Is there anything wrong with the RTX 2060...

Ok cool, I was thinking along similar lines about NVIDIA probably dumping a lot of money into rtx even though I couldn't give a shit about slightly higher shadow quality. I think I'm gonna pull the trigger on a 2060

OP may want to look up how much of performance benefits do tensor cores in 2060 give him compared to price.
Also, yes, VRAM is good.

Are you fucking comparing a 2060 to a 1080 ti? The 1080 ti is twice the price

Nvidia will gimp the 1080 and 1070 1060 driver wise so get the 2060. Amd is the one that improves drivers for old and new cards.

Get a 1080 or 2070 then. Anything that has at least 8GBs

Actually it's slower right now. It beats a 1070 but is still slower than a 1070ti/1080. And I wouldn't rely on driver optimizations that much, the 1060 didn't become faster than the 980 too.

The 2060 is controversial.
On one hand it's by far the best value Turing has to offer and it is in fact basically the only Turing card that has a substantial better performance/price ratio than the previous generation.
On the other hand it's still 350 bucks for a 60 tier card, which is roughly 100$ more than the previous the 1060 and 150$ more than the 960. The ironic part is that producing the card without rt and tensor cores would save ~20% of the costs or by reusing that die area with Cuda cores could increase performance by up to 33%. So for 350$ nvidia could have given us 2080 tier performance (a bit slower but whatever), instead we get meme cores and high prices.

Well, if you don't mind eventually finding yourself in a situation when you won't be able to run any code on your 2060, because the community switched to 11GB cards long time ago - you're free to skimp a couple hundred bucks. It's not a vidya gaymen we're talking about, where you can just lower some texture quality of whatever.

Yea I have a 7950 in on of my extra machines that still runs the newest games just fine. Card is a workhorse. Outdoes Nvidia gen cards when it was new and even a gen or two newer from nvidia. Doubt I'll see or have a card like that ever again though. I had a Fury card die recently in one machine it was maybe a year or two old. Nvidia same issue mid range cards even higher end ones they tend to die on me within a couple years or so.
Yea 8GB at the least. 580 cards with 8GB are like $100-150 bucks used. 1070 cards with 8GB are in the $200 range. Little point to not get anything with 8GB at this point.

>The 2060 is controversial.
>On one hand it's by far the best value Turing has to offer and it is in fact basically the only Turing card that has a substantial better performance/price ratio than the previous generation.
>On the other hand it's still 350 bucks for a 60 tier card, which is roughly 100$ more than the previous the 1060 and 150$ more than the 960. The ironic part is that producing the card without rt and tensor cores would save ~20% of the costs or by reusing that die area with Cuda cores could increase performance by up to 33%. So for 350$ nvidia could have given us 2080 tier performance (a bit slower but whatever), instead we get meme cores and high prices.
The used market is saturated with 580/1070/1080 cards too. Vega 56 cards can be had for lowish prices as well. The mining meme makes it a buyers market if you go used at this point imo.

buy radeon VII