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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Zhiye Liu

Rare GeForce GTX 2070 engineering sample has surfaced — the unreleased GPU has 128 fewer CUDA cores than the RTX 2070

GeForce GTX 2070.

The GeForce RTX 2070 used to be one of the best graphics cards. Many don't know that it was internally known as the GeForce GTX 2070 before Nvidia adopted the RTX branding for products with RT cores while keeping the GTX moniker for those lacking them. X user Jiacheng Liu has shared his experience with one of these rare engineering samples.

The GeForce GTX 2070 Founders Edition looks almost identical to the GeForce RTX 2070 Founders Edition. The main difference is that the former carries the GeForce GTX branding on the side of the graphics card, hinting that it's an early engineering sample before the transition to the RTX branding. The GeForce GTX 2070 uses the same TU106-400A-A1 silicon as the GeForce RTX 2070, but the CUDA core count differs.

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