The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 6GB Founders Edition Review: Not Quite Mainstream
by Nate Oh on January 7, 2019 9:00 AM ESTFar Cry 5 (DX11)
The latest title in Ubisoft's Far Cry series lands us right into the unwelcoming arms of an armed militant cult in Montana, one of the many middles-of-nowhere in the United States. With a charismatic and enigmatic adversary, gorgeous landscapes of the northwestern American flavor, and lots of violence, it is classic Far Cry fare. Graphically intensive in an open-world environment, the game mixes in action and exploration.
Far Cry 5 does support Vega-centric features with Rapid Packed Math and Shader Intrinsics. Far Cry 5 also supports HDR (HDR10, scRGB, and FreeSync 2). This testing was done without HD Textures enabled, a new option that was recently patched in.
Once again, the RTX 2060 (6GB) slots in neatly between the GTX 1070 Ti and GTX 1080, useful given that the GTX 1070 Ti only had a slim lead on the RX Vega 56.
As for the high resolution texture pack, Far Cry 5 released a free 29GB patch adding toggleable HD Textures, and it's something we'll want to look into as we investigate VRAM limitations. Generally, high-resolution texture packs are a simple way of increasing visual fidelity without significantly hurting framerates, provided the card has enough framebuffer.
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sing_electric - Monday, January 7, 2019 - link
It's likely that Nvidia has actually done something to restrict the 2060s to 6GB - either though its agreements with board makers or by physically disabling some of the RAM channels on the chip (or both). I agree, it'd be interesting to see how it performs, since I'd suspect it'd be at a decent price/perf point compared to the 2070, but that's also exactly why we're not likely to see it happen.CiccioB - Monday, January 7, 2019 - link
You can't add memory at will. You need to take into consideration the available bus, and as this is a 192bit bus, you can install 3, 6 or 12 GB of memory unless you cope with hybrid configuration thorough heavily optimized drivers (as nvidia did with 970).nevcairiel - Monday, January 7, 2019 - link
Even if they wanted to increase it, just adding 2GB more is hard to impossible. The chip has a certain memory interface, in this case 192-bit. Thats 6x 32-bit memory controller, for 6 1GB chips. You cannot just add 2 more without getting into trouble - like the 970, which had unbalanced memory speeds, which was terrible.mkaibear - Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - link
"terrible" in this case defined as "unnoticeable to anyone not obsessed with benchmark scores"Retycint - Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - link
It was unnoticeable back then, because even the most intensive game/benchmark rarely utilized more than 3.5GB of RAM. The issue, however, comes when newer games inevitably start to consume more and more VRAM - at which point the "terrible" 0.5GB of VRAM will become painfully apparent.mkaibear - Wednesday, January 9, 2019 - link
So, you agree with my original comment which was that it was not terrible at the time? Four years from launch and it's not yet "painfully apparent"?That's not a bad lifespan for a graphics card. Or if you disagree can you tell me which games, now, have noticeable performance issues from using a 970?
FWIW my 970 has been great at 1440p for me for the last 4 years. No performance issues at all.
atragorn - Monday, January 7, 2019 - link
I am more interested in that comment " yesterday’s announcement of game bundles for RTX cards, as well as ‘G-Sync Compatibility’, where NVIDIA cards will support VESA Adaptive Sync. That driver is due on the same day of the RTX 2060 (6GB) launch, and it could mean the eventual negation of AMD’s FreeSync ecosystem advantage." will ALL nvidia cards support Freesync/Freesync2 or only the the RTX series ?A5 - Monday, January 7, 2019 - link
Important to remember that VESA ASync and FreeSync aren't exactly the same.I don't *think* it will be instant compatibility with the whole FreeSync range, but it would be nice. The G-sync hardware is too expensive for its marginal benefits - this capitulation has been a loooooong time coming.
Devo2007 - Monday, January 7, 2019 - link
Anandtech's article about this last night mentioned support will be limited to Pascal & Turing cardsRyan Smith - Monday, January 7, 2019 - link
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13797/nvidia-to-sup...