GeForce RTX 2070 Review With EVGA: Turing's Sweet Spot

Name: EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 XC
Brand: EVGA

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, October 16, 2018, 09:00 AM EDT

EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 XC - 3DMark Time Spy And Fire Strike

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3DMark Time Spy is a synthetic DirectX benchmark test from Futuremark. It features a DirectX 12 engine built from the ground up to support bleeding-edge features like asynchronous compute, explicit multi-adapter, and multithreading. Time Spy is designed to test the DirectX 12 performance of the latest graphics cards using a variety of techniques and varied visual sequences. This benchmark was developed with input from AMD, Intel, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and the other members of the Futuremark Benchmark Development Program, to showcase the performance and visual potential of graphics cards and other system resources driven by close-to-the-metal, low-overhead APIs.

3DMark Time Spy

Direct X 12 Performance

3DMark Time Spy

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The same performance trend we've seen in the majority of tests up to this point played out again in 3DMark Fire Strike. The EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 XC is almost as fast as the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, but much faster than the GTX 1080 and Vega 64.

Futuremark 3DMark Fire Strike

Synthetic DirectX Gaming

3DMark Fire Strike has multiple benchmark modes: Normal mode runs at 1920x1080, Extreme mode targets 2560x1440, and Ultra mode runs at a 4K resolution. GPU target frame buffer utilization for normal mode is 1GB and the benchmark uses tessellation, ambient occlusion, volume illumination, and a medium-quality depth of field filter. The more taxing Extreme mode targets 1.5GB of frame buffer memory and increases detail levels across the board. Ultra mode is explicitly designed for high-end and CrossFire / SLI systems and cranks up the quality even further. GT 1 focuses on geometry and illumination, with over 100 shadow casting spot lights, 140 non-shadow casting point lights, and 3.9 million vertices calculated for tessellation per frame. GT2 emphasizes particles and GPU simulations.

3DMark Fire Strike

The DirectX 12-based 3DMark Time Spy benchmark has the Vega 64 and EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 XC finishing right on top of each other. In fact, the Vega 64 put up a somewhat better GPU score -- it was only the combined score that allowed the RTX 2070 to pull ahead overall.