KFA2 GeForce RTX 2070 EX in review - Price disanotomy doesn't have to be cheap, but quiet and cool | igorsLAB | Page 5

The opposite of expensive does not always have to be cheap. In fact, it would also be inexpensive. This is exactly what KFA2 must have thought when the GeForce RTX 2070 EX was designed. Many things were taken over here from the larger KFA2 cards and also the cooler has a decent portiönchen hip bacon, so that nothing burns. I take a closer look at this...

Temperature gradients and boost clock in detail

The cooler does its name well and keeps the card quite cool. After all, only 63°C in open construction and a maximum of 65° in the closed housing are now nothing that would have to scare you. The moderate Power Target ex works and the potent cooler ensure that the clock plays along quite well and Boost compensates for exactly what other "OC" cards have to bend by force at the socket. The Founders Edition as an OC card is therefore no better, on the contrary. Only more expensive.

And now the whole thing again in sober numbers in table form:

	Initial KFA2 RTX 2070 Ex	Final value KFA2 RTX 2070 Ex	Final value GeForce RTX 2070 Founders Edition
Open Benchtable
GPU Temperatures	37 °C	63 °C	76°C
GPU clock	1830 MHz	1740 MHz	1665 MHz
Ambient temperature	22 °C	22 °C	22°C
Closed Case
GPU Temperatures	37 °C	65 °C	77°C
GPU clock	1815 MHz	1710/1725 MHz	1635 MHz
Air temperature in the housing	25°C	41°C	42°C

Board Analysis: Infrared Images

The following image gallery shows all infrared images for the gaming and the torture loop in the open structure and in the closed case. The differences are visible, but the cooler is still really confident, because it's not so much hotter in the end. Problem zones? I don't see any. You can hardly do it better, 180 watts back and forth.