The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super & RTX 2060 Super Review: Smaller Numbers, Bigger Performance
by Ryan Smith on July 2, 2019 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
- GeForce
- NVIDIA
- Turing
- GeForce RTX
Power, Temperatures, & Noise
Last, but not least of course, is our look at power, temperatures, and noise levels. While a high performing card is good in its own right, an excellent card can deliver great performance while also keeping power consumption and the resulting noise levels in check.
| GeForce Video Card Voltages | |||||
| RTX 2070S Boost | RTX 2070 Boost | RTX 2060S Boost | RTX 2060 Boost | ||
| 1.043v | 1.05v | 1.043v | 1.043v | ||
Looking quickly at boost voltages, there aren’t any big surprises. Like the non-Super cards they’re based on, both of the new Super cards will max out at either 1.043v or 1.05v at their highest boost bin. In reality, these cards are typically not boosting quite so high due to TDP limits, in which case power consumption is often under a volt(a).
| GeForce Video Card Average Clockspeeds | |||||
| Game | RTX 2080 | RTX 2070S | RTX 2070 | RTX 2060S | |
| Max Boost Clock | 1900MHz | 1950MHz | 1875MHz | 1950MHz | |
| Boost Clock | 1710MHz | 1770MHz | 1620MHz | 1650MHz | |
| Tomb Raider | 1785MHz | 1875MHz | 1725MHz | 1800MHz | |
| F1 2019 | 1785MHz | 1875MHz | 1770MHz | 1815MHz | |
| Assassin's Creed | 1815MHz | 1890MHz | 1785MHz | 1860MHz | |
| Metro Exodus | 1785MHz | 1875MHz | 1725MHz | 1815MHz | |
| Strange Brigade | 1770MHz | 1875MHz | 1725MHz | 1800MHz | |
| Total War: TK | 1785MHz | 1875MHz | 1725MHz | 1815MHz | |
| The Division 2 | 1740MHz | 1845MHz | 1680MHz | 1755MHz | |
| Grand Theft Auto V | 1815MHz | 1890MHz | 1785MHz | 1860MHz | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 1800MHz | 1890MHz | 1785MHz | 1875MHz | |
Meanwhile the average in-game clockspeeds largely echo NVIDIA’s official claims. The new Super cards tend to have higher clockspeeds, owing to their higher starting points within NVIDIA’s specifications. These higher clockspeeds allow these cards to punch a bit harder than they otherwise would, narrowing the gap with their RTX 2080/2070 analogs. The trade-off for this is that TDP becomes a very careful balancing act, as these higher clockspeeds are farther up on the voltage/frequency curve where the underlying GPUs aren’t quite as efficient.
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catavalon21 - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
F@H fp64 tests were tossed a while back when both teams green and red castrated double precision (DP) capability in consumer cards. AMD had stellar DP ratios later than Nvidia did I believe, but neither does any more. On the other hand, I'm very curious to see what kind of scientific app could make use of the blistering half precision capability of today's cards.Threska - Friday, July 5, 2019 - link
Deep Learning is the current buzzword. There's your use case.catavalon21 - Sunday, July 21, 2019 - link
Good point, thanks.Bp_968 - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
I only skimmed the article but I didn't see any info on if RTX performance also increased across the line? As someone who owns a 2560x1440 monitor, any "RTX" featured card I get has to be able to perform at 2560x1440x60fps+ "RTX-ON" or its a worthless feature to me. Last time i checked the 2080 *barely* met that spec in current games and the 2080ti was really you best choice if you wanted to maintain a solid 60fps with RTX.V900 - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
Well yes, of course it has. When you buy a 2070 you’re basically getting a 2080 now.GreenReaper - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
No, it's a fair question, because we don't know how fast those cores are running, or if that impacts everything else (considering they might take significant power).ballsystemlord - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
I agree, does RTX benefit from the additional clock speed and are more of the cores enabled, or does the GPU downclock when running RTX like an Intel processor when doing AVX?GreenReaper - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
RTX 2060S: 30->34 RT cores, 2070S: 36->40 cores, from spec sheets at:https://www.pcworld.com/article/3406396/nvidia-gef...
Phynaz - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
What?V900 - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
I hate to be that guy, but did you read the article? It answers all of that.For example, the 2070S is a 2080 chip with a few of the CUDA cores fused off, but is clocked 100 MHz higher than the 2080 and 200 MHz higher than the old 2070.