Galax / KFA2 GeForce RTX 2060 1-Click OC review – real savings buns or forced minimalism? | igorsLAB

1 - Unboxing, Daten, Testsystem 2 - Teardown und Analyse 3 - Benchmarks und OC 4 - Leistungsaufnahme im Detail 5 - Temperatur, Takt, Infrarot 6 - Lüfter und Lautstärke 7 - Zusammenfassung

The GeForce RTX 2060 1-Click OC from KFA2 deliberately places itself at the lower end of all GeForce RTX 2060, which is also expressed in the purchase price. But in addition to the necessary savings, which the manufacturer has to make for this for cost reasons, there are still various restrictions by the chip manufacturer, which have to be reconciled in the end. You can read what it’s about and what came out of it in this test.

The so-called Cost Down, as long as some of it also arrives at the customer and it is used wisely, can certainly lead to products that can still enable you to enter this service class even with less financial resources. So far, so good. But you have to weigh up carefully whether it might not be better to get in a little more expensive from the start, if the cuts are too high. It is and remains a balancing act that the manufacturer has to balance exactly.

I really didn’t make it easy with this card, because the approaches for a low-cost and usable product have been quite successful. But it could have been much more if it weren’t for the hard-hitting rulebook in the form of Nvidia’s Base Design Kit, which prevents things in a form that you can only shake your head at times. The urge to stop the cannibalization of more expensive models by cleverly planning cheaper maps is almost manic. But I’ll come back to the Tear Down.

The fact that the card comes to the customer with a non-A chip is still easy to hurt if at least the rest is right. The board used here and also the cooler also show that the manufacturer has given some thought and has made an effort to ensure that the pressure to save is not too painful for the end customer. But if profit margins have slipped into low single-digit ranges across the manufacturers’ entire portfolio since Turing, then one understands why street prices are falling so slowly.

Unboxing and first impressions

The card, which weighs only 583 grams, is 22.5 cm long, measures 10.5 cm from the top of the slot panel to the top edge and is 3.5 cm thick. For cost reasons, a backplate is dispensed with as well as any LED illuminations. The cover is made of dark grey plastic and carries the two 85 mm fan modules with nine, very steep rotor blades each, which provide neat throughput. This gives you a good dual-slot design without overhangs.

The cooling fins of the massive aluminium continuous casting cooler are arranged vertically and a total of two 4 mm copper heatpipes have been used quite cleverly at the top and bottom. But I will come to these details in a matter of time. Yes, it is the most cost-effective solution when working with continuous casting elements, but the solution is not quite so stupid, given the relatively low power consumption. After all, it is enough.

Front

Back

Bottom

Top

End

Slot Panel

ISO

Box

The connection options are slightly below the average, because there are only three connections in total, i.e. one of each. And so a DVI-meet. Connection, an HDMI 2.0 and a DisplayPort jack and form a minimalist trio, which the fourth player has unfortunately lost.

The screenshot of GPU-Z gives us a first impression:

Technical data and comparison maps

At the end of this introduction, the maps of the new generation and those of the old generation in direct tabular comparison:

Test system and measurement methods

We have already described the new test system and the methodology in detail in the basic article “How We Test Graphics Cards, as of February 2017″ and therefore refer to this detailed basis for simplicity. Description. So if you want to read everything again, you are welcome to do so. However, we have again improved CPU and cooling to largely exclude possible CPU bottlenecks for this fast card.

If you are interested, the summary in table form quickly provides a brief overview: