INTRODUCTION

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   Graphics cards have really gone a long way, just imagine that in almost 10 years’ time alone the best gaming models have jumped from featuring just 1.5GB of GDDR5 memory to all the way up to a staggering 24GB GDDR6. Of course, even great strides have been achieved in GPU architecture since now cards are capable of hitting digital resolutions of up to 7680x4320p (compared to the 2560x1600p of 10 years ago) and carry numerous gaming enhancing technologies. The Palit GeForce 2070 Super JetStream that we have here with us today may only feature 8GB of GDDR6 but it’s among the best selling models of this line so it will be great to see just how it competes with the AORUS model we reviewed just one week ago.

   Established in 1988, Palit Microsystems Ltd. is well-known for manufacturing stable, excellent, and innovative electronics products. As one of the top PC components manufacturers, Palit continues to provide top-to-bottom graphics cards with stable and excellent quality to the world. With main operation in Taipei, logistic center in Hong Kong, factories in Mainland China, and branch office in Germany, Palit has developed a worldwide sales network and cooperated closely with our customers.

   Just like with the AORUS RTX 2070 Super model that we reviewed last week the GeForce RTX 2070 Super JetStream by Palit is based on a cut-down version of the Turing TU104 GPU (instead of the TU106) which is also found in the more powerful RTX 2080/2080 Super models. This GPU features a total of 2560 shader units, 40 RT cores, 184 texture units, 320 tensor cores, 13.6 Billion transistors and a total of 8GB GDDR6 memory (256-bit, 14Gbps with a bandwidth of 448GB/s) making the RTX 2070 Super one of the most powerful GPU's created to date. Also, just like the AORS RTX 2070 Super the RTX 2070 Super JetStream model sports an improved cooling system (dual-fans however this time) complete with RGB effects, rear backplate and a GPU boost factory overclock of 1815MHz (45MHz over the stock clocks).

 

 

SPECIFICATIONS AND FEATURES

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PACKAGING AND CONTENTS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The card arrived inside a black and green box with several lightnings printed at the front right over the available memory and features (the rear box picture was either deleted by mistake or never taken, can’t remember which).

 

 

Exactly like with the AORUS model the Jetstream card is also placed between two thick black foam spacers (a quick installation guide with the software CD is located at the top).

 

 

Along with the card, the quick installation guide and the software/driver CD you're also getting an 8-pin PCIe power adapter.

 

 

THE GEFORCE RTX 2070 SUPER JETSTREAM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once again, we’re dealing with a large, 3-slot card that measures 292mm in length, 130mm in width/height and 59.6mm in thickness.

 

 

For their JetStream model Palit has used a dual-fan heatpipe direct touch.

 

 

According to Palit the specially designed fan blades (paired with a more efficient 6-pole motor) produce lower noise with higher air pressure.

 

 

The JetStream logo is located at the top of the card (unfortunately however it’s not part of the already limited RGB lighting system).

 

 

At the rear end of the card we see the two 8-pin power connectors.

 

 

The rear is taken by a large aluminum backplate (the JetStream logo is also printed here) which not only protect the components of the PCB (and the PCB itself) it but also acts as a cooler for the PCB.

 

 

Moving at the front we find three DisplayPort v1.4a outputs and a single HDMI v2.0b output.

 

 

THUNDER MASTER SOFTWARE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The main screen of the Thunder Master control software by Palit shows you the current clocks, temperatures and fan speed (in percentages).

 

 

Of course, via the same software you can also adjust the color of the RGB lighting system.

 

 

Overclocking however is the primary reason for such utilities and so you can do that from here too (the OC scan button is useful if you want to overclock your card to its maximum but on one hand it does take a good amount of time to complete and on the other it’s not always stable).

 

 

The RTX 2070 Super JetStream model lands very far in terms of looks from the AORUS model which we tested last week.

 

 

TEST BED

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TESTING METHODOLOGY

 

   Since we'll be using our latest test rig with our graphics cards tests, we also moved to another screen (Philips BDM4037UW) in order to also offer 4k Ultra HD tests. Of course, 2160p (3840x2160p) is not the only resolution we'll be testing cards with, we are also going to be testing them at 1080p Full HD (1920x1080p) and 1440p (2560x1440p). Because far too many gamers own Ultra-Wide screens at first i also wanted to use our AOC AGON AG352UCG monitor in order to also have its resolution of 3440x1440p in our charts but since it's plugged into our other test rig several meters away from this one i really had to choose (and 4k seemed like the better choice). This time over we also updated the list of benchmarks/games to include the Time Spy benchmark by UL, Assassin's Creed Odyssey by Ubisoft, Devil May Cry 5 by Capcom, Dreadnought by Yager, GEARS 5 by The Coalition, Metro Exodus by 4A Games, Star Citizen by Cloud Imperium Games and The Outer Worlds by Obsidian Entertainment. As with the past power saving is disabled in the cards we’re testing (maximum performance) and all tests are repeated a total of 3 times and in a fresh Windows 10 Pro installation with all updates installed until the day of our review (same as all the games used). Room temperature is as usual controlled and steady at 23 degrees Celsius for all tests and to record the temperatures of the cards we used AIDA64 and GPU-Z. Recording noise levels is done with an ExTech HD600 dBA meter from a distance of no more than half a meter away (exterior of case) while power consumption is measured again using GPU-Z.

