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 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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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.