Palit RTX 2060 SUPER JetStream 8GB Review

1. Introduction2. Palit RTX 2060 SUPER JetStream3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy (1080p, 1440p, 4K)5. 3DMark Port Royal (1440p DXR)6. Battlefield V (1080p, 1440p, 4K)7. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (1080p, 1440p, 4K)8. Far Cry 5 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)9. Ghost Recon: Wildlands (1080p, 1440p, 4K)10. Metro Exodus (1080p, 1440p, 4K)11. Middle Earth: Shadow of War (1080p, 1440p, 4K)12. Shadow of the Tomb Raider (1080p, 1440p, 4K)13. Battlefield V w/ DXR (1080p, 1440p, 4K)14. Shadow of the Tomb Raider w/ DXR (1080p, 1440p, 4K)15. Clock Speed16. Temperatures17. Acoustics18. Power Consumption19. Overclocking: 3DMark and Games20. Overclocking: Temperatures, Acoustics, Power21. Closing Thoughts22. View All Pages

Nvidia's new SUPER graphics cards launched about two weeks ago, and we've reviewed both the 2060 SUPER and 2070 SUPER Founders Editions, as well as a 2070 SUPER custom card from MSI. Today, we are looking at Palit's custom RTX 2060 SUPER JetStream, priced at £429. It's got a rated boost clock of 1830MHz, making this one of the highest-clocked cards on the market, while it backs that up with a beefy dual-fan cooling solution. Is this the card to get?

When we reviewed MSI's RTX 2070 SUPER Gaming X Trio last week, one of the disappointing points we mentioned was the meagre 30MHz factory overclock. Palit seems to have heard our voice with its RTX 2060 SUPER JetStream as this is clocked 180MHz faster than reference, giving a rated boost clock of 1830MHz.

On top of that, Palit has outfitted the card with a 2.7-slot cooler, utilising five copper heatpipes, to keep GPU temperatures in check. There's definitely potential for this card to run faster, cooler and quieter than the Founders Edition, so let's see how it gets on.

GPU	RTX 2080 (FE)	RTX 2070 SUPER	RTX 2070 (FE)	RTX 2060 SUPER	RTX 2060 (FE)
SMs	46	40	36	34	30
CUDA Cores	2944	2560	2304	2176	1920
Tensor Cores	368	320	288	272	240
Tensor FLOPS	85	72	63	57.4	51.6
RT Cores	46	40	36	34	30
Texture Units	184	160	144	136	120
ROPs	64	64	64	64	48
Rays Cast	8 Giga Rays	7 Giga Rays	6 Giga Rays	6 Giga Rays	5 Giga Rays
GPU Boost Clock	1800 MHz	1770 MHz	1710 MHz	1650 MHz	1680 MHz
Memory Data Rate	14 Gbps	14 Gbps	14 Gbps	14 Gbps	14 Gbps
Total Video Memory	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	6GB GDDR6
Memory Interface	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit	192-bit
Memory Bandwidth	448 GB/sec	448 GB/sec	448 GB/sec	448 GB/sec	336.1 GB/sec
TDP	225W	215W	185W	175W	160W

We've not looked at a 2060 SUPER since our initial Founders Edition review, so it's worth quickly re-capping the core specification. 2060 SUPER uses Nvidia's TU106 GPU – the same as the vanilla RTX 2070. It has been slightly cut-down, however, as it incorporates 34 SMs, which is two less than the full implementation found with RTX 2070. This means 2060 SUPER has 2176 CUDA cores, versus 2304 with vanilla RTX 2070.

The 2070's memory allowance has trickled down to the 2060 SUPER, though, meaning we get 8GB GDDR6 clocked at 14Gbps – instead of the 6GB capacity found on vanilla RTX 2060. This operates over a 256-bit bus, with total memory bandwidth of 448 GB/s.

Where reference 2060 SUPER has a total graphics power rating of 175W, Palit has cranked this to 215W with its JetStream model – a 40W increase. This allows significantly faster clock speeds out of the box – an extra 180MHz for this Palit card, as we mentioned – and hopefully we will see some good gains via manual overclocking as well.

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