I purchased this card for some light 4k gaming as an upgrade to my Gigabyte GTX 1070. The Strix 2070 has a very impressive build quality, and the look and feel of the card in your hands just oozes quality. I particularly like the wingblade fans and the metal backplate with the illuminated Strix logo.
The performance of this card is in between a GTX 1080 and 1080 Ti. When overclocked, it is closer to a 1080 Ti. I find the performance to be pretty solid for lower refresh rate 4k gaming. I get about 55 fps in the Witcher 3 on ultra with all worthwhile settings maxed out. In Battlefield 5, I get about 70 fps with ray tracing off and 50 fps with ray tracing on medium. In Metro Exodus, I get about 50 fps with ray tracing off and 35-40 fps with ray tracing on. Ray tracing implementation is still pretty underwhelming, but you will get very solid performance at 1080p or 1440p with this card, even with ray tracing turned on.
The thermal performance of this card is fantastic, and I'm pretty sure no other RTX 2070 comes close to matching this thermal performance. This card has a huge triple-slot heatsink with three fans, and the heat spreader is ultra smooth thanks to Asus' max contact technology. My card usually hovers around 60 C under 100% load, and the fans are barely audible at these temps, even with the performance BIOS enabled (instead of the quiet BIOS). Since my case is right on my desk, I really appreciate how quiet this card is.
So far, I have only played around a little with overclocking. Nvidia's GPU boost already adjusts the clock speed on my card as high as 2050 mhz, but I can't keep it stable that high with a manual overclock. Also, don't use Asus' GPU Tweak II. It's absolutely terrible software. You have to downgrade your DirectX in order to install it. GPU tweak doesn't save your settings, it's buggy, and the on-screen display shows a huge ad for Asus graphics cards right over your game. It's one of the stupidest things I've ever seen.
I was a little disappointed with the fan-side RGB illumination. There are actually just LEDs at either end of the card that light up a sort of fiber optic cable. The lighting is not very bright, and it's also not addressable, so the whole card can only display one color at a time. I may mod the card with some addressable LED strips behind the fiber optic cables.
Many of the other reviews mention artifacting, crashing, etc. I don't doubt that many people have had problems with this card, and with RTX cards in general, but I think the reviews here don't accurately reflect most people's experience. Asus Strix cards are known to be very reliable, and mine has worked perfectly for six weeks now.
| Memory Speed | 14000 MHz |
|---|---|
| Graphics Coprocessor | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 |
| Chipset Brand | RTX 2070 |
| Graphics Card Ram Size | 8 GB |
