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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eek2121 - Wednesday, July 3, 2019 - link
Why wasn't the Radeon VII included in the charts? Just curious, I may have missed why as I only skimmed the article. I'll stick with my 1080ti for now. It does a great job and costed me quite a bit less than current top of the line NVIDIA cards. Maybe next year NVIDIA will offer something worth having.Kevin G - Wednesday, July 3, 2019 - link
Hrm. Looking at the cards else where, it appears that the RTX 2070 Super supports nvLink. A dual RTX 2070 Super is an interesting alternative to the RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Super which might lead in performance per dollar over those cards. A dual RTX 2070 Super setup might give a single RTX 2080 Ti a performance challenge due to the higher clocks on the RTX 2070 Super. This would be an intersting thing to test alongside the RTX 2080 Super.isthisavailable - Wednesday, July 3, 2019 - link
Meanwhile, rip us budget plebs who were looking for improvements in $100-150 range. The 1650 is a huge disappointment and I see no new cards from AMD on the horizon.Ananke - Wednesday, July 3, 2019 - link
I've got RX590 for $160 a month ago, and it does everything 1080p on Ultra settings. I bet AMD will have at least a dozen cards under $200 range. 7nm tech makes things quadro chipper for them. I am not bashing NVidia technology but it's simply pricey for a retail consumer. Apparently the future will be renting play time from cloud gaming aka Google Playscineram - Saturday, July 6, 2019 - link
They certainly have the Navi14 chip on the horizon. Probably in the fall, maybe 24-32 CU.rtho782 - Wednesday, July 3, 2019 - link
Hm, the benchmarks are very limited, it would be much better if some other gpus (1080ti? 980ti? etc) were in it!imaheadcase - Wednesday, July 3, 2019 - link
He mentioned it will be in full review of the new amd card.alexdi - Wednesday, July 3, 2019 - link
Blah, blah, whatever. They still cost too much. The 'cheap' card you dismissed is priced like the flagship ten years ago. Real incomes have, if anything, gone down. If Nvidia wants to be the Apple of GPUs, they're welcome to it, but they're going end to with similar marketshare in the desktop space.yacoub35 - Wednesday, July 3, 2019 - link
I wish I could see how the 2060 Super compares to the previous generation like the GTX 1070. I can't even do that in your Bench, apparently, which is disappointing. Have to go searching other sites to find the answer to the most important question of just how much greater performance a 2060 Super offers over the GTX 1070 or 1070 Ti.milkod2001 - Wednesday, July 3, 2019 - link
What did you find out? That 1070 Ti is pretty much on pair with: 2060 Super?