- Are in the locker for a GTX-1080 or a
GTX-1070 or you're possibly waiting for a
RTX-2070 to magically drop down from the heavens.
- Yusuf that's your cue to drop a
RTX-2070 out of frame so it looks like
it's dropping down out from the heavens.
- SHAW! (magical music playing)
- So the RTX-2070 is finally released into the wild
and is actually the first RTX card that I like
in terms of, dare I say it, value for money
when we look at what you can buy one for at
the moment. You can get one for currently
$530 USD or in Australia $830 AUD.
And at this price point it does pose some decent figures.
I'll pull up some synthetics for you guys
at the moment so you can see how it performs
against the other cards in the stacks and
you maybe thinking of purchasing in terms of
value for money. See here it's bidding out a 1080
comfortably and also bidding out the 1070
by a long shot. However it does of course still
fall behind the GTX 1080 TI.
Now this card itself, they gave you by RTX 2070 OC
edition, I did manage to overclock
this thing about 80 megahertz
on the core, about 400 megahertz on the memory.
This did translate into gains, not just in the
synthetics but also in the games too
but it does come at a cost of increased
power consumption and the next synthetic
we are gonna pull up for you guys
is Time Spy Extreme. Here the RTX 2000 series cards
do pull ahead of the GTX 10 series
cards specially in relation to the fire strikes
scores and the over clocks do give the GTX 2070
a bit more of an advantage and of course
when you overclock the 20 series cards,
you do gain more performance but if you do overclock
the GT 10 series cards as well then you will gain
performance on those cards.
But of course when it comes to overclocking
your mileage may vary. With that aside,
let's take a look of some gaming benchmarks and
then get on with the conclusion with the RTX 2070.
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- Welcome back to TechYesCity, on this test bench here today
we are using 7820x clocked to 4.5 gigahertz
coupled with 3200 megahertz CL14 timings
memory and the first few benchmarks
I'm gonna pull up for you guys is Destiny 2
at 1080p. What we can see in this benchmark
is the RTX 2070 is comfortably pulling ahead
of the GTX 1080 and also the GTX 1070
but still falling behind the 1080 TI.
1080p is a little bit more CPU bound and
I decided to test 1080p and also 1440p
ultra setting because I believe this
where the 2070 sweet spot is going to lie
but looking over the 1440p numbers,
they do see a little bit of an advantage
to the 1080 TI in relation to the 2070.
Of course the 2070 is still powering along
compared to those other 10 series, non TI variants.
Then moving on to the next title
"Crysis 3" of course even in 2018
there is still that question that goes around
"Can it run Crysis?"
- And in this particular game at 1080p and 1440p
in particular at max setting that's very high
on all the dials.
Yes, it can and it did so very well.
I'm surprised to see the 2000 series cards
doing a little bit better in relation
to the other games. When we look at the numbers
we can see it's comfortably pulling ahead
of the GTX 1080 and also the GTX 1070,
still falling behind the 1080 TI of course
but still starting to weigh up in terms of the
2070 being the, at least so far, the king of the
2000 series lineup at least in terms of
value for money. But pulling up some further
numbers for you guys "Far Cry 5" here at
1080p we were actually CPU bound a lot of the times
so the results didn't vary a whole lot.
Then we move up to 1440p. We then see the
1080 TI start to pull ahead of the 2070
and also the 2070 gaining a comfortable lead.
Yet again over those 10 series cards.
Next up here, we got "PlayersUnknown's Battlegrounds",
a game that is on its way out I believe
and at 1080p, the RTX 2070 and the 1080 and 1080 TI
are nearing maxing out because of the CPU
so the CPU is the limiting factor again at
1080p here. The GTX 1070 was falling a little bit behind.
Moving up to 1440p though we then start seeing
a difference between these 3 cards but it was
surprising to see that the 2070 was a lot closer
to the 1080 TI than it was to GTX 1080
and I believe this has to do with some kind of
optimizations that are happening for the RTX 2000 series
cards in relation to PuBG. I'm not quite sure.
If I pull up some numbers from a previous review
we can see that the 2080 as well was
comfortably beating the 1080 TI in this
particular game and I have also updated
to the latest drivers so the 2000 series
has had a little bit of time to mature
since the last time I reviewed the 2080.
However if you like World of Warcraft,
then the bad news is this game does need very
high single core performance and we are showing
here that I have to literally max this game out
with a 200 resolution scale just to get
the graphics cards to be stressed near a 100%
and even here we are heading a fierce CPU
limitations. I believe going even higher
may stress these cards more but again
here we are getting of a 40 FPS with the 1080 TI
even if we drop it down to 1440p we are still getting
around these numbers as the game starts
to be CPU bound but we can see the 2070 is still
pulling ahead of the 1080 and 1070 in
this particular benchmark the 1% was showing
this is well and then moving across to
SCUM we are testing here at high settings
this actually performed pretty well in this
benchmark pulling ahead 1080 and also the 1070
but still falling behind the 1080 TI.
