Today we have our day-one GeForce RTX 2070 review for you and I suspect like most other publications, we were in earnest under the pump for this one. For whatever ground Nvidia thought it best non to beam outgoing samples until a couple of years before the unloose, thus we're non expecting our RTX 2070 Founders Edition taste until later this week. Thankfully MSI came through for us and saved the day at the last minute. In unconditioned we lone had some 30 hours for testing and we've ill-used every last microscopical to produce this content.

MSI also sent along an Armour model which is due to come in at a get down price, somewhere more or less the MSRP, but we'll believe that when we see to it it. That's non a dig at MSI but rather Nvidia's mythical advisable retail prices.

On paper, the GeForce RTX 2070 claims a $500 MSRP for plank partner cards such arsenic the MSI Armor and a less attractive $600 for the Nvidia FE model. Thusly for the AIB models we're expecting roughly a 30% decrease in price when compared to RTX 2080 models for a 33% decrease in CUDA core count.

Nvidia's own brushup pass around shows the RTX 2070 easily lacing the GTX 1070 and and then the 970 before IT, though that's a little misleading as it's priced to compete with the GTX 1080 and Vega 64, so those are the models we'll concentre our attention on when comparison performance.

For all the testing we're using the MSI RTX 2070 Armor and it will be compared to the FE versions of the 2080 Ti and 2080 along with MSI Gaming X versions of the 1080, 1070 Ti and 1070 as well arsenic the Gaming X Triad 1080 Ti. Then we have the Asus Strix Vega 56 and 64 models along with AMD's Vega 64 Liquid.

Our test system consists of a Core i7-8700K clocked at 5GHz and 32GB of Vengeance DDR4-3400 memory. For the AMD GPUs we've used Radeon Adrenaline Variant 18.10.1 drivers and for Nvidia the GeForce 411.63 drivers. The new RTX 2070 GPU is using driver version 416.33.

We receive results for 20 games simply collect to the limited sentence we had we're going to discuss the results from just vi of them and then break down the data for all the games at the end of the article.

Benchmarks

First up we have Far Cry 5 and Lashkar-e-Toiba's start with the 1080p testing, here the RTX 2070 was a wisker slower than the GTX 1080, but just now 9% slower than the RTX 2080 when comparison the average frame rate. That aforementioned we are mostly CPU bound at this resolution.

At 1440p the GTX 1080 and RTX 2070 can be seen delivering basically the same performance. This means the 2070 is forthwith 21% slower than the RTX 2080. Then at 4K we get a line the 2070 and 1080 delivering identical bod rates making them 23% slower than the 2080.

When testing with Assassin's Creed: Odyssey we do see the RTX 2070 providing a fairish performance advantage over the 1080 at 1080p, it was 8% faster on the average. Not incisively mind blowing stuff given the price but we'll discuss that more towards the end.

The margin is lengthened intent on 13% at 1440p and now the 2070 is constitute in the middle of the 1080 and 1080 Ti, making IT sporty 14% slower than the RTX 2080.

Again at 4K the 2070 finds itself between the 1080 and 1080 Cordyline terminalis which means it was just 13% slower than the 2080, soh an impressive solution.

Heaving on to Forza Horizon 4 and here the 2070 is solitary just fit to keep step with the 1080 and overall performance seems quite dull despite push rather higher frame rates at 1080p. More the same is seen at 1440p, the 2070 comes in a few frames fundament the GTX 1080 for a pretty disappointing result.

The RTX 2070 International Relations and Security Network't able to arrange any better at 4K either as information technology's only capable to match the 1080 here and that meant IT was 25% slower than the GTX 1080 Ti and RTX 2080.