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Nvidia's new SUPER graphics cards launched about two weeks ago, and we've reviewed both the 2060 SUPER and 2070 SUPER Founders Editions, as well as a 2070 SUPER custom card from MSI. Today, we are looking at Palit's custom RTX 2060 SUPER JetStream, priced at £429. It's got a rated boost clock of 1830MHz, making this one of the highest-clocked cards on the market, while it backs that up with a beefy dual-fan cooling solution. Is this the card to get?
When we reviewed MSI's RTX 2070 SUPER Gaming X Trio last week, one of the disappointing points we mentioned was the meagre 30MHz factory overclock. Palit seems to have heard our voice with its RTX 2060 SUPER JetStream as this is clocked 180MHz faster than reference, giving a rated boost clock of 1830MHz.
On top of that, Palit has outfitted the card with a 2.7-slot cooler, utilising five copper heatpipes, to keep GPU temperatures in check. There's definitely potential for this card to run faster, cooler and quieter than the Founders Edition, so let's see how it gets on.
| GPU | RTX 2080 (FE) | RTX 2070 SUPER | RTX 2070 (FE) | RTX 2060 SUPER | RTX 2060 (FE) |
| SMs | 46 | 40 | 36 | 34 | 30 |
| CUDA Cores | 2944 | 2560 | 2304 | 2176 | 1920 |
| Tensor Cores | 368 | 320 | 288 | 272 | 240 |
| Tensor FLOPS | 85 | 72 | 63 | 57.4 | 51.6 |
| RT Cores | 46 | 40 | 36 | 34 | 30 |
| Texture Units | 184 | 160 | 144 | 136 | 120 |
| ROPs | 64 | 64 | 64 | 64 | 48 |
| Rays Cast | 8 Giga Rays | 7 Giga Rays | 6 Giga Rays | 6 Giga Rays | 5 Giga Rays |
| GPU Boost Clock | 1800 MHz | 1770 MHz | 1710 MHz | 1650 MHz | 1680 MHz |
| Memory Data Rate | 14 Gbps | 14 Gbps | 14 Gbps | 14 Gbps | 14 Gbps |
| Total Video Memory | 8GB GDDR6 | 8GB GDDR6 | 8GB GDDR6 | 8GB GDDR6 | 6GB GDDR6 |
| Memory Interface | 256-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit | 192-bit |
| Memory Bandwidth | 448 GB/sec | 448 GB/sec | 448 GB/sec | 448 GB/sec | 336.1 GB/sec |
| TDP | 225W | 215W | 185W | 175W | 160W |
We've not looked at a 2060 SUPER since our initial Founders Edition review, so it's worth quickly re-capping the core specification. 2060 SUPER uses Nvidia's TU106 GPU – the same as the vanilla RTX 2070. It has been slightly cut-down, however, as it incorporates 34 SMs, which is two less than the full implementation found with RTX 2070. This means 2060 SUPER has 2176 CUDA cores, versus 2304 with vanilla RTX 2070.
The 2070's memory allowance has trickled down to the 2060 SUPER, though, meaning we get 8GB GDDR6 clocked at 14Gbps – instead of the 6GB capacity found on vanilla RTX 2060. This operates over a 256-bit bus, with total memory bandwidth of 448 GB/s.
Where reference 2060 SUPER has a total graphics power rating of 175W, Palit has cranked this to 215W with its JetStream model – a 40W increase. This allows significantly faster clock speeds out of the box – an extra 180MHz for this Palit card, as we mentioned – and hopefully we will see some good gains via manual overclocking as well.
The Palit RTX 2060 SUPER JetStream ships in a compact box, with the entire front taken up by an eye-catching lightning storm design, though there's no image of the card itself visible on the front.
Palit keeps things to a minimum with the accessories, too, as we find a simple quick start guide alongside a driver disk.
It's the card we're here for, though, and first impressions are positive. The shroud is made from black plastic, but Palit has added some silver metal plates on top of this, which not only improves the aesthetics but also adds a bit of sturdiness to the card as a whole. It's not as premium-feeling as the Founders Edition, but it's certainly better than most other cards with plastic-only shrouds.
