermals, Acoustics, Power18. Closing Thoughts19. View All Pages

For our temperature testing, we measure the peak GPU core temperature under load, as well as the GPU temperature with the card idling on the desktop. A reading under load comes from running the 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra stress test 20 times. An idle reading comes after leaving the system on the Windows desktop for 30 minutes.

Thermal performance was one area where I was really impressed when testing the 2080 and 2080 Ti Founders cards back in September, and I am even more impressed with the temperatures of the RTX 2060 FE.

That's because a peak of 68C on the GPU core makes it the coolest running Founders card from Nvidia that I have ever seen. To be fair, given the cooler is the same size as the 2070, only now it is cooling a cut down version of the 2070 GPU, we were expecting good thermal performance. But it's still worth pointing out that this is very impressive for a Founders card.

The hottest point we could detect using our thermal gun is also impressively cool – a peak of just 58.9C really is a top result, and that came from the side of the card just below the ‘GeForce RTX' logo.

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