Galax / KFA2 GeForce RTX 2060 1-Click OC review - real savings buns or forced minimalism? | igorsLAB | Page 7

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 savings that the manufacturer has to make for this, there are also various restrictions by the chip manufacturer, which must be reconciled. You can read what exactly it is about and what came out in the end in this test.

Summary

KFA2 has done a pretty good and creative job as part of the cost savings, based on the board’s findings and cooling performance – despite some minor stock errors, all of which have now been fixed by BIOS update. So this interpretation of a GeForce RTX 2060 doesn’t seem to be possible. The real reasons why this card with the rather misleading name One-Click-OC does not run optimally are once again with Nvidia.

The very restrictive requirements that cards with 6-layer board and a 4-phase design with conventional MOSFET assembly must not hold more than 160 watts of power seem to be meaningless. Well, it protects unfavorably designed boards from the over-mutiny of the tactless overclocking fetishists, but in return, these limitations could have been implemented a little smarter if you allowed them. However, this is not the case.

RGB is nifty and the map isn’t really loud either. The flaws are therefore more in the nature of the matter with the sealed-off non-A chip, which once again highlights the limits that Nvidia has set itself within its own performance classes. Cheap cards simply cannot be able to offer more expensive models, despite creative implementations from the manufacturer. Really a pity about that.

I quickly summarize what I wrote in detail on the last pages, because the reader always needs a little reminder. And for the typical first-last-page readers, I would even have the hidden hint that it is well worth reading the rest in between. It is more interesting than you might think. 😉

Per	Cons
Cheap price Not overly noisy Clean processing	Power Target low and not raiseable No effective overclocking possible

Conclusion

Even if I would have liked to give the card a buy tip because of the rather low price, the whole limitations get me a little bit of a whim in the end. Well, given the current price of just under 345 euros, you can also put two eyes firmly, because it is the cheapest 2-fan solution of the GeForce RTX 2060 on the market. But what bothers me a little bit is the pointless binding of the maximum power limit to only 160 watts. This makes this card artificially paralyzed, because it would have been possible even loosely over 1.8 GHz in the heated state without the VRM bursting and the cooler melting as a dark red glowing lava flow.

In the end, this only protects the significantly more expensive cards with the A-chip, which does not exactly contribute to the folk festival atmosphere. You can’t blame KFA2 at all and if you’re looking for the cheapest entry into the extra-shady, shady RTX world, you can be quite happy with this card and live with it. None of this is really satisfying, considering the distortions the board partners have to make, so that the margins of these entry-level models at least cover the costs.