what's up everyone Eber here with Hardware Canucks and here we are with
another one of these graphic card reviews and interestingly enough we're
actually taking a look at NVIDIA's affordable GPU of their RTX series so
this is the RTX 2070 and before again to the test results and all that kind of
stuff I just want to describe this situation
or this recording scenario because this is not the typical Hardware Canucks
studio space in fact I'm actually recording this from a hotel in Beijing
so yeah this might be this video might be a little bit shorter than normally
what you're expecting but needless to say all the testing has been completed
before we left ok so a few weeks ago you guys may recall that we didn't explain
video talking about the RTX 2070 its architecture and what NVIDIA is offering
for its ridiculous $600 Founders Edition price tag so if
you're interested in learning more about the core clocks the specs and all that
kind of stuff I'd highly recommend checking out that
video right over here but it actually turns out that a lot of predictions from
then have been proven to be right but some weren't this launch is also a bit
odd since there were some weird stuff going on behind the scenes so more on
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about the RTX 2070 launch has been typical and everyone here is pretty
frustrated about a week ago we still had no info on samples or even in
communication within video remember this was just a few business days prior to a
major launch and so we decided to do a little bit of investigating well it
turns out that after being called out about starting at prices that never
materialized for the RTX 2080 ti and the RTX 2080 things were going to
be done a bit differently this time instead of sending out founders editions
for the review NVIDIA had told their board partners to sample their $500
RTX 2070's i'm gently a very few of them were producing
those in time for launch so they had to scramble to shift with their production
we also heard that partners we're told that they couldn't send out a pre
overclock card without also sending a $500 sample but that requirement was
dropped at the last minute Nvidia is obviously trying to control the
messaging on this launch and refocus our attention towards their entry-level RTX
2070 instead of the ultra expensive $600 founders Edition I'm perfectly fine with
that provided it gives us a realistic snapshot of the market and you know what
I don't think that's what will happen after talking to every board partner it
seems like the majority of cards will be hitting the $550 to $600 price points
it's obvious things didn't work out like Nvidia planed since most board partners
we're very late with sampling but no one here is gonna complain about having
about two days to put this review together because you know what we'll do
whatever it takes to get you guys the info you need without crying about
losing sleep or long hours that includes filming this video on the other side of
the world okay so let's get to the GPUs that I'm gonna be covering first up is
the ASUS RTX 2070 Turbo which is a pretty basic blower style card like I'm
sure you can predict it'll hit the magical $599 price point
expected to be in fairly limited supply at launch with availability at Newegg
and a bit later at Amazon and other retailers there isn't any overclock and
boost frequencies is rated at sixteen ten megahertz the interesting thing here
is that it uses a six plus eight pin layout even though TDP is rated at 175
watts it actually looks like ASUS took their RTX 2080 turbo PCB and
popped in an RTX 2070 core in the other card is much more interesting in my
opinion this is the EVGA RTX 2080 XC and it's priced at five hundred and fifty
dollars despite having a custom cooler and an overclocked boost frequency of a
1710 megahertz this happens to be the same spec as the NVIDIA Founders
Edition which costs a good fifty dollars more the XE is a bit long at ten point
six inches but nothing like some of the alternatives like a ASUS's Strix OC or
MSI's Duke series EVGA also happens to have a longer more comprehensive
warranty than nvidia and this card should be widely available right at
launch we're also going to approach comparisons a bit differently in this
video and focus on the cards that are of the overall market right now the
problem is that buyers have less and less choice when it comes to
alternatives to the RTX 2070 unless they go into the used market the GTX
1080 and GTX 1070 TI are in short supply all around but the GTX 1070 is a bit
better but they're still going up in price so here's a quick list of the
cards that I'm gonna be using here along with their current approximate prices
unfortunately some of these have been increasing lately because of low supply
versus high demand so be aware of that I'll leave a link in the description to
the lowest priced and in stock GTX 10 series cards I could find but these were
