Asus ROG Strix RTX 2060 OC Gaming Review, Thermals, Overclocking & Benchmarks

[@jonathanhayhurst3928]

2060 is my personal favorite GPU out of the Turing lineup. Or maybe I should say the price is. For someone who wants to play at 1080p at ultra settings for years without any hassle, this thing is great

[@ItsYashu]

in UK This card is £430 You can get £440 RTX 2070 so idk who will prefer this over RTX 2070 when the difference is almost as a pack of cigarettes.

[@Hardwareunboxed]

UK pricing is odd :D That's certainly not the case in the US or Australia.

[@PRYVTgomerPYLE]

@@Hardwareunboxed Yeah, the 2060 is $350-$400 here in the US and the 2070 is a good $500-$550. Wish we had some UK pricing...

[@bircand8102]

Hmm, I was thinking hard and long about this Asus 2060 at $699, but the Galax 2070 was price identically at $699 from Centrecom here in Aus, so that was a bit mind boggling!

[@narfsc2657]

u wonder why? UK is the next upcoming third world country, the majority of poeple in your country voted for higher prices on everything. You wanted the brexit.

[@Hardwareunboxed]

@@bircand8102 It's a tough one as those base model Galax 2070's aren't very good quality, but yeah for the same price it's hard not to grab the 2070.

[@JarrodsTech]

"It's long, it's tall and it's thick" 👀

[@scootbtw648]

Evil Dialga HAHAHHAHA

[@onamwe]

That's what she said

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Controversial opinion here, but I actually like the RTX 2060.

[@ryeza_]

Dawid Does Tech Stuff Me too! If it wasn’t for the 6GB VRAM...

[@robotbeeptv4941]

If it had 8gb vram I'd be interested, not a fan of the planned obsolescence

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

@@ryeza_ That's fair enough, 6GB of VRAM is a bit 2016

[@ericliu8434]

Thats not very controversial

[@PRYVTgomerPYLE]

Me too! I am getting one soon... I do not play in 1440p, so 6BG is enough for me!!! :D

[@pedromiranda5448]

"It's long, it's tall, and it's THICC"

[@magas887]

Instant like for showing 1440p FPS testing :)

[@its_y.l.h]

I've got mine (Strix 2060 Advanced) on +200 core +800 memory and +30% on core voltage and default fan config. I let Kombustor run for like 12 hours just to make sure this clocks stable.Thermals are about 49-53°C when in games.

[@conster63]

Any plans for revisiting Radeon VII with some undervolting? Looks like it's typical AMD in the fact it has been overvolted from the factory.

[@Hardwareunboxed]

Yep will do soon.

[@conster63]

@@Hardwareunboxed Sweet, looking forward to it.

[@josejuanandrade4439]

Why you guys insist in torturing yourselves? You wanna see Nvidia repeatedly kicking AMD's ass?

[@yvanaluz9994]

@@josejuanandrade4439 I hope they also undervolt the rtx cards so that it's a fair fight. AMD users like to ignore the fact that you can also undervolt both Pascal and turing cards, obtaining great results overall.

[@weesenpai9056]

@@Hardwareunboxed pls reveal Tim personal gaming rig

[@gabrielurnau6815]

Did you mess with the voltage at all on the overclock? Or was the +93 core and +800 memory on stock voltage? Also, were the fans maxed out?

[@Mr_.G]

I'm impressed. Definitely changed my mind because I was going to get the MSI one you previously reviewed, until I watched several reviews (including yours). In the UK the Price point is exactly the same as the MSI GPU, around £360 right now, nice surprise. Thank you, this REALLY helped.

[@ethanwetzel7]

Just grabbed a 1080 ti SC2 for 500$ used. The pre-owned market is laughably good value now. 100$ over this fancy 2060 for 2080 performance. Would love to see another used GPU $/fps comparison if you get around to it. I know it's a shit ton of work though. Cheers!

