NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 OpenCL, CUDA, TensorFlow GPU Compute Benchmarks

With these compute benchmarks, of the graphics cards I had available for testing, the EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 XC GAMING at $549 USD was generally delivering the best value. Particularly in the TensorFlow tests at FP16, the RTX 2070 delivered incredible value. The value proposition of the RTX 2070 is less for gaming, but for compute workloads thanks to the tensor cores, the RTX 2070 packs quite a punch.

Pardon for this terse article due to having the EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 XC GAMING for less than one complete day so far... But from these initial numbers the GeForce RTX 2070 is quite a strong performer for GPU compute workloads. In many of the OpenCL/CUDA benchmarks and especially with TensorFlow at FP16, the GeForce RTX 2070 tended to outperform the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti. In the other scenarios, the RTX 2070 was coming up shy of the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti but still performing well and generally 80~90% faster than the GTX 1070 for these compute workloads.

The impressive compute performance of the GeForce RTX 2070 carried through to also delivering a nice improvement in the performance-per-Watt under most of the tested workloads. While the GeForce RTX 2070 price is a bit steep with the models hitting $549~599+, even at $549 as was the cost of the EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 XC GAMING, it still ended up delivering the best performance-per-dollar in many of the compute benchmarks carried out.

Keep in mind the Linux gaming benchmarks for the GeForce RTX 2070 are still being done but they and other tests will be published in the coming days. As a friendly reminder, if you enjoyed this initial GeForce RTX 2070 Linux testing and enjoy my daily Linux hardware reviews/benchmarks and more, consider supporting the work by joining Phoronix Premium or making a PayPal tip or at the very least to not be using any ad-blocker when accessing Phoronix. Your support is especially appreciated in cases like this for having to purchase the hardware retail. Thanks and stay tuned for the GeForce RTX 2070 Linux gaming benchmarks within the next few days.

Update: Some additional NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 standalone compute benchmark results are available via this OpenBenchmarking.org result file for your own comparison purposes or reference viewing pleasure.