Gigabyte Aorus GeForce RTX 2070 Xtreme Review: Overclocked, Custom Outputs

Name: Gigabyte Aorus GeForce RTX 2070 Xtreme
Brand: Gigabyte

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, December 18, 2018, 01:50 PM EDT

Gigabyte Aorus GeForce RTX 2070 Xtreme - 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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We saw more of the same in 3DMark Time Spy's DirectX 12 benchmark. The performance trend we've seen in all of the previous tests continued here...

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 older, DirectX 11 Fire Strike tests has the Gigabyte Aorus GeForce RTX 2070 Xtreme Review once again outpacing the EVGA card, but here the 1080 Ti is able to overtake the RTX 2080 and moves one notch up the stack.