[@Jacob_Callahan]

I have this card and I love it, dead silent at 60% fan speed and I got +150mHz on the core and +800mHz on the memory

[@AgentFrosty]

I don't know about you, but overclocking my Zotac AMP 2060 was a bit more difficult than I expected it to be. Coming from AMD cards pretty much exclusively, I'm used to the cards running at the frequency stated out of the box. Not with this Zotac. This card is rated for 1800 boost clock out the box, but it was running up to 2025Mhz without me even touching it. I figured this was the Nvidia GPU Boost I kept hearing so much about. In all actuality it made it really hard to tell what was going on with the overclock for me. I was only able to apply a 25mhz boost to the core clock in Afterburner before it got unstable, and the boost sometimes ran 2055, and other times would hit 2085, max temps of 72C. Memory overclocked like a champ though, I was able to max out the slider with a full 1000 over the base memory clock. Sadly Afterburner wouldn't let me add voltage or set a custom fan curve as both those options were locked out for some reason on this card. So I left it alone and called it a day. All in all I can't say I'm disappointed, as 25mhz boost seems very unimpressive on the surface, but when it's hitting a full 285mhz higher than it's rated boost clock altogether, I can't really complain at all! It was just a different, slightly confusing at first, situation compared to what I'm used to. 🤷‍♂️😂👍 In any event, love the video as usual, keep the great content flowing!

[@SumerSraih]

Did your 2060 strix have any coil whine ? I have tryed two with acording to me ridicules amount of coil whine and I'm really dissatisfied with it at this moment. PSU is :be quiet! PowerSupply (PSU) Straight Power 11 CM 750W and also boght myslef a Corsair RM750X 750W v2 to try just to be safe. Also tryed diffrent pcie slots just to make sure there is nothing wrong with my other components. Playing at Asus PG27Q 165 hz, 1440p monitor.

[@Amine-ox2lq]

I just got this card for 395$. Honestly I think it is worth it, my Zotac 2060 would run at 10°c higher in certain games. I'm also getting a solid 4-5% fps improvement. The cheapest 2070 here goes for 490$, is only 6-7% faster, and is known for QC problems (it's the gigabyte one).

[@AlwaysBlue86]

Would've liked to see some before and after stats for the OC. I'm running this card and a R5 1600 on a 144hz 1440p monitor, debating whether the OC is worth it

[@femz4952]

I love it when you describe what your using with metric units, I have no idea what your talking about!!!

[@isaaclalnunzira6981]

even the asus rog strix 1060 was a beast....Asus ROG always delivers

[@vladimircorsair]

mine rog 1060 has decent performance for the series but terrible coil whine.... idk but it sounds like a cheap components that make resonance..

[@isaaclalnunzira6981]

@@vladimircorsair well not every card is made perfect by the manufacturers. Im still using it tho, works great....sorry you had issues with it. Hope you have a better gpu now

[@TheKims82]

I where i big fan of ASUS before, but they have gotten sloppy lately. high end Mobo with low end components, and the fact that they can't seem to place the thermalpads in the right location is just lazy.

[@vladimircorsair]

@@isaaclalnunzira6981 thanks, i still using it but on mine second computer, currently im using MSI RTX 2070 with no issues.

[@vladimircorsair]

@@TheKims82 yeah totally agree, sad to tell but no more Asus for me

[@sasanmottaghipour876]

The card is 3799 in Denmark, a site has a campaign with 700off , making it 3099dkk I snagged it around 300 more than the cheapest 2060 here great card love it

[@digitaljoe8726]

Hej hvilken side? :)

[@sasanmottaghipour876]

@@digitaljoe8726 Komplett, about a month ago. atm its 3250 or so with the asus 30 year promo going on

[@vedhoargiaarga9983]

Which do you guys prefer 2060 strix oc or gigabyte 2060 xtreme? Thx.

[@MagnificentUsernameGuy]

Nice review as usual Steve, but I would have liked to see what the actual performance improvement with the OC in place would be in a game, and also how much more power it consumes with OC. As for added value with the ROG card, the case fan connectors could also have been mentioned, a nice little feature in my opinion. And also when comparing any RTX2060 to RTX2070, the missing USB-C VR-Link on RTX2060 should be mentioned. As it turns out, there might also be reduced options for DLSS, as in Metro Exodus, which should also be mentioned, as DLSS is a "feature" a lot of Nvidia fans seem to care a lot about.

