Nvidia RTX 2060 Founders Edition 6GB Review

Just like the other 20-series cards manufactured by Nvidia, the RTX 2060 Founders Edition 6GB ships in a dark grey box with the ‘GeForce RTX' branding dominating the bottom left corner.

Inside, the only included extras are two small booklets – one quick start guide and one support guide.

In terms of the card itself, it uses the same cooler and design of the RTX 2070 Founders Edition, which is itself a slightly smaller version of the 2080 and 2080 Ti cards.

That means we have the same premium construction – it's mostly aluminium across the board – with two dual axial fans, instead of the previous blower-style (radial) fan Nvidia used on its previous designs.

To put the size of the card into perspective, I have compared it to the RTX 2080 Founders Edition above – which itself is pretty compact compared to a lot of the aftermarket cards we are now used to seeing.

Essentially, the 2060 Founders is a very dinky card. With the same dimensions as the 2070 Founders, it measures 228.6mm long, with a width of 112.6mm and standard dual-slot thickness. It still feels hefty in the hand thanks to its metal body – it weighs almost a kilo – but realistically, this is a card that will fit in the vast majority of cases out there.

As for the PCB, it appears to be identical to that of the 2070 Founders – but with two GDDR6 memory chips missing. That does mean it uses the same 6+2 power phases to feed the GPU and memory, while the power connector is soldered to the end of the board. There is also no NVLink connector – SLI is now restricted to only 2080 and 2080 Ti cards.

The cooler, although cosmetically similar to the 2070, doesn't make use of a vapour chamber this time around – instead it relies on heatpipes and an aluminium fin stack. Do bear in mind, though, that since it uses two axial fans – instead of a single blower-style fan – it will exhaust more hot air inside your case than the previous Nvidia design.

On the front side of the card, the GeForce RTX branding sits right in the middle – this of course lights up in Nvidia Green once your system is powered on.

The silver backplate uses the same design as all the other 20-series cards, with the card name – ‘RTX 2060' – placed right in the middle, surrounded by some lines etched into the metal which adds some interest.

As we saw from our look at the PCB, the single 8-pin power connector is placed on the end of the card – so even though the Founders Edition itself is just under 230mm long, you will need to allow for an extra few centimetres of clearance in your case for the PCIe power cable and connector.

I/O is also the same as the 2070 Founders, meaning we have 2x DisplayPort 1.4a, 1x HDMI 2.0b, 1x DVI-D, and then 1x USB-C VirtualLink connector.

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