The RTX 4090 positive is pricey, huh? Wouldn’t or not it’s a disgrace if there was a graphics card that value one eighth as a lot and supplied the identical primary applied sciences? Well, excellent news friends, EVGA’s RTX 2060 SC Gaming mannequin is on the market for £212 – and regardless of costing 12.5% the worth of the RTX 4090, it delivers a minimum of 25% of the efficiency – good. That’s like, double the worth!

All hyperbole apart, the RTX 2060 stays a surprisingly good choice in 2022, with DLSS providing a helpful frame-rate increase in titles the place you would possibly wish to allow visible results like RT, and RT efficiency generally being higher than AMD’s choices on equivalently priced playing cards. The total stage of rasterised efficiency (ie non-RT video games) is sort of affordable as nicely, making the RTX 2060 a good selection for 1080p gaming – or 1440p in the event you’re prepared to simply accept just a few wise settings tweaks. After all, we did not name the 2060 ‘your new finest graphics card for 1440p gaming’ again in 2019 for nothin’.

Looking on the ol’ Amazon value graph, this EVGA RTX 2060 usually retails for £250, and beforehand spent a good period of time at £330 – presumably, when graphics playing cards generally have been in extraordinarily quick provide.

Looking on-line, there actually are not any higher choices for this sum of money – with £220, your finest shout at locations like Ebuyer, Scan or OCUK is a GTX 1660 Ti or GTX 1660 Super, which will get you worse rasterised efficiency and no RTX or DLSS to talk of. On the AMD facet, you possibly can choose up an RX 6500 XT, which is newer – however considerably slower in conventional rasterised video games and horrendously worse than that in RT titles. The RX 6600 is a barely higher choice at £260, however retains the poor RT efficiency, helps the much less frequent FSR 2.0 and prices a very good £40 extra.

So then: I reckon this EVGA RTX 2060 is the very best GPU you should buy for £200-ish kilos, and I’ll preserve sayin’ that till one among y’all reveals me totally different. So – preserve that in thoughts in the event you’re constructing a PC, and you probably have any questions or higher options please share them within the feedback. Cheers!