The new RTX 2060™ KO enters the ring with a ONE-TWO Punch to any contender willing to step in.  EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 KO and RTX 2060 KO ULTRA graphics cards are the new editions to EVGA’s RTX line up. Experience superior cooling, superior overclocking, and superior performance.

• Powered by NVIDIA Nvidia® Turing Architecture - Giving you the performance you need.
• RTX ON - See every game come alive with ray tracing that delivers physically accurate shadows, reflections, and lighting.
• All Metal Backplate, Pre-installed
• Built for EVGA Precision X1

The new EVGA GeForce RTX 2060™ KO is here to knock out the competition at a value you cannot pass up.
 
To learn more about the EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 KO cards, visit https://www.evga.com/articles/01387/evga-rtx-2060-ko/

I don't need one but bought one just to say I did. Add it to my inventory

It's literally just a straight RTX 2060.  Same memory, cores, clocks.
 
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-2060.c3310
 
They must have had a few low binned TU106's to dump.  Perfect for the 1080p / 144hz Fortnite crowd.
 
Solid pricing for what it is.

Yeah it's kinda between the RTX 2060 and RTX 2060 super as far as the specs.

Whats the point of metal backplate? Seems like the backplate could actually make things run hotter. Are there tests that confirm this? If it just for the looks...

I would argue that it restricts airflow. Also if it were so good at conducting there wouldn't be cutouts on some elements...

sparetimepc
Backplates have some thermal pads between them and the PCB and are used for looks as well as heat transfer

Not always. Sometimes they are only for cosmetics, have no thermal pads, and cause the PCB temperature to be higher. For this low-performance video card, it could be purely cosmetic since the video card is in a cost-cutting market and doesn't usually need much cooling. Since it is a video card with cut costs, I am surprised that it has a backplate at all.

Backplate can decrease a few degrees while supporting the GPU from further sag.

Turns out that there is an unexpected reason why these cards are interesting. Apparently it was even a surprise to NVIDIA and EVGA.
 


The EVGA RTX 2060 KO has a cut-down RTX 2080 core which happens to perform up to 47% better than expected in some non-gaming applications.

ty_ger07

GTXJackBauer
Backplate can decrease a few degrees while supporting the GPU from further sag.

Famously, they can also increase temperatures a few degrees.  It really depends on the product and execution.

I would put blame on case air flow if that is the case.  Shouldn't be really increasing the temps.

veganfanatic
Front intake and rear/top exhaust fans can do wonders for thermal management.
 

Exactly. This is one reason among other reasons I decided to go to a Corsair 1000D chassis. 

Have the reviews overall really showed this to be true & good ?
 
The early ones I saw weren't to impressed by the card.... but who knows. 

I bought an "Ultra" version of the KO last Tuesday and it should be here Monday, so I haven't had a chance to see if it's got the TU104 with the better CUDA performance. Anybody else with one know if it does? CPU-Z should be able to tell you the "Code Name" in the Graphics tab.

But yeah, I do some CUDA rendering for work so this is a welcome surprise for me. Thought I was just getting a cheap upgrade for my 1060, but could be getting a bit more. Hopefully they won't try to gimp the CUDA cores in future driver updates, lol.

EDIT: Couple of days ago VideoCardz put out an article called "Some EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 KOs ship with Turing TU104 GPU, not TU106." Then it goes on to talk about how GN and TechPowerUp both found TU104 dies in their cards. They don't talk about 106's being found anywhere, though. So are there 106 variants of the KO boards mixed in with the 104's? That just seems weird to me, but I'm not well versed in any of this stuff.

stevenguy
 
For someone like me just doing 1080p 60Hz V-sync'd casual gaming every couple weeks, I think it'll work out.

More than enough power.  

My non-ultra KO was shipped today, will be here next Monday. I'll let you know.