after all the controversy surrounding the lack of rtx on and the inflated
pricing of the rtx 2080 today is the day
that many of you have been waiting for the launch of the less expensive and
more obtainable rtx 2070
but just because something is affordable doesn't mean you should buy it
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the biggest headline feature of the 2070
somewhat ironically is the one that it doesn't have so for the first time since
NVIDIA changed to their current naming scheme back in 2008 the
70 value enthusiast card doesn't do
sli all that remains of the 1070s sli
functionality is this sad little cutout
in the shroud that no longer serves any purpose whatsoever
not that we've really pushed sli as a sensible solution for years so
i guess NVIDIA's slow march towards killing what used to be one of their
highlight enthusiast features only really bothers me on a nostalgic level
let's change gears now then to something that bothers me a little bit more
objectively pricing with the enthusiast rtx cards
this honestly didn't bother me as much
because the 80 series has traditionally targeted the affluent gamer who cares
less about price to performance and more about raw power
but the reference rtx 2070 is priced at
500 us dollars with the overclocked founders edition priced at 600 us
dollars that puts these new
2070 cards not directly up against the
previous 1070 but rather the gtx 1080 from NVIDIA's
last generation lineup and AMD's vega 56
so we'll be comparing all of these cards today although sadly we'll only be using
our Intel bench since time was not on our side like no joke we actually got
our card 18 hours before this video was supposed to go live
it's a good thing Anthony's a good sport about this kind of thing
so with deus ex mankind divided we get a pretty big jump in performance over the
gtx 1080. and that's pretty much the end of that
chapter with the rest of our test suite getting just a few frames per second
more regardless of whether we're looking at directx 11 or directx 12. 3dmark and
unigine's superposition do let the 2070 stretch its legs a little bit more but
overall we are in the same ballpark as our reference gtx 1080 and a factory
overclocked 1080 would probably be on par when we hit it with our productivity
workloads though like its bigger cousins the rtx 2070 delivers consistently good
performance compared to the gtx 1080 of yesteryear making it quite comparable in
most cases to even the rx vega 64. even
in opencl tasks like luxmark that typically favor vega and in heavy
lifting tasks like most but not all of specvuperf's professional rendering
workloads it should of course be noted that most enthusiasts and professionals
won't want to go for a reference card like this one preferring instead to opt
for something like this strix but the
thing is while normally these beefier
custom cards quickly fall close to reference pricing
this time it might take a while the 499
msrp that NVIDIA has slapped onto reference cards allegedly has their
partner selling these boards for basically no margin
and why should you the consumer care about that
well because as a result you can expect to pay closer to the founders edition
599 price point for custom board cards
for the foreseeable future and with this being the lowest tier of
GPU with tensor cores and rtx support
that means that 500 to 600
will be the lowest point of entry for these technologies until NVIDIA delivers
a 3 000 series refresh sometime in oh i don't know let's say 2022 at the rate
that they're going so then rtx 2070 to buy or not to buy
it's a really complicated question so let's start with the price
on the surface it's not that much higher
than the 1080 that it traded blows with in our benchmarks
but msrp aside aggressive sale prices have
1080s as low as 65 cheaper already and
that's right now while we're working on this video before the 2070 has even
launched so i would expect them to go lower still
which means that what we need to determine then is if the features of the
new gen justify the added expense
some of them are pretty easy to evaluate like the improved nvenk encoder that
outputs similar quality real-time capture to x264 fast with a negligible
performance hit that's going to be a huge hit for anyone who game streams go
for it other features well gets more
complicated because surprise there is still
no real rtx games there's no real
content to set this thing apart from the last gen or even to measure how much of
a performance impact that we might expect from the real-time ray tracing
feature that NVIDIA is banking on so hard to sell these things that they put
it right in the name
further complicating the matter is the used market right now so with the recent
cryptocurrency mining crash sites like ebay have been absolutely flooded with
last generation high performance gpus and right now 1080 ti's which perform
more like an rtx 2080 in conventional games can be had for the same price as
an rtx 2070 and as we demonstrated in
this video a used video card might not carry any warranty but it'll perform
exactly the same after it's heavy use as it did when it was new we can't tell you
not to buy an rtx 2070 because it's it's
fine i guess but we can't tell you to
buy it because its main selling points are still completely missing in action
the only thing that we really can say conclusively today is that this launch
from NVIDIA is all the evidence that we need to say that they absolutely require
a competitor to keep their pricing in line rather than follow the it industry
standard of mostly inflationary pricing increases
that even Intel Intel maintained through the second to
sixth generation core series processor launches
remember this is when they had no competition from AMD to speak of NVIDIA
has just kicked the convention to the curb instead of using the architectural
improvements to deliver more bang for the buck to consumers NVIDIA has instead
taken their new products and basically plonked them right down on top of the
old ones so instead of taking the money that you had last year and getting more
for it today you can get more but you will just need
to shell out extra cash i mean the argument from NVIDIA might be
that rtx is what adds more bang for those bucks
but at this point i'm just being asked to take their word for it and i can't do
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so thanks for watching guys if you disliked this video then i'm sorry i'm
sorry NVIDIA staff out there i mean we tried to be nice to it but like what are
we supposed to say it's like faster video cards for more expensive it's not
like a huge win for the average gamer maybe maybe
non-rtx what is it going to be a gtx 2060 this is going to get really
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