We also get a look at the two fans – Palit's TurboFan Blade 2.0 design, with each fan measuring 100mm in diameter. Curiously, while there is a fan-stop mode with this card, it only functions if you use the secondary BIOS which I think is strange – but we'll get to that later.
It's definitely worth making clear that this is a big card. Palit claims it's a ‘2.7-slot' design, but its really a triple-slot card. Its dimensions are 292 x 130 x 59.6 mm – so it is nearly 60mm thick, while it is also just under 30cm long. Definitely best checking that this will fit in your case.
The front side of the card is home to more metal plating, with the ‘GeForce RTX' branding also placed in this section. Just to the right of that is a small JetStream logo. At the very front of card, just to the right of the I/O bracket, we can also get a look at the small BIOS switch as the card does ship with dual BIOS functionality.
As for the backplate, this is made from brushed metal and covers the length of the PCB, with a small cut-out behind the GPU core. It's mostly plain apart from the JetStream logo positioned on the right side of the backplate.
Despite the 40W increase in total graphics power (TGP), Palit has kept the reference configuration of 1x 8-pin and 1x 6-pin PCIe power connectors.
Display outputs consist of 3x DisplayPort and 1x HDMI connectors, but there is no USB-C.
8 screws need to be removed from the back of the card to remove the cooler, and then we get access to the PCB. As far as I can tell, Palit is re-using its RTX 2070 GameRock Premium PCB design for this card, and that is certainly a good thing as its power delivery has been beefed up to an 8+2 phase configuration, where the Founders Edition has a 6+2 design.
On top of this, the GDDR6 memory is from Micron and each chip is labelled ‘9EA77D9WCW'. The TU106 GPU bears the ‘410' model code, indicating this one of the new GPUs introduced after Nvidia stopped binning its chips in ‘A' and ‘non-A' stacks.
The cooler also appears identical to the 2070 GameRock, with two thick aluminium fin stacks that are joined by 5 copper heatpipes. The heatpipes aren't plated but they are quite large, measuring 8mm in diameter.
There's also two separate coldplates that form part of the cooler. One is for the VRAM chips, with a copper contact area for the GPU die, while the other coldplate is to cool the VRM.
Our newest GPU test procedure has been built with the intention of benchmarking high-end graphics cards. We test at 1920×1080 (1080p), 2560×1440 (1440p), and 3840×2160 (4K UHD) resolutions.
We try to test using the DX12 API if titles offer support. This gives us an interpretation into the graphics card performance hierarchy in the present time and the near future, when DX12 becomes more prevalent. After all, graphics cards of this expense may stay in a gamer’s system for a number of product generations/years before being upgraded.
We tested the RX Vega64 and Vega56 using the ‘Turbo‘ power mode in AMD’s WattMan software. This prioritises all-out performance over power efficiency, noise output, and lower thermals.
The Palit RTX 2060 SUPER JetStream has a rated boost clock of 1830MHz. We did all of our performance testing using the primary BIOS 1, which is the default setting. We did also run some additional testing using BIOS 2 to see what difference it makes, and we have labelled each result ‘(1)' or ‘(2)' so you know which BIOS was used.
Driver Notes
- All AMD graphics cards were benchmarked with the Adrenalin 19.6.2 driver.
- All Nvidia graphics cards (except 2060/2070 SUPER) were benchmarked with the Nvidia 430.86 driver.
- Nvidia RTX 2060/2070 SUPER cards were benchmarked with the 431.16 driver supplied to press ahead of launch.
Test System
We test using the Overclockers UK Germanium pre-built system, though it has been re-housed into an open-air test bench. You can read more about it over HERE.
