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3DMark Fitrestrike
3DMark Firestrike shows that the Zotac RTX 2070 Mini once again pulls a lead on the Founders Edition card to the tune of 4%.
3DMark Time Spy
Time Spy is the newest 3DMark entry being a DX12 variant. The Zotac RTX 2070 Mini once again pulls a 4% lead in the graphics score. Not too bad when you consider the price and supposed frequency delta.
VRMark
VRMark has 3 levels, Easiest being Orange, then heavy being Cyan and insane mode being Blue.
Here we see the Zotac RTX 2070 Mini pulling 4% on the higher level Cyan and Blue tests. The Orange test the Zotac model is ahead but only by .33%.
Unigine Heaven 4.0 Pro
Heaven is a long time test ion our suite. It is from Unigine and pushes tessellation and some heavy GPU loading.
While Heaven may be aging, it once again validates what we have seen with a FPS gain over the founders edition of 5.68% for the Zotac RTX 2070 Mini.
Unigine Superposition Pro
Superposition is the newest benchmark from Unigine and is better aligned with testing the newer cards we are testing today.
Here with Unigine Superposition we see the Zotac RTX 2070 Mini pull 4.99% ahead (lets call it 5%) and this is really starting to look really good for the little Zotac that could.
It seems that the Zotac LAGS the reference card in every single chart?
Yes, it does at stock speeds. This is because as explained in the review the “reference” or “Founders Edition” is a pre-overclocked card whereas this GPU uses a non A-die GPU which Nvidia spec’s as not designed for out of teh box overclocked card models. As you can see from my overclock testing it overclocks just fine so, im not really sure what the non A designator reasoning is or if its lower yield and possibly may have some that do not overclock as well.
This allows Zotac to price the card competitively while still being able to overclock to meet and even exceed the overclock of the FE model.
I hope this helps clear things up.
Thanks for this review. I have a 280X Corsair case and I was looking for a 2070 card that wouldn’t take over my build. I have a Strix 570 card now and the dimensions are almost identicle between these 2 cards. This looks like the perfect option for performance and size.