[@Lethargo226]

Don't know if you guys would be interested in this, but apparently there's this issue out there with multi-monitor setups. I've read that when you have a 144hz + 60hz setup, the refresh-rate of the higher refresh monitor will be brought down to the that of the lower spec-ed one, whenever hardware accelerated media is being viewed on the lower refresh one, e.g, if you're playing a game on the 144hz monitor, and you open up a KZbin video on the 60hz monitor, the 144hz monitor will only refresh at 60hz. Would you be willing to investigate this?

[@seanmcclelland2231]

As a new guy just jumping into the PC Master race area my first build is ryzen 5 1600 16 gigs of RAM and this is the graphics card I'm thinking about getting for my 1080p build I'm wanting a 1080p high 60 FPS like 90-120 but I'm wondering would that be a good combination ryzen 5 1600 with this 2060, thoughts? Play games I'll be playing is OverWatch, Warframe, Doom, and soon to come out Doom eternal, Hitman 1 and 2, maybe division 2 and WoW

[@kevinselzer1669]

I know how you compared it to the base 2070, but how do they perform to some of the other 2070s? Specifically some of Asus's other designs such as the Dual OC 2070 and their 2070 Strix eddition compared to this. I found a 2070 Dual OC on sale for $525 US so I picked it up and it was a nice upgrade from my 3gb 1060 I've been using the past few years.

[@bwarnock35]

Got my ASUS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 6GB ROG Strix OC yesterday and have to say it's a beast of a card, upgraded from a 1060 6gb and now I'm getting almost double the fps, tommorow I shall o/c it see how it performs 😊

[@BlazeDragon003]

Where did you buy it? It still performs great?

[@bwarnock35]

@@BlazeDragon003 scan I got it from, and I have managed a crazy overclock on this card so can't complain

[@georgemorley1029]

2:18, it looks like the VRM thermal pad isn’t contacting all the VRMs properly. This happened with vega 56 strix models and affected temperatures a lot. EDIT - oh wait, this doesn’t matter because the temps are so bloody low anyway.

[@GomuGomu4]

I have this card and thinkin of getting a 1440p monitor or just get a asus rog 2070 super? Keep the 2060 and get a 1440p monitor or get 2070 super?

[@societywithin]

i'm right now on the verge of picking up a rtx 2060...i was deciding between the rog strix or the msi gaming z, but now i read that the zotac amp! edition of the 2060 has samsung vram's while the others use micron ones...do you have any info on that?

[@kyriz9078]

Should I get this over the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070? Btw the RTX 2070 in my country is 65$ more than the 2060 in this vid so is what’s the best bang for buck?

[@orficaldari3524]

For $65 dollars go for the 2070

[@Itz_JayM]

Does this benchmark also apply to the “newer” EVO V2 version of this? Seen a few Evo labeled cards out lately and not sure if they are the same thing just getting rid of old stock or if they are actually revised

[@nicane-9966]

may be doing nice for now even on par with 2070 stock, but for how much time? hope for navi to come out with 8gb, amd never dissapoint anyone in VRAM TERMS EITHER IN MIDDLE RANGE GPUS... lets see, probably same performance for less price or same price but with 8gb of vram for sure only for that worths waiting....

[@nuhuh4564]

Is it possible to see a comparison for which gpu (AMD or Nvidia) works best on ultra wide monitors? I see your team lists 1440p in their benchmarks, but I'm not sure if that includes the wider monitors.

[@chooka003]

I think you’re very, very impressed with this card Steve! 😃 Great review. Thx.

[@kshatriya1414]

Should i get the 6GB oc or 8GB oc evo version?. It’s like a $90 difference so i don’t know if it’s worth it or not.

[@shook8855]

I've got an msi 1080 gaming x and just put this 2060 in my buddy's build. I love the way it looks and it kinda makes me want a strix lol

[@Henrix1998]

But what was the OC result compared to base?

[@boynuzlubaykus9865]

Merhaba almış olduğum Asus rog strix rtx 2060 oc Evo ekran kartında sadece 1 adet 8 pinlik güç girişi var. Normalde olması gereken 8+6 lık 2 adet güç girişi var diye biliyorum. Sizce bu teknik bir hata mı ?

[@Lazarosaliths]

The way you put its a reasonable buy. I keep my gpu for 3 yaers so 50 pesos for three years its just so little but the extra features and the looks seem to worth it!

