Tuesday, July 23rd 2019
NVIDIA Launches the GeForce RTX 2080 Super Graphics Card
NVIDIA today launched the GeForce RTX 2080 Super graphics card, priced at USD $699. The card replaces the RTX 2080 from this price-point, which will be sold at discounted prices of around $630, while stocks last. The RTX 2080 Super is based on the same 12 nm "TU104" silicon as the original, but is bolstered on three fronts: first, it maxes out the "TU104" by enabling all 3,072 CUDA cores. Second, it comes with increased GPU Boost frequency of 1815 MHz, compared to 1710 MHz of the original; and lastly it comes with the highest-clocked 15.5 Gbps GDDR6 memory solution.
The card ships with 8 GB of memory across a 256-bit wide memory bus, which at 15.5 Gbps works out to roughly 496 GB/s of memory bandwidth, a 11 percent increase over the original RTX 2080. Other specifications of the GeForce RTX 2080 Super include 192 TMUs, 64 ROPs, 48 RT cores, and 384 Tensor cores. NVIDIA is allowing its board partners to launch custom-design boards that start at the same $699 baseline.Our launch-day GeForce RTX 2080 Super coverage includes the following content: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super Founders Edition review | MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Super Gaming X Trio review | ZOTAC GeForce RTX 2080 Super AMP Extreme review
The card ships with 8 GB of memory across a 256-bit wide memory bus, which at 15.5 Gbps works out to roughly 496 GB/s of memory bandwidth, a 11 percent increase over the original RTX 2080. Other specifications of the GeForce RTX 2080 Super include 192 TMUs, 64 ROPs, 48 RT cores, and 384 Tensor cores. NVIDIA is allowing its board partners to launch custom-design boards that start at the same $699 baseline.Our launch-day GeForce RTX 2080 Super coverage includes the following content: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super Founders Edition review | MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Super Gaming X Trio review | ZOTAC GeForce RTX 2080 Super AMP Extreme review
53 Comments on NVIDIA Launches the GeForce RTX 2080 Super Graphics Card
And I am done looking at useless RT and DLSS demos.
Going to replace it with an AIB 5700XT mid August and enjoy fluid motion and Radeon image sharpening
They don't need some super AI algorithm to work, They just works.
This is wonderfully idiotic.
If the AIB 5700XT reach maybe 1.95 - 2GHz , why not ?
RT cores and DLSS are mostly useless anyway.
Similar performance and I can have my $200 back.
Just waiting for AMD to confirm if Fluid Motion still works in Navi.
If you remember the 90s; being a PC gamer back then was really tough, unless you lagged a few years behind in games. First of all, people needed pretty expensive computers to play the top games, and then it would be outdated within 1-2 years, in many cases unable to even run new games, and if so at very poor details.
People who can't deal with better things arriving after their purchase should find another hobby.
These baby steps will happen more often, and the perf/dollar may remain exactly where it is. In that sense, you can actually have progress more easily now without feeling screwed the moment you purchase it. Or maybe, you're screwed in a different way: now the purchase itself is too expensive :D
Maybe the time when we had very good upgrade paths are the exception to the rule?
But yes, in larger trends improving performance gets harder and harder.
GPUs still have good performance gains generation to generation, but that will slow down very soon, we only have a couple of node shrinks left until new materials are needed.
CPUs have only been slowly improving since Sandy Bridge, and while higher core count is helpful for some things, it does little for most desktop uses. There will still be gains from more efficient architectures, but gains will be smaller, so don't expect huge improvements in performance per dollar, but it shouldn't get worse though.
While hardware have never been cheaper, and with fairly decent hardware being affordable for anyone, we shouldn't really complain too much about hardware.
But I would point out that the largest problem is software, and unfortunately the larger trends in software is more bloat and abstractions. I'm not sure what you mean here, please elaborate.
Nvidia is large corp with investors and shareholders, as someone recently said about AMD... they aren't a charity either.
People need to get real, mutli billion corps with cheerleaders, it's gold.
This isn't as bad as 970 to 980 days, where the 980 really didn't give you much at all, but I don't know who is going to spend $200 more for 10-15% more performance over the 2070 super. Nvidia has to sort their card stack out next time, and hopefully pressure from AMD will help them get closer to giving us a card that definitively beats the 1080 Ti without costing $1200.
So, until there is a major shift in the market, RTX 2070 Super is the goto deal. The GTX 970 was a bit odd, it was too close to GTX 980 in performance. GTX 970 somehow managed to perform much better per GFlop than its siblings, it probably struck some nice balance in scheduling resources and cache vs. cores. GTX 970, especially the factory overclocked models, despite the fake outrage about memory speed, was the best deal of that era, as RTX 2070 Super is the best deal now.
Thank you.