We review the 3rd iteration of the NVIDIA RTX series, the GeForce RTX 2070 has just landed (and I do mean that literally) for a review. Will the cards that start at 500 USD will have enough oomph to make a difference in the market? Well, let's find out as we have the MSI GeForce RTX 2070 Armor 8G here in the test bench.

Before we begin, there will be a limited scope of reviews during launch week. NVIDIA and its board partners have been extremely late shipping the RTX 2070 card, some of them are stuck in customs, other board partners could not get them shipped in time. Partly the core issue is that a week or so ago NVIDIA told the board partners to ship out a 499 USD product, as well they do need at least one RTX product to make some sense pricing wise. The biggest mistake, however, is that NVIDIA made the call to not supply founder edition cards. So yes, this was a disaster waiting to happen, it has been one the typical pre-launch mess. However, we'll start off with this preliminary MSI GeForce RTX 2070 Armor 8G, and tackle other cards when they arrive.