It's been barely a week since NVIDIA unveiled the GeForce RTX 2060. Reviews of the Founder's Edition variant from publications lucky enough to be sampled directly went live alongside its announcement, while reviews of partner models have followed. And now consumers can finally purchase the card, in store and online.

Unsurprisingly, Founder's Edition and partner card pricing differs, in many cases considerably. The GeForce RTX 2060 Founder's Edition is available for the baseline MSRP of £329 incl V.A.T., but only directly from NVIDIA's own online store (where stock is limited). Partner cards start from £349, but quickly increase beyond that to as high as £450 for more popular brands with elaborate cooling solutions. If you expected uniformity you'll be disappointed, but a close look at clock speeds and other model specs may mean that relative bargains are there for the taking. Silicon variants (such as those with the A1 binning believed to be of higher quality) are not indicated in any product listing.

GeForce RTX 2060 Technical Specs (Ref.)





Launching alongside the new card is, as one might expect, a brand new driver to support it. The GeForce Game Ready WHQL Driver 417.71 will be mandatory for the new graphics card, but that doesn't mean it's the sole feature of the new release.

Utilising this driver, users will be able to enable support for Variable Refresh Rate modes on G-SYNC compatible Adaptive Sync monitors through DisplayPort. These monitors, numbering just twelve at the time of writing, have been validated to 'not show pulsing, flickering, or other artifacts during VRR gaming'; by implication other Adaptive-Sync monitors are likely to offer a sub-standard experience.

This feature is only available to Pascal-class (GTX 10-series) and newer GPUs, rather than reaching as far back as the immensely popular GeForce GTX 970. Nonetheless NVIDIA should be lauded for softening their rigid attitude against Adaptive-Sync as a gaming technology and working with monitor manufactures to improve standards.

As part of the driver update NVIDIA also include a list of fixed issues, which in this instance addresses plenty of monitor-focused problems. NVIDIA also outline specific issues present under Windows 10 which are now on their hit-list.

These drivers are available direct from NVIDIA at https://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/141954 or via GeForce Experience, and are compatible with 64-bit versions of Windows 10 and Windows 7. Graphics cards reaching as far back as the GTX 600-series (Kepler) are supported.

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