| CPU |
Intel Core i7-8700K
Overclocked to 4.8GHz |
| Motherboard |
ASUS ROG Strix Z370-F Gaming
|
| Memory |
Team Group Dark Hawk RGB
16GB (2x8GB) @ 3200MHz 16-18-18-38 |
| Graphics Card |
Varies
|
| System Drive |
Samsung 960 EVO 500GB
|
| Games Drive | Crucial M4 512GB |
| Chassis | Streacom ST-BC1 Bench |
| CPU Cooler |
OCUK TechLabs 240mm AIO
|
| Power Supply |
Corsair AX1500i 80+ Titanium PSU
|
| Operating System |
Windows 10 1903
|
Comparison Graphics Cards List
- Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition (FE) 11GB
- Nvidia RTX 2080 Founders Edition (FE) 8GB
- Nvidia RTX 2070 SUPER Founders Edition (FE) 8GB
- MSI RTX 2070 SUPER Gaming X Trio 8GB
- MSI RTX 2070 Armor 8GB
- Nvidia RTX 2060 SUPER Founders Edition (FE) 8GB
- Nvidia RTX 2060 Founders Edition (FE) 6GB
- Gigabyte GTX 1660 Ti OC 6G
- Gigabyte GTX 1660 Gaming OC 6G
- Palit GTX 1650 StormX OC 4GB
- Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition (FE) 11GB
- Gigabyte GTX 1080 G1 Gaming 8GB
- Palit GTX 1070 Ti Super JetStream 8GB
- Nvidia GTX 1070 Founders Edition (FE) 8GB
- Nvidia GTX 1060 Founders Edition (FE) 6GB
- AMD RX 5700 XT 8GB
- AMD RX 5700 8GB
- AMD Radeon VII 16GB
- AMD RX Vega 64 Air 8GB
- AMD RX Vega 56 8GB
- Sapphire RX 590 Nitro+ SE 8GB
- Sapphire RX 580 Pulse 8GB
- ASUS RX 570 ROG Strix Gaming OC 4GB
Software and Games List
- 3DMark Fire Strike & Fire Strike Ultra (DX11 Synthetic)
- 3DMark Time Spy (DX12 Synthetic)
- 3DMark Port Royal (DXR Synthetic)
- Battlefield V (DX12)
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (DX12)
- Far Cry 5 (DX11)
- Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands (DX11)
- Metro: Exodus (DX12)
- Middle Earth: Shadow of War (DX11)
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider (DX12)
We run each benchmark/game three times, and present averages in our graphs.3DMark Fire Strike is a showcase DirectX 11 benchmark designed for today’s high-performance gaming PCs. It is our [FutureMark’s] most ambitious and technical benchmark ever, featuring real-time graphics rendered with detail and complexity far beyond what is found in other benchmarks and games today.
It's a promising start for the Palit RTX 2060 SUPER JetStream in our 3DMark tests, as it's aggressive factory overclock helps it score over 1000 points more than the 2060 SUPER Founders Edition (FE). It also scores 500 points more in Time Spy, too.
3DMark Port Royal is the world’s first dedicated real-time ray tracing benchmark for gamers. You can use Port Royal to test and compare the real-time ray tracing performance of any graphics card that supports Microsoft DirectX Raytracing. As well as benchmarking performance, 3DMark Port Royal provides a realistic and practical example of what to expect from ray tracing in upcoming games.
Port Royal is 3DMark's ray-tracing benchmark, and here the Palit 2060 SUPER slots in between reference RTX 2070 and RTX 2070 SUPER Founders Edition.
Battlefield V is a first-person shooter video game developed by EA DICE and published by Electronic Arts. Battlefield V is the sixteenth instalment in the Battlefield series. It was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on November 20, 2018. (Wikipedia).
We test using the Ultra preset with the DX12 API.
At 1080p when playing Battlefield V, there's not much in it between both 2060 SUPER cards. At 1440p and 4K, however, the Palit JetStream is able to stretch its legs and outperforms its Founders Edition cousin by 4% and 6% respectively.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is set in the year 2029, two years after the events of Human Revolution and the “Aug Incident”—an event in which mechanically augmented humans became uncontrollable and lethally violent. Unbeknownst to the public, the affected augmented received implanted technology designed to control them by the shadowy Illuminati, which is abused by a rogue member of the group to discredit augmentations completely. (Wikipedia).
We test using the Very High preset, with MSAA disabled. We test using the DX12 API.
Things are pretty consistent in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, with the Palit 2060 SUPER outperforming the Founders Edition by around 3FPS across all resolutions. AMD's RX 5700 and 5700 XT are both faster in this title, however.
Far Cry 5 is an action-adventure first-person shooter game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and Ubisoft Toronto and published by Ubisoft for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It is the eleventh entry and the fifth main title in the Far Cry series, and was released on March 27, 2018.
