EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 XC Ultra Review: Bridging the Gap

Overclocking and Results

With the potential for quiet operation that exceeds stock performance by a healthy margin, what else might EVGA’s RTX 2060 XC Ultra have in store? Overclocking potential! Yes, even factory-OC cards can, and should, be overclocked even further, and we will explore this here.

EVGA’s Precision X1 software provides a slick interface for manipulating everything we need to get the most out of this card, and the process can also be automated to some extent thanks to the integrated OC Scanner functionality.

My maximum GPU core overclock ended up being +90 MHz, and this is where I settled after both OC Scanner and my usual trial and error method. Memory is not part of the OC Scanner, and here I was left to my own devices, attempting a +1000 MHz setting – with surprisingly robust results. Needless to say both board power (114%) and temperature limit (87 C) were cranked all the way up.

With these hefty overclocks and a more aggressive fan profile to match, I went back through the same benchmarks from the previous page to see how much ground could be made up between the stock RTX 2060 and RTX 2070. It turns out, quite a bit.

Overclocked 2560×1440 Benchmarks

Right away we have the additional overclock allowing the XC Ultra to leapfrog the Vega 64, coming close to the GTX 1080 in this test. But this was actually the worst result for this overclock, as we will see.

Here the overclocked XC Ultra ties the stock RTX 2070, actually besting it the slimmest of margins (though the difference rounded down to nothing in the frametime results). Far Cry 5 ended up being the only outright victory for the XC Ultra here, but as you will see from the remaining benchmarks it was in second place behind the RTX 2070 the rest of the way, and not far behind at that.

Overall the added +90 MHz core and +1000 MHz memory overclocks were able to push the XC Ultra to nearly the level of an RTX 2070, and if you are lucky a card that hits +105 or +120 could put the RTX 2060 XC Ultra right up there with the RTX 2070 in every benchmark.