While reception for NVIDIA’s ray tracing technology has been lukewarm to say the least with devs not embracing the tech as much as NVIDIA has hoped. With speculations still brewing over what nomenclature and technology is NVIDIA going for with its midrange GeForce 20-series cards will have, benchmark results have surfaced of what is claimed to be the GeForce RTX 2060.
A recent update in the Final Fantasy XV Benchmark Database has included a result claiming to be, as mentioned, an RTX 2060 graphics card. While this is not solid proof of the card’s existence, the database itself has had quite a significant history of revealing some upcoming cards including the RX 590 from AMD. The data puts the RTX 2060 below the NVIDIA GTX 1070 and Radeon RX Vega 56. Against the GTX 1060 6GB, performance is quite improved at around 30% better for the supposed RTX 2060. For reference, the database shows the RTX 2080 at a 27% increase from the GTX 1080 in the 3840×2160 High Quality benchmark so its right around the ballpark range of expected performance.
It is unsure if this is done using the new DLSS-enabled benchmark or the older benchmark.
No official word or even tease has been shown for the midrange NVIDIA Turing card but NVIDIA has indeed confirmed there will be one in the future featuring the Turing architecture. NVIDIA is more focused in clearing our leftover inventory from the crypto boom and the holiday rush could help in aiding this goal. Analyst expectations peg the midrange Turing card to show up somewhere in early 2019, presumably CES but nothing is concrete. Given the price point shift that the RTX family has gone with, it will be interesting to know where the new card will sit in the current stack to avoid stagnating further the shelved GTX 10-series cards.