GALAX GeForce RTX 2070 Super HOF AE review - Conclusion

Final words and verdict

Congratulations go out to Galax for their 10th-anniversary branding, the GALAX GeForce RTX 2070 Super HOF White Anniversary edition certainly shines bright 'n white. The card truly is a love version running often running towards the RTX 2080 in terms of performance, all thanks to the factory tweak and the 15.5 Gbps graphics memory. Admittedly you do need to have a white themed PC in some form of way to be able to implement an all-white product, then again the nicely implemented RGB setup work nicely as well as it can bring in a little extra variation. Overall it is a solid design with accompanying looks. Overall the card runs 5 to 10% compared to the reference 2070 Super performance. When tweaked you even pass that 10% range. The GeForce RTX 2070 Super, on its end, offers a nice increase in perf over the non-Super model thanks to the added 256 shader processors resulting in 2560 of them for which NVIDIA needed the TU104. Here, however, the memory stays at 8GB and thus the ROP count remains the same as well as many other variables. However, the new clock frequencies do give it an advantage over, say, even a GTX 1080 Ti and closer to the RTX 2080, which is an interesting performance level. 

Aesthetics

The card has an overall white look, and that sits many PCs though admittedly, you probably need to have some sort of white theme going on. The top side logo and middle ring fan have configurable RGB going on, and yes it works well for this card. Overall all White is a little much, but once RGB kicks in, it's just a really nice card to see,  looks are always personal, of course, and thus that is a subjective matter. So in the end, on looks, you certainly get that premium feel of detailed aesthetics and quality.

Cooling & Noise Levels

The card tops out at roughly 66 Degrees C while gaming and that is just really good. Not bad at all eh?, the acoustics I'd rate as reasonably silent, you can, however, hear a bit of airflow hitting the aluminum fins. One thing we need to mention, we've did not hear noticeable coil whine. Any graphics card at a high-enough FPS can make some coil-whine, here however it was really apparent. If you are bothered by that, this card might not be for you. 

Overclocking

Anything and everything is regulated by NVIDIA these days. Speaking, in general, you can expect another 5 to 10% of extra perf out of both cards when you bump up the graphics memory and GPU a bit. That it is, however, paired with an increased board power limiter and, as such, that will cost a bit more energy. Both traditional overclocking, as well as the OC Scanner functions, bring us close to that value. In retrospect though, you have to remember, that the 'older' RTX models could also be tweaked to 15.5 to 16 Gbps on that GDDR6 memory, however, this model advances from that a bit more. Our +100 MHz on the base clock resulted in the product Boosting in the 2000~2050 MHz range.

Concluding

The HOF Aniversary edition RTX 2070 Super is a downright lovely card and you'll be hard-pressed to even find this card anywhere. It is a limited production run. The base design is excellent, however, and I have to mention this, you need to see this card when it is powered on, the RGB is really cool. Added benefits are the extra LCD screen and of course the sweet factory clocks on both GPU and graphics memory. To feed that LCD screen data you'll need to have the Galax software suite activated though. it is, however, a nice silly little extra that brings in that premium feel. You'd almost forget it, but this was one of the fastest RTX 2070S models we have been able to test. Cooler wise we cannot complain, sure it's not 'as silent' as some competitors, but it certainly is more than silent enough. The 66 Degrees C load values are fine as well. The out of the box tweaked perf as mentioned is excellent which can bring you a 5% to 10% advantage over reference depending on the game title. The 2070 Super is fast enough for any gaming up-to Ultra HD based on shading performance. With Raytracing enabled you'll be in the 1080p or 1440p range. The card is TU104 based, and that means it is fitted with an NVlink slot, yep you could pair up two of these and go for SLI. However, given its track history, multi-GPU is dying. Combined with proper cooling and a decent factory tweak we'll happily out a recommended award. It is an interesting and very well all-round performing graphics card. As stated, you'll be hard-pressed to find one of these in the stores, in fact, I could not even find a street price on it for both the KFA2 and GALAX models as we're a bit early with the review so forgive me that I cannot make a recommendation based on price, however, we have no doubt it'll cost quite some coin. We know there will be plenty of people yearning this product, so keep an eye out for the December competitions, as we'll be giving this card away, courtesy of GALAX.  But yeah, well-done Galax, and onwards to the next 10 years.

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