Nvidia Geforce Rtx 2070 Graphics Card
If we may speculate a little, seeing Nvidia discontinue the entire high-end RTX lineup so quickly tells us that Nvidia is planning on launching the new high-end cards all in close succession. Reports around the web have the launch of the first RTX 3000 series cards pinned in September, with Nvidia completing the lineup in October. According to a source at MyDrivers.com , Nvidia is discontinuing the RTX 2070 Super graphics card, having shipped the last batch of chips to its board partners. Starting now, it will not be manufacturing any more GPUs for this card, and the last remaining inventory will be sold.
Their gtx 1090 iteration, the XLR8 Gaming OC Edition, comes to shelves at the lower end of the price spectrum once again but surprisingly doesn’t really skimp on the performance. It comes clocked at 1710MHz which is very respectable and a dual fan setup which offers a pair of scythe-bladed fans which do produce some noise but nothing which would be considered noisy. A honeycombed bracket and RGB light strip which sits on top of the cooling heatsink pair together to create a stylish look that is both sleek and versatile. You get all this for substantially less than the other cards on the list and for this reason we have awarded the PNY with our Top budget award. Overall, though, unless you’re building a compact system, you’d be better off opting for the Gigabyte Windforce OC listed above, as it is only ~$10 more and it features a higher boost clock rate and better cooling. Boosts the card’s clock speed in real-time based on the target temperature.
However, its performance is not indicative of the majority of gtx 1080 8gbs on the market – it runs a good lick faster – a problem for a review that covers off the entire 2070 line-up. Choosing what speed to test the product at is challenging as there’ll be variations between almost all of the cards out there. We opted for Founders Edition clocks to ensure equivalence with our existing RTX benchmarks throughout most of this review, but we’ve also included a page comparing reference, FE and Gaming-Z frame-rates further on this review. This demonstrates how the RTX 2070 ranges from offering rasterisation performance equivalent to GTX 1080 at reference, while various OCs allow the card to comfortably sit between GTX 1080 and GTX 1080 Ti. Although great for 1440p gaming, overclocking and settings tweaks could make this a viable 4K performer too.
Brad Chacos/IDGOther than the size, the RTX 2070 sticks to Nvidia’s incredibly successful Founders Edition redesign. It’s an absolutely gorgeous graphics card, with a forged aluminum shroud that wraps around into a backplate. Its dual fans bristle with 13 blades each, and you can see the black heat sink peeking through the edge, sitting atop a full-length vapor chamber.
All told, NVIDIA has disabled 8 of TU104’s 48 SMs here, leaving a card with 40 SMs, or 2560 Turing CUDA cores. To make up for this, NVIDIA has cranked up clockspeeds a bit; gtx 1090 Super has higher base and boost clocks than the RTX 2080, which helps it to narrow what gap there is to start with. NVIDIA is launching these cards just in time to match AMD’s own Radeon RX 5700 launch.