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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Orange_Swan - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
Hexus have got a review with both the Radeon VII and the Vega 64.Orange_Swan - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
from their review, it seems to be between the 2060 FE and the 2060 Super FE, if you HAD to get a GPU right now, rather than weighting for the new AMD releases, it would be a no brainer to go for the 2060 rather than the vega 64 as the only real advantage the 64 has is more memory, while the 2060 is cooler, quieter and uses less power.V900 - Thursday, July 4, 2019 - link
The 2060Super is definitely worth the 30-50$ more it costs compared to the 2060.You get way higher performance in both frame rates and RTX.
You get
Vitor - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
Crazy how 4k/60fps is still a dream even for a great gpu. Oh well, joy and fun still can be had in 1440 or 1080.Toss3 - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
That only if you insist on having everything on ultra (which isn't the best option considering the differences between high and ultra are so small you wouldn't know the difference).Toss3 - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
That'sGastec - Wednesday, July 17, 2019 - link
You know that you CAN tweak graphics settings in video games, you don't just have to choose between generic terms like "Ultra" and "High"Robs2010M6S - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
That isn't remotely true.. I have been gaming at native 4k now since 2017 with a 1080ti, 5ghz 8700k and 16GB DDR4 3600mhz ram and today I can still crank out 60fps at 4k with the latest and greatest titles. The reason no one thinks its possible is because they are stubborn hard heads and think that every single last setting has to be cranked to full ultra or they must use absurd levels of AA which is completely stupid at 4k to start with... A lot of modern games have a few settings you can tweak which rape performance for very little IF anything in return visually over their lower settings such as high or very high instead of ultra and when you take the time to find these settings 60fps at 4k with a decent rig isnt hard to achieve at all.Dug - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
I would love to know settings on these games to get constant 60fps at 4k. The one's benchmarked here I have issues with at 4k, even when lowering settings.I'm not saying you can't get there, avg fps seem to dictate you can, but there are just too many dips below 60 that ruin the experience.
1440 seems like the sweet spot.
JoeyJoJo123 - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
Thanks for breaking the pervasive stupidity on 4k60 being impossible. I, too, have been playing latest gen titles, just removing or disabling the awful settings (motion blur, godrays, etc), and using medium settings on the two big performance hitters (shadows and AA), and the game still looks 90% as good with 50~60% more framerate.