New Graphics Card Selection - Poor Reliability?

I'm looking for a new graphics card to give a better frame rate at 2560x1440 pixels than my current Sapphire AMD R9 280X card.

The choice is probably between a GeForce RTX 2060 Super, GeForce RTX 2070 and Radeon RX 5700 XT. The GeForce RTX 2070 Super is too expensive. When buying new components I always look at the user feedback on Amazon for poor reviews (1 and 2 star reviews). I've surveyed many cards and was surprised to find very poor ratings for most of them - issues were premature failure, over heating and display artefacts. I only found the following cards having a reasonable user feedback rating:

GeForce RTX 2070
EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 (08G-P4-2277-KR) - but too expensive at over £550

GeForce RTX 2060 Super
Zotac GAMING GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER AMP
Zotac GAMING GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER AMP Extreme
EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER XC GAMING
MSI GEFORCE RTX 2060 SUPER VENTUS OC

Radeon RX 5700 XT
No reliable cards in survey

Please advise:

1. Which graphics card manufacturers offering cards based on the above GPUs stand out as being more reliable?
2. NVidia supply graphics cards direct using their reference design. Are the graphics cards supplied direct from NVidia noted for good reliability?
3. The GeForce cards have ray tracing. Is this a feature really worth having looking ahead say 5 years?

If you can afford it...definitely go with the RTX 2070. You'll thank yourself in the long run.

1. EVGA - they use better quality hardware then most. I think it's just a better end product. I have a GeForce 1060 3GB on this old system.

2. Yes....Those are just the blue print PCB's for the GPU manufacturers to add their specific hardware/software to.

3. Yes...if the game can use it, it makes a huge difference in the lighting effects.


Ray tracing allows for dramatically more lifelike shadows and reflections, along with much-improved translucence and scattering. The algorithm takes into account where the light hits and calculates the interaction and interplay much like the human eye would process real light, shadows, and reflections, for example. The way light hits objects in the world also affects which colors you see.
Reference link: What is ray tracing? Everything you need to know, from games to graphics cards | TechRadar

I use only EVGA Graphics cards, I have never had one go bad.

Josey Wales said:

I use only EVGA Graphics cards, I have never had one go bad.

I've got 3 PC's running EVGA GeForce GTX 1050 2bg cards and all run flawless.