Nvidia’s RTX 2060 is the RTX card you were waiting for

Nvidia revealed the latest product in its new RTX line of video cards. The GeForce RTX 2060 is $350 and begins shipping January 15. It is a mainstream card that is much more affordable than the RTX 2070, which sells for $500. Most notable about the RTX 2060, however, is that it is Nvidia’s most compelling reason to upgrade to RTX so far.

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Sunday, Nvidia boss Jensen Huang introduced the RTX 2060. He spent much of the hour leading up to that reveal once again making the argument for ray tracing, which is the next-gen lighting tech that the company sees as the future of 3D rendering. But unlike with the RTX 2080 Ti and RTX 2080 reveal, this time Huang dug into the details about performance.