The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 6GB Founders Edition Review: Not Quite Mainstream
by Nate Oh on January 7, 2019 9:00 AM ESTF1 2018 (DX11)
Succeeding F1 2016 is F1 2018, Codemaster's latest iteration in their official Formula One racing games. It features a slimmed down version of Codemasters' traditional built-in benchmarking tools and scripts, something that is surprisingly absent in DiRT 4.
Aside from keeping up-to-date on the Formula One world, F1 2017 added HDR support, which F1 2018 has maintained; otherwise, we should see any newer versions of Codemasters' EGO engine find its way into F1. Graphically demanding in its own right, F1 2018 keeps a useful racing-type graphics workload in our benchmarks.
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JRW - Saturday, February 23, 2019 - link
2060 is considerably faster than a 580 tho, I recently upgraded from an R9 290X to EVGA RTX 2060 XC Black and love it, the 290X served me very well tho great card even with todays games @ 1080P but struggled a bit trying to hit my monitors 144hz refresh.PeachNCream - Monday, January 7, 2019 - link
Turing's MSRP makes the benchmark performance meaningless.jrs77 - Monday, January 7, 2019 - link
Midrange card for 350 bucks... :facepalm:I don't care if it's as fast as a 1070ti. A xx60 series card should never cost more than 250 and the 1060 was allready overpriced for most of the time, due to all that bitcoin-fuckery.
Manch - Monday, January 7, 2019 - link
The Vegas are a good bit cheaper than what the scale shows. Not just on sale but regular price reductions. Even mentioned in the article so why tye discrepancy? Also I thoight Vega was a bit slower than the vanilla1080. Its showing to be faster than the FE?sing_electric - Monday, January 7, 2019 - link
I'm not sure what you're referring to, since the best deal I've heard of on the Vega 56 was ~$320 on Black Friday, and today, I can't find a card for less than $370 (at NewEgg on one model, all others are $400+). I like AMD but given today's prices, the only price category where I think AMD wins right now is with the ~$200 580. The ~$280 RX 590 is most of the way to the 2060's MSRP but offers significantly less performance.Manch - Monday, January 7, 2019 - link
Per the article, ". In the mix are concurrent events like AMD-partner Sapphire’s just-announced RX Vega price cuts, which will see the RX Vega 64 Nitro Plus moved to $379 and the RX Vega 56 Pulse to $329, and both with an attached 3-game bundle" Thats even better than what Ive seen.I just bought a MSI vega 64 from amazon for $399 with the 3 game bundle in Dec. Ive seen on avg 400-450 for Vega 64 and a good bit lower for Vega 56.
The chart has Vega 56 at 499 which isnt the case.
Manch - Monday, January 7, 2019 - link
Vega 64 $399, Vega 56 $368 new egg. Plus 3 games.Manch - Monday, January 7, 2019 - link
vega 64 $399 on amazon as well. There are higher pri ed cards but who cares is theyre readily available at these prices?Vayra - Wednesday, January 9, 2019 - link
They also take twice as much power at the wall. *poof* there go the savings. And you get free extra noise and heat in the case to boot.Manch - Friday, January 11, 2019 - link
Double?! LOLCompared to a 2060? The avg diff according to Anand's Bench is 130watts.
Avg price of electricity in the US is 12 cents a kilowatt hour. That means it would cost you 1.2 cents per 100watts an hour. It would cost you on average 1.668 cents more an hour to run a VEGA 64 at full bore balls out compared to the 2060. If we then calculate the difference for an entire year @ 100% power draw for 365 days or 8760hrs the total comes out to $146.12 Here in Germany it would be about double that.
Lets be real no one does that. (Miners?)
Avg is 12hrs a week! Highly doubtful the card is running 100% for 12hrs a week but if it were.
52 weeks in a year, 12 hrs a week for 624hrs for a soul crushing total of $10.41
So yes it cost more to run a higher power card....duh, but it's not double. Stop the FUD.