KFA2 RTX 2060 Super EX 1-Click OC Review – Good things doesn’t have to be expensive

The KFA2 RTX 2060 Super EX 1-Click OC also shows that RTX is also cheap, after Gainward wanted to prove this to us with the GeForce RTX 2060 Super Ghost. Today’s, currently approx. 439 Euro expensive card from KFA2, costs exactly 20 euros more than the version without EX, which in turn costs only exactly as much as Gainward’s current DLSS entry-level drug. Of course, more expensive is always possible, but in these virus-infested times you also have to weigh up the priorities. For Full HD or WQHD, even an RTX 2060 Super can be quite sufficient – even as a transition until autumn.

 

 

 

The chip: TU106-410 of the GeForce RTX 2060 Super

The TU106-410 of the GeForce RTX 2060 Super is reduced to 2176 CUDA cores, 272 tensor cores, 34 RT cores, 136 TMUs and 64 ROPs compared to the full version TU106-400 on the RTX 2070. The card will have clock frequencies in the range of 1470 MHz (base clock) and 1650 MHz (boost) and can thus simultaneously deliver up to 7 TFLOPS computing power. The 34 RT cores can deliver about 6 giga-rays per second in ray tracing performance.

Compared to the RTX 2060, the RTX 2060 Super again has 4 MB L2 cache instead of the three MB of the RTX 2060. Otherwise, everything I have already written in the launch articles for the GeForce RTX 2070 FE and the GeForce RTX 2060 FE applies. And if you want to find out more about all the RTX features in detail, please refer to my long basic article “Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and RTX 2080 – what is really hidden behind Turing” on the subject of RT. This, too, is read-proof and certainly worthwhile.

Uncircumcised, the TU106-410 also retains the same 256-bit memory bus as the TU106-400, which has eight 1 GB GDDR6 memory modules with 14 Gb/s data rate, resulting in bandwidth of up to 448 GB/s. As with the GeForce RTX 2070, NVLink support in this price range is long gone. A rogue who thinks evil in it, but what’s the point?

Although the TU106 is the least complex Turing-based GPU to date, its 445 mm2 chip contains no less than 10.8 billion transistors. That’s still huge for what Nvidia might once have considered the center of its portfolio. In comparison, the GP106, i.e. the “Midrange Pascal”, was a small 200 mm2 chip with 4.4 billion transistors.

Key data: unboxing, dimensions, weight and features

The KFA2 map weighs 400 grams more than Palit’s Phantom, or 986 grams, and measures 29.7 cm from the outer edge of the slot panel to the outer edge of the radiator cover. With 11.5 cm from the top of the motherboard slot to the top of the cover, it is on average high and the installation depth (“thickness”) of 4.8 cm makes it a real 2.5 slot card. The cover is made of black, semi-gloss plastic with applied black light metal applications and of course there are RGB-lit rotor blades and the usual “GeForce RTX” lettering in full color.

A bit of fun has to be easy and if you like to tap in the dark, you can also drag the roller blind down to night mode via software. The two 9.7 cm fans, each with 9 rotor blades, sit in a 10 cm opening. The light metal backplate is purely optical in nature. She can’t cool down, but you don’t really need that. Otherwise, the card is similar to the older RTX 2070 EX of KFA2, also on the board. But is not a clone, because there are also enough differences besides the chip.

The slot hood hardly lets out warm exhaust air directly, as the cooling fins are vertically aligned. The waste heat disappears as usual in the depths of the housing. With two DisplayPort 1.4 and an HDMI 2.0 port, there are still enough variants to connect to the monitor.

A first overview of the electrical data here is the latest version of GPU-Z:

The overview of the relevant comparison maps then looks like this:

Test system and setup

Elegant transition and also a view of the test system, which still relies on the base 1151 and Z390. From this point of view, everything remains the same.

The 32 GB extension is new and fits the velvet system. I have listed this tabularly again in detail: