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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Pino - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
Worst naming ever by their marketing department!maroon1 - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
Who cares about names ?They can even call it Trash. If it delivers good performance then I will buy it
Hifihedgehog - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
Yes. I could not care less as long as they offer killer performance. At long last, they finally offer appreciably more performance per dollar than Pascal. That is a win in my book.zmatt - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
You still have to pay $700 to beat the raw flops of a 1080ti. No deal.Opencg - Tuesday, July 2, 2019 - link
Yeah the 10 series is still the king of value. I think people will find that some of these super cards are not as good as they seem. The 2070 super for example runs less cores at a higher clock to get close to the same performance of a 1080. But the clocks used are basically what every 1080 can do in its sleep when overclocked. Overclocking results on the 2070 super put it only up to the 1080 stock due to the lower headroom available. And many 1080s are clocked 90mhz higher or more by default. The 1080 super will fair even worse having basically the same amount of cores as the 1080.pandemonium - Wednesday, July 3, 2019 - link
While true, I think you guys are overlooking the value that the 2080 and 2080 Ti cards bring: NVLink. It's not the same as SLI. Going forward, this will allow these cards to retain much longer longevity on the market.eek2121 - Wednesday, July 3, 2019 - link
"value" he says. I paid $799 for my 1080ti and quite a few people said THAT was a high price. NVIDIA sure fooled them. I could care less about NVLink. I have very little reason to have more than 1 GPU in my system. The 1080ti more than keeps up at 4K at max details (or close to max details, sometimes I might have to turn AA down depending on the implementation used), and by the time it doesn't, there will be faster cards that do.Opencg - Wednesday, July 3, 2019 - link
the 1080ti will go down in history as one of the longest lived cards ever. since the 2080 ti is not a significant step up especially when you consider price. the 1080ti basically spans two generations of dominancekaesden - Wednesday, July 3, 2019 - link
the 1080ti is the 2500k of video cards.ludicrousByte - Thursday, July 11, 2019 - link
^ This :)