The game takes place in the fictional Hope County, Montana, where charismatic preacher Joseph Seed and his cult Project at Eden’s Gate holds a dictatorial rule over the area. The story follows an unnamed junior deputy sheriff, who becomes trapped in Hope County and works alongside factions of a resistance to liberate the county from Eden’s Gate. (Wikipedia).
We test using the Ultra preset, with AA and motion blur disabled.
Far Cry 5 shows a pretty evident CPU bottleneck at 1080p – even with our overclocked i7-8700K – but at 1440p things even out, and we can see a 4FPS lead for the Palit over its Founders Edition counterpart. While the 2060 SUPER is faster than the RX 5700 in this title, the RX 5700 XT does edge ahead.
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands is a tactical shooter video game developed by Ubisoft Paris and published by Ubisoft. It was released worldwide on March 7, 2017, for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, as the tenth instalment in the Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon franchise and is the first game in the Ghost Recon series to feature an open world environment. (Wikipedia).
We test using the Very High preset.
The margins aren't very big in Ghost Recon: Wildlands, but the Palit is on average 3% faster than the 2060 SUPER FE. It is also faster than 5700 XT at 1080p, but falls behind at 1440p and 4K.
Metro Exodus is a first-person shooter video game developed by 4A Games and published by Deep Silver in 2019. It is the third instalment in the Metro video game series based on Dmitry Glukhovsky's novels, following the events of Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light. (Wikipedia)
We test using the Ultra preset, but with Hairworks and Advanced PhysX turned off. We test using the DX12 API.
Metro Exodus shows a similar pattern to our first game of the day, Battlefield V. There's hardly anything between our two 2060 SUPER cards at 1080p, but at 1440p and 4K the gap widens considerably with the Palit card 6-7% faster.
Middle-earth: Shadow of War is an action role-playing video game developed by Monolith Productions and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. It is the sequel to 2014’s Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, and was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on October 10, 2017. (Wikipedia).
We test using the Very High preset.
Middle Earth: Shadow of War favours Nvidia hardware and the Palit 2060 SUPER is consistently faster than the RX 5700 XT – it's even on the heels of the Radeon VII. Compared to the 2060 SUPER FE, the Palit card is on average 6% faster in this title.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider is an action-adventure video game developed by Eidos Montréal in conjunction with Crystal Dynamics and published by Square Enix. It continues the narrative from the 2013 game Tomb Raider and its sequel Rise of the Tomb Raider, and is the twelfth mainline entry in the Tomb Raider series. The game released worldwide on 14 September 2018 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. (Wikipedia).
We test using the Highest preset, with AA disabled. We test using the DX12 API.
The Palit 2060 SUPER JetStream again edges ahead of the Founders Edition in Shadow of the Tomb Raider, with a 4% lead at 1080p which grows to 6% at 4K. It's also snapping at the heels of the RX 5700 XT, but can't catch it.
Battlefield V is a first-person shooter video game developed by EA DICE and published by Electronic Arts. Battlefield V is the sixteenth instalment in the Battlefield series. It was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on November 20, 2018. (Wikipedia).
We test using the Ultra preset with the DX12 API. Battlefield V was the first game released with Nvidia RTX ray tracing features (called DXR in game) and we present average frame rates for the game with DXR Off, and then again with DXR set to Ultra.
Palit's 2060 SUPER does well at 1080p and 1440p when gaming with DXR enabled, pulling head of the vanilla RTX 2070 – despite that card having an extra 2 RT cores. At 4K, however, it sits between the Founders Edition 2060 SUPER and the RTX 2070.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider is an action-adventure video game developed by Eidos Montréal in conjunction with Crystal Dynamics and published by Square Enix. It continues the narrative from the 2013 game Tomb Raider and its sequel Rise of the Tomb Raider, and is the twelfth mainline entry in the Tomb Raider series. The game released worldwide on 14 September 2018 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. (Wikipedia).
We test using the Highest preset, with AA disabled. We test using the DX12 API. For these ray tracing benchmarks, we present average frame rates for the game with ray traces shadows (DXR) off, and then again with ray traced shadows set to Ultra.
