The RT X 2060: Is it Good Enough for High Refresh Rate 1080p Gaming?

In this video, I'll be putting the RT X 2060 through its paces to see if it's good enough for high refresh rate 1080p gaming. But before we dive in, let me just say that my test setup is a bit different from some of the other reviewers out there.

So, I was using an Intel i5 7600 K, overclocked to four point eight gigahertz, which is the best gaming CPU I have available. Honestly, it was a little bit of a bottleneck here and there, you could occasionally see the CPU usage hit a hundred percent, but it didn't fly to a hundred percent and stay pegged there. So, it wasn't a massive bottleneck, but you could get slightly better results than I have if you have a better gaming CPU, something like an 80 700 K or you know any other better gaming CPU.

I was using 16 gigs of DDR 4 overclocked to 26 66 megahertz and all of the tests were run in an NZXT H 500. Now, let's move on to the benchmarks. This is the exciting bit now, again I just want to point out that there was some CPU bottlenecks in some of these situations, but I want to see the frame rates don't look bad.

Especially when you look at the kind of games like first-person shooter games I do think that you should take into account the one-percent lows in 0.1 percent those because they're quite important at this high frame rate because any tips below like a hundred frames per second was quite noticeable although if you want to really in-depth discussion on this topic have a look at an optimum tech video that I've linked in the description below where he talks about kind of like frame time performance and how it feels on higher refresh rate monitors. I really would recommend having a look at that video because he deals with it in more detail than I'm going to look at it here.

And now, let's look at a better representation of performance while gaming which is a frame time graph. Now, this is a frame time graph of me just kind of doing a basic run in Apex legends and honestly, it looks really good. There's very small variations that first bump that you see in the beginning was just when I started the recording so that usually has a bit of an effect.

But don't suck that you don't get 144 frames per second and unfortunately, you're gonna have to spend a lot more on both the graphics card and the CPU to get that kind of framerate consistently. And that's one of the biggest problems with high refresh rate gaming is that it also puts a very big load on your CPU.

In conclusion, is the RT X 2060 good enough for high refresh rate 1080p gaming? I'd say it is. You're not going to be playing games like Metro Exodus at 144 frames per second, I don't even think an RT x20 ATT can do that at 1080p fast-paced multiplayer shooters like Apex Legends pop G fortnight even CSGO which performs really well at everything but those games where the high refresh rate really matters.

The graphics card gets close enough it doesn't give you like perfect world 144 frames per second average with a 0.1 low of like 140 frames per second but it is good enough for you to get a really good gaming experience. I still think that the RT X 2060 is too expensive if they brought the price down to closer to a hundred and eighty dollars, I think it would be more worth it.

But I don't want to talk too much about the state of the graph is called market at the moment because it's gonna veer a bit off-topic especially considering that up-and-coming caster in this market segment. Well, this is just gonna be way too many options and no one's gonna know what to buy. It's it's really crazy.

