Gigabyte Geforce RTX 2070 Gaming OC White Review

Power Consumption, Temperatures & Acoustics

Power Consumption

While this isn’t the highest clocked RTX card out there, the flip side of that is that it’s pretty forgiving on the electricity bill too. It only uses around the same power as a GTX 1080, but still delivers much-improved performance over the previous generation.

Temperatures

The cooler isn’t particularly high-end on this graphics card, but it’s not exactly slacking either. The card was well within the usual limits for this chipset and showed no real signs of throttling in our testing.

Acoustics

Surprisingly, it’s also one of the quieter cards on the charts. Since it’s not overclocked as high at the other RTX 2070 cards, it’s less hot, the fans don’t need to be as big, or spin as fast. With that in mind, you could easily bump up the fan curve for better cooling and you might squeeze out an extra frame or two here and there… so let’s do just that!

Overclocking

It’s unlikely that these cards are as thoroughly pre-binned like the higher end Xtreme models would be, so your overclocking mileage will vary as usual. However, we managed to get some big performance improvements with some fairly simple overclock. +160 MHz on the Boost Clock, and a whopping +600 MHz on the memory. This dead require me to increase the fan profile to keep things cool, but overall, no stability issues. The performance in Tomb Raider was impressive, with only minimal increases in power, temperature, and acoustics.