[SOLVED] Is there a big difference between the RTX 2070 and the RTX 2070 Super?

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I am thinking about making a pc but I don´t know wich gpu to choose between the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER Gaming OC 3X White 8G wich retails at 583€ in my country, and the Zotac Geforce RTX 2070 Mini Twin Fan 8GB GDDR6 wich retails at 427€, or any other RTX 2070.
My doubt is if there is a big difference that should make me buy the 2070 super over any rtx 2070. The cpu I am going with is the amd ryzen 5 2700x.
 
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I have the Zotac RTX 2070 Mini that you wanted. I managed to overclock it to +165 Core and +1050 Memory. My friend with a GIGABYTE RTX 2070 Super Gaming 3X OC also overclocked his, and ran some benchmarks.

My GPU ended up beating his GPU and being in the 99th percentile of GPUs.

I would just go with the regular 2070 Mini and overclock it to save money in your case and to practically get a free Super upgrade, especially if you are gaming at 1080p60 or 1080p144. If you are 1440p60 or 1440p144, I would go for the 2070 Super.
I have the Zotac RTX 2070 Mini that you wanted. I managed to overclock it to +165 Core and +1050 Memory. My friend with a GIGABYTE RTX 2070 Super Gaming 3X OC also overclocked his, and ran some benchmarks.

My GPU ended up beating his GPU and being in the 99th percentile of GPUs.

I would just go with the regular 2070 Mini and overclock it to save money in your case and to practically get a free Super upgrade, especially if you are gaming at 1080p60 or 1080p144. If you are 1440p60 or 1440p144, I would go for the 2070 Super.
 
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The 2070 Super is about 13% faster than the 2070 non-super. But the price is about 37% higher. Not a good tradeoff in my opinion.

What is your monitor's resolution and refresh rate? And does it have FreeSync, GSync, or neither?
My monitor is Full HD 144Hz and has G-Sync and Free-Sync
 
I have the Zotac RTX 2070 Mini that you wanted. I managed to overclock it to +165 Core and +1050 Memory. My friend with a GIGABYTE RTX 2070 Super Gaming 3X OC also overclocked his, and ran some benchmarks.

My GPU ended up beating his GPU and being in the 99th percentile of GPUs.

I would just go with the regular 2070 Mini and overclock it to save money in your case and to practically get a free Super upgrade, especially if you are gaming at 1080p60 or 1080p144. If you are 1440p60 or 1440p144, I would go for the 2070 Super.
And what do I need to overclook it? Isn't it dangerous?
 
And what do I need to overclook it? Isn't it dangerous?
No. Turing cards have an auto OC feature in MSI Afterburner that give you a free performance boost. Let that run and it will overclock the card for you and tell you the most stable overclock.

Overclocking GPUs hasn't been dangeorus in years. If you do end up going too far with the OC, it will just lock up and reset it clocks, allowing you to try again. Just don't do anything to the voltage slider, put the power limit slider to max, leave the temperature limit slider as is and then click on the OC scanner button in Afterburner.

You'll have to overclock the memory yourself, jump in 100 MHz increments until it's not stable anymore. I managed to get my 2070 Mini at +1050 Memory OC stable.
 
No. Turing cards have an auto OC feature in MSI Afterburner that give you a free performance boost. Let that run and it will overclock the card for you and tell you the most stable overclock.

Overclocking GPUs hasn't been dangeorus in years. If you do end up going too far with the OC, it will just lock up and reset it clocks, allowing you to try again. Just don't do anything to the voltage slider, put the power limit slider to max, leave the temperature limit slider as is and then click on the OC scanner button in Afterburner.

You'll have to overclock the memory yourself, jump in 100 MHz increments until it's not stable anymore. I managed to get my 2070 Mini at +1050 Memory OC stable.
So I suppose even if the graphic cards are the same model and from the same brand, the overclock achieves different results or should i put +1050 memory like you did?