[@tgr8419]

btw i love ur latest 33 games benchmarks, although without rx 590, i know that is just rx 580 with higher clocks,. but just curious, where is it stands?

[@Kakaroti]

Phenomenal! 1070Ti performance for around the same price too, just 2 GB less framebuffer such wow....

[@TooManyTrees1]

Regret not waiting and getting a something like this Asus RTX 2060 and OCing it, opposed to my MSI rtx 2070 Ventus.

[@OlexiVR]

Hello! Thank you for the great video. I have this card in my Asus strix. And it shows 91C in Odessey, Assassin's creed

[@hamad-ml1hw]

What was the problem ?

[@LohTec]

Besides the fact it wouldn't fit in my ITX case, I found a good deal on a 2070 and went that route. Had sold my Vega 64 liquid for $400 so had to decide if I wanted something slightly slower or slightly faster. In the end the 8GB of memory made the decision.

[@draanexle]

I really wish people included the way the fans sound and how the rgb looks like as it's after all additional selling points to take into consideration.

[@alexpapa7757]

I bought the ASUS STRIX RTX 2060, looks amazing and performs & OCs amazing as well, my core goes up to +160 didn't push the memory more than 800 though. No buyers remorse here.

[@vi5or]

Is there review of Gigabyte 2060 (mentioned in this video) on this channel? And whats the difference between Pro and non Pro version of Gigabytes' variants?

[@petergriffin6036]

What should i buy? Used GTX 1080 or a new 2060? I can get them for the same price.

[@BetterWarrior]

I would go for the 2060 close performance and new you don't know where was the 1080 was. it could be used for mining and been running for 24/7 for the last 6 months or year. it could die any second.

[@limasema2957]

Did you manually overclock it ? Because the OC core clock from this card its 1830/60 mhz factory values ?

[@mohammedshahid3586]

In India the msi rtx 2070 gaming z is around 800 USD and rtx 2060 MSI ventures is 500 USD. So Steve what would you suggest for 1440p gaming.

[@morgankane1643]

Ive been looking for a card that's efficient and quiet. This seems to be more the case when comparing it to the msi 2060 model. However since im not going to be gaming a lot on it, maybe going 1660ti? Then again i might as well just pony up the extra cash and get the 2060

[@slashusa1331]

what is the best oc you guys could get from the Asus OC model 2060? Im afraid to overclock mine too high as i just got it.

[@000NULL]

Now, what if we see this show up in the gtx 1660 ti performance next week? It’s basically the same board without the RT and Tensor Cores, if the 1660 Ti Rog Strix model shows up with the same performance at $125 less, would that be a good buy?

[@gpk9993]

OH Look..it's my card...and thanks for the review Steve...this card is awesome.

[@antmax]

I just ordered one of these, cool and quiet is worth a little extra $. Hope if fits in my case when it arrives tomorrow :)

[@JoeEnjoyment]

Ive had a GTX 760 for 6 years now. And well, if it goes down a bit on price I might as well take it. Since I plan to keep all my cards for the long run.

[@mattsmechanicalssi5833]

@Hardware Unboxed Just out of curiosity, do you think AIB manufacturers will ever list the particular make of VRAM installed on their cards? Say on the retail box? I think it would be a good idea, but I like to know that kind of information. Thanks. EDIT: Spelling correction. Stupid fingers!

[@aleksandardabic1107]

I got a rog strix 1060 a year and a half ago. Thermals never went above 64 degrees. But it didn't want to oc at all if i were to oc the memory by 200 there would be artifacts. Guess the luck of the silicon was not on my side

[@playmaker451]

Honestly, I would gladly pay $400 for that RTX if it was 8GB and not 6GB cause it would make more sense to go buy that instead of paying $350 6GB. Its a nice card but like Steve said, just stick to $350 normal price range

[@cunnyman]

$400* You mistyped that. Also, $50 more for better cooler, design and 2GB vram is too much. They aren't doing charity lol

[@Nebujin383]

8GB alone dont mean anything, its more about Memory Bandwidth & Memory Speed. The 20XX Series is noticable faster there, and faster transfer means overall smoother & better FPS plus there is less to store in the VRAM. For comparison, a GTX 1070 has nearly identical specs compared to the 2060, same CUDA-Core count, Default Clockspeeds are totally in the same range, not much difference except for the VRAM. There its 8.0 Gbps (1070) vs 14 Gbps (2060), the 2060 is using GDDR6 instead of GDDR5 and has roughly 25% more Memory Bandwidth. Means: The 6 GB VRAM of the 2060 are more efficient, and never as "stuffed" as with a 8GB GTX 1070.

