I Bought The HP RTX 2060 In 2023... 

just get a 3060 with future proof 12gb

Bruhhhhh 3060 was 12 gb 4060 is barely an upgrade to a 3060 Ti to a 2060 however it's quite decent. Better to go for amd at this point

Why does it matter and honestly who cares.

@@Skyfight smart guy

If you have the 6GB version that is, there was a 12 GB 2060 too!

Only 12 %

it's basically a 2070

@@MaxIronsThird really? i have a zotac 2060super and i overclocked it a lot so well good to know

@@alvinys6691 how much energy is it using.

​@@MaxIronsThird170w

I am sure that at 1080p medium settings it will still be getting 60fps. It is around the same power as the PS5.

​@@glens18accounti think dlss make it have a longer life, i have a super version

@@glens18account No, it's not. A PS5's GPU is more comparable to a 6700 XT, which is closer to a 2080 ti in performance if we're talking about RTX 20 series GPUs

​@@syncmonismno it's not wtf... ps5 comparable GPU is rtx 2070. Not even a ti, just base 2070 lol

@@jponz85 which is around the performance of a 2060. fuck me.

Great price!

New top bought one for 135e ..next is a 3060 for 200 ..if I manage to find a good deal

Literally??

1060 SC by EVGA is pretty legendary

About that i have this card do you know if there is a water block for this card?

Yeah definitely worth a revisit

Looking at other benchmarks it seems as though there is only maybe a 7-8 fps frame drop down from a 12GB RTX-3060 to 12GB RTX-2060 which is pretty negligible, but as the 2060-12GB is currently selling for more than a 12GB-3060 then you might as well go for the 3060-12GB. The cheapest 3060-12GB on eBay is around 220 where as the cheapest 2060 12G is around 254,. I assume the only reason is that it is much harder to find card. Only really worth buying one if it can be had for 170-180 or under in my opinion

@@LC-ig5hp that's pretty interesting, I just checked local prices, and while the 3060 12gb isn't cheaper, it's about the same price than the 2060 12gb. And yes, it's also more ubiquitous, so your scarcity theory must be right. BTW, I don't get why the difference in performance is so small, the 3060 should be a lot better given the core config. Bandwidth is similar to the 2060, but I don't think it's a limiting factor, I don't know what I'm missing here.

@@sovo1212Yes that was based off eBay listenings here in the UK. I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that the 2060 12gb was less limited/cutdown than the other cards but the generation on generation performance is almost none existent especially when compared to the 3070, 3080 where the higher uplift in performance is substantial compared to 2070, 2080 cards.

@@sovo1212 I found some information below which explains why the 12gb is faster.....Having the same CUDA core count as the RTX 2060 SUPER means the RTX 2060 12 GB has more RT cores (34 vs. 30) and Tensor cores (272 vs. 240) than the original RTX 2060. Interestingly, the card's typical board power is higher, at 185 W, as opposed to 175 W with the RTX 2060 SUPER. This probably has to do with the double-density memory chips, or NVIDIA simply giving it more boosting headroom. The maximum boost frequency is set at 1650 MHz, which is the same as the RTX 2060 SUPER.

Thanks :)

@@RandomGaminginHD you are partly the reason of why I love computer hardware and finding the best for the cheapest price. Thank you for the content you produce.

I can confirm this and will do some benchmark vids soon on this topic i have a i5 4690+RTX 2060 combo so far i enjoy every game at above 60fps.

​@@erikbritz8095 This would be interesting

​@@erikbritz8095 This would be interesting

@@erikbritz8095 they say Haswell chips wouldn’t be able to pull it off, but that’s far from the truth. Still very capable chips.

@@capitalofTX yes ill use this vid as reference to see the differences in performance 😎

A 2060 with a 2080 die? That sounds crazy

Yep, usually in the KO variant, making good use of binned 2080 chips.

I was looking for a new graphics card when the 20 series was the top tier, but my budget was my limiting factor, so I was indeed looking at a 2060 or a 1660 super. At that time, I think the 1660 super made more sense. It was quite a bit cheaper and performance was really not much worse. The extra features of the 2060 such as DLSS and raytracing weren't really a thing yet back then, so I can imagine that that's why a lot of people that were in a situation comparable to mine said to get a 1660 instead. That being said, it indeed does not perform poorly at all, but I still think that of my 1660 super too, so perhaps I am not the right person to ask 😆

At launch the 20 series was rubbish. Now it has improved because of drivers.

Problem was that is was quite expensive But time showed it aged quite well

@@16xthedetail76it didn’t improve because of drivers. rtx 2060 was good at launch, people just didn’t buy it because of the price + the fact that the price seems unjustified and it seemed like nvidia just wasted money on rt cores while ray tracing was still garbage.

rtx 2060 is only 20% slower than a 3060.

Nice!

The problem is that these games that need more than 8gb of vram are all new games. And I believe the number of new AAA games that do not need more than 8gb of vram to run are even fewer than those that do.

@@mingyi456 You can count on one or maybe two hands how many games actually need more then 8 GB of Vram to run. Yes more and more games will start to need more then 8 Gb but it will take years til even 50% require that. Do you thing game devs want to eliminate a HUGE portion of their game sales by requiring so much Vram just to plat the game?

