Nvidia launches Geforce RTX 2070 on October 17

On September 19, SweClockers published its test of Nvidia’s new flagship Geforce RTX 2080 Ti and RTX 2080, which with the architecture Turing raised the bar significantly in graphics performance and comes with several promising features for the future. However, the duo’s sky-high price tags mean that many are waiting and waiting for the RTX 2070.

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1 Specifications: Nvidia Geforce RTX 2080 Ti, RTX 2080 and RTX 2070

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Nvidia has always been talking about a launch of the Geforce RTX 2070 sometime in October and via Twitter they release a nailed date for sales start – October 17. The date applies to Nvidia’s reference design Founders Edition, which is sold via the company’s own website, but also to third-party solutions at resellers.

Specifications: Nvidia Geforce RTX 2080 Ti, RTX 2080 and RTX 2070

	RTX 2080 Ti	RTX 2080	GTX 1080	RTX 2070
Technical	12 nm TSMC	12 nm TSMC	16 nm TSMC	12 nm TSMC
Circuit	TU102	TU104	GP104	TU106
Circuit surface	754 mm²	545 mm²	314 mm²	445 mm²
Transistors	18.6 billion	13.6 billion	7.2 billion	10.6 billion
Architecture	Turing	Turing	Pascal	Turing
CUDA cores	4 352 st.	2 944 st.	2 560 st.	2 304 st.
Texture units	272 st.	184 st.	160 st.	144 st.
Raster units	88 st.	64 st.	64 st.	64 st.
Clock frequency	1 350 MHz	1 515 MHz	1 607 MHz	1 410 MHz
GPU Boost	1 545 MHz 1 635 MHz*	1 710 MHz 1 800 MHz*	1 733 MHz	1 620 MHz 1 710 MHz*
Computational power	13 448 GFLOPS 14 231 GFLOPS*	10 068 GFLOPS 10 598 GFLOPS*	8 873 GFLOPS	7 465 GFLOPS 7 880 GFLOPS*
Memory bus	352-bit	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit
Memory amount	11 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR5X	8 GB GDDR6
Memory frequency	14 000 MHz	14 000 MHz	11 000 MHz 11 000 MHz	14 000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	616 GB/s	448 GB/s	320 GB/s 352 GB/s	448 GB/s
Power supply	8+8-pin	8+6-pin	8-pin	8-pin
Outputs	1 st. HDMI 2.0b 3 st. DP 1.4 1 st. USB Type-C	1 st. HDMI 2.0b 3 st. DP 1.4 1 st. USB Type-C	1 st. DL-DVI 1 st. HDMI 2.0 3 st. DP 1.4	1 st. HDMI 2.0b 3 st. DP 1.4 1 st. USB Type-C
SLI connection	NVLink 2.0 x16	NVLink 2.0 x8	SLI HB Bridge	–
TDP	250 W 260 W*	215 W 225 W*	180 W	175 W 185 W*
Rec. Award	999 USD 1 199 USD*	699 USD 799 USD*	499 USD	499 USD 599 USD*

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* Values apply to Nvidia’s Founder’s Edition of each model, which comes with 90 MHz overclocking. In addition to slightly higher performance, this in all cases leads to an increase in TDP of 10 W.

Nvidia Geforce RTX 2070 is based around the graphics circuit TU106, which unlike TU102 and TU104 in RTX 2080 Ti and RTX 2080 respectively, is a full-scale history without switched off devices. These are 36 SM clusters for a total of 2,304 CUDA cores, which are flanked by 288 Tensor cores and 36 RT cores for ray tracing.

The graphics card has a regular bass frequency of 1,410 MHz with a GPU Boost of 1,620 MHz (1,710 MHz for Founders Edition), which is expected to give the model performance around the same region as Nvidia’s popular long-running Geforce GTX 1080 in traditional game titles that do not use RTX features .

Something that can be considered particularly interesting with the RTX 2070 is that it has the same memory configuration as the RTX 2080. It is thus a memory bus with a width of 256 bits and 8 GB of GDDR6 memory with an effective clock frequency of 14,000 MHz, for a theoretical bandwidth of 448 GB / s.

One thing that distinguishes RTX 2070 functionally is that the graphics circuit TU106 lacks support for NVLink and thus also SLI. Nvidia justifies this with the fact that SLI is a function for enthusiasts who strive for higher performance than a single graphics card can deliver, which is why they believe that RTX 2080 and especially RTX 2080 Ti fills the market RTX 2070 in SLI would theoretically do.

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The price for the Nvidia Geforce RTX 2070 Founders Edition is USD 599 or SEK 6,899, while models from partner manufacturers have a so-called starting price of USD 499, corresponding to around SEK 5,500 including VAT.

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