PC Magazine - USA (2019-08)

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A shiny mirror slapped in the center of the card wraps around the two cooling
fans, and a small green “Super” label is at the end of the card name. Other than
that, Nvidia is sticking to what it knows, and as long as it works, you won’t see
any complaints from us. You’ll also note that Nvidia isn’t dubbing these new
Nvidia-made versions of the RTX 2070 Super card as “Founders Editions.”


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Founders Edition required just a single eight-pin power connector, the RTX
2070 Super needs both an eight-pin and six-pin to boot up. There’s nothing
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NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 2070 SUPER VS. NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX
2080
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Here are the key specs that Nvidia provides on each card:


Same die size? Check. Same number of transistors? Check. Same memory bus
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Check, check, and check.


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number of processing cores, and the gigatexels-per-second rate, stats which are
both notorious for missing spec when the die is binned downward.

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