A Fourth GeForce RTX Model Shows Up In The FFXV Benchmark Database: RTX 2060

Final Fantasy XV‘s standalone Windows benchmark is an interesting beast. On one hand, it’s not a great benchmark. It has issues that should prevent people from even touching it, but, that only assumes that you are not simply looking to get an idea of what the game looks like. To test out the brand-new DLSS feature on NVIDIA’s Turing-based graphics cards, this benchmark is also where that can be done.

This standalone benchmark has also been interesting because its benchmark database has been the source of a couple of leaks. The first one was of AMD’s Radeon RX 590 (our review), also known as one of the worst-kept secrets in 2018. The second is of an unreleased GeForce RTX 2060, a model that would become the fourth in the Turing gaming lineup.

NVIDIA’s three GeForce RTX cards to date: 2070, 2080 and 2080 Ti

It’s not as though the RTX 2060 is an unexpected card. You only have to glance at NVIDIA’s past lineups to understand that each series follows the same basic release structure. That said, sizing up an RTX 2060 isn’t as easy as speculating about a GTX 2060 would be.

I’ve talked to many people since the GeForce RTX launch to gauge opinions on what the RTX 2060 could be, and the truth is, most people can’t come up with an answer they feel confident with. As learned last week with the launch of Battlefield V, taking advantage of the RT core for ray tracing tanks performance, but it’s at least usable on the 2070, 2080, and 2080 Ti.

With as harsh as the performance is on the RTX 2070, though, it doesn’t really make sense that the RTX 2060 would have an RT core at all, or at least an active one. That is, unless NVIDIA has other lesser-expensive (as in performance) features that will still use it to good effect. The Tensors could probably remain, since those would be used for DLSS, but even then – there’s a point when the performance will be cut to the point where it could be left out entirely. I personally don’t want to see a highly priced RTX 2060 that doesn’t even allow people to use the special RTX features to any realistic degree.

That all said, this leak shows that the RTX 2060 is about 30% faster than the GTX 2060, but that’s based on this flawed benchmark and at a single resolution. We obviously need to wait until the launch to gauge the proper value of the card, and based on this leak, that might not be too far off.

What do you think the RTX 2060 could be? Will it have an RT core? Tensors? Could it even be called RTX without those features? Let the rumors fly!