Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Super review - more memory, bigger chip, faster and also a little thirstier | Page 11

The GeForce RTX 2060 got several scolds for the launch, mainly because of the rather meagre memory expansion of only 6 GB, which was actually not appropriate for the purchase price. Now everything is supposed to be super and you are aiming with an EIA of 419 euros incl. Vat. in the end, a very similar class of buyers. The question is still the question of how the street price will develop with the board partner models, because that was the big weakness after the launch at that time. Current GeForce RTX 2060 is now available from approx. 340 Euro street price.

Power consumption and loads

The 11 watts in the idle are good and were to be expected. The almost 177 watts in the stress test and the nearly 179 watts in the gaming loop are slightly above the power target of 175 watts set in the BIOS ex works. Whether this is due to the board layout, where consumers are directly supplied outside of monitoring, is difficult to say, but it is very obvious. Because even the maximum value for overclocking is two to three watts above what the BIOS specifies as the maximum power limit.

Here again a short excerpt from what Nvidia gave this card in the firmware limits, because at least with the default power limit the GeForce RTX 2060 Super is only 15 watts above that of a "normal" RTX 2060.

The voltages are in the expected range, whereby in the end the permissible board power in the OC was the limiting factor, not always the voltage (but from time to time also). One notices very clearly that Nvidia deliberately limits here and that the thermal influence of the cooling is clearly visible.

The load distribution on the rails is just non-beating, because at least in normal operation the maximum permissible 5.5 amperes of the motherboard slot are not exceeded. Only with the maximum OC, at 5.6 amperes, one is just under 2% above the norm. Balancing has really become an extreme cooking walk here, because the map only has an 8-pin connection. Goes, albeit very tightly.

Power supply design and peak loads/currents

As I have already demonstrated in detail in my basic article "The fight of graphics card against power supply – power consumption and load peaks demystified", there are also temporarily higher loads in the millisecond range, which are unfavorable in case of unfavorable designed or improperly equipped power supplies can already lead to unexplained shutdowns. The TBP (Typical Board Power) measured by the graphics card manufacturer or the reviewers does not really help for a stable design of the system.

Peaks with intervals between 1 and 10 ms can lead to shutdowns with very fast-reacting protective circuits (OPP, OCP), especially for multi-rail power supplies, although the average power consumption is still in the norm. For the GeForce RTX 2060 Super I would therefore calculate with more than 200 watts to have enough reserves in case of a case. A short excerpt with high resolution now show us the 20 ms intervals, how I run them automatically for valuation:

Detailed recording of average power consumption and flowing currents

As usual, I now also set aside the power consumption and the flowing currents as detailed graphics of my oscillograph measurements. A service that hardly anyone else offers and which shows how the maps "tick" in detail: