I wanted to make sure I waiting for a while before I submitted a review due to the concern of artifacting. I have had my card for about 3 months and I have zero issues. I have been very happy with my purchase.

I decided to go with the Ultra model because I was interested in overclocking as well as hoping to have a better shot at the digital lottery for the chip set. It comes out of the box with a clock speed of 1725 MHz, and with minor use of the EVGA Precision X1 software I was able to get it to 1975 MHz. The oversize heat sink looks massive in my case, but it keep my card at some pretty reasonable temps while I play games at around 60 C with the fans at only around 50% speed and when I am just web browsing it sits at about 43 C with no fans going which is nice for the noise level. Games I play are Forza Horizon 4, Sea of Thieves, Anthem, WoW, and Fallout 4. Every game is performing at the top or near top settings and are playing great on my 27 inch 2k monitor at 1440p. Finally RGB lights, which shouldn't effect your buying decision, but dang they are fun as well as look good.

I do have some downsides to this card.
Thickness: This card is massive taking up 3 card slots, which is something I knew ahead of time. But if you need all 3 PSI slots on your motherboard you might want the slimmer version.
RTX Format: As of right now there isn't much that can take advantage of this technology and the hit it takes on your fps is kind of disappointing. I am hoping that RTX gets better overtime.
Price: I picked up this card at $570 sale which was somewhat nice since it helped offset the cost of tax that I would have paid if I paid full retail price. Otherwise if you don't want RTX (or RGB lights I guess) then you might be better off looking for a 1080 card.

All in all I am very happy with my card and it was a drastic upgrade from my 1050 Ti EVGA card. I hope this review helps someone else with buying this card.

I purchased this EVGA RTX2070 for my son's birthday - he's an avid gamer. He previously had an AMD R270 that was purchased 4+ years ago which was underpowered for current/recent games he would host. I researched various video card reviews. The early reviews (when this RTX card was initially was released in 2018) cast shade on the RTX series stating they are overpriced and that Ray Tracing is hyped. Ray Tracing is coming on now and will be more prominent in games. And, leaving Ray Tracing aside for those games that don't support it, this is still a powerful/quality video card. I wanted to purchase something built for the future with a good warranty. I choose EVGA due to their warranty and good support and product quality reputation. My son currently games at 1080p, says he can have all the visual goodies maxed out on various recent games. (NOTE / PERSPECTIVE: My son is not big on first person shooters anymore, just occasional FPS use, he's more into strategy games. I don't game anymore, I used to in a different life. : ) This 2070 card will support WQHD (1440p) gaming quite well. From the reviews I have read, at resolutions above1440p (i.e. 4K gaming) the RTX2070 performance is nominal, just enough/adequate. However, 4K gaming is nothing my son is interesting in. Now before I get a mountain of opinions, I will say for my son's needs and purposes this card is excellent. No hassles, no artifacts, high quality, high framerates. He is in happy hog heaven. The experience delivered to him is more than enough for his purposes. This will most likely meet his needs for at least 2 - 3 years. P.S. We are brand agnostic. My main PC has an AMD card in it and I would and will buy AMD again if it's the solution for my purposes. The AMD CPU releases are currently on fire. I will say my son was relieved - or it was a plus to him - to receive an nVidia card.

Only minor complaint: It would have been nice to have video cable or two included. We had to get in the car and drive to local Best Buy to purchase a Display Port cable. (I own a mountain of HDMI, VGA and DVI cables but have not needed DP yet and son's current Dell monitor doesn't support HDMI.) The new WQHD monitor he may get for Xmas will certainly support HDMI). Other than that, no complaints. I suppose unless you buy the uber deluxe cards you don't get a cable bundle.

