Palit RTX 2070 Super JS Review

1. Introduction2. Palit RTX 2070 Super JS3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy (1080p, 1440p, 4K)5. Battlefield V (1080p, 1440p, 4K)6. The Division 2 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)7. F1 2019 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)8. Far Cry New Dawn (1080p, 1440p, 4K)9. Gears 5 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)10. Ghost Recon: Breakpoint (1080p, 1440p, 4K)11. Metro Exodus (1080p, 1440p, 4K)12. Middle Earth: Shadow of War (1080p, 1440p, 4K)13. Red Dead Redemption 2 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)14. Shadow of the Tomb Raider (1080p, 1440p, 4K)15. Total War: Three Kingdoms (1080p, 1440p, 4K)16. Clock Speed17. Temperatures18. Acoustics19. Power Consumption20. Overclocking: Frequency and Games21. Closing Thoughts22. View All Pages

Rumours are continuing to swirl about Nvidia's plans for its next generation of GPUs, but for now Turing and the RTX 20-series remain as the company's current-gen offerings. Despite competition from AMD's RX 5700-series, Nvidia's RTX 2070 Super has proved a popular GPU around the £500 price point, and today we review the Palit JS (JetStream) model, currently retailing for £479.99.

As the bigger brother to Palit's RTX 2060 Super JS we reviewed back in July, the RTX 2070 Super JS appears to use the same shroud and cooler design as that card. As a 2070 Super, however, it obviously comes with an increased shader count, with 2560 CUDA cores compared to the 2176 cores of its little brother.

Compared to the 2070 Super Founders Edition, the Palit JS has seen a slight increase to its core clock, coming in at 1815MHz boost – a 45MHz increase over stock specifications. The memory, however, has been left alone at its stock speed of 14Gbps. Palit's cooler is also physically larger, taking up effectively three slots, while it also comes with dual-BIOS support which we always like to see. Is this card worth buying?

GPU	RTX 2080 (FE)	RTX 2070 SUPER	RTX 2070 (FE)	RTX 2060 SUPER	RTX 2060 (FE)
SMs	46	40	36	34	30
CUDA Cores	2944	2560	2304	2176	1920
Tensor Cores	368	320	288	272	240
Tensor FLOPS	85	72	63	57.4	51.6
RT Cores	46	40	36	34	30
Texture Units	184	160	144	136	120
ROPs	64	64	64	64	48
Rays Cast	8 Giga Rays	7 Giga Rays	6 Giga Rays	6 Giga Rays	5 Giga Rays
GPU Boost Clock	1800 MHz	1770 MHz	1710 MHz	1650 MHz	1680 MHz
Memory Data Rate	14 Gbps	14 Gbps	14 Gbps	14 Gbps	14 Gbps
Total Video Memory	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	6GB GDDR6
Memory Interface	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit	192-bit
Memory Bandwidth	448 GB/sec	448 GB/sec	448 GB/sec	448 GB/sec	336.1 GB/sec
TDP	225W	215W	185W	175W	160W

Just confirming what we touched on earlier – RTX 2070 Super uses a cut-down version of Nvidia's TU104 GPU, the same GPU used for the vanilla RTX 2080 when it launched back in September 2018. Where the full TU104 sports 48 Streaming Multiprocessors (SMs), the cut-down version used for 2070 Super consists of 40 SMs, each housing 64 CUDA cores, for a total of 2560.

Alongside that, the GPU also features 8GB of GDDR6 memory, running at 14Gbps. This is the standard speed for pretty much all the GDDR6 we have seen to-date, with the 2080 Super a notable exception as its memory runs at 15.5Gbps.

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