Nvidia Announces GeForce RTX 2070 Availability On October 17

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Nvidia announced via its @NVIDIAGeForce Twitter account that the GeForce RTX 2070 will be available on October 17. The tweet says that custom card pricing starts at $499 and provides a link to the product page that lists the Founders Edition for $599.

Paul Alcorn
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  • King_V
    Are the TDP specs for the 2070 Reference vs Founders edition transposed?
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  • sbushman18
    Your chart has an error. You are showing memory frequency under memory speed for the 2070, but you have memory bandwidth listed there for the other cards. The memory speed is actually the same for the 2080 and the 2080Ti. The bandwidth is increased from the 2070s 448Gbps. You have the 2070 listed as 14Gbps, which is the memory frequency of ALL the RTX cards.
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  • knowom
    Can't forget the GTX1080 being competitively priced it's probably the best sweet spot on the high end range for GPU's. RTX2070 should ideally come close to 1080Ti performance and maybe overclocked match it for like 1070Ti price range meaning about $375-$425. I think it has to pretty much sit in that range give or take.
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  • bigdragon
    I think Nvidia needs to produce a Crysis-like game to actually showcase and justify the new 20-series cards. Relying on a bunch of console ports is not going to cut it. We need a new PC-busting game to take advantage of the latest hardware. I think Nvidia is wrong to rely upon companies like EA to deliver.
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  • hannibal
    Bacause RXT2080 is about the same as 1080ti, the 2070 can not be even near... Maybe 2070 is near normal 1080 or a little bit slover.
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  • kinggremlin
    This card is the worst of the release. It's hard to believe this card will be fast enough for raytracing (720p anyone?) so it's hard to justify the cost increase over the 1070. If DLSS gains wide adoption then to 2070 could be a decent card. But that's a real gamble at this point. If it doesn't then paying $600 for probable 1080 performance is a dreadful proposition. 2070 is a wait and see purchase far more than the 2080 and 2080ti.
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  • Paul Alcorn
    21350428 said:
    Your chart has an error. You are showing memory frequency under memory speed for the 2070, but you have memory bandwidth listed there for the other cards. The memory speed is actually the same for the 2080 and the 2080Ti. The bandwidth is increased from the 2070s 448Gbps. You have the 2070 listed as 14Gbps, which is the memory frequency of ALL the RTX cards.

    Thanks for that, good eye! Fixed :)

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  • therickmu25
    21350452 said:
    I think Nvidia needs to produce a Crysis-like game to actually showcase and justify the new 20-series cards. Relying on a bunch of console ports is not going to cut it. We need a new PC-busting game to take advantage of the latest hardware. I think Nvidia is wrong to rely upon companies like EA to deliver.

    Would be perfect timing for Valve to finally release the game that shall not be named, fully designed for PC gaming.
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  • AlistairAB
    There's a smaller difference between the 2070 and 2080, with the same memory, than the 1070 and 1080. So it should beat the 1080 easily by 10 percent unlike the 2080 being equal to the 1080 ti. Still nVidia's fake pricing is annoying. $650 I guess for board partners at launch. If they actually sold a 2 fan model for $499 instead I'd be interested.
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  • spdragoo
    21350437 said:
    Can't forget the GTX1080 being competitively priced it's probably the best sweet spot on the high end range for GPU's. RTX2070 should ideally come close to 1080Ti performance and maybe overclocked match it for like 1070Ti price range meaning about $375-$425. I think it has to pretty much sit in that range give or take.

    Considering that, ray-tracing aside, the GTX 2080 & the 1080Ti are pretty much neck-and-neck (see here), it's more likely that the RTX 2070 will end up having similar performance to the GTX 1080...or possibly falling somewhere in between a 1080 & a 1080TI. Since that puts them in the same price range as the GTX 1080 (see PCPartPicker & Micro Center, for example), it's not going to be a good upgrade for those that already have a GTX 1080/1080TI...& even having a GTX 1070/1070TI isn't going to be that great of an upgrade (probably a 1-tier upgrade tops).
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