
Finally, we’ve included results from the Radeon RX Vega 64 reference card, AMD’s most potent GPU. We’ve also tested its performance compared to the GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition, GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition, and PNY GeForce GTX 1080 Ti. We’re comparing Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Founders Edition ($600 at Best Buy and ) against EVGA’s custom RTX 2070 XC ($550), and the GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition ($799 at Best Buy or ) and RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition ($1,199 at Best Buy and ). 2x 500GB Samsung 860 EVO SSDs ($100 on Amazon).

Corsair Crystal 570X RGB case, with front and top panels removed and an extra rear fan installed for improved airflow ($170 on Amazon).EVGA 1200W SuperNova P2 power supply ($180 on Amazon).64GB HyperX Predator RGB DDR4/2933 ( $416 for 32GB on Amazon).Asus Maximus X Hero motherboard ($260 on Amazon).EVGA CLC 240 closed-loop liquid cooler ($120 on Amazon).Intel Core i7-8700K processor ($360 on Amazon).Most of the hardware was provided by the manufacturers, but we purchased the cooler and storage ourselves. Our dedicated graphics card test system is configured with some of the fastest complementary components available, to put any potential performance bottlenecks squarely on the GPU. The RTX 2070 packs half as many RT and tensor cores as the full-fat GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, and we have no way of testing how much that will impact performance-so you’re taking a leap of faith that not only will those technologies catch on, but the RTX 2070 will be able to handle them well. The lack of available ray-traced or DLSS games is a bummer with this graphics card in particular. Unfortunately, no current games tap into either technology, though dozens of games have pledged RTX support.

It’ll be faster in tomorrow’s games, too, as the RTX 2070 includes those dedicated RT and tensor cores to drastically enhance real-time ray tracing performance and unlock the ability to bring machine learning enhancements to games, such as Deep Learning Super Sampling. Spoiler alert: The RTX 2070 is a lot faster than the GTX 1070 in traditional games, and even a bit ahead of the GTX 1080. GTX 1070.Īs you can see, the RTX 2070 Founders Edition has more CUDA cores and texture units than its predecessor, as well as a slightly higher boost clock speed and much faster GDDR6 memory. Nvidia GeForce RTX 20 Founders Edition specs vs. Here’s how the reference and Founders Edition RTX 2070 stack up under the hood compared to the older $3 (though again, at its higher price point, the $5 more directly compares to the $5). That means Founders Edition specs differ slightly from RTX 2070 reference specs.