P.P.S. DRIVER ANECDOTE: Son's PC has Windows 10 OS. I had cautioned him to first disinstall the AMD video card drivers from his older hardware he was leaving behind before powering down and then advised to replace with a fresh download of latest nVidia drivers. (I was also willing to burn a disk of latest nVidia drivers for him). He waved off, didn't do that. I was expecting problems from this. But No! He boots PC up with new nVidia RTX 2070 card. It was flawless! He was able to begin using his setup immediately. The "native" nVidia drivers supplied in Windows 10 gave him a no drama experience and he could start using the PC and begin gaming. I was kind of surprised. In the "old days" that was a guaranteed recipe for problems. Your Mileage May Vary but that's what we experienced. I still encouraged him to obtain the nVidia site drivers "to be sure" but for now, things are fine.

I'll jump right in. The RTX line is marketed as having distinct cores for both ray-tracing and artificial intelligence. This is a great design element. However- contrary to Nvidia's CEO- this functionality is not merely "turned on" at a whim. Game developers must use the new tools provided to them by both Nvidia and Microsoft to make full use of the Turing architecture. At the same time, they still must keep their games performant across as many devices as possible. Remember, hardly anyone has an RTX card. There's little incentive for game developers to rapidly adopt a potentially locked-down and proprietary technology. Nvidia may be forced to make their tools more open and transparent in the distant future if they wish to remain competitive.

Therein lies the problem. There are very few current titles that utilize their RTX and DLSS cards, and the ones that do aren't necessarily stable. In 10 minutes of research you may read about Battlefield V's limited and quirky support for ray-tracing. Owning this card will allow you to run ray-tracing on 'low' in BFV. Yes: 'low' is the recommended setting for a $500+ retail card with both a 2050 and 2060 lined up for future release. I gave ray-tracing a go and while it looks O.K (yep, just O.K) a cataclysmic decrease in frame-rate manifested. This functionality is not ready for prime-time: period. Here's how 2018 should have ended in a better timeline:

* Nvidia should have kept Turing in development for another 8-12 months, working closely with game developers on current and future titles to fully utilize their new APIs and toolset
* Nvidia should have maintained production of the Pascal series, which is a wonderful, versatile architecture and arguably their best work to date
* EA should not have rushed their flagship RTX game BFV, which has manifested as negative marketing for Nvidia

Alas, Turing cards were released prematurely. Hardly any games fully use their functionality and Nvidia's brass runs the company like Google and Apple now- aiming for ever increasing profits with little to no risk. Reality has bit them hard.

By the time RTX is "optimal" and developers have been caught up to speed, there may be a new series of graphics cards available for greater consumption. This includes cards produced by AMD, which has staged a comeback in the graphics arena. For this reason, if you're interested try to get an RTX on sale.

With that said, performance of my RTX 2070 is solid. It's a respectable card. It can keep BFV (no RTX) with my GSYNC monitor at a stable framerate between 80 - 100 fps. Older games work fabulously. The card is a bit large; make sure you have the clearance. The various models listed here are mostly differentiated by the size of the heatsink. There is some silicon binning going on but it is unclear how much that matters for this particular lineup; the heatsink is the primary differentiator. I would only grab RTX cards on sale at the moment, especially considering AMD is staged to release a new card sometime this year. Temperatures are somewhat hot but fairly reasonable. I'm seeing 60-68 degrees C under load during extended BFV multiplayer. Airflow is paramount with these cards as they critically rely on the heatsink, and the default fan curves tend to be very modest (to both reduce noise and prolong lifespan).

TLDR
* Good card overall, but marketed technology is not ready for showtime. Hardly any games fully utilize the architecture of distinct RT and AI cores. Current RT support is wonky and underwhelming. Consider picking up on sale.
* Runs hot relative to Pascal. Avoid packing in a small and/or poor airflow case. Tweak fan curves (for both card and case) as needed.
* Large. Make sure you have the space.