the ones we either had on hand or purchased in the last few weeks alright
so with all that out of the way let's jump right into the benchmarks starting
first with how well the EVGA and Asus RTX 2070 cards can maintain their clock
speeds I was a bit worried that the blower stock card from Asus would had
some higher temperatures but that didn't really happen the max it achieved was 73
degrees Celsius but the EVGA XC's dual fan downdraft cooler ended up easily
beating it with its peak temp of 68 degree Celsius you can also see that in
order to maintain these 73 degrees Celsius mark the Asus turbo had to
fluctuate its clock speeds quite a bit and it ended up running around 1680
megahertz which is right in line with his specs EVGA on the other hand is
really stable after it settles around 1810 megahertz but how does this all
translate into performance and games well let's roll the benchmarks you're
more than welcome to pause on any of them if you want to take a closer look
at them just keep in mind that in order to reduce CPU bottlenecks running all
these tests on an i9 7900X overclocked to 4.74 gigahertz with 32 gigabytes of
memory overclocked to 3600 megahertz
so there you have an idea of where these two cards stack up to the competition
but there are some other things that we need to look into first let's talk about
power consumption first since the RTX cards have absolutely huge cores and do
tend to require a lot of juice so it turns out that power consumption isn't
all that bad for either of these cards right now with both needing less than an
overclocked GTX 1080 but what we don't know is what will
happen to these numbers when RTX features are enabled remember a lot of
the die space is taken up by the RT intensive course and normal applications
those aren't being used okay now on to sound testing I was a bit worried that
the Asus RTX 2070 Turbo would be quite loud but it actually wasn't it's a bit
louder than the downdraft coolers but you are also getting the advantage of
exhausting hot air outside the case that could be a real benefit if you are using
a smaller form factor system and for the EVGA XC well what can we say it's very
very quiet well the benchmarks certainly provide an
interesting insight into the RTX 2070's plays in the market however actually
buying a GPU right now isn't an easy process at all and that's because the
existing 10 series GTX 10 series cards are getting harder and harder to find
and you know prices are kind of all over the place I mean if you look hard enough
you may be able to find a GTX 1080 for $470 dollars or 1070 TI for $400 but for
the most part they are either a little bit more expensive than that price point
or there are out of stock now you could look the used market is certainly an
option to look into but they are flooded with mining GPUs so watch out for those
anyways coming back to the RTX 2070 and you know I've talked about the whole
mess surrounding this launch so I'm not going to touch on that again but is very
clear that the $600 RTX 2070 Founder's Edition is a ridiculously overpriced GPU
period luckily we were able to benchmark the two other cards so the Asus RTX
2070 ended up going back and forth with the EVGA GTX 1080 SC2 in the tests but
ended up just ahead at both 1440p and 4k remember this is a reference RTX 2070
versus an overclocked card but at the same time the prices are about the same
at $500 the real question is whether or not the turbo or any other $500 RTX
2070 card will be widely at lunch I have a feeling that they
won't be based on our talks with board partners now with the EVGA RTX 2070 XC's
is a bit more interesting since for 10% more than the asus card you're getting
four to six percent better performance improved cooling results and quieter
operation but being interesting doesn't make it a good value it's just less
expensive than the overpriced RTX 2070 Founders Edition are takes 2080 and the
RTX 2080 TI even with the RTX 2070 that's available right now I think
people should still wait and see how the market fares in to 2019 before jumping
into RTX because prices are actually a little bit or quite a bit higher than
what the 1070 and the GTX 1070 TI used to be at at launch and you know the RTX
features that you're paying for right now aren't necessarily available at this
at the time of making this video so it's really pointless to jump into a platform
that offers or that has features that just can't be taken advantage of
meanwhile the performance of these cards aren't drastically or they're not a
significant improvement over what the GTX 1070 series cards used to offer
for about a year or so and I think that's a problem guys so there you guys
have it while the RTX 2070 is finally here it's really hard to get excited
about a GPU that costs $500 I'm Eber with Hardware Canucks thank you so much
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