 

 

TEST RESULTS - 3DMARK TIMESPY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Time Spy was added in 3DMark back in 2016 with only 1 simple goal, to test the graphics of systems with Windows 10 and DirectX 12. Time Spy was used at default settings.

 

TEST RESULTS - ASSASSINS CREED ODYSSEY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assassin's Creed Odyssey is an action role-playing video game set in the year 431 BC and the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta and is based on the AnvilNext engine. For our tests we use the built-in benchmark of the game with FPS limit off, V-Sync off and the graphics set at high quality (because Assassins Creed Odyssey auto-detects your graphics card and sets settings accordingly the same graphics quality needs to be set manually every time).

 

TEST RESULTS - BORDERLANDS 3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Borderlands 3 is an action role-playing first-person shooter video game released back in late 2019 and is powered by Unreal Engine 4. Borderlands 3 has a very basic built-in benchmark which we set at DirectX 12 with unlimited frame rate and overall quality set to High.

 

TEST RESULTS - DEVIL MAY CRY 5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Devil May Cry 5 is an action-adventure hack and slash video game released in March 2019 and is based on the RE Engine like other titles by Capcom. Devil May Cry 5 doesn't feature his very own built-in benchmark so for that purpose we're using the latest version of Rivatuner Statistics Server with V-Sync Off, variable frame rate and all graphics settings set at High.

 

TEST RESULTS - DREADNOUGHT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dreadnought is a combat flight simulation game was released for the PC in late 2018 and is the 3rd game in our tests based on the Unreal Engine 4. Dreadnought used to come with its own built-in benchmark but since that was removed, we decided to use Rivatuner Statistics Server with V-Sync off and graphics set to High.

 

TEST RESULTS - GEARS 5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gears 5 is a third-person shooter video game released back in mid-2019 and is powered by Unreal Engine 4 just like Borderlands 3. Gears 5 features a very convenient (not to mention fast) built-in benchmark which we use with V-Sync off, unlimited frame rate (none for minimum) and Ultra graphics quality.

 

TEST RESULTS - METRO EXODUS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Metro Exodus is a first-person shooter video game released in 2019 and is based on the 4A Engine. The latest game in the Metro series also features its very own benchmark utility which we set at DirectX 12 and Ultra graphics quality (we're also running RTX tests with NVIDIA graphics cards with that setting set at Ultra).

 

TEST RESULTS - STAR CITIZEN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Star Citizen is an upcoming multiplayer space trading and combat game the main development of which started back in 2012 and is currently based on the Lumberyard game engine. Not only does Star Citizen come without any built-in benchmark (or utility) but it’s still in Alpha status meaning that this is not the most stable game title to use for our benchmarks (numerous graphics optimisations are expected between now and launch day). Still we wanted to have it in our charts for anyone interested and so we did by using Rivatuner Statistics Server with V-Sync turned off and the graphics set at High.

 

TEST RESULTS - THE OUTER WORLDS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Outer Worlds is an action role-playing game released back in late 2019 and is also based on the Unreal Engine 4. The Outer Worlds is yet another title we had to use Rivatuner Statistics Server with V-Sync off, unlimited frame rate and graphics set at Very High.

 

TEST RESULTS - OVERCLOCKING

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This time offer we managed to push the RTX 2070 Super JetStream 89MHz on the core and 250MHz on the memories with very satisfying results as you can see from the following charts (all the other cards in the charts are also overclocked).

 

TEST RESULTS - POWER CONSUMPTION / TEMPERATURES / NOISE LEVELS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONCLUSION

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   Two factory overclocked cards based on the exact same GPU can never be that far apart in performance so both the AORUS and JetStream models trading blows in our charts was somewhat expected. Of course, that excludes our overclocking results since the RTX 2070 Super JetStream ended up being a better overclocker than the AORUS model reviewed a few days back. On top of that the JetStream model used less power (max reading) during our tests compared to the AORUS model something which probably has to do with the “weaker” factory overclocked GPU boost clock and of course the dual-fan system (the AORUS has a tri-fan system). However, if you do care about looks (especially if your rig is filled with RGB lights) the JetStream model simply can’t compete with the AORUS model so some of you should also keep that in mind.

   At the time of this review the GeForce RTX 2070 JetStream graphics card by Palit retails for 574Euros inside the EU (Amazon.co.uk) a price tag which is actually right on par with many other RTX 2070 Super models in the market (and perhaps a bit on the low end). Bottom line if performance is the only thing you care about and you also plan on doing some basic overclocking the RTX 2070 Super JetStream by Palit could be the card for you and even though it does fail to impress in the looks department it’s still worth our Golden Award.

PROS

- Build Quality (Backplate / 6 Pole Motors)
- Very Good Performance
- Factory Overclock
- Good Overclocking Headroom
- Supported Technologies (Real Time Ray Tracing & Deep Learning Super Sampling)

CONS

- Price (For Some)
- Size (3 Slot Card)