@cryoburner Agree to disagree on the 2060 = 1070TI. It's marginally better than a 1070 most of the time, from what I've seen. Occassionally it will rival a 1070TI.
While this will depend on what games you are looking at, overall, at least among newer titles, it seems to be quite similar in performance to the 1070 Ti, being a little faster in some games and a little slower in others.
TechPowerUp tested across 23 games, and found frame rates of the 2060 to be about 3% faster than a 1070 Ti on average...
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_RTX_2060_Founders_Edition/33.html
Tom's Hardware tested across 12 games, and found the 2060 to be about 2% faster...
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-rtx-2060-ray-tracing-turing,5960-10.html
Techspot / Hardware Unboxed tested across 36 games, and similarly found the 2060 to be about 4% faster...
https://www.techspot.com/review/1781-geforce-rtx-2060-mega-benchmark/page5.html
Many of these reviews likely tested against a reference 1070 Ti, but I think it's clear that even comparing it against factory-overclocked models, the 2060 and 1070 Ti should perform pretty close to one another. Another thing worth noting is that these reviews also show the 2060 as performing within about 15% of the 2070, which is priced over 40% higher. Is it worth paying 40% more to get just 15% more performance? The 2060 is clearly the best value among the RTX cards in terms of price for performance, and it's arguably the best value card overall for 1440p gaming right now, at least when it comes to buying cards new. Certainly, it's not going to be maintaining 100+ FPS at ultra settings in some of the most demanding games at that resolution, but the frame rates should be quite good overall, and likely around 50% higher than a 1060 6GB in graphics-limited scenarios.
And then there's the new hardware features like the RTX and Tensor cores, that the 10-series cards don't support. Currently these are not being utilized by more than a couple games, but it's likely that they will provide at least some additional benefit in the future.