Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 2060 sees price drop to $299

While Nvidia is still sitting high on its throne made of Titan RTX cards and hundred-dollar bills, AMD is ramping up the competition with cards like the Radeon RX 5600 XT. That's forcing Nvidia to make some moves. Namely, Nvidia is dropping the price on its lowest-tier RTX cards, the GeForce RTX 2060, to just $299.

The GeForce RTX 2060 launched in January 2019; Nvidia asked for $349 at the time. AMD is on the verge of releasing its RX 5600 XT for just $279. AMD's card is set to beat even the top tier of GTX 1660 cards, the GTX 1660 Ti, which goes for the same price. Without the extra draw of ray tracing, the math on that is pretty easy to do. And that was before AMD announced a new vBIOS for the RX 5600 XT. According to Tom's Hardware, the new BIOS brings performance improvements to the RX 5600 XT across the board. The power draw rises from 150W to 160W, but that allows for single-percentage improvements in the card's base and boost clocks, and the memory from 12 Gbps to 14 Gbps.

Ray tracing is growing, though

Nvidia's RTX 2060, meanwhile, is still a slightly faster card and brings with the additional benefit of ray tracing. Real-time ray tracing is still in its infancy, but the number of games supporting it continues to grow. Big-name games like Cyberpunk 2077 are promising it, while lo-fi games like Minecraft will eventually support it. Right now, games like Quake II and Control are doing a great job of showing how it can change both modern and classic games right now.

Sony and Microsoft announced the feature for the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X, too, so ray-traced games will become increasingly common. That alone makes a price-dropped RTX card that much more appealing. Is the price drop to $299 enough to persuade you to pick up Nvidia's RTX 2060?

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