Playing with ray traced shadows in Shadow of the Tomb Raider is less punishing for a GPU, and the Palit averaged 70FPS at 1080p – down from 115FPS with ray tracing off. It is faster than RTX 2070 across the board, however.
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 to record the GPU core frequency during the Fire Strike Ultra runs. We calculate the average core frequency during the entire 20-run test to present here.
For these next tests, we tested both the primary BIOS 1, as well as the secondary BIOS. There isn't much between them, with the primary BIOS averaging 1938MHz under load – or just 11MHz more than the secondary BIOS. This puts the Palit card around 160MHz faster than the Founders Edition 2060 SUPER based on our real world testing.
For our temperature testing, we measure the peak GPU core temperature under load, as well as the GPU temperature with the card idling on the desktop. A reading under load comes from running the 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra stress test 20 times. An idle reading comes after leaving the system on the Windows desktop for 30 minutes.
Thermal performance is very good for the Palit JetStream, particularly in BIOS 1 where the GPU peaked at 64C. BIOS 2 saw this rise by 4C, while idle temperatures are also much higher due to the fan-stop mode which is only enabled on this secondary BIOS.
These thermal images were taken using BIOS 1, and there's no areas of concern for the card. The hot spot on the rear is directly behind the GPU core, as expected, but this didn't exceed 62C which is still a great result.
We take our noise measurements with the sound meter positioned 1 foot from the graphics card. I measured the noise floor to be 32 dBA, thus anything above this level can be attributed to the graphics cards. The power supply is passive for the entire power output range we tested all graphics cards in, while all CPU and system fans were disabled.
A reading under load comes from running the 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra stress test 20 times. An idle reading comes after leaving the system on the Windows desktop for 30 minutes.
I must say I was expecting lower noise levels from this Palit card. In the primary BIOS, it is essentially just as quiet as the Founders Edition, and while this does drop by 1.2dB when using BIOS 2, the difference wasn't very noticeable at all. In fact, BIOS 1 saw the fans peak at 49% (1330rpm), while BIOS 2 reduced this to 45% (1220rpm). It's not much of a difference at all, and I definitely think the dual-BIOS implementation could be better – in my opinion, BIOS 2 should be significantly quieter to offer something noticeably different to the primary BIOS. At the moment, they're both very similar in terms of overall performance.
On that note, I do also think it's strange the card's fan-stop mode is only available with the secondary BIOS. I can't really see any reason for this, it could certainly work using BIOS 1 but Palit hasn't implemented the feature with that BIOS. It's not a major point, but it's nice to completely eliminate fan noise while your system is idling, even if the card isn't very loud to begin with.
We measure system-wide power draw from the wall while the card is sat idling at the Windows 10 desktop for 30 minutes. A reading under load comes from running the 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra stress test 20 times.
Power consumption for both BIOS is very similar, and is significantly increased over the 2060 SUPER Founders Edition, with the Palit pulling 44-46W more at the wall. This puts it in RTX 2070 SUPER territory, and this is clearly the downside to Palit disregarding the power limit in favour of higher clock speeds. It's not a major issue for me at all, as an extra 45W or so will do very little to my power bill – but it does depend where you live and how much you pay for your electricity.
We used MSI Afterburner to overclock the card, adding 85MHz to the GPU core and 950MHz to the memory. This isn't a big manual OC, but remember Palit has already added 180MHz for you versus reference speeds – so we're effectively 265MHz faster than reference now.
Average clock speed under load
The added frequency was enough for the card to break past 2GHz, however, which is always good to see. We did see it peak as high as 2070MHz, but it couldn't sustain that frequency and dropped down, spending most of our testing between 2010-2025MHz.
3DMark and games
This was enough of a frequency boost to shows some decent frame rate improvements in our games, tested at 1440p. Shadow of the Tomb Raider, for instance, saw an increase of 5FPS, as did Ghost Recon: Wildlands. The card also gained another 1000 points in Fire Strike.
Here, we take a further look at the impact of our overclock, looking at the increased temperatures, acoustics and power draw.
Temperatures
Acoustics
Power consumption
Overview
The GPU ran 2C hotter with this overclock applied, and noise levels increased by 2.6dB. Power draw also rose by 24W, taking the total system power consumption past RTX 2080 levels.
