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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MadManMark - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
First, I don't know why anyone even cares what the name is, and frankly it's not like "2080 RTX" or "5700 XT" is hardly a "fantastically inspiring" name either. Seriously, if that's all you can find to complain about, then you must really REALLY like these cards?Second, even when I force myself to consider your point seriously, I still don't get it. "Super" is directly from Latin, and literally means "above" or "beyond" or "in additon." How is this not an appropriate description of the way these cards alter their previous namesakes, exactly? What woul YOU call it, oh wise one Pino?
Peter2k - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
K, errPeople are used to number monikers I'm guessing
Like 780, 980, 1080, 2080
The thing to keep in mind is that partner cards are already using long and stupid names, adding OG several X's, Extreme, II, ...
They get really long names, throwing a super in there is not going to be that easy for people not tech savvy
Also regarding the Latin "super", but in today's world wouldn't it have been better to use:
Legendary
Epic
Ultra rare
And so on?
Peter2k - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
Should also be colored accordingly to rarity, err performance lvlPurple
Orange
And so on
Gastec - Wednesday, July 17, 2019 - link
PINK! According to trends ;)Orange_Swan - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
I think the worse named one I have seen was theAORUS GeForce RTX™ 2080 Ti XTREME WATERFORCE WB 11G
tamalero - Wednesday, July 3, 2019 - link
Problem with the numericals is thtat Nvidia shat on that with the 2000 series.the XX70X segment was shifted up and replaced the XX80 slot in price.
So 2070 replaced the 1080, the 2080 replaced the TI, and the 2080TI replaced the TITAN slots of the older generations.
If you take the models out and check just the price point, the performance boost is minimal in that generation.
Pino - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
Jezzz, some serious fan boys here. Get a life dude! I never said it's a bad product, I have a RTX 2080 btw and love it.And the bad marketing remarks goes for both Nvidia and AMD, they both suck.
They should just make it easier for the average Joe who wants to enjoy some gaming.
There is no easy way for an average consumer to get a VGA without reading a bunch of articles trying to figure out the difference between GTX 1660, GTX 1660TI, RTX 2060, RTX 2060 super.
It could be as easy as RTX 2083, RTX 2085, RTX 2087 instead of RTX 2080, RTX 2080 super and RTX 2080 TI
Threska - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
Any votes for "Super Expensive" which will certainly ease the "who cares what it's called" meme.philehidiot - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
I'd take the cooler off, slowly, bit by bit, screw by screw, fan blade by fan blade and call it the XXX edition. It'll be fucked after that so seems appropriate.twtech - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
They should have brought back the "Ultra" naming.