** Update 12/7/2018 **
I've been using this graphics card for almost a month. I've paired it with a 24" G-SYNC Dell S2417DG monitor. For gaming, I've used it mostly for Black Ops 4. I can run it on the highest video settings in 2560x1440dpi at about 100-110fps, but I tone down some of the graphics settings to High vs. Very High for a little better performance. The fps drops down to perhaps 80 at times when a lot of action is happening, but it's for a a second or two and varies depending on which weapon or character is being used. I like running at the higher dpi for browsing, looking at photos, etc. and this video card handles rending everything quickly. Overall, I am happy with my purchase and didn't want to spend any more money than this on a video card. I'm not sure if the ray tracing feature will make much difference and it didn't factor into my decision much, but I look forward to trying it on upcoming games whenever possible.
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I upgraded from a GTX 760. Reading text and YouTube reviews, this card specs out similar to a 1080 at around the same price (for the Ultra model, even less for black edition). Though it has less cuda cores than the 1080, it has a faster memory architecture which makes up the speed difference.
The card didn't seem as massive in my system as the reviews make it out to be. My tower case fits it just fine with room left to spare. My 620 watt power supply is sufficient.
The cooling system is well engineered and I don't hear the card fans at all even when gaming (playing Black Ops 4 lately). The two fans don't run much while you are not using it for gaming. I initially wondered if the fan system was broken when I first put it in with the case side cover off to check on it. :)
Overall, this card is a good alternative to the 1080 which will probably be phased out and still seems somewhat scarce on Amazon. The 1080ti would be nice, but I didn't want to pay $800-900 for a bit more performance.
Get yourself a higher performance monitor with a DisplayPort connector to match this video card power. HDMI caps out at around 75hz. This card can technically go up to 240hz with a DP connector. A better monitor is my next purchase.

I will start out by saying I am not the best person to review, I don't have tons of experience with other different cards. What I can say about this card is that so far it has met all of my expectations.

My first card that I purchased for my current computer was an rtx 2060 black from EVGA. I didn't do any research before I purchased it, I just saw it had a fair price and claimed to operate rather silently. It didn't. It was loud, and warm, resulting in dropped clocks (76 degrees during heavy load). This was probably a result of the one fan design, despite the rather large heat sink. For some people, the loud fans probably wouldn't be an issue, but with nearly everything else silent on my rig I found it to be annoying. It performed okay, it was just too loud, and from what I have seen a lot of the rtx 2060s run pretty warm resulting in increased fan use (noise). I was even considering liquid cooling the 2060 just to get temps, and therefore noise, down, but decided to instead return the card and get a card with good thermals to begin with.

Having not been satisfied, I checked reviews for the different 2070 models. After seeing that this was a no-frills card that managed to keep rather low temps, I was on board. At first, after installing, I was worried when I saw it idling at around 48 to 50 degrees, and I thought that furmark would push it up to 90. Nope, this gpu has fans that are completely off at idle, which is why it runs a little warmer than normal. This means no noise at all from the gpu"¦ and you can even set a custom fan curve to have it run cool at idle if you wish. Idle temps don't really bother me. I shouldn't have worried about furmark, because the curve topped out at 65 degrees with silent case fans (noctua), and with a custom (still nearly silent) case fan setup I dropped a further 3 degrees to 62. These temps are with a front mounted radiator, by the way. Also, this was with a +200 on the core, +800 memory, 114% power limit, and 88 temp limit. That blew my rtx 2060 out of the water, and because the temps stay low this card boosted rather high and rarely dropped clocks during heavy gaming.

Now, for the important stuff. I play some games 2k, some 4k, depending on the game. 2k this card is a winner. 4k I have run some older games at max or extremely high settings (Killing Floor 2 runs buttery smooth, so does GTA V). I don't have any newer games to test at 4k so I can't say how well this card does, but I'd assume that with concessions in your graphics configurations you could get a lot of them going well. I have a 4k monitor that runs at only 60hz refresh, so your mileage may vary. I find 60hz to be fine for casual gaming, but some people don't. I don't play many first person shooters so I don't need high refresh as much as I appreciate greater visual fidelity.

In any case, as I have seen reviews that this card may fail after a while, I may update this review. If I don't, awesome, this card rocks, and they have worked out their issues. For now, however, I am enjoying my new graphics card, and it is definitely worth the money. I would recommend it to anyone looking for a good budget (at 500 dollars, it can be 100 or 200 cheaper than other rtx 2070s so I suppose that fits) rtx 2070 for their build. Great thermals, noise, and performance.