NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super
The Turing refresh that made 8 GB Turing genuinely fast. ~70-90 tok/s on 7B Q4 with ExLlamaV2. Same 8 GB ceiling as the base 2070 but more compute. Strong used-market value in 2026.
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Sub-scores sum to 456 / 1000. Headline = 456 × 0.70 (Estimated-confidence discount) = 319. This is an algorithmic performance-tier score — distinct from, and often lower than, the editorial “Our verdict” below, which weighs value and real-world fit (especially for hardware we haven’t measured yet). How scoring works →
Extrapolated from 448 GB/s bandwidth — 53.8 tok/s estimated. No measured benchmarks yet.
Plain-English: Comfortable for 7B chat.
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This card is for the operator who wants to run 7B models at high speed on a budget, and is willing to accept the 8 GB VRAM ceiling. It handles 7B Q4 models at 70-90 tok/s with ExLlamaV2, and can run 13B Q4 models at 30-40 tok/s with aggressive quantization. The 8 GB limit breaks on 30B+ models, and even 13B models require careful quantization to fit. Pass if you need to run 34B+ models or want headroom for larger context windows. At ~$280 used, it's a strong value for fast 7B inference, but consider an RTX 3060 12 GB if VRAM is the priority.
›Why this rating
The RTX 2070 Super offers excellent tok/s for 7B models at a low used price, but the 8 GB VRAM is a hard limit for larger models. It earns a 7.5 for its strong price-to-performance ratio in its niche, but loses points for limited future-proofing.
Overview
The Turing refresh that made 8 GB Turing genuinely fast. ~70-90 tok/s on 7B Q4 with ExLlamaV2. Same 8 GB ceiling as the base 2070 but more compute. Strong used-market value in 2026.
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Specs
| VRAM | 8 GB |
| Power draw (peak) | 215 W |
| Released | 2019 |
| MSRP | $499 |
| Backends | CUDA Vulkan |
Models that fit
Open-weight models small enough to run on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super with usable context.
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