The Card

EVGA has revamped the visual theme of their cards for the RTX 20-series. They now use a transparent see-through fan cover; the general color theme is black and gray. A backplate is not available. Dimensions of the card are 26.5 x 11.5 cm.


Installation requires two slots in your system.


Display connectivity options include two standard DisplayPort 1.4a, one HDMI 2.0b, one DVI-D connector (no analog VGA support), and a VirtualLink connector, which is basically USB-C with DisplayPort routing and USB-PD, so a single cable can power, display, and take input from your VR HMD.

NVIDIA has updated their display engine with the Turing microarchitecture, which now supports DisplayPort 1.4a with support for VESA's nearly lossless Display Stream Compression (DSC). Combined, this enables support for 8K@30Hz using a single cable, or 8K@60Hz when DSC is turned on. For context, DisplayPort 1.4a is the latest version of the standard that was published in April, 2018.


The board uses one 8-pin power connector. This input configuration is specified for up to 225 watts of power draw.


The GeForce RTX 2070 does not support SLI.


We shine the light from a self-leveling line laser on to the card, which shows no sagging.

Disassembly

EVGA's thermal solution uses three "fat" heatpipes.


Once the main heatsink is removed, a black metal baseplate becomes visible, which provides cooling for the memory chips and some VRM circuitry.

On the next page, we dive deep into the PCB layout and VRM configuration.