Recently upgraded from an older, but still good GTX 970 to the Gigabyte RTX 2060 Gaming OC Pro 6G graphics card. I am extremely happy this this card. On my 970, I could get decent FPS in games, but I had to turn some settings down on newer games. With the RTX 2060, I can put everything on Ultra settings and still hit high frame rates in newest games. As a bonus, Amazon emailed me a link for the free Battlefield/Metro/Anthem choice of one game the next day. I chose Anthem (I already had Battlefield V), and the graphics are incredible. In the city, I am getting 45 to 55 FPS, while out in the world on missions, I am getting > 70 FPS. This is with an older Intel 2600k i7 processor that I bought in 2009 and all settings at Ultra. I would say games are faster by 25 to 30 fps when compared to my old GTX 970 and many games were unplayable at ultra settings (< 30fps)
Couple of things to note. The Pro version comes with more heat pipes to keep the GPU cooler. The fans were smaller that I hoped (more noisy), but most of the time, the fans don't run. Only when I am playing the more demanding games (Anthem at Ultra and Battlefield V with RayTracing enabled) do the fans rev up. You can hear them, but the noise level is slightly above my 120mm fans without any band sounds. When I have my earphones on, I can't hear them l and when I'm a few feet from the computer, I don't notice them at all. The cooler on this card is great. I'm hitting 60c-63c in games with ultra settings, which is a great number.
I did have one issue when I first installed this card. Battlefield and a couple of other games were running slower that my old GXT 970. I saw one other person who bought this card that had the same issue. Turns out that there is something running in Windows that was causing this performance issue. Run MSConfig, disable all the non-Microsoft services, and then reboot the computer. I did, and my FPS in Battlefield went from an unplayable 25 to 30 FPS to 60 to 80 FPS with Ray Tracing enabled. Everything runs great now. It's a little trial and error to find the service that was causing the slowdown.
Overall, I highly recommend this card. Great cooling, overclockable (I tried the overclocking utility and it was able to get me over 2040Mhz), and just makes playing games more enjoyable. One down side is that I'm noticing tearimg a little more because I'm getting > 140fps in some games. Guess my next upgrade is a new freesync monitor that Nvidia niw supports.
| Memory Speed | 14000 MHz |
|---|---|
| Graphics Coprocessor | GeForce RTX 2060 |
| Chipset Brand | NVIDIA |
| Graphics Card Ram Size | 6144 MB |
