The Card

The EVGA RTX 2070 Super FTW3 Ultra looks identical to the same model without "Super", which of course makes economical sense. On the back, you'll find a high-quality metal backplate. Dimensions of the card are 29.0 x 14.0 cm.


Installation requires three slots in your system.


Display connectivity options include three standard DisplayPort 1.4a, an HDMI 2.0b, 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 with 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.

At CES 2019, NVIDIA announced that all their graphics cards will now support VESA Adaptive Sync (aka FreeSync). While only a small number of FreeSync monitors have been fully qualified with G-SYNC, users can enable the feature in NVIDIA's control panel regardless of whether the monitor is certified or not.


EVGA includes a dual-BIOS feature on their FTW3, which lets you switch to a second BIOS without fan stop and a reduced fan curve.


This fan header lets you attach a case fan that will synchronize with the GPU fan for the best use of automatic temperature control and fan stop.


Near the back of the card, you'll find an RGB header that lets you sync supported RGB components with the lighting of your graphics card.


The board uses two 8-pin power connectors. This input configuration is specified for up to 375 watts of power draw.


With Turing, NVIDIA is using NVLink as a physical layer for its next-generation SLI technology. NVLink provides sufficient bandwidth for multi-GPU rendering at 8K 60 Hz, 4K 120 Hz, and other such bandwidth-heavy display resolutions. It's a point-to-point link between your GPUs, so latencies will be lower compared to pushing data through the PCI-Express bus.

Disassembly

EVGA's RTX 2070 FTW3 Ultra uses an elaborate system of six heatpipes to keep the card cool.


With the main cooler removed, we can see a secondary metal plate that provides cooling for the memory chips and VRM circuitry.


The backplate is made out of metal and protects the card against damage during handling and installation.

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