What to buy: a premium brand's RTX 2060 S vs a lesser known brand's RTX 2070 S ?

[r_tandon]

I am getting these two options at roughly the same price:

a)  A well known brand's 2060 Super (like Asus Stix or Gigabyte Auors)

b) Galax or Zotac's 2070 Super

 

Are Galax and Zotac good brands?

 

I am looking for performance and reliability.

[Likwid]

Just now, r_tandon said:

I am getting these two options at roughly the same price:

a)  A well known brand's 2060 Super (like Asus Stix or Gigabyte Auors)

b) Galax or Zotac's 2070 Super

 

Are Galax and Zotac good brands?

 

I am looking for performance and reliability.

2070 any day of the week, 2070 will always outperform 2060 

performance and reliability will be the same as other brands

[r_tandon]

3 minutes ago, Likwid said:

2070 any day of the week, 2070 will always outperform 2060 

performance and reliability will be the same as other brands

thanks for the reply

[boggy77]

2 minutes ago, r_tandon said:

thanks for the reply

it would help to give the exact models for a more informed reply, but I agree that in general, the worst 2070 is better than the best 2060

[Midnitewolf]

Well you have to consider each card has its own quirks and a "premium" well known brand's card can also fall flat on its face just as easily as a lesser known company.   That being said, I have used both Zotac and Galaxy, both of which have enough name recognition in the industry to not be considered generic in my eyes, and not had any issues.  I can't say they would always match up to the best of the best cards out there, but I don't think they are any worse off than low to mid-range offering by those "premium" companies you mention.

 

Also as others mention, a lower end 2070 Super will still out perform a premium 2060 Super so unless your questioning the reliability of the card, i.e. concerned about an actual failure, even if the 2070 Super performs at the lower end of the spectrum, it will still outperform the 2060 Super so my vote is for the 2070 Super.

[Sumolizer]

4 hours ago, r_tandon said:

I am getting these two options at roughly the same price:

a)  A well known brand's 2060 Super (like Asus Stix or Gigabyte Auors)

b) Galax or Zotac's 2070 Super

 

Are Galax and Zotac good brands?

 

I am looking for performance and reliability.

Every brand has its cheap and expensive offerings.

Like msi gives you number of options.

Their Highest tier is Gaming X 

and lowest is OC (Idk whats it called)

Asus has ROG as its Highest tier and Phoenix as its lowest.

So you can find cheap models of these brands also.

And Yes Go for a 2070

[redbread123]

just get FE for msrp smh, nvidia makes good founder editions for 20 series...

[xg32]

7 hours ago, r_tandon said:

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2070 all the way, this goes the same for any "step-up"s for the same price, "premium" 2060S vs base 2070S, "premium" 2070S vs base 2080S etc.

[Mister Woof]

I woudlnt call zotac or Galax unknown brands

 

 

[TheDankKoosh]

4 hours ago, Plutosaurus said:

I woudlnt call zotac or Galax unknown brands

 

 

zotac is almost always worse than the competing board partners from nvidia though, I will never suggest a zotac card to anyone unless it is significantly cheaper while still retaining a good warranty.

[Mister Woof]

7 minutes ago, TheDankKoosh said:

zotac is almost always worse than the competing board partners from nvidia though, I will never suggest a zotac card to anyone unless it is significantly cheaper while still retaining a good warranty.

maybe. In recent history, I have had two Zotac cards, one ASUS card, a few Gigabyte cards, some XFX cards, and several sapphire cards.

 

only one i had to RMA was the ASUS

[TheDankKoosh]

53 minutes ago, Plutosaurus said:

maybe. In recent history, I have had two Zotac cards, one ASUS card, a few Gigabyte cards, some XFX cards, and several sapphire cards.

 

only one i had to RMA was the ASUS

Did that ASUS product happen to be a lower end product? Basically anything that isn't a strix product from them is pretty bad, EVGA and Gigabyte typically have the most well balanced product stacks for nvidia, with sapphire and msi (most of the time) making good product stacks for amd

[Mister Woof]

10 minutes ago, TheDankKoosh said:

Did that ASUS product happen to be a lower end product? Basically anything that isn't a strix product from them is pretty bad, EVGA and Gigabyte typically have the most well balanced product stacks for nvidia, with sapphire and msi (most of the time) making good product stacks for amd

It was some RX 470 GAMING OC or something. Definitely not a high end gpu or trim.

 

It failed, was replaced with another failure, then they upgraded it to an RX 570 OC and that's been working for a few years in my son's PC.

 

The ZOTAC cards I got are decidedly low end, but have never been a problem. One was an old reference GTX 460, and the other is a Zotac 1060 3gb mini.