A mainstream RTX card that’s affordable and still fast
A MAJOR COMPLAINT with Nvidia’s first generation of GeForce RTX cards was that the base model started at $500. With the release of the RTX 2060, that entry price point has dropped to $350, although this card from Zotac costs slightly more, at $370. That’s still a relatively high-end graphics card price, but the performance is at least on the same level as existing $370 GPUs, such as the GTX 1070 and GTX 1070 Ti, and AMD’s RX Vega 56. And that’s for existing games. Future ray-tracing games, and games that use DLSS, should run substantially faster on the RTX 2060.
So, what does $370 get you? Basically, everything that’s in the $500 RTX 2070, just a bit less of each. There are 30 SMs instead of 36, and 6GB of GDDR6 instead of 8GB. To put that in perspective, the drop from the RTX 2070 to the RTX 2060 is more like the difference between the GTX 1070 Ti and GTX 1070, rather than the 1070 and 1060. That $370 also nets you support for real-time ray tracing and DLSS cleverness, and we’re talking a comparable drop in silicon, too, with 30 ray-tracing cores and 240 tensor cores as opposed to the RTX 2070’s 36 RT cores and 288 tensor cores.
この記事は Maximum PC の April 2019 版に掲載されています。
7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トライアルを開始して、何千もの厳選されたプレミアム ストーリー、9,000 以上の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしてください。
すでに購読者です ? サインイン
この記事は Maximum PC の April 2019 版に掲載されています。
7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トライアルを開始して、何千もの厳選されたプレミアム ストーリー、9,000 以上の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしてください。
すでに購読者です? サインイン
Elgato Wave Neo
The Kanye West of mics: Easy to get into, but a little weird
Razer BlackWidow V4 75%
Solid and compact, with hot-swappable switches
Razer Wolverine V3 Pro
Razer's pro controller is even better than Microsoft's
Acer Predator GM712
2008 called, it wants its projector back
AndaSeat Kaiser 4 XL
A chair as big and as comfortable as they come
Gigabyte F027Q2
Speed is of the essence with this OLED screen
Acer Nitro 14
AMD puts on a good show, but it still lacks punch
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X
AMD's top Zen 5 CPU looks very similar to its predecessor on paper
Rip the perfect media file
MEDIA FILES COME IN ALL SHAPES AND SIZES, and things are further complicated by the fact that video (and audio) files are constructed using codecs, which are required to decode and encode the various streams.
Find files and apps quickly
THE WINDOWS SEARCH TOOL—accessible from the Taskbar—is OK as it goes, but there’s plenty of room for improvement.