The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 is an upper mid-range Turing architecture consumer GPU, launched in October 2018. It brought RTX features to a more accessible price point than the RTX 2080 and 2080 Ti.
The RTX 2070 uses the TU106 die with 8GB of GDDR6 memory providing 448 GB/s bandwidth. It includes 2,304 CUDA cores, 288 first-generation Tensor Cores, and 36 first-generation RT cores. TDP is 185W.
The RTX 2070 provided performance comparable to the GTX 1080 Ti in traditional rasterization while adding ray tracing and DLSS capabilities. This made flagship-class performance from the previous generation accessible at the upper mid-range tier.
First-generation RT cores provide hardware ray tracing support, though performance in ray-traced titles was limited at this tier. The RTX 2070 was succeeded by the significantly improved RTX 2070 Super in the mid-cycle refresh.