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

1 - Unboxing, Daten, Testsystem 2 - Teardown und Analyse 3 - Benchmarks und OC 4 - Leistungsaufnahme im Detail 5 - Temperatur, Takt, Infrarot 6 - Lüfter und Lautstärke 7 - Zusammenfassung

Summary

In a nutshell: decent card at a fair price and almost nothing to complain about. This is relatively rare, because something is always, but with the KFA2 GeForce RTX 2070 it fits easily. Nice, some things are cost-down, but things like a second BIOS or a non-RGB-illuminated backplate will be easy to hurt. Many others do not have that either.

The board layout dispenses with the expensive Smart Power Stages, which is even quite clever, because the separate MOSFETs for the high and low sides triple the area to be cooled, the heat density is reduced dramatically and the whole part remains simple in the end Cooler.

The look fits, the performance also. Seen in this way, this card is a very good alternative to Nvidia's Founders Edition and more than just a low-cost entry-level card. You can live with it very comfortably, even if it is not the image bomb par excellence. But it's a solid product that does exactly what you paid for.

I quickly summarize what I wrote in detail on the last pages, because the reader always needs a little reminder. And for the typical first-last-page readers, I would even have the hidden hint that it is well worth reading the rest in between. It's more interesting than you might think 😉

Conclusion

With the 499 Euro RRP, KFA2 has put down a fragrance brand that at least one online shop has already followed. For a card that is actually always faster than a GeForce GTX 1080 and moves more in the direction of GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FE in terms of performance with OC, this price is almost balm on the damaged gamer's soul. Even if the offer is, for example, The rather simple KFA2 RTX 2070 EX does not have to hide well over 100 euros below that for an Asus OC card.

The cooler cools as if there was no tomorrow, the storage is almost to be described as a cold buffet and a pretentious vacuum cleaner is not bought either. So it's perfectly prepared, despite Nvidia RTX on the carton. So it's going to be slow with the prices, it has to be easy, even if some other companies haven't quite reflected on this state of knowledge. And that with the non-A chips… If the cooler only cools well enough, it works with Boost & Co.

You won't skip the 2 GHz mark, but the last step is always the most expensive and inefficient. Because of perhaps 2% more performance, you don't have to smash the socket or the ears. What can still be achieved here with a little OC is enough. The misconception that it can be promoted to the next higher performance class by manual OC alone at no additional cost is pure nonsense. Here comes reason. In colorful and quiet. You can buy (but you don't have to if you belong to the bling bling gang).