10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

While some games have more powerful requirements than this GPU, the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q is only really challenged by the most demanding games released today, but normally it is more than capable of running games with a stable frame rate at 1080p.

DirectX 12 gaming system requirements will be met by this gpu.

Game performance for the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q where we look at the bigger games played in 2023. Looking closely at the graphics card frame rate performance on Ultra graphics settings at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions. When considering how well this graphics card can run the 1000 most demanding games available today it can best 790 of the games’ recommended graphics requirements.

First we looked at 1080p resolution for the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q performance to explore what sort of benchmarks it would achieve on the popular title Resident Evil 8 and saw it deliver reasonable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 121 FPS, Medium: 96 FPS, High: 64 FPS and Ultra: 46 FPS. We proceeded to look at Days Gone to see how that compared and saw that it returned a good 60 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

With PC gamers looking for larger screen sizes like 1440p we tested the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q by playing Resident Evil 8 which yielded a playable performance. Its FPS results for the graphics settings are as follows - L: 93FPS, M: 73FPS, H: 49FPS, U: 35FPS. Another popular game we tested with this card was Days Gone and that was reasonable. This graphics card delivered 46 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Another popular title was Forza Horizon 5 which gets playable results with a 35FPS on Ultra 1440p. In summary we feel the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q running at 1440p is ok at playing most games but might need to have the graphics settings lowered to medium preset in some cases.

How many years will the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q in your PC? This gpu has around 2+ years of running AAA recommended system requirements before any upgrades should be considered.

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q? There are no graphics cards on the current market that would provide a big enough increase in performance to warrant upgrading the GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q.