MSI GeForce RTX 2060 Ventus 6G OC Graphics Card Review

RTX 2060 Ventus Gaming Benchmarks

One thing to note, in order to keep an apples to apples comparison across all the cards, I did run benchmarks on the 2060 at 4K.

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The RTX 2060 Ventus performed well in Shadow of the Tomb Raider. At 1080p, it averaged 77 frames per second. At 1440p, the card yielded an average of 61 frames per second, and at 4k or 2160, it was only able to manage 31 frames per second. I didn’t expect the RTX 2060 to blow it out of the water at 4k so to speak, but what I found interesting with this card is the performance at 1440p. It is still pretty good for an xx60 series card.

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In the Witcher 3 testing, the RTX 2060 Ventus was able to beat out the GTX 1070 TI as expected with an 80 FPS average and is just behind the GTX 1080. In 1440p we see the frame rate drop to 61 FPS for the RTX 2060 Ventus and at 4K I was able to get an average of 31 FPS.

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At 1080P, the RTX 2060 Ventus averaged 99 frames per second. In 1440p it averaged 65 frames per second. In 4k, the card scored an average of 39 frames per second.

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For the first time in my testing, the RTX 2060 Ventus hit over 100 FPS. At 1080p, MSI’s 2060 Ventus averaged 111 FPS, and at 1440, it hit an average of 79. Even at 4k, the game was fairly playable with an average of 41 FPS.