GPU Configuration.

[ssbobz]

What display are you using? I also have a 1060 Strix and I was surprised the difference made by switching from a 'decent' multipurpose monitor to a true gaming monitor. My frame rates stayed the same or went up despite changing from 1920 to 2650 but it is also sooo much smoother with the higher refresh rate.

I don't have exact specs but off the top of my head:
i5-6600K w/Corsair water cooler on ROG Maximus VIII Hero board
16GB ram
2 SSD in a RAID 0 for TS and Skyrim/Fallout
ASUS PG279Q monitor

IIRC, max sliders, 1x2 or 2x1 SSA not sure which way

[GSkid]

I do appreciate your input, however it ultimately was my decision to purchase the card. At least I can return it for a refund in my circumstances. It is what it is..... I will experiment with other AA settings.

I apologize if my opinion in any way may have come off as belittling of your decision. It was not my intention. I admittedly came late to the discussion and had wrongly assumed you were using it for other games besides TS2019.

My older gaming laptop had a dual-core i7-4510u with a GTX 850M. I upgraded to a laptop with a quad-core i7-6700HQ with a GTX 1070 mobile and then a year later had that replaced with a i7-7700HQ with a GTX 1080 mobile (both were the regular higher performance non-MAX Q versions). Going from the 850M to the GTX 1070 mobile (1.2 Tflops to 6.7 Tflops) saw a dramatic difference in framerates in TS and other games and made it totally worth the upgrade. Although my GTX 1080 mobile has more performance and higher memory bandwidth than my previous GTX 1070 mobile, it was not nearly as dramatic of a performance boost as it had been when I upgraded from the 850M to the 1070.

The problem with the RTX cards was that they launched at very high prices and are still pretty high. There were multiple reasons for that. To milk the hardcore gamers that always upgrade to the latest generation of GPUs no matter what the price. Since it had been nearly 2 1/2 years since the 10-seies launched, the gaming public was pretty thirsty for a new generation of cards. Also due to the cryptocurrency mining craze that saw 10-series cards explode in pricing, people that generally wait a year into a new generation of GPUs to upgrade their rigs saw cards priced much higher than when they had originally launched. Then when the mining craze ended, there was a huge inventory of unsold 10-series GPUs that needed to be sold. So having the prices so high on RTX cards made the price to performance ratio on the older generation cards a much better proposition for most gamers and thus helped clear out the retail channel of those GPUs. The last reason was to recoup some of those R&D costs of the ray tracing and tensor cores on the new cards....... aka ...the RTX tax.

So far that RTX tax hasn't been worth it yet IMHO. You only have a couple games that take advantage of it to varying and mixed degrees of success. Maybe that will change in the future as developers use it more, but at current prices I say it's not worth the upgrade.

Try out those other settings and see what you get. Then you can decide if it's worth keeping or going back to the GTX 1060 for now. I highly doubt we will see ray tracing in any DTG sim anytime soon. Otherwise it's just better to get the refund and put that money towards the next generation of Nvidia cards ... or.... towards a future regular GTX card that adds more performance at a cheaper price with the RTX and tensor cores stripped out of them.

[trev123]

I just purchased a brand new Asus 1060 6g Strix card, upgraded from my 960 2gb card. If I had of waited another week or so I could have purchased a GTX 1660 ti 6gb card for less than the 1060 and with better performance. I suppose that is the way the cookie crumbles. Yes, if you are looking for a new graphics card check out the GTX 1660. There are two flavours a 1660 and 1660 Ti.

[NYWhiskey]

At least I can return it for a refund in my circumstances.

Or you can start playing Battlefield V.You have Ray Tracing. Who doesn't like a good WWII game.