NVDIA’s RTX 2070 follows on from their recent release of the 2080 and 2080 Ti from their RTX 2000 series of Turing architecture GPUs. The 2070 has 2304 CUDA cores, a base/boost clock of 1410/1620 MHz, 8GB of GDRR6 memory and a memory bandwidth of 448GB/s. The RTX 2070 also features Turing NVENC which is far more efficient than CPU encoding and alleviates the need for casual streamers to use a dedicated stream PC. Traditionally NVIDIA’s 70 range has offered better value for money than the more powerful 80 GPUs. The Founders Edition 2070 has an MSRP of $599 which makes both new 1080 and used 1080 Ti GPUs decent options. The price premium over the previous generation of GPUs is, for the most part, for NVIDIA’s new ray tracing technology, and unfortunately, the benefit of this is currently unknown as there are no RTX ready games. Performance benchmarks on tangibles place the 2070 6% ahead of the 1080 in terms of effective speed and 17% behind the 1080 Ti. Since AMD’s similarly priced RX Vega 64 has a 13% lower effective speed, there is no real pressure on NVIDIA to compete agressively with thier own previous generation of cards. [Oct '18GPUPro]
CONS: Very expensive, paid a-lot only for it to literally blow up on a light graphics load 2 weeks later. Exceedingly poor build quality I can't recommend any graphic's card made in house by AMD, this is my second card by them that has blown up while my near 10 year old 760 that I have overclocked more than I should have is still going strong.
PROS: when it's not on fire it has 8gb of vram and performed slightly worse than a 1060 and much better than the 760 I tested it against. The single slot cooler seemed very effective for a heatsink of its size before it exploded.
TL;DR if you want a card with an AMD GPU buy one from a 3rd party card maker (msi, gigabyte, etc.) AMD made cards seem to always blow up. [Jul '21typingweb10]
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