Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 WINDFORCE 8G (GV-N2070WF3-8GC)

Any game at "maximum speed" and 2K resolution

By name, the GeForce RTX 2070 graphics card can be called the successor to the GeForce GTX 1070, but since NVIDIA has changed the hierarchy and raised the video cards up a notch, the new product is best compared with the GTX 1080. In terms of architecture, the core has become more complex, the number of transistors has increased by a third and the crystal area has increased . Also, in comparison with the GTX 1080, the bandwidth of the GDDR6 video memory, which this model has 8 GB, has increased by 40%. In terms of power, this means that the graphics card will be enough for Ultra + FullHD quality in any modern game and Ultra plus 2.5K in almost every one.

Powerful manual overclocking

As for the model from Gigabyte, it has several interesting features. The manufacturer promises a minimum overclock of up to 1620 MHz, which corresponds to the specifications of the regular GeForce RTX 2070. However, in fact, the frequencies easily rise to 1785 – 1800 MHz. And with manual overclocking, you can squeeze out all 2000 MHz. The trick is that manual and automatic overclocking of the video core run into a power consumption limit, which, according to the passport, is 175 watts. However, it can be programmatically raised to 200 W, thereby getting a decent performance boost.

Smart cooler system

Secondly, the card is equipped with RGB lighting with support for Gigabyte RGB Fusion synchronization. Usually, the company used to use backlighting only in the top product lines of its products, although the Windforce series belongs to the entry-level products. Plus, the cooling system works convincingly here: at idle, the graphics card becomes silent due to the stopping of the fans, under load it is one of the quietest models in the RTX series. Despite all this, the price of the card remained at the level of the base RTX 2070.