NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070: specs and benchmarks

General info
Technical specs
Memory
Technologies
Benchmarks
Gaming
AMD equivalent
User rating
Advices and comments
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce RTX 2070 sales 27 August 2018 at a recommended price of $499. This is high-end Turing architecture desktop card based on 12 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 8 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 14 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 448.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 229 mm. 1x 8-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 175 Watt.
It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 60.77 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090.
General info
Of GeForce RTX 2070's architecture, market type and release date.
Value for money (0-100)
1.74
Architecture
Turing
Code name
Turing TU106
Type
Desktop
Release date
27 August 2018
Launch price (MSRP)
$499
Technical specs
GeForce RTX 2070's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce RTX 2070's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Information on GeForce RTX 2070's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Length
229 mm
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce RTX 2070: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.
Memory type
GDDR6
Shared memory
-
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce RTX 2070. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI
+
G-SYNC support
+
Technologies
Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce RTX 2070. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
VR Ready
+
API support
APIs supported by GeForce RTX 2070, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model
6.5
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
Vulkan
1.2.131
CUDA
7.5
Benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmarks performance of GeForce RTX 2070. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall benchmark performance
60.77
3DMark Ice Storm GPU
425550
3DMark Cloud Gate GPU
127652
3DMark Fire Strike Score
18679
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
23186
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
31260
3DMark Vantage Performance
63155
SPECviewperf 12 - Solidworks
61
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 sw-03
61
SPECviewperf 12 - Siemens NX
9
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 snx-02
9
SPECviewperf 12 - Showcase
123
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 showcase-01
123
SPECviewperf 12 - Medical
41
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 mediacal-01
41
SPECviewperf 12 - Maya
149
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 maya-04
149
SPECviewperf 12 - Energy
11.6
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 energy-01
11.6
SPECviewperf 12 - Creo
46
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 creo-01
46
SPECviewperf 12 - Catia
83
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 catia-04
83
SPECviewperf 12 - 3ds Max
194
SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 3dsmax-05
194
Passmark
16097
Game benchmarks
Let's see how good GeForce RTX 2070 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS. Comparisons with system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Overall GeForce RTX 2070 performance compared to its nearest competitors.
100 %
GeForce RTX 2070AMD equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce RTX 2070 from AMD is Radeon RX Vega 64, which is slower by 6% and lower by 11 positions in our rating.