@@johntotten4872 There is such a huge backlog of old pc games that it will take many years for games that require more than 8gb of vram to make up a significant proportion of all pc games. But it is stupid to benchmark a gpu based on old games, especially considering that gpu prices have been increasing way faster than inflation can account for. Of course a 3060ti or 4060ti can play all games released in 2018 and earlier, but would you spend a highly nontrivial amount of money on a brand new gpu just to play old games? Of course your goal of buying that 8gb gpu is to play modern games, but many recent games are starting to overwhelm the 8gb buffer even at 1080p. Game devs risk alienating the vast population of 8gb gpu owners by releasing games that require more than 8gb, but 8gb has been the norm for very long already. They have been warning people for quite some time that this has been limiting them, and they need to move forward at some point. At this point, their only options besides simply using more than 8gb of vram are to : 1) Make their new game the same way as older games are made, without making use of new technologies made available by newer game engines. This will result in a game that does not look significantly better than an older game, and gamers will complain about this anyway. 2) Spend a disproportionate amount of time on optimisation to fit within the 8gb buffer, which leads to long delays (and the game studio needs to release the game at some point, or else they cannot afford to keep paying their devs without the revenue). Delay too long and a game originally meant to release in 2023 with breathtaking visuals for a 2023 game might end up releasing in 2025 instead, and end up looking much more mundane compared to other 2025 games. Basically, gamers want to play games with better visuals, and game devs want to make games with better visuals, but 8gb of vram has been limiting the devs for years, and the optimisation work required to fit better and better looking games into a 8gb buffer is getting more and more time consuming, to the point it is going to become unviable soon.

@@thomasb282 Same situation! I got one used for $270 in 2020 and it got me through the pandemic until 2022 when I eventually upgraded. I gave the 2060 to my cousin who plays a bunch of esports titles

@@rustyclark2356 haha yeah its definitely a weird feeling being the owner of a 4000 card right now. I didn't like that I spent $800 on a 4070ti, but at the end of the day it had the performance and power consumption I wanted in a card. If anything, you actually have the better price to performance gpu. The 4090 was the only card to have a very sizable uplift in performance over its predecessor compared to the others. That card will last you years to come and crush any game you need it to!

😁

It really surprised me!

@@RandomGaminginHD i play the Pico 4 VR with it! at 2048x2048 per eye i'm pretty sure, all games on low settings but I'm reaching 90fps at some and 60/45 on others

Bullshit, a 12gb version of the 2060 was released. AMD fanboys live in a delusional echo chamber bubble, the 6600 is MUCH WORSE at raytracing than the 2060.

Really like zotac cards :)

Small improvements are one thing, but if they could've at least made the prices make sense it could've been overlooked

@@RandomGaminginHD They really cut corners though, I usually avoid Zotac & Gigabyte for a good reason.

dude just finished watching this video, was planning on selling my RTX 2060 to buy a RX 7600 but after watching this video i am going to wait rather for a gpu that makes sense for it's price. Geez it holds up well.

@@eltonwaynewilliams4152 Yeah, generally i think waiting atleast 3 generations to get a new card of the same tier is the best way to go about it. There are GPUs with good price for performance now, like a cheap 6700xt, but nothing that i think makes for a worthy upgrade to a 2060 on the same card tier.

thats how i ended up with a 2060 6gb lol no 3060s in stock.

fsr seems to have very little impact tho, at least on RE4 I get like 300mb of vram back

DLSS has very little overall impact on VRAM in most games.

@@Wobbothe3rd Yeah, you gain VRAM from the reduction to resolution, but you lose some to the upscaler itself.

Yeah my favourite 😁

Nice :)

pf100

Have the 12gb version. Performs closer to 2060 super

I also have one of the 12gb versions. More memory but same bus width as the 6gb version rather than the improved 256 bit bus width of the Super. That has it landing between the 6gb and Super in gaming performance, sometimes favoring one or the other. Where I enjoyed testing it was in the recent memory hungry titles, it did pretty well after first trying my 3070 8gb.

TechPowerUP reviewed a Zotac model (same clocks as reference specs), and on average it was 7% faster then the 2060 6GB and 6% slower than a 2060 Super.

@@offspringfan89 Yeah it doesn't seem additional ram really helps much. I have a 2060 6gb and a Radeon RX 580 4gb. I've looked at comparisons between 6gb and 12gb / 4gb and 8gb and the difference is really negligible. You might get 5fps better but that's about it.

Nice, which model do you have? Mine is an MSI Ventus OC, while it's their entry level line, it gets the job done.

Im guessing it wasn't the largest jump in performance?

@@erikbritz8095 The RX 6800 is almost twice as fast as the 2060.

@@RedundancyDept Wow so it and the Rx 6900 xt will be good jumps later on or just something new at the time.

I’ll have to try that thanks!

​@@RandomGaminginHD yea that would be an interesting vid

The rtx20 doesn't have an optical flow analyzer at all, at least the rtx30 series have the theoretical capacity...

@@Wobbothe3rd I got recently a 3070, and i can tell you that with the dlss replacement, and the rtx mod that i shared here it works perfect with dlss quality rtx on and path tracing on at 1490 x 900.... between 50 fps to 75 , the city seems to be more demanding of course. using mods to take out the crowd and cars to the minimun also helps but i noticed that i need to change my i5 10400f to a 11400f and upgrade my rams because they are just 2666mhz and not 3200.... so theres more performance i can get improving bandwich and the pci express version!

@@Wobbothe3rd When i had the rtx 2060 it was pretty hard to get more than 30 fps without sacrificing a lot of visual quality indeed. yet still vram its not a big issue on cyberpunk..... it was pretty interesting but i noticed something, sometimes it was so big the struggle to get frames that the card had small artifacts or a serious loss in image quality.... it was really pushed to the limit.