[@josejuanandrade4439]

Honestly, i would like to get the top of the 2060 cards for free, because that somehow makes sense for me.

[@coffee7180]

@@Nebujin383 try to play apex legend on ultra textures with a 2060 and you will get stutters like many people already have, with a 1070 even being 17% slower you can play on ultra textures. 2060 is a great card and would be the new 970 if nvidia had not cripple the vram.

[@NateT092]

@@coffee7180 right. While more 'efficent'/ more bandwidth . 6GB is still less than 8GB of vram regardless.

[@leoncloud6683]

Which other brand has a good quality and value for money?

[@martinrisian3420]

I have same card running 1995Mhz overclocked hitting 70°C in Meshify C 25°C ambient o.O how you are running this card 2055Mhz with temps around 60°C. Mine even gets to 60% fan speed which is so loud imo.

[@sterlingsilv3r]

What program are you using for checking ram, temps and core and ram speeds?

[@johntotten4872]

Download MSI Afterburner. It has a companion program called Riva Tuner built in. If you use both of those you can have the stats show up on the screen to monitor things.

[@shlooky]

Steve, BFV now has DLSS support, they updated the game and NVidia released new drivers. Can you please test BFV with and without DLSS? Thanks!

[@WrisColf]

Can you get a 2070 version of this? It would be an amazing comparison to actually see if the 2070 has a market. It also might force some public attention to nvidia and their crazy pricings.

[@ggumdol]

Are you going to review Gigabyte RTX 2060 Gaming OC Pro properly as well?

[@Spider7782]

Outstanding video mate! Any chance of a review of the Aorus 2060?

[@lordbach1]

Yeah please Aorus 2060. Its a Beast of a Card. I bought it last week.

[@erikfallout]

Do you need to use both the 8pin and 6pin? Or can I use just the 8pin like normal? Why is there two sets? Can someone please explain it to me. Hoping to buy it soon!

[@jordan_.zx10r]

What’s better, this or the evga rtx 2060 black

[@M.A.F._Operator262]

Dude you are the king of benchmarking!!

[@Idontwantahandle1111]

Any review of the Gigabyte 2060 Aorus Extreme ? It is a top tier card and has usb c output unlike the Strix.

[@adamek1xd]

Nvidia should have made 2060 8gb, it may be possible since pcb has 2 free gddr conection spots? Gtx 970 3,5/4gb was decent, so maby rtx 2060 6/8gb could be half decent as well.

[@alexc5798]

The pads aren't quality control problems, they do that on purpose because they re use rtx 2070/2080 PCBs memory cooling plate ecc, so just save on them and cool half of them

[@evm6838]

I bought one because it was $300 , along with a protection thing came to the same price . I didn’t want to hit $400 on a card . Overall I feel like this will be more then enough for my gaming needs . Overwatch and some others .

[@Brynhildrify]

so if my ambient temp is 30 degree does it mean that the cards will also be 10 C hotter under the same settings?

[@mrsambal2087]

Great video! Personally love the new msi design! Im torn between getting a used 1070 for about 250 or a new rtx 2060 for about 350

[@dunstondiaz]

I have the same card in Strix GTX 1060 6gb OC, should I upgrade it to strix 2060 OC?

[@Jay-fl2vy]

Dunston Diaz definitely

[@GP-eq3gh]

I don’t even have a graphics card😂

[@anishsood7998]

Here in Finland it costs 50€ less than a rtx 2070. That’s the problem in the Eu, the prices make no sense.

[@jamendezg]

hey mate i would like you to see you comparing the asus vs the aorus extreme 2060!

