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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Grand Theft Auto V
Now a truly venerable title, GTA V is a veteran of past game suites that is still graphically demanding as they come. As an older DX11 title, it provides a glimpse into the graphically intensive games of yesteryear that don't incorporate the latest features. Originally released for consoles in 2013, the PC port came with a slew of graphical enhancements and options. Just as importantly, GTA V includes a rather intensive and informative built-in benchmark, somewhat uncommon in open-world games.
The settings are identical to its previous appearances, which are custom as GTA V does not have presets. To recap, a "Very High" quality is used, where all primary graphics settings turned up to their highest setting, except grass, which is at its own very high setting. Meanwhile 4x MSAA is enabled for direct views and reflections. This setting also involves turning on some of the advanced rendering features - the game's long shadows, high resolution shadows, and high definition flight streaming - but not increasing the view distance any further.
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boozed - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
The word "Super" reminds me of Edward Teller.29a - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
Super describes how sore my ass is having bought an OG 2070.AmiableChief - Wednesday, July 3, 2019 - link
I think Nvidia just reinforced my belief in 'never buy 1st gen products'. RTX clearly was an experiment on Nvidia's part because a lack of competition can make you carefree like that.Questor - Friday, July 5, 2019 - link
You got rear-ended by Nvidia. Didn't see that coming after the last couple of Titan- Ti debacles? Forest for the trees my friend.tamalero - Wednesday, July 3, 2019 - link
Its not like they have much choice. The AIBS are already using most of the "cool" sounding names to name their card families.PlasticMouse - Wednesday, July 3, 2019 - link
Personally, while I don't necessarily like the "Super" moniker, I do appreciate that nVidia is at least keeping the RTX 2XXX name. They could have called it a RTX 3XXX instead, in which case, it would be somewhat misleading since the underpinning technology and even the GPU die is from the 2XXX series.Rudde - Thursday, July 4, 2019 - link
They could have called them RTX 21X0 instead of RTX 20X0 Super, but then again, that might undermine their existing offerings (2060 and 2080ti).phoenix_rizzen - Friday, July 5, 2019 - link
Straight numbers would have been simpler, although the Ti variant adds some confusion.2060 --> 2065
2070 --> 2075 --> 2070 Ti
2080 --> 2085 --> 2080 Ti
Creig - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
Why did you test your Nvidia cards against a two year old Vega 64 instead of the new Radeon VII?Ryan Smith - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
Truthfully, it's what I had on hand. I was preparing for the RX 5700 review when NV interjected with the RTX 20 series Super launch. Plus the Radeon VII is a $699 video card, so it's not really a competitor to the $399/$499 Super cards.