Galax Geforce® Rtx 2070 Super Work The Frames Edition
AMD’s price cut was brilliantly timed to react to Nvidia’s Super cards, and the performance promises match up. If you’re looking at spending $400 on a new graphics card, then you now have two great choices (or a $499 RTX 2070 Super option if you’re willing to spend a little more to get even better performance). AMD does offer Radeon Image Sharpening to upscale games without big frame rate penalties and Radeon Anti-Lag to improve competitive games, but neither comes close to the impact real-time ray tracing has on a gaming experience. I’ve found Battlefield V is one of the good examples of ray tracing effects, thanks to the reflections on objects and guns, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider uses ray tracing in a number of shadowy scenes.
At just under ~$400, it is easily the cheapest standard RTX 2070 currently on the market. As it is a compact graphics card, though, it doesn’t have the most robust cooling configuration. The RTX 2070 and RTX 2070 SUPER might not be able to match the RTX 2080 Ti or RTX in terms of sheer power, but it is no slouch either. The best graphics cards you can find right now are from the RTX 3000 and RX 6000 lineup, but what if you want something not so extremely expensive, but that also has ray tracing support? Both RTX 2070 and RTX 2060 are extraordinary candidates but will likely appeal differently to you depending on your needs.
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Another consideration will be the features that Nvidia offers with its cards compared to AMD’s latest. AMD has clearly optimized for raw performance here, but Nvidia offers similar performance plus extra features like real-time ray tracing on top. The promise of cinematic effects in games is still early days, but Nvidia is investing a lot of time and money into getting game developers to take ray tracing seriously. This has been bolstered, gtx 1090 thanks to the fact that Sony’s next-generation PlayStation and Microsoft’s Project Scarlett Xbox console will both support ray tracing. On the GPU clockspeed front, the card will ship with a boost clock of 1815MHz, the highest of all the RTX 20 series cards. Meanwhile, in a first for any Turing card, the memory clockspeed is being increased from 14Gbps to 15.5Gbps, an 11% increase to better feed the fully-enabled TU104 GPU.
Even the heat sink on this card is mammoth – side-by-side with the last-gen GTX 1080 Gaming-Z, it’s significantly larger and heavier, but it does ensure cool operation. Even with boost clocks hitting 1920MHz with its factory overclock in place, the Gaming-Z card sat below 70 degrees Celsius. Bearing in mind the substantial 445mm2 die-size, that’s not bad at all. All four cards seem ideal for 1440p gaming, even at max settings in modern games. You can obviously adjust the settings down to improve frame rates for a 144MHz monitor setup or get usable frame rates with all the eye candy enabled.
Ray tracing is the definitive solution for lifelike lighting, reflections, and shadows, offering a level of realism far beyond what’s possible using traditional rendering techniques. Tried and true x86 architecture based servers with support for the latest Intel and AMD processors. I’ve included World of Tanks purely from a high frame rate/high refresh rate point of view as it’s a popular free-to-play that also has a professional hard-core following. It’s otherwise very easy to run, but seeing as you need super-high frame rates for the latest high refresh monitors, this data is still useful. For some reason the GTX 1080 Ti akes a nosedive at 4K despite re-running the tests, so it’s either a driver bug or it just doesn’t handle 4K particularly well in the this game.