Nvidia RTX 2060 Founders Edition 6GB Review

1. Introduction2. Nvidia RTX 2060 Founders Edition 6GB3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark (1080p, 1440p, 4K)5. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (1080p, 1440p, 4K)6. Far Cry 5 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)7. Ghost Recon: Wildlands (1080p, 1440p, 4K)8. Middle Earth: Shadow of War (1080p, 1440p, 4K)9. Shadow of the Tomb Raider (1080p, 1440p, 4K)10. Battlefield V w/ DXR (1080p, 1440p, 4K)11. Final Fantasy XV w/ DLSS (4K)12. Clock Speed13. Temperatures14. Acoustics15. Power Consumption16. Overclocking: 3DMark and Games17. Overclocking: Thermals, Acoustics, Power18. Closing Thoughts19. View All Pages

Here we present the average clock speed for each graphics card while running the 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra stress test 20 times. We use GPU-Z in tandem with the Powenetics Project to record the GPU core frequency during the Fire Strike Ultra runs – at the end, we are left with around 4300 data entries.

We calculate the average core frequency during the entire 20-run test to present here.

As a reminder, the RTX 2060 Founders Edition is a reference clocked card – unlike the other 20-series card, the Founders does not come factory overclocked. Even so, we saw GPU Boost raise the core frequency well beyond the rated 1680MHz boost clock – in fact, the average operating frequency was exactly 150MHz faster than that.

That's all completely automatic behaviour, too, so I would expect there to be plenty of heavily factory overclocked partner cards available – the headroom is definitely there. We will also look at manual overclocking later in the review.

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