Nvidia Geforce Rtx 2070 Specs
Or to frame things relative to the RTX 2060, it’s about 14% faster thanks to its combination of SM and clockspeed advantage. VRAM– VRAM refers to the “video RAM”, or memory available to the GPU. Discrete GPUs tend to come with their own VRAM– in the 1080’s case, this is GDDR5X VRAM, which is a bit faster than the industry standard GDDR5. The more VRAM you have, the better your card be at handling high resolutions and HD textures. Overall the performance of the 2070 is fantastic and with the influx of Real-time ray tracing being the future of gaming it’s always good to know you are equipped to tackle the change. Well, the 2070 has been developed to handle 1080p, 1440p and 4k at high settings however after numerous tests across several gaming platforms we noticed gaming at 4k would severely reduce your FPS to anywhere between 30-50fps.
Whereas the RTX 2060 vanilla comes with an awkward 6GB of GDDR6 – leaving it just a bit short on capacity and bandwidth – the RTX 2060 Super gets a full 8GB. This means that it can deliver just as much VRAM capacity and bandwidth as the 2070 and 2080 cards – 33% more of each than the vanilla 2060 – which not only helps it a lot in performance, but also in future-proofing. NVIDIA for its part isn’t retiring the vanilla RTX 2060, but for just $50 over that card, there’s a very compelling argument to ignore the hobbled 6GB card entirely.
The Nvidia RTX 2070 is an unquestionably impressive graphics card that puts 4K gaming within reach of a mid-range graphics cards. However, with a $499 (about £380, AU$690) price tag, it’s hard to call this GPU affordable, especially with this particular model we reviewed costing an even higher $599 (£569, AU$899) premium. The good news is that once the AMD Navi and Nvidia Super RTX hit the streets, these cards should drop in price. GeForce RTX ® 2080 SUPER ™ features a dedicated hardware encoder that unlocks the ability to game and stream simultaneously with superior quality.
16Gbps GDDR6 chips have always been in the memory roadmaps, so this is where NVIDIA will first introduce them. Another NVIDIA RTX 2070 SUPER option that comes with a slightly higher boost clock speed than the competition is EVGA’s XC Ultra+. The XC Ultra+ comes with an 1800MHz boost clock rate, which makes it a bit faster out-of-the-box than Gigabyte’s Windforce OC, ZOTAC’s SUPER Twin Fan and SUPER Mini, and MSI’s SUPER Trio. The ZOTAC Mini is another RTX 2070 SUPER that comes in at under $500, but it has a slightly lower boost clock and doesn’t have as robust of a cooling configuration. Although, with just a dual fan design, the ZOTAC Mini is a bit shorter—so, if case clearance is a concern, opting for the ZOTAC Mini over the Windforce OC might make sense.
Whether it’s a justifiable upgrade also depends on what graphics card you’re moving up from. Looking at all of our data, users with a Nvidia 1070 Ti or better won’t see a remarkable increase in frame rates after paying more for this GPU. At the same time, those holding onto AMD Vega graphics cards won’t have a reason to jump teams yet.
If you think you won’t be able to get a top-notch performance out of either RTX 2060 or gtx 1090, you’d be wrong. Below is a good comparison video for how both of these GPUs perform in relatively modern games. Despite the RTX 3000 series coming in strong with the number of tensor cores, the improvement in ray tracing or DLSS is minimal or non-existent. However, neither of these GPUs is truly powerful enough to take advantage of ray tracing.
I briefly tested the 2080 Super, too, and the performance gains over the regular RTX 2080 weren’t as significant as the 2060 Super and 2070 Super. While Nvidia moved to a new dual-fan setup for its Founders Edition RTX cards last year, AMD has stuck to its blower-style on its reference gigabyte gtx 1060 3gb cards. This feels like an obvious mistake because the RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT both run hotter and are way louder than Nvidia’s RTX competition as a result. Blowers have benefits for space-constrained cases, but for everyone else, a dual- or triple-fan system will be far more efficient.
Considering Nvidia’s claims that new cards are up to 20% faster than the originals, that’s not a bad deal, especially in the UK. Playing all the same titles at QHD resolution kept frame rates hovering around 120fps. Lastly, FHD gaming with the RTX 2070 varied wildly between 120 to 220fps. Thankfully, you’ll find many third-party Nvidia RTX 2070 cards at a more palatable $499 (about £380, AU$690) price. Without mind-blowing performance or any actual ray tracing-enabled games, there aren’t enough reasons to spend this much on a Nvidia RTX 2070 yet. Variable Rate Shading focuses processing power on areas of rich detail, boosting overall performance without affecting perceived image quality.
RGB floods the entire front and side of the card which will only increase the internal design of your build. I am hoping that the RTX 3000 series will be a good size performance jump over the RTX 2000 series, as the GTX 1000 series was over the GTX 900 series cards. If that’s the case I would either get the RTX 3080 or maybe even the RTX 3070.