EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 XC ULTRA GAMING, 8GB GDDR6, Dual HDB Fans & RGB LED Graphics Card 08G-P4-2173-KR

I will start out by saying I am not the best person to review, I don't have tons of experience with other different cards. What I can say about this card is that so far it has met all of my expectations.My first card that I purchased for my current computer was an rtx 2060 black from EVGA. I didn't do any research before I purchased it, I just saw it had a fair price and claimed to operate rather silently. It didn't. It was loud, and warm, resulting in dropped clocks (76 degrees during heavy load). This was probably a result of the one fan design, despite the rather large heat sink. For some people, the loud fans probably wouldn't be an issue, but with nearly everything else silent on my rig I found it to be annoying. It performed okay, it was just too loud, and from what I have seen a lot of the rtx 2060s run pretty warm resulting in increased fan use (noise). I was even considering liquid cooling the 2060 just to get temps, and therefore noise, down, but decided to instead return the card and get a card with good thermals to begin with.Having not been satisfied, I checked reviews for the different 2070 models. After seeing that this was a no-frills card that managed to keep rather low temps, I was on board. At first, after installing, I was worried when I saw it idling at around 48 to 50 degrees, and I thought that furmark would push it up to 90. Nope, this gpu has fans that are completely off at idle, which is why it runs a little warmer than normal. This means no noise at all from the gpu… and you can even set a custom fan curve to have it run cool at idle if you wish. Idle temps don't really bother me. I shouldn't have worried about furmark, because the curve topped out at 65 degrees with silent case fans (noctua), and with a custom (still nearly silent) case fan setup I dropped a further 3 degrees to 62. These temps are with a front mounted radiator, by the way. Also, this was with a +200 on the core, +800 memory, 114% power limit, and 88 temp limit. That blew my rtx 2060 out of the water, and because the temps stay low this card boosted rather high and rarely dropped clocks during heavy gaming.Now, for the important stuff. I play some games 2k, some 4k, depending on the game. 2k this card is a winner. 4k I have run some older games at max or extremely high settings (Killing Floor 2 runs buttery smooth, so does GTA V). I don't have any newer games to test at 4k so I can't say how well this card does, but I'd assume that with concessions in your graphics configurations you could get a lot of them going well. I have a 4k monitor that runs at only 60hz refresh, so your mileage may vary. I find 60hz to be fine for casual gaming, but some people don't. I don't play many first person shooters so I don't need high refresh as much as I appreciate greater visual fidelity.In any case, as I have seen reviews that this card may fail after a while, I may update this review. If I don't, awesome, this card rocks, and they have worked out their issues. For now, however, I am enjoying my new graphics card, and it is definitely worth the money. I would recommend it to anyone looking for a good budget (at 500 dollars, it can be 100 or 200 cheaper than other rtx 2070s so I suppose that fits) rtx 2070 for their build. Great thermals, noise, and performance.

I purchased this EVGA RTX2070 for my son's birthday - he's an avid gamer. He previously had an AMD R270 that was purchased 4+ years ago which was underpowered for current/recent games he would host. I researched various video card reviews. The early reviews (when this RTX card was initially was released in 2018) cast shade on the RTX series stating they are overpriced and that Ray Tracing is hyped. Ray Tracing is coming on now and will be more prominent in games. And, leaving Ray Tracing aside for those games that don't support it, this is still a powerful/quality video card. I wanted to purchase something built for the future with a good warranty. I choose EVGA due to their warranty and good support and product quality reputation. My son currently games at 1080p, says he can have all the visual goodies maxed out on various recent games. (NOTE / PERSPECTIVE: My son is not big on first person shooters anymore, just occasional FPS use, he's more into strategy games. I don't game anymore, I used to in a different life. : ) This 2070 card will support WQHD (1440p) gaming quite well. From the reviews I have read, at resolutions above1440p (i.e. 4K gaming) the RTX2070 performance is nominal, just enough/adequate. However, 4K gaming is nothing my son is interesting in. Now before I get a mountain of opinions, I will say for my son's needs and purposes this card is excellent. No hassles, no artifacts, high quality, high framerates. He is in happy hog heaven. The experience delivered to him is more than enough for his purposes. This will most likely meet his needs for at least 2 - 3 years. P.S. We are brand agnostic. My main PC has an AMD card in it and I would and will buy AMD again if it's the solution for my purposes. The AMD CPU releases are currently on fire. I will say my son was relieved - or it was a plus to him - to receive an nVidia card.Only minor complaint: It would have been nice to have video cable or two included. We had to get in the car and drive to local Best Buy to purchase a Display Port cable. (I own a mountain of HDMI, VGA and DVI cables but have not needed DP yet and son's current Dell monitor doesn't support HDMI.) The new WQHD monitor he may get for Xmas will certainly support HDMI). Other than that, no complaints. I suppose unless you buy the uber deluxe cards you don't get a cable bundle.P.P.S. DRIVER ANECDOTE: Son's PC has Windows 10 OS. I had cautioned him to first disinstall the AMD video card drivers from his older hardware he was leaving behind before powering down and then advised to replace with a fresh download of latest nVidia drivers. (I was also willing to burn a disk of latest nVidia drivers for him). He waved off, didn't do that. I was expecting problems from this. But No! He boots PC up with new nVidia RTX 2070 card. It was flawless! He was able to begin using his setup immediately. The "native" nVidia drivers supplied in Windows 10 gave him a no drama experience and he could start using the PC and begin gaming. I was kind of surprised. In the "old days" that was a guaranteed recipe for problems. Your Mileage May Vary but that's what we experienced. I still encouraged him to obtain the nVidia site drivers "to be sure" but for now, things are fine.