GeForce RTX 2070: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The GeForce RTX 2070 was the mainstream face of first-generation ray tracing in 2018, and the catalog has benchmarked it in 99 games at 1080p across 9 matched models. This guide covers where Turing's middle child stands eight years on.

Where the RTX 2070 sits in 2026

The catalog scores the chip at 70.5 — 41st of 341 scored mobile GPUs, comfortably inside the top eighth of the table. The neighborhood is strong: the Quadro RTX 5000 (71.2), RTX 3060 Laptop GPU (71) and RTX PRO 2000 Blackwell (70.9) sit just above, and the RTX 4060 Laptop GPU (69.8), RTX A3000 (69.6) and RTX 5070 (69.6) just below. That is the whole story of its 2026 position: a 2018 chip performing in the same band as the RTX 3060 and 4060 laptop class, one step off the upper-mainstream leaders.

What the chip brings

The TU106 die on 12 nm defines the first RTX generation: 2304 shader cores, 8 GB of GDDR6 on a 256-bit bus with 448 GB/s of bandwidth, an 80 W mobile envelope and roughly 5.5 TFLOPS of theoretical throughput. It carries the era's signature features in their first form — DLSS (in its original spatial incarnation, later superseded) and hardware ray tracing. Public synthetics: PassMark 16063, Time Spy 6661, Fire Strike 23186.

FPS in games at 1080p

The high-preset table is generous. FIFA 19 runs at 287 FPS, Rocket League at 247, CS:GO and Overwatch at their 240 cap, Rainbow Six Siege at 234, Star Wars Squadrons at 228, FIFA 21 at 211, Resident Evil 7 at 194 and Doom at 184. The competitive staples all clear 120: Valorant 180, Counter-Strike 2 150, Fortnite 122, GTA V 140, Apex Legends 128. Heavier modern titles hold 60 on high in most cases — Shadow of the Tomb Raider 149, Battlefield V 92, Far Cry 5 103 — while Cyberpunk 2077 (60), Red Dead Redemption 2 (66) and Resident Evil 4 Remake (65) sit right at the line, and Forza Horizon 5 lands at 85.

Laptops that carry it

All 9 matched models are 2020 machines from Dell's families: Alienware m15 R3 at $750 and m17 R3 at $1027, the Dell G7 7700/7500 trio at $750–$822, the G3 15 and G5 15 at $472, plus HP's OMEN 17-CB at $776 and the ZBook Create G7 at $737. Roster medians: gaming index 73, overall score 70, with portability at 25 — proper gaming laptops, not thin-and-lights.

Bottom line

The RTX 2070 remains a genuinely useful 1080p-high GPU in 2026: nothing in its 99-game table is unplayable, the esports catalog is saturated, and the $472–$822 price band of its Dell-family carriers is firmly budget territory for this level of performance. The caveats are generational — first-gen DLSS is worth less than the modern version, and 2020-era chassis run hot and heavy by current standards. For a used gaming laptop around $500–$800, this chip's 27 compare articles in the catalog make the matchups easy to check.