EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 XC Review: Compact And Overclocked

Name: EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 XC
Brand: EVGA

by Marco Chiappetta — Monday, January 28, 2019, 10:51 AM EDT

Rise of the Tomb Raider is a sequel to the 2013 reboot of the Tomb Raider franchise, which takes protagonist Lara Croft back to her explorative “tomb raiding” roots in a deep origin story. The game, however, was updated and enhanced with new gameplay and combat mechanics. The engine was updated as well, and offers DirectX 12 support, along with some stunning visuals. The benchmark outputs results from a number of maps; we’re reporting numbers from the “Geothermal Valley” here, along with the average score of all the maps. The game’s maximum “Very High” graphics preset was used, and all graphics-related options were enabled as well.

Shadow Of The Tomb Raider

DirectX 12 Benchmarks

Shadow Of The Tomb Raider

The EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 XC’s higher boost clock allows it to keep pace with the GeForce GTX 1080 here, and as you’d expect, it’s a couple of percentage points faster than NVIDIA’s RTX 2060.

Those higher clocks also help the EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 XC somewhat close the gap with the GTX 1080 in the 95 percentile numbers.

Strange Brigade

DirectX 12 (Or Vulcan!) Benchmarks

Strange Brigade is a third-person action game set in Egypt in the 1930s that takes gamers on an various adventures to explore ruins, solve puzzles, and uncover valuable treasures, while also blasting through an array of un-dead enemies. This game has both DirectX and Vulcan code paths and makes use of Asynchronous Compute as well. We tested Strange Bridge with its Ultra graphics preset with A-Sync compute enabled at a couple of resolutions.

Strange Brigade

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The GeForce GTX 1080 holds only a slight edge over the EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 XC in Strange Brigade, but as we’ve seen throughout testing so far, the EVGA card’s higher clocks help it to pull slightly ahead of NVIDIA’s design.

Render times in Strange Brigade show the EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 XC offering a similar max frame time to the GeForce GTX 1070, but significantly better average and minimum frame times.

Tags: Nvidia, graphics, GPU, evga, (nasdaq:nvda), turing, geforce rtx 2060

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com