Hidden History: An early development version of Nvidia's 'GTX 2070” graphics card is exposed, and the RTX 2070 firmware can be flashed

According to news from this site on April 20, Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 was released on October 17, 2018, and the FE public version is priced at 4,999 yuan.

As shown in the picture posted by @unnatural__log, Nvidia did not expect to adopt the RTX naming scheme when it first developed the 20xx series of graphics cards, so this "GTX 2070" graphics card still inherits the traditional GTX prefix.

As shown in the picture, this "GTX 2070" graphics card has the same design as the RTX 2070 public version graphics card. It also uses dual downward pressure fans for heat dissipation and uses dual slots. The fan design is equipped with an integrated metal windshield and a faith light on the side. It provides HDMI, dual DP, USB-C VirtualLink and DVI output interfaces, using a standard 8pin connector.

In terms of parameters, this "GTX 2070" graphics card is based on the TU106-400A-A1 GPU. The device ID is "10DE-1F07 - 10DE-12AD", and the specifications are slightly different from the RTX 2070.

Compared to the RTX 2070 with 2304 CUDA cores, the GTX 2070 only has 2176 cores, which is more like the RTX 2060 Super core using the TU106-410-A1 GPU. This may mean that Nvidia is developing Halfway through, it was decentralized as the "RTX 2060 Super" solution, and then a higher-spec GPU was chosen to take the RTX 2070's place.

According to testing, this GTX 2070 can be flashed with the RTX 2070 "400A BIOS" firmware, but even if the BIOS is flashed, the device ID will not be changed and it will not be unlocked. More cores, but does unlock some extra features.

After manual overclocking, this GPU finally achieved about 95% of the performance of RTX 2070, which was also 16% higher than the default configuration. At this time, the frequency was far Much higher than the official "peak speed".

As far as this site knows, the NVIDIA Geforce RTX 20 series uses the new “Turing (pictured) It adopts "Ling" architecture and 12nm process, and supports "RT ray tracing" technology and AI technology. Among them, RTX 2070 has 8GB 256bit GDRR6 video memory onboard.

In addition to powerful configuration specifications, the biggest highlight of the "Turing" architecture is its support for "RT Ray Tracing", which can effectively accelerate the propagation of light in a three-dimensional environment and combine real-time ray tracing and artificial intelligence. Intelligent and programmable shading technology is integrated, processing light 25 times faster than Pascal architecture products, while using the GPU as a node processor to render the Final Frame effects nearly 30 times faster than using the CPU as a node. times, can bring more realistic and shocking light and shadow effects.

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