Introduction

Today, we review the EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 Super KO, EVGA's most affordable RTX 2070 Super graphics card priced at $499. However, EVGA already had a $499 RTX 2070 Super, the RTX 2070 Super Black, which just like the KO sticks to NVIDIA-reference clock speeds, lacks a backplate, and offers idle fan stop to one-up NVIDIA's Founders Edition card. So where did the KO come from?

The story begins with the Radeon RX 5600 XT. Through a last-minute specs update, AMD managed to get its $279 RX 5600 XT to launch with performance matching the then $349 GeForce RTX 2060. This turned up the heat on NVIDIA, and they decided to allow a design that uses a cost-efficient GTX 1660 Ti PCB paired with the RTX 2060 GPU. That product was the $299 EVGA RTX 2060 KO, a resurrection of the KO brand extension which was able to thwart the RX 5600 XT wherever it was available, so EVGA's designers could save the day for NVIDIA and go home for a pint. However, EVGA didn't rest. Earlier this month, it launched the GeForce GTX 2070 Super and RTX 2080 Super KO graphics cards, which raised our eyebrows.

The EVGA RTX 2070 Super KO we have with us launches at $510 officially, with an instant online discount that makes it a $499 product. The EVGA RTX 2070 Super Black, which was until now being sold at a "discounted" $499, is back to its original $510 online price. What does the $10 account for? All that sets the KO apart from the Black is the lack of the USB type-C VirtualLink connector on the KO. That's it.



NVIDIA designed the GeForce RTX 2070 Super to be the gateway to its high-end graphics segment. Based on the 12 nm "TU104" silicon, it features 2,560 TMUs, 160 TMUs, 64 ROPs, and a 256-bit wide GDDR6 memory interface holding 8 GB of memory that ticks at 14 Gbps. The GPU runs at up to 1770 MHz GPU Boost and 1605 MHz nominal, which are the same speeds the EVGA KO ships with. Among its display connectors are three DisplayPorts and one HDMI. In this review, we take the RTX 2070 Super KO for a spin to find out if you need to spend any more than $499 to knock high-resolution AAA gaming out.