GeForce GTX 2070 News - First Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Benchmark Leaks, Just About Beats GTX 1080 Performance

What appears to be the first Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 has leaked courtesy of a 3DMark benchmark run discovered by Twitter user TUM APISAK. The sole 3DMark Time Spy benchmark was performed using a custom Zotac graphics card with almost exactly the same specs as the reference RTX 2070 model.

The Time Spy benchmark is designed to test DirectX 12 performance. The GeForce RTX 2070 was paired with an Intel Core i7-8700K CPU clocked at 3.7 GHz. In the benchmark results, the GeForce RTX 2070 has a boost clock speed of 1950 MHz, compared to 1710 MHz on the Founders Edition RTX 2070.

As for the results, the Zotac RTX 2070 GPU clocks in with a score of 8,151, making it slightly faster than the previous-gen GeForce GTX 1080 (~7500). Considering the overclock at play here, the GeForce RTX 2070 looks to be roughly equal to the GTX 1080, or perhaps a little faster.

In terms of how this stacks up to the GeForce RTX 2080 and GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, the benchmarker has previously tested those GPUs and scored 9,266 and 10,850 respectively.

GeForce RTX 2070 Timespy Benchmark

It’s a decent outing for the GeForce RTX 2070, although only one benchmark on which to gauge this performance. The one wrinkle, of course, is price. A GeForce RTX 2070 pre-order will set you back almost as much as a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti right now, and yet its benchmark performance comes in at around the same level as a GeForce GTX 1080.

	GeForce RTX 2080 Ti	GeForce RTX 2080	GeForce RTX 2070
GPU Architecture	Turing	Turing	Turing
GPU	TU102-300A-A1	TU104-400A-A1	TU106
Process Node	12nm NFF	12nm NFF	12nm NFF
CUDA Cores	4352	2944	2305
Tensor Cores	544	368	288
Core Clock	1350 MHz	1515 MHz	1410 MHz
Boost Clock	1545 MHz	1800 MHz	1620 MHz
RTX-OPS	10 Giga Rays/s	8 Giga Rays/s	6 Giga Rays/s
Memory	11GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6
Memory Speed	14 GHz	14 GHz	14 GHz
Memory Interface	352-bit	256-bit	256-bit
Memory Bandwidth	616GB/s	448GB/s	448GB/s
TDP	285W	215W	185W
Power Input	2x 8-pin	1x 6-pin & 1x 8-pin	1x 8-pin
Founders Price	$1199	$799	$599
Normal Price	$999	$699	$499

The GeForce RTX 2070 is due to launch worldwide from October 17th. As it currently stands it will be the cheapest available graphics card that supports real-time ray tracing.

What are your thoughts on the Timespy benchmark results? Is the GeForce RTX 2070 going to be worth buying for raytracing and DLSS, or is the GTX 1080 Ti a better buy? Let us know!