Nvidia's RTX 2060 SUPER launched just over two weeks ago, and today we have been analysing Palit's custom version, the RTX 2060 SUPER JetStream.
As far as I can tell, Palit is re-using the same cooler and PCB design we first saw with the RTX 2070 GameRock Premium, which is certainly a good thing – 2060 SUPER is closer to vanilla 2070 in terms of its GPU configuration, so using a 2070 card design, instead of a more cut-down 2060 PCB/cooler, means we're not going to run into power limit issues.
In fact, the 8+2 power phase design Palit has used for this card has allowed a 40W increase to the power limit compared to reference RTX 2060 SUPER. The main benefit of that? Clock speed, as Palit has added 180MHz to the reference clock speed of 1650MHz, giving the card a rated boost clock of 1830MHz. From what I have seen online, this makes it one the fastest 2060 SUPER cards out there, with only the ASUS ROG Strix model clocked higher out of the box.
As for how much difference this makes in games, it does vary slightly. In certain titles, the 2060 SUPER was up to 7% faster than its Founders Edition counterpart, though this was usually at 4K – a resolution 2060 SUPER isn't best suited for anyway. At 1080p and 1440p, the difference is smaller, sometimes as little as 1-2%. On average, the difference works out at 4% in favour of the JetStream. Compared to AMD's RX 5700 XT, the Palit JetStream is 5% slower, while it is 2% faster than a reference-clocked RTX 2070.
Palit has done well to reduce temperatures by 6C compared to the Founders Edition, too, though I was a bit disappointed that noise levels aren't noticeably quieter – our sound meter told us the Palit was producing 0.3dB less noise than the Founders, but I could not tell the difference between the two. For a custom card, especially one as physically big as this, this is certainly a let down.
There is a secondary BIOS designed to run a little quieter, but in practice I found this to make little difference. Fan speed dropped by just 4%, for example, when moving over to the secondary BIOS, while temperatures rose by 4C. It was a little quieter than the primary BIOS, but by less than 1dB according to our sound meter. I really think Palit missed a trick here by not making the secondary BIOS significantly quieter – if it had dropped the fan speed down to 30%, for instance, we'd get higher temperatures but also noticeably lower noise levels. At the moment, there's very little difference between each BIOS in the real world.
The last area to touch on is pricing. The JetStream is Palit's highest-end 2060 SUPER card, and it carries a £50 price premium over the £379 MSRP. That's an increase of 13%. For me, that is right at the limit of what is justifiable for a partner card, though it's certainly pushing it. We again come back to how good Nvidia's Founders Edition design really is, especially now those cards are priced at MSRP, and that makes life very difficult for Nvidia's partners.
If it were my money, I have to say I would buy the Founders Edition and save the £50. Palit has done well to push the clock speed by 180MHz, while temperatures are also 6C lower. I do think it is a shame the card isn't noticeably quieter than the Founders Edition, however, and that extra clock speed works out at a 4% performance increase which is hardly game-changing.
On top of that, the card remains 5% slower than the RX 5700 XT, which retails at £379. I can't say how much value you place on Nvidia's ray tracing support – it doesn't amount to much right now but the list of games with RTX support is increasing exponentially. If that's a factor for you, my suggestion is to buy the Founders Edition, apply a healthy overclock and use the money you've saved to buy Cyberpunk 2077. If you're not interested in ray tracing, custom RX 5700 XT cards are (hopefully) just around the corner.
You can buy the Palit RTX 2060 SUPER JetStream from Overclockers UK for £428.99 HERE.
Pros
- Impressive 180MHz factory overclock.
- Uses RTX 2070 PCB with 8+2 power phases.
- 6C cooler than Founders Edition.
- Attractive shroud design.
Cons
- Not noticeably quieter than Founders Edition.
- Secondary BIOS makes little difference versus the primary BIOS.
- 13% price increase versus the Founders Edition.
- Still 5% slower than RX 5700 XT (which is cheaper).
KitGuru says: It's likely the fastest RTX 2060 SUPER we will see, but I would have liked to see a much quieter secondary BIOS to offer something different. On top of that, priced at £50 more than both the 2060 SUPER Founders Edition and AMD's RX 5700 XT, the extra cash does become hard to justify.
