Zotac GeForce RTX 2070 Super AMP Extreme Review 20

Zotac GeForce RTX 2070 Super AMP Extreme Review

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The Card

Graphics Card Front
Graphics Card Back

Visually, the RTX 2070 Super AMP Extreme looks identical to the company's RTX 20760 non-Super AMP Extreme, which of course makes a lot of economical sense. On the back, you'll find a high-quality metal backplate. Dimensions of the card are 30.0 x 14.5 cm.

Graphics Card Height

Installation requires three slots in your system.

Monitor Outputs, Display Connectors

Display connectivity options include three standard DisplayPort 1.4a, and one HDMI 2.0b.

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.

Graphics Card Power Plugs

The board uses one 8-pin and one 6-pin power connector. This input configuration is specified for up to 300 watts of power draw.

Multi-GPU Area

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

Graphics Card Cooler Front
Graphics Card Cooler Back

Zotac's thermal solution uses five heatpipes.


Once the main heatsink is removed, a black metal baseplate becomes visible, which provides cooling for part of the VRM circuitry.


The metal backplate protects the card against damage during installation and handling.

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