I'm gonna do a separate video on that actually because I don't I want to spend more time on that topic so that we can have a discussion in the comment section as well. Anyway, with that thank you very much for watching if you liked the video do like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one and until the next one bye.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enFriday's okay as I discussed in an earlier video which I'll have linked somewhere high refresh rate gaming is really awesome but even a 1080p it's really demanding so can and videos mid to high end graphics card I don't really know what market segments they're targeting with it but can the RT X 2060 give good gaming results at high refresh rate 1080p before we have a look at the benchmarks and discuss the frame rates in more detail I just want to have a look at what specific RT X 2016 I'm using for these tests I'm using a ZOTAC RT X 2060 which is a smaller PCB GPU and it's usually one of the cheapest RT x 2060 so you can find I honestly really like this GPU according to ZOTAC it fits in 99% of cases and I believe them because it's fairly small but it still has a really decent cooling solution that has a dense fin stack and two good fans that are fairly quiet the Nvidia can really learn about how to design a small GPU heat sink from ZOTAC it comes with a kind of wrap around backplate which is quite nice but it does artificially increase the size of the graphics card and it also extends around the 8 pin PCI Express power cable and that makes it difficult to plug it in and out but honestly if you're using this graphics card in your gaming PC how regularly do you unplug it anyway so it's not that big of an issue now I do know that the asus card that i compared it to earlier is a smaller GPU but it's not smaller by much the asus did have a lot of space in that stroud to make a better cooling solution for their graphics card now when looking at the actual temperatures of this graphics card under load while running fir mock for about an hour I got a temperature of 66 degrees Celsius which is really good especially considering the fact that I was testing the graphics card in an NZXT H 500 which isn't the best airflow case ever it's not horrendous but it's not great and then when gaming you get about 60 degrees Celsius which i think is really good now according to so attack the boost cop on this graphics card is 1680 megahertz I was getting closer to 1900 megahertz well in fact I was getting 1900 megahertz which is really good and there is still some headroom left for overclocking and I could get to just over 2,000 megahertz stable and 7,000 600 megahertz on the RAM so it's not the best overclocker but it's kind of in line with the other RT X 2060 variants now in regards to the rest of the test setup whose CPU I was using an Intel i5 7600 K overclocked to four point eight gigahertz which is the best gaming CPU that I have available honestly it was a little bit of a bottleneck here and there you could occasionally see the CPU usage hit a hundred percent but it didn't fly to a hundred percent and stay pegged there so it wasn't a massive bottleneck but you could get slightly better results than I have if you have a better gaming CPU something like an 80 700 K or you know any other better gaming CPU I don't know why I specifically mentioned the 8700 K that then as far as RAM goes I used 16 gigs of DDR 4 overclocked to 26 66 megahertz and then all of the tests were run in an NZXT H 500 as I mentioned earlier but this isn't massively relevant because there wasn't any thermal throttling happening now let's move on to the benchmarks this is the exciting bit now again I just want to point out that there was some CPU bottle making in some of these situations but I want to see the frame rates don't look bad especially when you look at the kind of like first-person shooter games I do think that you should take into account the one-percent lows in 0.1 percent those because they're quite important at this high frame rate because any tips below like a hundred frames per second was quite noticeable although if you want to really in-depth discussion on this topic have a look at an optimum tech video that I've linked in the description below where he talks about kind of like frame time performance and how it feels on higher refresh rate monitors I really would recommend having a look at that video because he deals with it in more detail that I'm going to look at it here and now let's look at a better representation of performance while gaming which is a frame time graph now this is a frame time graph of me just kind of doing a basic run in Apex legends and honestly it looks really good there's very small variations that first bump that you see in the beginning was just when I started the recording so that usually has a bit of an effect it does suck that you don't get 144 frames per second and unfortunately you're gonna have to spend a lot more on both the graphics card and the CPU to get that kind of framerate consistently and that's one of the biggest problems with high refresh rate gaming is that it also puts a very big load on your CPU and you're just gonna have to get a much more expensive system than you do if you're only aiming for 60 frames per second in conclusion is the r-tx 2060 good enough for high refresh rate 1080p gaming I'd say it is you're not going to be playing games like Metro Exodus at 144 frames per second I don't even think an RT x20 ATT I can do that at 1080p fast paced multiplayer shooters like apex Legends pop G fortnight even csgo which performs really well at everything but those games where the high refresh rate really matters the graphics card gets close enough it doesn't give you like perfect world 144 frames per second average with a 0.1 low of like 140 frames per second but it is good enough for you to get a really good gaming experience I still think that the RT X 2060 is too expensive if they brought the price down to closer to a hundred and eighty dollars I think it would be more worth it but I don't want to talk too much about the state of the graph is called market at the moment because it's gonna veer a bit off-topic especially considering that up-and-coming caster in this market segment well this is just gonna be way too many options and no one's gonna know what to buy it's it's it's really crazy I'm gonna do a separate video on that actually because I don't I I want to spend more time on that topic so that we can have a discussion