Running the Founders Edition at stock clocks, most games would see the GPU clock close to 1800MHz-higher than the advertised GPU Boost speed, which is typical of Nvidia's gaming cards. I've had some time to invest into overclocking the 2070 on this occasion. In the future, games that make use of ray tracing and DLSS (or other elements of the Turing architecture) should see even bigger gains, but all the games currently in my test suite use a traditional rendering pipeline. It has fewer CUDA cores, but it also has a new architecture and GDDR6 memory that should keep it in the lead. Looking at the raw specs, the RTX 2070 appears to be similar in performance potential to the GTX 1080. The focus this round will be on real-world gaming performance. Is that enough to tempt gamers to upgrade, or will they be sitting out this generation? The RTX 2070 meanwhile clearly falls short of the GTX 1080 Ti, and only delivers a modest 10 percent improvement over the GTX 1080. The GTX 1070 brought significantly improved performance, topping the previous generation GTX 980 Ti at a substantially lower price. The GTX 970 remains one of the most popular graphics cards ever produced, even with its 3.5GB + 512MB segmented VRAM snafu. But we were spoiled by the large generational upgrade of the GTX 1070, and in contrast the 2070 feels more than a little underwhelming. The RTX 2070 is also plenty fast, beating the previous generation GTX 1080 in virtually all the games I've tested. The good news is that Nvidia says the 'reference' RTX 2070 cards should be widely available, meaning the $100 price premium on the Founders Edition shouldn't be required.
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