PCWorld – August 2019

56 PCWorld AUGUST 2019

REVIEWS NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 2060 SUPER AND RTX 2070 SUPER

enthusiasts for its performance cost, enabling

ray-traced shadows at Medium quality with

DLSS in tow results in frame rates identical to

running the game without ray tracing

enabled. Not too shabby! Nvidia and

its partners have been putting a lot of

work into RTX technology

implementations. In Shadow of the

Tomb Raider, you can find some areas

of fine detail that are slightly blurrier

with DLSS enabled if you look hard

enough, but the visual boost from the

real-time shadows is well worth it in

my opinion.

POWER DRAW,

THERMALS, AND

NOISE

We also tested the GeForce RTX 2060

Super and RTX 2070 Super using

3DMark’s highly respected Fire Strike

synthetic benchmark. Fire Strike runs

at 1080p, Fire Strike Extreme runs at

1440p, and Fire Strike Ultra runs at 4K

resolution. All render the same scene,

but with more intense graphical

effects as you move up the scale, so

that Extreme and Ultra flavors stress

GPUs even more. We record the

graphics score to eliminate variance

from the CPU.

This is why synthetic benchmarks

are good for general comparisons

and for providing a level playing field

3DMark Fire Strike

(Graphics subscore)

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

10,562

9,050

10,904

12,308

13,417

13,262

16,936

5,135

4,201

5,340

5,937

6,819

6,435

8,280

22,282

19,463

23,044

25,792

27,776

27,775

35,097

Standard Extreme Ultra

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Super (FE)

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 (FE)

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 (FE)

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super (FE)

AMD Radeon VII

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 (FE)

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Super (FE)

Whole System Power Draw

(Watts)

SHORTER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

55.2

54.3

55.7

56

55.2

62.6

69.2

300

284

315

344

399

366

482

Load Idle 4K

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Super (FE)

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 (FE)

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 (FE)

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super (FE)

AMD Radeon VII

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 (FE)

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Super (FE)

in overclocking competitions, but can’t be

fully relied upon. Fire Strike shows the RTX

2060 Super and RTX 2070 Super lagging