News Rare GeForce GTX 2070 engineering sample has surfaced — the unreleased GPU has 128 fewer CUDA cores than the RTX 2070

[Admin]

X user Jiacheng Liu got his hands on an early GeForce GTX 2070 engineering sample and benchmarked it.

Rare GeForce GTX 2070 engineering sample has surfaced — the unreleased GPU has 128 fewer CUDA cores than the RTX 2070 : Read more

 

[hotaru251]

Still say RTX was a mistake. It encouraged poor optimization and game devs relying on dlss and frame gen to be playable at decent rates.

 

[jlake3]

Maybe I'm just weird... but something kinda annoys me about the overclock effort?

You come into possession of an extremely rare prototype, and you decide to flash over the BIOS and solder resistors on to bypass the power limits and generally run the risk of something bad happening to it for... unclear reasons? I find it more interesting how the rare prototype runs in the rare prototype configuration, not how it runs once you've turned it into something else.

On one hand, I suppose it has the same core configuration as a 2060S and the cooler is likely interchangeable with the 2070 FE and collectable on it's own, so it wouldn't be the biggest loss to GPU enthusiasts if you damage it on accident... but on the other hand, if it has the same core configuration as the 2060S, what does this achieve? Between the age and uniqueness you're not gonna set a valid record and you're probably not gonna daily it.

 

[Vanderlindemedia]

Its an engineering sample; was not supposed to reach the public. Such cards are, give and take for what it's worth.

 

[ezst036]

Its a shame that this person did weird stuff to the card and did not keep the engineering sample BIOS and specifications.