[@johnvosh1986]

I am quite happy with my Gigabyte Gaming OC 2060 6GB and was only CAD$515. It is a lot better than my 7970 3GB I was using! The pro version of the card is CAD$525, but wasn't available at my local store. If you want the MSI it is CAD$550 and the ASUS card is CAD$560. I personally didn't see the reason to pay a $55 premium for the ROG brand when the cards perform very similar. And the cheapest 2070 on newegg.ca is $675. I find it interesting though how all the 2060 PCB's have a spot for 2 more memory chips. It is almost like they could be planning on releasing a 8GB version in the future perhaps or maybe they are just using a 2070 board and just cutting out 2 of the ram chips.....

[@crunchychips8123]

Asus always seem to have the same iffy QC. They're much better than they used to be in terms of overall quality of components, but they still check equipment as if they're a dodgy second- or third-rung OEM. I had to assemble my own USB ports on my last build, because my Asus mobo wasn't constructed properly.

[@scottpilgrim6609]

So I saw a review and someone said that they use NVIDIA control panel to get the drivers and that it messed up their bios and that they had to reinstall Windows and all that, and they said to download the drivers from ASUS so now I don’t know if I should just use the NVIDIA website to get the latest drivers. I saw nobody else complain about this so it’s probably just that person but I would like someone to tell me if they got the drivers from NVIDIAS site or if you got them from ASUS and if you had any problems.

[@JosepHHokage]

got my Rx Vega 56 + 3 free games for only 249 euro thx amd

[@edge_of_theknife6315]

Rtx 2060 350 usd 1 free game + ray tracing fu@@ you nividia

[@peaj4812]

Is the lighting color uniform? On my asus strix 1070 the color changes depending on where on the shroud it is. For example I wanted the lighting to be teal, but it would be blue on top left and teal on bottom left. It bugged me so much I ended up just turning off the lighting on the card.

[@empiricalfarming]

What add-on do you use to show the information about the grathic card?

[@isaiahyeh5754]

You can use this gpu with an AMD PC right ? I'm new at pc's

[@peekal]

Yea you can use the gpu with an amd processor, and btw it’s cpu

[@eradication541]

I have the vanilla non oc strix very happy with my buy :)

[@itst1998]

Quick question. Do you guys sell computer parts in Australia like a retailer? Just asking.

[@Hardwareunboxed]

No, for that we go to PCCG.

[@itst1998]

@@Hardwareunboxed Thanks for the info.

[@Luisml8]

is really strange to my that now all of sudden the GTX1080 that was a 550GPU card is now as slow as a 350gpu card is nvidia gimping cards again? it could be via drivers or game engines itself,

[@weesenpai9056]

IT JUST WORKS!!!

[@forza1sra]

Hey Steve will you be doing a benchmark video on Metro Exodus? I saw Joker's video on it and it seems to be the next Crysis 3.

[@dennisc6223]

Steve, since you're testing multiple cards, a chart for noise would be nice too

[@waldemarzareba3899]

Could You test RTX 2060 for ITX build - I can not find Zotac Mini / MSI Areo / Asus Phoenix? Gigabyte Mini already known as noise maker.

[@NOSfusion]

Waldemar Zareba. kzbin.info/www/bejne/l36vY2iMqplsl7s

[@adamsliwa5991]

Is it Corsair IQ compatible?

[@cloudy_vlt2715]

is this card for intel or amd ???????

[@Sonnyy21]

is this card any different from the non oc version

[@michelemavillonio8375]

Please how do I change the color of this gpu? I'm getting headaches

[@Rassillon1234]

Lemme know if you find out

[@brycesmith5244]

Please compare rtx blower cards for those of us stuck having to only use those type of cards

[@labate21]

My brother bought two of these cards and had to return both because they both had really bad coil whine.

[@Andrzej_Szpadel]

Its great and all but it costs whopping 550$ in my country, i bought Palit GamingPro OC for 423$, asus went NUTS with this generation palit is quiet and temps are at 71°C with 2040-55 Mhz Core boost, only thing id like to have is back plate and to remove that crappy led bar in front as its bright as sun and cannot be (officially) permanently disabled unless you disconnect cable as i did :)

[@aditya7955]

do you really need a strix for 2060

[@joeyjoey3895]

This card cost me $500(cheapest price some even went $600) when most of the 2060 in my country cost $400 to $450 but its worth it i get+ 240mhz OC with my core clock and +900mhz and my temperature is very cool 67c max on benchmark and it rarely hits 60c when playing games. And my case's airflow suck