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NVIDIA TU106 Chip Support Added to HWiNFO, Could Power GeForce RTX 2060

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We are all still awaiting how NVIDIA's RTX 2000 series of GPUs will fare in independent reviews, but that has not stopped the rumor mill from extrapolating. There have been alleged leaks of the RTX 2080 Ti's performance and now we see HWiNFO add support to an unannounced NVIDIA Turing microarchitecture chip, the TU106. As a reminder, the currently announced members in RTX series are based off TU102 (RTX 2080 Ti), and TU104 (RTX 2080, RTX 2070). It is logical to expect a smaller die for upcoming RTX cards based on NVIDIA's history, and we may well see an RTX 2060 using the TU106 chip.

This addition to HWiNFO is to be taken with a grain of salt, however, as they have been wrong before. Even recently, they had added support for what, at the time, was speculated to be NVIDIA Volta microarchitecture which we now know as Turing. This has not stopped others from speculating further, however, as we see 3DCenter.org give their best estimates on how TU106 may fare in terms of die size, shader and TMU count, and more. Given that TSMC's 7 nm node will likely be preoccupied with Apple iPhone production through the end of this year, NVIDIA may well be using the same 12 nm FinFET process that TU102 and TU104 are being manufactured on. This mainstream GPU segment is NVIDIA's bread-and-butter for gross revenue, and so it is possible we may see an announcement with even retail availability towards the end of Q4 2018 to target holiday shoppers.



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No tensor cores or RT features on 2060, if there are it's pure stupidity.
 

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No tensor cores or RT features on 2060, if there are it's pure stupidity.

Would you not want to see RTX support on the most popular GPUs? If the majority of end users will not use it, why will developers support it?
 
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Either way RTX is a crash grab, would also be interesting if this is the new normal for Nvidia as they believe they're in Apple's shoes now?
 
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Would you not want to see RTX support on the most popular GPUs? If the majority of end users will not use it, why will developers support it?

What for if even 2080/TI struggle to bring 1080p@60 with RT on? So you could enjoy cinematic 24 fps with 2060?
 
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Would you not want to see RTX support on the most popular GPUs? If the majority of end users will not use it, why will developers support it?
Cause 2070 is probably too weak to support it in majority of games, I reckon 2070 will only be able to run rtx like in one or two out of five, the best optimized only.

What for if even 2080/TI struggle to bring 1080p@60 with RT on? So you could enjoy cinematic 24 fps with 2060?
Well to be honest we don't know how optimized sotr was at that point, 40 fps avg. tells us nothing. If that is done on top of a 120 fps game, that's a ball wrecking of a hit on perfromance. If that was done on a 60-70 fps game, then avg. in mid 40s is not that bad. I'd perefer moar fps either way, if I happen to get rtx 2070/2080 I'll probably just use it for ansel.
 
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If AMD's Navi sucks we probably get a RTX 2060 (because it's cheap to produce and does have RT cores).
Best example : 8600 series all over again... too slow for anything to be usefull (but a good HTPC card in retrospect).
If Navi is good enough, we may get a GTX 2060 (without RT cores), which will refresh the Pascal high-ish end stuff, with offering better non-RayTraces capabilities (DLSS for example).
It will give NV best position maket wise, since it will mean that they can adress both Ray-Traced part (RTX series), and those that want best and relatively cheap stuff without that unfinished/not-fast-enough Ray Tracing.
 
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Would you not want to see RTX support on the most popular GPUs? If the majority of end users will not use it, why will developers support it?
Its RTX 2070, TU106 that is
 
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Its RTX 2070, TU106 that is
I can't really give it any credibility, since full tu104 is 3072, then 2070 is cut 104 with 2304. 106 are usually half 104, with less memory. same amount of vram and 75% of full core, that's cut 104 on xx70 cards.
 

