58 PCWorld AUGUST 2019REVIEWS NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 2060 SUPER AND RTX 2070 SUPER
Radeon VII’s massive 16GB of HBM2 memory
being worthwhile for content creation tasks,
but when it comes to gaming, the $499
GeForce RTX 2070 Super trades blows for a
whole lot less—and it does ray tracing.
The original GeForce RTX 2060 is still
hanging around for $350. It’s a solid card in
its own right (go.pcworld.com/slid), but it’d
be more compelling paired with a $25 or
$50 price cut. As is, it’s well worth saving your
pennies to get the RTX 2060 Super’s vastly
improved performance and more fully
fleshed-out memory system for $50 more.
Nvidia says the Founders Edition versions of
the Super cards we tested here will be
available at MSRP on July 9.AMD’s published performance
comparisons for the $450 Radeon RX 5700
XT versus the $500 GeForce RTX 2070
(non-Super) at 1440p resolution. The
GeForce RTX 2070 Super is much, much
faster than the vanilla 2070.
The stage is set, then, for the hotly
anticipated launch of AMD’s $380 Radeon RX
5700 and $450 Radeon RX 5700 XT (go.
pcworld.com/xt57) on July 7. They’ll be the
first mainstream graphics cards built using the
7nm process technology, the first graphics
cards equipped with the cutting-edge PCIe
4.0 interface, and the first graphics cards
powered by AMD’s new “RDNA” GPU
architecture. The company’s E3 showcaseAMD’s published performance comparisons for the $450 Radeon RX 5700 XT versus the $500 GeForce
RTX 2070 (non-Super) at 1440p resolution. The GeForce RTX 2070 Super is much, much faster than the
vanilla 2070.