Best RTX 2070 Super Graphics Card 2022 – The Ultimate Buying Guide

Nvidia claims up to a 24% performance improvement when compared to the RTX 2070, but this is a bit exaggerated. In real-world gaming scenarios in the highest-end games, though, these gains are more marginal– typically in the range of 10 or so FPS.

Unlike with the 2060 Super, which trades blows with the original 2070, this card does not leap up a tier and mostly just provides marginal improvements. That isn’t a bad thing, though– especially since it’s actually cheaper than the original 2070 was at launch.

If you’re tempted to just buy an RTX 2070, we have bad news: that option is rapidly disappearing.

Once the current RTX 2070 and RTX 2080 stocks deplete, those cards will be permanently replaced by their Super versions, which each provide small performance boosts. If you do search for an RTX 2070, make sure it costs significantly less than the Super’s $499 MSRP if you want to get a good bang for your money.

(You can also just consider the RTX 2060 Super instead, which is brand new and already up to $100 cheaper.)

The RTX 2070 Super is built to play 1440p games at high-to-max settings and 100+ FPS, but some games may require settings drops to maintain 60.

For native 4K gaming, anywhere from 40-50 FPS can be achieved with high-to-max settings, but this can also be reduced to 30 in the most extreme scenarios. We recommend using resolution scaling and lowering extraneous settings for gaming at 4K with this GPU… and in general.

As far as 1080p gaming and VR goes, these are both scenarios where the RTX 2070 Super boasts more than enough power to succeed. In 1080p, though, you’ve reached the point where you are much more likely to be CPU-bound than GPU-bound, so make sure you have a powerful enough CPU if your goal is high refresh (144 Hz+) gaming.

A note on clock speeds

Each of these cards ship with differing clock speeds based on the factory overclock provided by the manufacturer.

While it’s true that overclocking will increase performance, fundamentally-speaking, these are all the same GPU chip. Don’t expect massive performance gaps between different versions of the RTX 2070 Super based on their factory clocks– the main utility of a high factory OC is saving you the trouble of overclocking the card yourself.

If you want the best experience with minimal tweaking, opt for higher factory OCs. If you’re comfortable with an OC program, though, don’t base your purchasing decision on this metric.