Wednesday, November 20th 2019
NVIDIA Readying GeForce RTX 2080 Ti SUPER After All?
NVIDIA could launch a "GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Super" after all, if a tweet from kopite7kimi, an enthusiast with a fairly high hit-rate with NVIDIA rumors is to be believed. The purported SKU could be faster than the RTX 2080 Ti, and yet be somehow differentiated from the TITAN RTX. For starters, NVIDIA could enable all 4,608 CUDA cores, 576 tensor cores, and 72 RT cores, along with 288 TMUs and 96 ROPs. Compared to the current RTX 2080 Ti, the Super could get faster 16 Gbps GDDR6 memory.
It's possible that NVIDIA won't change the 352-bit memory bus width or 11 GB memory amount, as those would be the only things stopping the card from cannibalizing the TITAN RTX, which has the chip's full 384-bit memory bus width, and 24 GB of memory. Interestingly, at 16 Gbps with a 352-bit memory bus width, the RTX 2080 Ti Super would have 704 GB/s of memory bandwidth, which is higher than the 672 GB/s of the TITAN RTX, with its 14 Gbps memory clock. These design choices would ensure NVIDIA has a sufficiently faster product than the RTX 2080 Ti, without an increase in BOM, provided it has enough perfectly-functional "TU102" inventory to go around. There's no word on availability, although WCCFTech predicts a CES 2020 unveiling.
Sources:
kopite7kimi (Twitter), WCCFTech
It's possible that NVIDIA won't change the 352-bit memory bus width or 11 GB memory amount, as those would be the only things stopping the card from cannibalizing the TITAN RTX, which has the chip's full 384-bit memory bus width, and 24 GB of memory. Interestingly, at 16 Gbps with a 352-bit memory bus width, the RTX 2080 Ti Super would have 704 GB/s of memory bandwidth, which is higher than the 672 GB/s of the TITAN RTX, with its 14 Gbps memory clock. These design choices would ensure NVIDIA has a sufficiently faster product than the RTX 2080 Ti, without an increase in BOM, provided it has enough perfectly-functional "TU102" inventory to go around. There's no word on availability, although WCCFTech predicts a CES 2020 unveiling.
139 Comments on NVIDIA Readying GeForce RTX 2080 Ti SUPER After All?
Still, I feel the only sane thing to do for $1,300 so called "consumer" cards is to go the way of the Dodo.
*well, 780 Ti had a full chip when the first Titan had shaders and other units disabled. :D
Just a quick note, the RTX 2060 Super costs around the same as a 5700 XT (their pricing overlaps on newegg) and is only a couple of % slower according to TPU reviews. Perhaps some prefer to use ray tracing and a lot less power (175W vs 225W) at a very similar price point? I'd call that using their brains and not being poor, you?
This card launching is not so great news, it implies NVIDIA will be staying some more with Turing and take their sweet time maybe even until Computex with their next gen for consumers (We know servers come first)
Doesn't feel as stupid, buying some NV cards, when it is explained with facts though, eh? :)If I was you, I would never buy a PC part again as there is always something better several months away.
All were king of the hill for more than 12mths, 18mths for the 1080Ti.
The point I was making is that buying a 2080Ti, super or not, at this stage in its market lifecycle, is pretty stupid.
Obviously I don't include good 2nd hand prices in that statement.
But yes, if you go by the "don't buy X now, something better will be released soon", you should never buy anything.
My point is simply that waiting SEVERAL months for something new typically isn't worth it. And it takes brains to figure out that some Nvidia cards are priced competitively in the market, especially when looking at the big picture.
Again, point isn't this so much as it is to hear that 'wait for the next part' idea when things are several months away still. That and perhaps now that you are armed with the knowledge Nvidia can compete in price and performance in some SKUs, maybe the words will be tempered a bit (calling those buying Nv cards "dumb") and less toxic. :)