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The Palit RTX 2060 SUPER JetStream ships in a compact box, with the entire front taken up by an eye-catching lightning storm design, though there's no image of the card itself visible on the front.
Palit keeps things to a minimum with the accessories, too, as we find a simple quick start guide alongside a driver disk.
It's the card we're here for, though, and first impressions are positive. The shroud is made from black plastic, but Palit has added some silver metal plates on top of this, which not only improves the aesthetics but also adds a bit of sturdiness to the card as a whole. It's not as premium-feeling as the Founders Edition, but it's certainly better than most other cards with plastic-only shrouds.
We also get a look at the two fans – Palit's TurboFan Blade 2.0 design, with each fan measuring 100mm in diameter. Curiously, while there is a fan-stop mode with this card, it only functions if you use the secondary BIOS which I think is strange – but we'll get to that later.
It's definitely worth making clear that this is a big card. Palit claims it's a ‘2.7-slot' design, but its really a triple-slot card. Its dimensions are 292 x 130 x 59.6 mm – so it is nearly 60mm thick, while it is also just under 30cm long. Definitely best checking that this will fit in your case.
The front side of the card is home to more metal plating, with the ‘GeForce RTX' branding also placed in this section. Just to the right of that is a small JetStream logo. At the very front of card, just to the right of the I/O bracket, we can also get a look at the small BIOS switch as the card does ship with dual BIOS functionality.
As for the backplate, this is made from brushed metal and covers the length of the PCB, with a small cut-out behind the GPU core. It's mostly plain apart from the JetStream logo positioned on the right side of the backplate.
Despite the 40W increase in total graphics power (TGP), Palit has kept the reference configuration of 1x 8-pin and 1x 6-pin PCIe power connectors.
Display outputs consist of 3x DisplayPort and 1x HDMI connectors, but there is no USB-C.
8 screws need to be removed from the back of the card to remove the cooler, and then we get access to the PCB. As far as I can tell, Palit is re-using its RTX 2070 GameRock Premium PCB design for this card, and that is certainly a good thing as its power delivery has been beefed up to an 8+2 phase configuration, where the Founders Edition has a 6+2 design.
On top of this, the GDDR6 memory is from Micron and each chip is labelled ‘9EA77D9WCW'. The TU106 GPU bears the ‘410' model code, indicating this one of the new GPUs introduced after Nvidia stopped binning its chips in ‘A' and ‘non-A' stacks.
The cooler also appears identical to the 2070 GameRock, with two thick aluminium fin stacks that are joined by 5 copper heatpipes. The heatpipes aren't plated but they are quite large, measuring 8mm in diameter.
There's also two separate coldplates that form part of the cooler. One is for the VRAM chips, with a copper contact area for the GPU die, while the other coldplate is to cool the VRM.
