Conclusion

Final words and verdict

If Palit can keep the price of the GamingPro OC card under control, they might have a winner here. the standardized factory tweak offers 4% more performance over reference and once manually tweaked you can boost 5% extra perf out of it, and that is RTX 2070 level performance folks. The GeForce RTX 2060 series positions will sit best in the FullHD and (W)QHD resolution monitor ranges. And yes, that latter one is the new mainstream these days. At 1920x1080 and 2560x1440 or something close you'll see very decent game performance, it, however, will not be a card suitable in the Ultra HD range for all modern game titles. At Full HD the RT and tensor cores will be sufficient enough, at WQHD that will become more challenging (but that depends on the game title). How the new technologies and the actual engine will behave (is it powerful enough) is something only the future will tell. Performance wise you are looking at the GTX 1070 (Ti) / 1080 on raw shader perf, added benefits are of course the RT and Tensor cores. If you stick to the aforementioned resolutions your games will run at proper framerates with the very best image quality. The 6 GB graphics memory is sufficient here. In terms of multi-GPU setups, NVIDIA does not allow SLI for the RTX 2060 and 2070 series.

Aesthetics

You can argue the looks of a graphics card, but the card once active doesn't look bad really, it would even look good in a dark PCB with black PCB motherboard. The Lack of a backplate does have an effect looks, however, does help vent the card better. And the thermals were really good with this puppy. The dual fan design I am fine with as well. 

Cooling & Noise Levels

The card tops out at roughly only 64 Degrees C while gaming. So that's not bad at all, the acoustics I'd rate as okay not silent, but normal acoustic levels in the 39 DBa range. You can silently hear the card, but that's it really. We've heard no noticeable coil whine. But I do want to note that any graphics card at a high-enough FPS can make some coil-whine. 

Overclocking

We've been able to push another 10% of extra perf out of the card compared to reference. Both traditional overclocking, as well as the OC Scanner, functions bring us close to that value. The combination of memory, power and voltage settings will bring you a proper overclock. Once you've applied it, you get a few percent more performance. Nice to see is that we have been able to pass 16 Gbps on the memory, and that does help. 

Concluding

Yeah, the GamingPro OC RTX 2060 from Palit is pretty nice, the looks are good, the cooling performance great and the acoustics are okay. You'll greatly benefit from the proper factory tweak that Palit applies, and then there's room left on the GPU and memory subsystem to tweak as well. I've mentioned this in the original reference review but we do think that the GeForce RTX 2060 is what the market needs. The GeForce RTX 2060 is plenty fast for any day gaming up-to say the Quad HD monitor resolution of 2560x1440. The added benefit is a handful of Tensor cores and the ability to put the RT cores to uses. This way at a relatively safe amount of money (359 USD) you get that good shader engine performance at 1070 Ti / 1080 performance levels and also the option to check out, try & see what the RayTracing hype is all about. The GPU that resides inside the RTX 2060, really is the RTX 2070 that is cut down. The 6GB of graphics memory seen over 8GB really isn't a hindrance either as long as you stick to that (Wide) Quad HD domain. Looking at it towards a competition point of view, the card positions itself in-between the two Vega cards, with it's the closest opponent being the Radeon Vega 64. The Raytracing and AI feature like DLSS is, of course, interesting but remain are a proof of concept and a bit of a gimmick until more games support it properly. If Palit can keep this unit priced at a 359,- / 369,- USD/EUR asking price then they might have a very popular card to offer that left us with a good impression. The acoustics where maybe a little more than I had hoped for, but really that's all I can nag. Let's hope the availability is good, and pricing indeed stabilizes as we can certainly recommend this card.

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