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OcUK RTX2060 review thread

D.P. said:
No such thing as the 1160
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Not yet, it's coming though, already been leaked.

It seems nvidia are just panicking and doing whatever they can to try and keep investors happy now.

- Pushing the 2060, they either thought RTX was really going to take off and people would be jumping on it, which they aren't, or they knew it would be bit of a dud but thought why not, release it anyway.

- The 11xx series - Trying to claw back the disappointed vast majority that couldn't care less about the current 20xx series

- Enabling their cards to work with freesync - Finally realised AMD/freesync is significantly cheaper than them.

All screams desperation to me.
 
Funky-Melon said:
- The 11xx series - Trying to claw back the disappointed vast majority that couldn't care less about the current 20xx series
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But there isn't an 11xx series. If any cards do appear, they're the low-end market fillers where Nvidia can't physically cut down Turing any more, or can't fit the massive Turing die onto the board. We're talking GTX 1050 Ti and below, Nvidia are not going to turn around and give us a 1180 Ti.
 
Funky-Melon said:
Not yet, it's coming though, already been leaked.

It seems nvidia are just panicking and doing whatever they can to try and keep investors happy now.

- Pushing the 2060, they either thought RTX was really going to take off and people would be jumping on it, which they aren't, or they knew it would be bit of a dud but thought why not, release it anyway.

- The 11xx series - Trying to claw back the disappointed vast majority that couldn't care less about the current 20xx series

- Enabling their cards to work with freesync - Finally realised AMD/freesync is significantly cheaper than them.

All screams desperation to me.
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Nothing about the 11 series has been leaked, and if it ever exists it will be something along the lines of rebranding excess Pascal stock, and most likely only in Asia. Nvidia will absolutely not run 2 parallel lines of GPUs with and without RTX and they certainly wont waste money taping out a new architecture.


The last thing Nvidia are doing are panicking, they have 80% market share and that is only growing.

The Freesync support is probably an attempt to put the final nail in AMD's coffin as it were. Stops most of the AMD marketing in its tracks, along with opening up the existing freesync owners to more Nvidia GPU options
 
D.P. said:
Nothing about the 11 series has been leaked, and if it ever exists it will be something along the lines of rebranding excess Pascal stock, and most likely only in Asia. Nvidia will absolutely not run 2 parallel lines of GPUs with and without RTX and they certainly wont waste money taping out a new architecture.


The last thing Nvidia are doing are panicking, they have 80% market share and that is only growing.

The Freesync support is probably an attempt to put the final nail in AMD's coffin as it were. Stops most of the AMD marketing in its tracks, along with opening up the existing freesync owners to more Nvidia GPU options
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Unless AMD price their cards a lot lower, which is the most likely response. They already have the better options in the mid range.
 
CuriousTomCat said:
Yes Battlefield V at +50fps is playable but hardware requirements for the latest games tend to increase by 20% per year. So next years RTX games will be about +40fps. Well it's about 20% for old school rasterisation games anyway. RTX games could be different.
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Completely agree, its over priced imo but its not a bad card
 
Kirby Wurm said:
With the release of this card at this price if AMD did release a Vega performance Navi card for $250 they could really make headway in the market.

The 2060 looks a good card but it's painful to see the price increase for a "mid-range" card.
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The pain is that even if AMD were to release a card cheaper and more powerful than the 2060, it probably still wouldnt see as well.
 
It's been a while since I last built a new PC. The last one was 2011, with the CPU and GPU (both mid-range parts) costing about £250 total.

Current pricing seems utterly mental to me (which is why my PC's spec hasn't changed vastly). An i5 8500k and GTX 2060 would come to £580...
 
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Nasher said:
Unless AMD price their cards a lot lower, which is the most likely response. They already have the better options in the mid range.
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All the evidence is AMD want to do the opposite and follow Nvidia's higher margins. Look at the 590 price for example.

If AMD goes back to trying to be the budget brand then their margins will suffer and that will then impact future R&D. AMD is where they are today because their margins were too low and they massively reduced R&D
 
tbh i cant see the point of a 11xx series, i think i saw something for them being mobile, which makes sense as u lop off the rtx stuff and u got a smaller, cooler die thats cheaper. and it might make sense for super low end cards if u didnt want to brand them 2020ti or whatever, but for us serious types why bother with a new sku when theres the 2060 and the older 10xx that are ok
 
pingu666 said:
tbh i cant see the point of a 11xx series, i think i saw something for them being mobile, which makes sense as u lop off the rtx stuff and u got a smaller, cooler die thats cheaper. and it might make sense for super low end cards if u didnt want to brand them 2020ti or whatever, but for us serious types why bother with a new sku when theres the 2060 and the older 10xx that are ok
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You answered your own question. The 11xx cards are essential for the lucretive low end. The 1050 & 1050 Ti are very profitable for Nvidia and it's obviously pointless including RTX. Or is it the names you're questioning? Because GTX 2050 would probably make more sense. The problem is that the RTX2060 and GTX2060 would seem very similar products to the average clueless user.
 
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