in the comment section as well anyway with that thank you very much for watching if you liked the video do like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one and until the next one byeFriday's okay as I discussed in an earlier video which I'll have linked somewhere high refresh rate gaming is really awesome but even a 1080p it's really demanding so can and videos mid to high end graphics card I don't really know what market segments they're targeting with it but can the RT X 2060 give good gaming results at high refresh rate 1080p before we have a look at the benchmarks and discuss the frame rates in more detail I just want to have a look at what specific RT X 2016 I'm using for these tests I'm using a ZOTAC RT X 2060 which is a smaller PCB GPU and it's usually one of the cheapest RT x 2060 so you can find I honestly really like this GPU according to ZOTAC it fits in 99% of cases and I believe them because it's fairly small but it still has a really decent cooling solution that has a dense fin stack and two good fans that are fairly quiet the Nvidia can really learn about how to design a small GPU heat sink from ZOTAC it comes with a kind of wrap around backplate which is quite nice but it does artificially increase the size of the graphics card and it also extends around the 8 pin PCI Express power cable and that makes it difficult to plug it in and out but honestly if you're using this graphics card in your gaming PC how regularly do you unplug it anyway so it's not that big of an issue now I do know that the asus card that i compared it to earlier is a smaller GPU but it's not smaller by much the asus did have a lot of space in that stroud to make a better cooling solution for their graphics card now when looking at the actual temperatures of this graphics card under load while running fir mock for about an hour I got a temperature of 66 degrees Celsius which is really good especially considering the fact that I was testing the graphics card in an NZXT H 500 which isn't the best airflow case ever it's not horrendous but it's not great and then when gaming you get about 60 degrees Celsius which i think is really good now according to so attack the boost cop on this graphics card is 1680 megahertz I was getting closer to 1900 megahertz well in fact I was getting 1900 megahertz which is really good and there is still some headroom left for overclocking and I could get to just over 2,000 megahertz stable and 7,000 600 megahertz on the RAM so it's not the best overclocker but it's kind of in line with the other RT X 2060 variants now in regards to the rest of the test setup whose CPU I was using an Intel i5 7600 K overclocked to four point eight gigahertz which is the best gaming CPU that I have available honestly it was a little bit of a bottleneck here and there you could occasionally see the CPU usage hit a hundred percent but it didn't fly to a hundred percent and stay pegged there so it wasn't a massive bottleneck but you could get slightly better results than I have if you have a better gaming CPU something like an 80 700 K or you know any other better gaming CPU I don't know why I specifically mentioned the 8700 K that then as far as RAM goes I used 16 gigs of DDR 4 overclocked to 26 66 megahertz and then all of the tests were run in an NZXT H 500 as I mentioned earlier but this isn't massively relevant because there wasn't any thermal throttling happening now let's move on to the benchmarks this is the exciting bit now again I just want to point out that there was some CPU bottle making in some of these situations but I want to see the frame rates don't look bad especially when you look at the kind of like first-person shooter games I do think that you should take into account the one-percent lows in 0.1 percent those because they're quite important at this high frame rate because any tips below like a hundred frames per second was quite noticeable although if you want to really in-depth discussion on this topic have a look at an optimum tech video that I've linked in the description below where he talks about kind of like frame time performance and how it feels on higher refresh rate monitors I really would recommend having a look at that video because he deals with it in more detail that I'm going to look at it here and now let's look at a better representation of performance while gaming which is a frame time graph now this is a frame time graph of me just kind of doing a basic run in Apex legends and honestly it looks really good there's very small variations that first bump that you see in the beginning was just when I started the recording so that usually has a bit of an effect it does suck that you don't get 144 frames per second and unfortunately you're gonna have to spend a lot more on both the graphics card and the CPU to get that kind of framerate consistently and that's one of the biggest problems with high refresh rate gaming is that it also puts a very big load on your CPU and you're just gonna have to get a much more expensive system than you do if you're only aiming for 60 frames per second in conclusion is the r-tx 2060 good enough for high refresh rate 1080p gaming I'd say it is you're not going to be playing games like Metro Exodus at 144 frames per second I don't even think an RT x20 ATT I can do that at 1080p fast paced multiplayer shooters like apex Legends pop G fortnight even csgo which performs really well at everything but those games where the high refresh rate really matters the graphics card gets close enough it doesn't give you like perfect world 144 frames per second average with a 0.1 low of like 140 frames per second but it is good enough for you to get a really good gaming experience I still think that the RT X 2060 is too expensive if they brought the price down to closer to a hundred and eighty dollars I think it would be more worth it but I don't want to talk too much about the state of the graph is called market at the moment because it's gonna veer a bit off-topic especially considering that up-and-coming caster in this market segment well this is just gonna be way too many options and no one's gonna know what to buy it's it's it's really crazy I'm gonna do a separate video on that actually because I don't I I want to spend more time on that topic so that we can have a discussion in the comment section as well anyway with that thank you very much for watching if you liked the video do like and subscribe to the channel for more videos like this one and until the next one bye