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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Haawser - Wednesday, July 3, 2019 - link
$450-500 for mid range cards ? Think I'll buy a $250 second hand Vega 56, undervolt it, and play quite happily at 1440p. Maybe at high instead of ultra, but for $250 I can live with that.Gunbuster - Friday, July 5, 2019 - link
PowerColor AMD Radeon Vega 56 RED Dragon is $300 on amazon. $250 if you have an Amex with points and got the targeted 20% off discount.Gastec - Wednesday, July 17, 2019 - link
They are actually $100 more from partners.catavalon21 - Wednesday, July 3, 2019 - link
TH shows the 2060 Super outperforming the GTX 1080 in a dozen or so benchmarks at 1440. Only one test went in favor of the 1080.https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforc...
V900 - Thursday, July 4, 2019 - link
Actually, the 2060S isn’t just faster than the 1070 or 1070TI, it also beats the 1080 in most games/benchmarks.And that’s just in terms of performance. Without including the features like RTX and DLSS that the 10XX series lack.
It’s a pretty solid upgrade for a few hundred dollars.
YouInspireMe - Wednesday, July 3, 2019 - link
Wait! They just announced the 2080 super DUPER for $698.zodiacfml - Thursday, July 4, 2019 - link
There is nothing in exciting in 2019 video cards unless AMD will introduce massive price cuts considering the small die size of the chips in the RX 5700none12345 - Thursday, July 4, 2019 - link
2060 super is worse value then a 2060 was(fps/$), value went down not up. It only looks like it went up when you compared it to the extremely poor value 2070.2070 super is better value then the only 2070, same price but higher performance. But, yet again the old 2070 was crap value, so ya its better....but its still not good.
Compared to the cards from 3.5 years ago, the 20 series super cards are still rather poor value. We should have had much more performance for the same $s by now.
UltraLeader - Thursday, July 4, 2019 - link
nVidia's problem is 4K performance issue. Every two years period nVidia need to provide new cards that faster two name cards. For example, GTX 980Ti = GTX 1070. GTX 1080Ti = RTX 2070. Definitely RTX 2070 is much much slower than 1080Ti. That means nVidia hugely reduced their GPU speed (reduced CUDA cores). No one really care about ray tracing if it can not run 4K 60+ FPS. GTX 10 series to RTX Super is 3 years long !!! But 2070 Super still slower than 1080Ti !!! and 2080 Super should be same price as GTX1080 ($499~$559) not $699 !!! $699 is for 2080Ti. Even now 2080Ti still extremely overpriced ($1249) no even close MSRP $999. and 2080Ti is one year old already. so price should be $599 !!! and nVidia should release 2080Ti Super for $699. and old card like 2060 should price $199. 2070 = $299. 2080 = $459. 2080Ti = $599. and new crap card should only add $50 only. so 2060 Super = $249. 2070 Super = $349. 2080 Super = $499. 2080Ti Super = $749.UltraLeader - Thursday, July 4, 2019 - link
For 3 years waiting. nVidia should release graphic card run 4K 120~180FPS on 2080Ti Super not 4K 60 FPS !!!