New Leaks Reveal Nvidia RTX 2070 Quicker Than GTX 1080: 40% Quicker Than 1070

While all eyes have been on the new RTX 2080-series from Nvidia, widely expected to be announced this week at Germany's Gamecom event, details of the RTX 2070 - the replacement for the popular GTX 1070, have surfaced. Specifically, we now have numbers for the memory and CUDA core count, although the TDP remains a complete mystery albeit likely to be around 180W.

Nvidia has now announced the RTX 2080 Ti, 2080 and 2070 - see the full announcement and specifications here.

Details leaked to YouTube channel AdoredTV apparently from an Nvidia source, claim to show that the RTX 2070 will be 40% faster than the GTX 1070 and 17% quicker than the current GTX 1080 too - both feats that will delight gamers although much rests on pricing, which is less certain at the moment. Unlike previous generations, though, Nvidia's new cards appear to be getting more power hungry. It's likely the RTX 2070 will have a similar TDP to the RTX 2080 at 180W, which is 30W or so more than the GTX 1070 and GTX 970. Looking further back, the GTX 770 had a TDP of 230W, so we've been on a consistent downward trend until now. This looks set to result in larger coolers as I mentioned in my first article here and also discussed in more detail by Jason Evangelho here.

Despite early rumors pointing at a 7GB card with the RTX 2070, the latest information shows it actually has the same 8GB GDDR6 memory as the RTX 2080, However, the latter has considerably more CUDA cores at 2944 compared to just 2304 for the RTX 2070. That, though, is 20% more than the current GTX 1070 and coupled with new GDDR6 memory, the claims that the RTX 2070 is up to 40% quicker may not be unreasonable. It also looks likely that both the RTX 1070 and RTX 2060 will be on sale late September, early October - later than the new RTX 2080 Ti and 2080.