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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Phynaz - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
Navi isn’t going to helptamalero - Wednesday, July 3, 2019 - link
different markets. supposedly VEGA is a compute strong card vs a pure gaming card of most of Nvidia lineup.imaskar - Tuesday, July 9, 2019 - link
Compute strong card without CUDA, which most of compute software relies on. Cool.sing_electric - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
You might be right, but AMD's got a limited ability to lower the price on any of its Vega-based GPUs, partly because the HBMII memory on it is ridiculously expensive, and partly because the sheer wattage of these cards and chips means that they need to have pretty beefy card/cooling designs, etc.That's why we never really saw great deals on the Vega 56/64 even after the RTX cards came out with better performance/$ (or /w) or most consumer applications.
Meteor2 - Saturday, July 6, 2019 - link
And because cryptominers bought all of them.Dark42 - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
Much more important are the prices for the 5700 (XT). If AMD's Computex performance figures are correct, we now have the situation:5700 XT at 449$ is ~5-10% faster then the 2060 Super at 399$.
5700 at 379$ beats is ~10-15% faster then the 2060 at 349$.
Also there is the game bundle situation in favor of nvidia.
With these prices, the 5700 makes no sense - for just 20$ more you get a much better 2060 Super.
Similar for the 5700 XT: 50$ more for just 5-10% is too much.
AMD must lower their prices, the question is by how much?
If AMD brings the 5700 XT down to 399$ and 5700 to 349$ then Nvidia is in a world of hurt.
Nvidia can't lower their prices too much because their chips are big and expensive and can't react with new chips anytime soon.
While AMD has room for a price war with the small 7nm chips and more Navi variants on the horizon.
The_Assimilator - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
> Nvidia can't lower their prices too much because their chips are big and expensiveNVIDIA can lower their prices all they want because they've got cash in the bank. But they won't, firstly because they just did, and secondly because they already have the market sewn up. Even if Navi does undercut Turing pricing, the former still has to overcome the market dominance of the latter (and Pascal).
Meteor2 - Saturday, July 6, 2019 - link
This. The 5700 line is dead without a price-cut, immediately.Gastec - Wednesday, July 17, 2019 - link
"Nvidia can't lower their prices too much because their chips are big and expensive" . You seem to know quite a lot about how much money Nvidia spends on making their products. WikiLeaks or pure divine inspiration?just4U - Friday, July 5, 2019 - link
Amd won't drop the price on the Vega VII, it keeps selling out.. limited supplies or super (heh..) popular?