With the release ofNvidias Turing architecture in 2018, we saw the company move away from a blower-style cooler on its Founders Edition cards, to a dual-fan axial design in order to improve thermal performance as well as noise. Per usual, board partners add their own cooling solutions to further improve things on both of those fronts. Here, were taking a look at two cards from the same brand (Gigabyte), which include different cooling solutions as well as different out-of-the box clock speeds. Since theRTX 2060 Supersilicon that these two cards are based around is a known entity at this point, for this review welll mostly focusing on the performance differences in both frames per second (fps) and cooling properties of the two cards well be testing.
For all intents and purposes, the primary differences between the two comes down to the cooler: TheRTX 2060 Super Windforce OC 8Guses the companys dual-fan, dual-heatpipe Windforce 2x cooler, while theRTX 2060 Super Gaming OC 8Guses a Windforce 3x cooler with three fans and three heatpipes. There are some other differences, like clock speeds and power delivery, which well delve into as well. Outside of that, both solutions are priced the same, currently selling at Newegg for $399.99.
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Both of the Gigabyte RTX 2060 Super cards were looking at here have the same Turing TU106 silicon hiding under their heatsinks. The die consists of 10.8 billion transistors, is manufactured on TSMCs 12nm finFET process and yields a die size of 445mm. Other specs include 2,176 Shaders, 136 TMUs, 64 ROPs, along with 272 tensor cores and 34 ray tracing cores. Memory capacity is 8GB of GDDR6 running on a 256-bit bus, with both cards using the default speed of 1,750 MHz, which gives us 448 GBps of memory bandwidth. Outside of these shared specifications, the cards differ in their heatsink designs, clock speeds, and outputs. Well dig into those details below.
But first, we have to point out the odd marketing logic at work with these two cards. In case you havent yet noticed, the Windforce OC has two fans in its cooling setup, while the Gaming OC has three. Yes, the Windforce card effectively has[i]less[/i]wind force than the Gaming model, once again proving that marketing and common sense are two entirely different things.
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