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Nvidia geforce rtx 20709/27/2023 ![]() My graphics card testbed uses a Core i7-8700K overclocked to 5.0GHz, which should help to minimize CPU bottlenecks during testing. I've retested all graphics cards for the Turing launch, and while a few driver updates have come out in the past month, performance in my test suite appears to be stable. GeForce RTX 2070 Founders Edition performance The overclocked results for the 2070 FE are included in the charts. This resulted in a relatively steady 2000-2040MHz, and more importantly I was able to complete all my gaming benchmarks without crashing. For the GPU core, I increased voltage by 100mV, adjusted the fan speeds to favor cooling over noise, set the power level to 114 percent, and set the GPU core to +125MHz. After poking around with MSI Afterburner and EVGA's Precision X1, I settled on a 750MHz GDDR6 overclock (15.5 GT/s effective), a healthy 10 percent boost-I was able to ramp up to 16 GT/s but started experiencing artifacts and backed off a bit. Running the Founders Edition at stock clocks, most games would see the GPU clock close to 1800MHz-higher than the advertised GPU Boost speed, which is typical of Nvidia's gaming cards. I've had some time to invest into overclocking the 2070 on this occasion. ![]() In the future, games that make use of ray tracing and DLSS (or other elements of the Turing architecture) should see even bigger gains, but all the games currently in my test suite use a traditional rendering pipeline. It has fewer CUDA cores, but it also has a new architecture and GDDR6 memory that should keep it in the lead. Looking at the raw specs, the RTX 2070 appears to be similar in performance potential to the GTX 1080. The focus this round will be on real-world gaming performance. Is that enough to tempt gamers to upgrade, or will they be sitting out this generation? The RTX 2070 meanwhile clearly falls short of the GTX 1080 Ti, and only delivers a modest 10 percent improvement over the GTX 1080. The GTX 1070 brought significantly improved performance, topping the previous generation GTX 980 Ti at a substantially lower price. ![]() The GTX 970 remains one of the most popular graphics cards ever produced, even with its 3.5GB + 512MB segmented VRAM snafu. But we were spoiled by the large generational upgrade of the GTX 1070, and in contrast the 2070 feels more than a little underwhelming. The RTX 2070 is also plenty fast, beating the previous generation GTX 1080 in virtually all the games I've tested. The good news is that Nvidia says the 'reference' RTX 2070 cards should be widely available, meaning the $100 price premium on the Founders Edition shouldn't be required. ![]()
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