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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Karmena - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
and RTX2080 is in what price range?drexnx - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
it makes more sense though because it's the same silicon as the 2070S being tested heresing_electric - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
Besides, the real test comes when the embargo is lifted on the RX 5700 series, since that's what people will be cross-shopping (well, for those of us that actually do that, rather than getting corporate logos tattooed on our bodies).psychobriggsy - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
I wonder if AMD will do anything regarding VII pricing, as $699 is clearly not viable against the 2080 Super later this month. $599 would be more suitable, but maybe they'll go for $649 because of the 16GB of memory.Yojimbo - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
The Radeon VII has 16GB of HBM2 and is built on an expensive process. I doubt they can cut the price much. They never intended it to be a high volume part. It will probably sell as a poor man's version of NVIDIA's Titan. The fact that they are selling the Radeon VII at all means that their Radeon Instinct MI50 isn't in much demand.V900 - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
I reckon they’ll keep the price on the VII where it is.While it’s a card that can’t compete with Nvidia’s cards on neither performance nor price whereas gaming is concerned, it still has the edge in compute.
I reckon most of the folks who get one, need it for compute performance and don’t want to spend thousands of dollars for a Quadro or Pro AMD card.
Questor - Friday, July 5, 2019 - link
"The fact that they are selling the Radeon VII at all means that their Radeon Instinct MI50 isn't in much demand."Not likely the case. AMD had to have something, a market presence in the segment until Navi. Especially since Navi will be released slowly and Nvidia already had a new part out.
Dribble - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
It's not going to sell as a gaming card. I am sure there will be a few that work out a way to use the compute and for them it's worth the $700.maroon1 - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
The other reviews show RTX 2070 Super matching radeon VIIAMD should drop the price of radeon VII
eva02langley - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
They should fade them out. Big Navi is coming in half a year and they are no more making sense price wise.