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
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- 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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Kevin G - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
Just wait for the Super Turbo Hyper Championship Edition.Dug - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
You forgot to add an X or II at the end.philehidiot - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
Did they steal Gillette's marketing people? This is soon to be the 2070 Fusion Power Stealth Back Edition. It'll vibrate in your case to make your PCI-E pins rise up to be annihilated by the supreme power of this card.Gastec - Wednesday, July 17, 2019 - link
Turbo Lubricated Pro Slider perfect for Anal Ravaging!boozed - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
I'll wait a little longer for the Ultra, which comes after the MegaPeachNCream - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
Well-placed Street Fighter reference detected!Smell This - Wednesday, July 3, 2019 - link
You forgot the **Duper** ...Super **Duper** Turbo Hyper Championship Edition ;-)
Good luck competing in the 545mm2 TU104 "Die Per Wafer Category" (best guess: 95 (!) per 300mm). Navi 10? 226
I'm smelling "Offers You Cannot Refuse" combo deals on the Radeon RX 5700 series and the AMD Ryzen 3000s __ right off the bat. It's Jerry Sanders golden anniversary, after all ...
sing_electric - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
YES. I don't necessarily mind pointless numbering schemes (2070), but I really just wish they'd use all the digits - call them the '2075' or something. If you have the same number of CUDA cores but a different clock, THEN maybe add a suffix (like Ti).Peter2k - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
If I learned anything from marketing people, it should've been a 2079.99, using you're example :-)Gastec - Wednesday, July 17, 2019 - link
Soon ;)