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I can't really give it any credibility, since full tu104 is 3072, then 2070 is cut 104 with 2304. 106 are usually half 104, with less memory. same amount of vram and 75% of full core, that's cut 104 on xx70 cards.
Afaik 2060 wont be turing and i talk to these program developers, hwinfo and aida, 2070 is tu106
I guess they are not posting names for criticism
 
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Weird to see 106 at 75% of 104. They only do 2944/3072 ? Cause they cut the sh*t out of GP104 last time and they all sold like hotcakes.
 

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Weird to see 106 at 75% of 104. They only do 2944/3072 ? Cause they cut the sh*t out of GP104 last time and they all sold like hotcakes.
My guess is 2070 ti will be 104 and there will be a 2080+ or 2080 core 3072 in the distant future

And if there is a tu106 2060 it will be 128bit at 14gbps which is a little faster than 9gbps 192bit gddr6 vs gddr5 of course
 
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My guess is 2070 ti will be 104 and there will be a 2080+ or 2080 core 3072 in the distant future

And if there is a tu106 2060 it will be 128bit at 14gbps which is a little faster than 9gbps 192bit gddr6 vs gddr5 of course
there's no space for 2070ti if 2070 is still 75% of full 104 with same 8gb ddr6 256-bit while 2080 is cut,there's gonna be 10-15% between them. 1070Ti only existed cause there was +20% between 1080,they used g5x and g5 non-x on same chip and cause there was V56.
 
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RTX 2060... pfft. It's hardly going to be worthy of the RTX moniker. Nvidia are in real trouble here.

This is akin to Ferrari putting their name to a 1-litre 75bhp "supercar". Doubtful anyone is going to trust Nvidia after this... even the fanboys are going to have a hard time defending them. But then this is what happens when you don't have any competition in the marketplace... it was inevitable.
 
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What for if even 2080/TI struggle to bring 1080p@60 with RT on? So you could enjoy cinematic 24 fps with 2060?

So Much THIS^ I game on a 1440p 165Hz Gsync Monitor. 1080p@60 with RT on is pointless for me...
 
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Seams crazy to me this, no Rtx and no Nvlink for close to 1070 money.

However it could show just how potent Nvidias shaders and core are unhindered by the requirements of tensor and Rtx cores, ie, could possibly be that first to Ship above 2Ghz , maybe that's it's thing.
 
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$349.99 Founders Edition price means about $399.99 AIB prices.... for a freaking xx60 card.

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Nah. FE price is not the base price anymore.
All the board partners are pricing their cards higher than FE prices from what I've seen.

Having RTX features on the x60 card seems pointless if the Tomb Raider RT demo wasn't extremely lacking on optimization.
 
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Consumers “2070 is even more useless than 2080”

Nvidia “Hold my beer, here’s the 2060”
 

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If there is an RTX 2060 its not for us it is likely an OEM card so the big players can say there systems have ray tracing support etc etc. Over promise on features under deliver on actual performance.
 

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Would you not want to see RTX support on the most popular GPUs? If the majority of end users will not use it, why will developers support it?

DO you really expect it to run anything with RTX on? GTX 2080ti is struggling to run 1080p at 60+ frames. They are trying to lower resolution on ray tracing. I mean they are finding ways to find workarounds to make it faster on a 1200 dollar card. I highly doubt 2060 will be able to give you anything playable with rtx on. If you keep lowering the quality of RTX at some point just turn it off and play the game lol.
 
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DO you really expect it to run anything with RTX on? GTX 2080ti is struggling to run 1080p at 60+ frames. They are trying to lower resolution on ray tracing. I mean they are finding ways to find workarounds to make it faster on a 1200 dollar card. I highly doubt 2060 will be able to give you anything playable with rtx on. If you keep lowering the quality of RTX at some point just turn it off and play the game lol.

It's to the point now that other methods are probably far superior. And the games are going to need 12 threads to run properly, b/c RT has to be processed on CPU. Surprise, vid card is worthless for what it was supposedly made for.

I told you, they're scam cores, and it's all for marketing. Real time reflections aren't new, but robbing this much perf is lol

It's time for AMD to have the devs add vega support and release a RT driver lol. I'm practically convinced that AMD perf can't be worse.
 
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