Gigabyte RTX 2070 SUPER Gaming OC 8G Review

1. Introduction2. Gigabyte RTX 2070 SUPER Gaming OC Card3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy (1080p, 1440p, 4K)5. 3DMark Port Royal (1440p DXR)6. Battlefield V (1080p, 1440p, 4K)7. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (1080p, 1440p, 4K)8. Far Cry 5 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)9. Ghost Recon: Wildlands (1080p, 1440p, 4K)10. Metro Exodus (1080p, 1440p, 4K)11. Middle Earth: Shadow of War (1080p, 1440p, 4K)12. Shadow of the Tomb Raider (1080p, 1440p, 4K)13. Battlefield V w/ DXR (1080p, 1440p, 4K)14. Shadow of the Tomb Raider w/ DXR (1080p, 1440p, 4K)15. Clock Speed16. Temperatures17. Acoustics18. Power Consumption19. Overclocking: Games Testing Part One20. Overclocking: Games Testing Part Two21. Closing Thoughts22. View All Pages

We take our noise measurements with the sound meter positioned 1 foot from the graphics card. I measured the noise floor to be 32 dBA, thus anything above this level can be attributed to the graphics cards. The power supply is passive for the entire power output range we tested all graphics cards in, while all CPU and system fans were disabled.

A reading under load comes from running the 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra stress test 20 times. An idle reading comes after leaving the system on the Windows desktop for 30 minutes.

Despite the GPU core running so cool, we saw the fans on the Gaming OC run at just 45%, or 1380RPM, when under load. This means the card is fantastically quiet and it didn't even reach 39dB on our sound meter. The Gaming X Trio is a couple of decibels quieter, but you'd be very unlikely to actually hear either card once installed in a proper case.

As an added bonus, all three fans do stop spinning under light loads, and only kick into gear once the GPU core hits 60C based on our testing.

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