For less than $230, you get ray tracing and strong 1080p gaming.
Last-Gen RTX 2060 Is Nvidia's Best GPU Value Right Now : Read more
Last-Gen RTX 2060 Is Nvidia's Best GPU Value Right Now : Read more
Every time I pull out the 2060 for testing purposes, I can't help but like the value proposition it offered. $300 in early 2020 was a great buy, and now it's back and lower than ever... at least until inventories clear out.I still have my 2060 KO Ultra, in my second rig. It's been a great little card.
oh yah i tend to make it complicated. i like cool and quiet and am willing to pay for it. usually the middle of the pack is good enough. especially for a low power card like the 6600. mostly the quiet part is where i might have to spend a touch more as any model should cool fine. my current mini 1650 super at similar power draw is more than ample with the single fan.
but then if i get to the next tier, then i start all over again with "but i'm back at the bottom end of the 6600xt's....."
lol, trust me i know how silly i can get when picking something.
i just need someone to lie to me and tell me the $250 model tested BEST and MOST QUIET. then i'll order it and pretend it's true
Agreed. It makes me laugh a bit whenever people say that Turing was bad value for money, perhaps it was true at launch, but whoever built a PC in early 2020, just before GPU prices started getting crazy, got a lot of value from the $300 RTX 2060. In my case I built my PC just as we Italians were starting our first lockdown back in March 2020, I was kind of expecting prices to raises so I finally got around ordering all the parts for my 1000€ 1080p PC, since then I've upgraded my 2600X to a 5600X and I mean to upgrade my RAM as well soon enough, but the GPU is one part that I absolutely don't need to touch for 1080p gaming.Every time I pull out the 2060 for testing purposes, I can't help but like the value proposition it offered. $300 in early 2020 was a great buy, and now it's back and lower than ever... at least until inventories clear out.
We generally write for a US audience and worldwide people get left out on pricing data. Canada, UK, India, Australia, Germany, and Philippines are the next six biggest sources (in that order). Combined, they account for less than half of the US traffic. In fact, you need to add up the traffic from the next 45 countries to equal our US traffic. Plus, if I look to the UK (or Canada or wherever), I suspect the whole premise of this story — that the RTX 2060 is Nvidia's best value GPU right now — may fall apart. It's the best deal in the US because it's priced at just $230, sometimes less. If it costs 50% more than that elsewhere, no one would give it the time of day.If they are going on the UK site, would be great if there was some kind of local update. For example, here Amazon's lowest new 2060 12GB translates to $384, even with the current horror exchange rate (ebuyer $358).
I realise that a website is worldwide - but if you bother to have a .co.uk on the end (or a .au, .nz etc), then a small amount of localisation would be a nice reward for the dollars earned in those territories by the site?
...so don't post it on the region-specific sites is my point.We generally write for a US audience and worldwide people get left out on pricing data. Canada, UK, India, Australia, Germany, and Philippines are the next six biggest sources (in that order). Combined, they account for less than half of the US traffic. In fact, you need to add up the traffic from the next 45 countries to equal our US traffic. Plus, if I look to the UK (or Canada or wherever), I suspect the whole premise of this story — that the RTX 2060 is Nvidia's best value GPU right now — may fall apart. It's the best deal in the US because it's priced at just $230, sometimes less. If it costs 50% more than that elsewhere, no one would give it the time of day.
I almost never do anything as region specific. What you're seeing is default behavior for all of Tom's Hardware articles. I could try to restrict it to US-only, but as this isn't a "deal" per se — it's more an observation about the resurgence of RTX 2060, at least locally — there's no reason to lock it to only US viewers....so don't post it on the region-specific sites is my point.