I actually couldn't test the 1440p for some reason
cuz I was testing on 1080p monitor
and to get the 1440p numbers, I was
using the VideaDSR settings which does
enable a high resolution but in this case
it didn't work probably in only this
particular game I didn't really undestand
what was going on there, maybe its a bug
who knows and now the last of the gaming
benchmarks is the Final Fantasy 15 demo.
You've got this in two flavors, you can either set
it in default mode with no DLSS enabled or also set it
with DLSS enabled. Now what we saw here
on the normal mode the RTX 2070 was pulling ahead of
1080 and also the 1070 but still falling
behind the 1080 TI by quite a bit.
When we enabled DLSS mode, the RTX 2070
does pull ahead but it does so at the expense
in my opinion of this game, looking a little bit
worse than the normal benchmark that we're
used to so DLSS is a feature that is promised
on the RTX 2000 series cards as well as
re-tracing but as I said in the previous 2000
series card reviews that I have done
we're yet to see these properly implemented
in any game and on top of the that,
is the game gonna be enjoyable and is it
going to be mass adopted and not some show pony
game like Ashes of the Singularity.
Now moving on some other numbers in
particular for this card, the power consumption
with the RTX 2070, I'd imagine would be
normally a little bit lower than this but
because the gigabyte model is overclocked out
the factory, it was pulling numbers that are higher
than the 1080 and also the 1070.
When we overclocked it, we again increased
power consumption by a little bit too.
This was power that was derived from the
wall and that's where we measured it
and all four cases here. Moving over to the
thermals, the noise and also the temperatures
Gigabyte's cooling solution right here is a dual
slot cooler this time around. If we compare it
with the 2080 TI for example where even
the 2080, they use what's a two and half
slot cooler on those models, so it
is thicker and it does weigh than the 2070,
2070 coming at around 850 grams as opposed
to the 2080 TI and the 2080 which come in
over 1 kilogram. But nonetheless it does
use less power and doesn't need such a big
cooling solution. Its got 382 mil fans
which do an absolute fine job of cooling
this thing and keeping the noise low.
So we can see here we've got 100%, 80%, 60% and also
the order of fan speed which were a little bit
higher, I must admit than the 2080 when
I did that review but the noise was very
well under control I'd say at 60%
on the fan speeds is the sweet spot
for this card which kept the temperatures
very low at a comfortable 66 degrees.
Which for me personally I do like keeping
my graphics card under 70 degrees.
So this cooler is definitely capable of
giving you quiet noise as well as giving
you low temperatures and of course
decent overclocked as we talked about before.
But also with this card in particular, we've
got an RGB logo on the side here that lines up
with the Gigabyte logo. You can change this
via software if you wish to. On the rear of the card
you have got 3 display ports and 1 HDMI and
you have also USB type C if you wish to
use that in conjunction with other devices
or VR for example.
So there it all is ladies and gentlemen
for the RTX 2000 series cards from Gigabyte.
These are a gunmetal gray and black aesthetic.
It does look, in my opinion, a lot better
than their 10 series counterparts for the
same Gigabyte models. They are including
as well a 4 year warranty on these cards
at least in Australia.
Very aggressive, very good if you're looking
for something that you can put in your
computer, set and forget and have peace of mind,
knowing it is going to last you a long time.
And of course what about RTX 2070 when we
compare it versus the GTX 1080 and also the
GTX 1070 and even 1080 TI in terms of
value for money. There is a reason why I put
these three 10 series cards in this graph
because I believe they are closest competitors
to the 2070. And what we saw here was pretty
good value for money coming out of this card.
It's also got those new features.
If they do get implemented and how and when they do
get implemented, I have no idea just yet because
what we're kind of seeing is just demos and promises
in the moment but they do have
re-tracing cores on boards, they do have the support
for DLSS which I'm sure when its released
it will be pretty good and you will be able
to benefit from the value the 2070 brings.
At least we've been waiting 2 years for it
so it's not impressive by any means
but it still is better, I feel than the
1080 at street retail price and even the 1070.
So it is coming in at a decent price point
especially when we look at the 2080 which is
nearly $300 dollars more and its not giving you
a whole lot more performance but at the same time
you still get those new ray tracing features
and as we said before DLSS support, so it's
good to see there is a kind of a value
orientated option for the RTX 2000 series
cards out there. If you're looking to upgrade
to these series, then this is a decent choice.
And that's about it for today's video.
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