a very good GPU – and probably a fantastic

A few weeks after the launch of RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti, and despite the lack of games using Nvidia's state-of-the-art DLR or tracing capabilities, the deployment of the new Turing cards continues. The RTX 2070 has big shoes to fill, because the xx70 cards of the green team are traditionally so convincing: the GTX 970 was one of the best products in terms of performance compared to the price of all time , while the GTX 1070 could have been more expensive. but the performances were slightly better than those of the pre-general Maxwell Titan. At first glance, the charms of the RTX 2070 are not so obvious, but it's still a good product and, in the end, I guess it could be a great product.

This is essential for potential buyers of Turing cards right now. Nvidia has taken a huge gamble by introducing radical new technologies that could change the face of the game graphics and could drastically improve performance – but it's so early that there are no concrete examples of these features in action. Based on everything we've seen, the panels look good, but it's only later this year that Turing's flagship titles will come in games like Battlefield 5, Hitman 2 and Shadow of the Tomb Raider. And here and now, without these features giving tangible results, prices are a problem: the RTX 2070 is sold at essentially the same recommended retail price as the GTX 1080 and the standard performance is largely equivalent. But considering all the features of Turing, its potential and the fact that its performance is rarely inferior to that of the GTX 1080, I think the RTX 2070 is the card to have in this price range.

But first of all, let's replace the new Turing offer with its RTX siblings and top-of-the-range Pascal offers. To begin, the RTX 2070 counteracts the trend do not being a reduced version of his counterpart xx80. Instead, it is based on a brand new chip, a fully activated TU106. In fact, it offers about 78% of RTX 2080's CUDA cores and 75% of the ray tracing power. However, the same eight GB of GDDR6 memory is retained and it runs on the same 256-bit bus for a prodigious 448 GB / s memory bandwidth. The CUDA core has a greater deficit than the GTX 1080, but Turing offers significantly improved efficiency per core and much improved caching – as well as a significant bandwidth advantage. It will be a fascinating competition when Pascal's equivalent offering, the closest equivalent of RTX 2070, presents such a wide variety of specifications.

MSI sent us its remarkable Gaming-Z version of the RTX 2070, which is equipped with a massive factory overclock at 210 MHz. However, its performance is not indicative of the majority of RTX 2070s on the market – they turn faster – which is a problem for a revision covering the entire 2070 range. Choose the speed at which to test the product is difficult because there will be variations between almost all available cards. We chose the Founders Edition clocks to ensure equivalence with our existing RTX performance tests throughout this review, but we also included a page comparing the reference frame rates, FE and Gaming-Z. This shows how the RTX 2070 offers rasterization performance equivalent to that of the GTX 1080, while various OCs allow the card to sit comfortably between GTX 1080 and GTX 1080 Ti. While this is good for the 1440p game, overclocking and tweaking might make it a viable 4K player.

Typically, the RTX 2070 comes with three DisplayPort outputs, an HDMI 2.0, and a USB-C port, compliant with the VirtualLink standard for simplified VR connectivity – and this IO family can map to the RTX 2080 and RTX 2080. Ti. Because of its low power requirements, the 2070 only requires an eight-pin power input, although the MSI Gaming-Z product also adds an additional six-pin input. However, since the RTX 2070 is based on a completely different TU106 processor, there is no NVLink port, which means no SLI support is supported, which has bothered some hobbyists. From our point of view, it's not too hard. The fact is that SLI does not play well with game engines that rely on time components, that is, previous picture elements. This makes memory synchronization on two GPUs extremely difficult and eliminates a large number of conflicting titles for SLI support – and most modern game engines use time elements of some description. In simple terms, you will get better compatibility and possibly even improved performance by buying a RTX 2080 Ti rather than two RTX 2070s.

The Nvidia RTX 2070 Founders Edition is a smaller and lighter card than its RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti counterparts, but the Gaming-Z variant that was sent to us is quite opposite. It's an absolute monster, with a custom circuit board, a metal backplate, RGB lighting and a seventh generation Frozr cooling system. Even the heat sink on this board is gigantic – next to the latest-generation GTX 1080 Gaming-Z, it is significantly bigger and heavier, but it guarantees cold running. Even with boost clocks reaching 1920 MHz with its factory overclock in place, the Gaming-Z card was less than 70 degrees Celsius. Keeping in mind the substantial 445mm² Matrix size, it's not bad at all.

We will then go on to a series of performance tests, starting with the potential offered by a key Turing function – Deep Learning Super-Sampling – or DLSS. Second, you'll find that the RTX 2070 is generally tied or slightly better than the GTX 1080, but its features, such as DLSS, can potentially change the game. Of course, ray tracing is also supported in the RTX 2070, but for the moment there is no game support or any kind of meaningful reference – so we'll have to wait.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Analysis