Alleged NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Final Fantasy XIV Benchmarks Leak

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At the moment, NVIDIA's current-generation Turing GPU family consists of three graphics cards: the GeForce RTX 2070RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti. However, according to multiple reports, there will be a new, cheaper entry to the family in the coming months.

The alleged entry-level graphics card has shown up in the leaktastic Final Fantasy XV benchmark. What’s interesting is that the card is listed as the GeForce RTX 2060, while other reports have suggested that the card would be called the GeForce GTX 2060 since it wouldn't provide adequate real-time ray tracing performance for modern games (a la Battlefield V).

In fact, some have reported that the card might not have real-time ray tracing enabled at all. So, while these benchmarks might have the RTX 2060 label applied for now, we wouldn’t count on that translating if it does indeed reach production. But we digress…

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Using the High Quality settings at 4K resolution, the GeForce RTX 2060 manages to outpace both the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB and GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q by a fair margin in the Final Fantasy XIV Benchmark, but comes up short against the GeForce GTX 1070

Compared to the GeForce RTX 2070, the GeForce RTX 2060 is well behind (2589 versus 3930). However, given its positioning in the GeForce RTX lineup, this is to be expected. We'd imagine this card excelling at 1440p and lower resolutions while gaming, with 4K being out of reach for all but the most basic games (unless image quality settings are turned way down).

Given that we haven’t heard much about this rumored GeForce RTX GTX 2060, we’ll have to take the above results with a healthy dose of salt at the moment.

Brandon Hill

Brandon Hill

Brandon received his first PC, an IBM Aptiva 310, in 1994 and hasn’t looked back since. He cut his teeth on computer building/repair working at a mom and pop computer shop as a plucky teen in the mid 90s and went on to join AnandTech as the Senior News Editor in 1999. Brandon would later help to form DailyTech where he served as Editor-in-Chief from 2008 until 2014. Brandon is a tech geek at heart, and family members always know where to turn when they need free tech support. When he isn’t writing about the tech hardware or studying up on the latest in mobile gadgets, you’ll find him browsing forums that cater to his long-running passion: automobiles.

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