Thursday, April 9th 2020
EVGA Introduces the GeForce RTX 2080 & 2070 SUPER KO Graphics Cards
EVGA today announced availability of their GeForce RTX 2080 & 2070 SUPER KO graphics cards. Much like their original RTX 2060 KO graphics card, which came in an attractive price point that undercut NVIDIA's own $299 MSRP for the graphics card, the new graphics cards also carry a new, lower price point than the company's (previous) cheapest offerings, the Black series. The EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER KO will be retailing for $499.99 (2560 CUDA cores, 1770 MHz Boost Clock, 8 GB GDDR6 memory @ 14 GHz over a 256-bit bus), while the EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER KO (3072 CUDA cores, 1815 MHz Boost Clock, 8 GB GDDR6 memory @ 15.5 GHz over a 256-bit bus) can be had for $699.99. This is a lower pricing than most competitor's offerings in this market for a custom-designed RTX 2070 SUPER or RTX 2080 SUPER.
To achieve this pricepoint, some cuts have had to be made. The cards ship without a backplate, and the cooling solution seems to be slightly less dense than the company's other, more expensive designs based on NVIDIA's chips. The PCB in these graphics cards is a custom design - and going to the trouble of redesigning what was an originally beefy engineering feat means that some cuts were likely done in this area as well. The new SUPER KO graphics cards also drop the Virtual Link port, featuring only 3x DisplayPort and 1x HDMI as display outputs. EVGA's Precision X1 overclocking utility is bundled with the graphics cards.
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To achieve this pricepoint, some cuts have had to be made. The cards ship without a backplate, and the cooling solution seems to be slightly less dense than the company's other, more expensive designs based on NVIDIA's chips. The PCB in these graphics cards is a custom design - and going to the trouble of redesigning what was an originally beefy engineering feat means that some cuts were likely done in this area as well. The new SUPER KO graphics cards also drop the Virtual Link port, featuring only 3x DisplayPort and 1x HDMI as display outputs. EVGA's Precision X1 overclocking utility is bundled with the graphics cards.
30 Comments on EVGA Introduces the GeForce RTX 2080 & 2070 SUPER KO Graphics Cards
Generaly speaking these low end coolers perform as well as the FE but they give you fan stop which the FE doesn't www.techpowerup.com/review/evga-geforce-rtx-2080-super-black/31.html
Aside from having a beefier cooler (for the XC Ultra) and RGB, the FE was able to match it in load temps (~62C during 4 hours of PUBG and Fallen Order, at the time).
10-15 years ago I could build a decent gaming rig for $699.99.
Also, keep in mind, $500 back then was getting you the best of the best. Though, factoring in the inflation, that may come close to the price of a 2080 Super today (Idk, I don't have the numbers and I need to get some sleep, won't dig them up now).
I guess the choice couldn't be clearer.
BUY A 2080Ti.
I have a HTC Vive.
I normally use it on my Alienware 17" laptop (GTX 1080) when I'm designing 3D models to print or game elements.
Hell, I even bought my 2070 Super Black from EVGA directly for $500 at release. So what they are saying here with this product launch is that their existing cut rate models, the Black line, is now going to be more expensive so they can shove this even further cost reduced model into the MSRP for the card. It's pretty disappointing. At least the 2060 KO was hitting a brand new price point. These should have been released at $480/$680, or even $490/$690. Something token that would account for the fact that EVGA thinks that they shouldn't have to put all the ports on the card that the Nvidia reference card already has. Just get the reference version. Or wait for Newegg to sell the Black version for below $500, which they've done repeatedly over the year:
pcpartpicker.com/product/88drxr/evga-geforce-rtx-2070-super-8-gb-black-gaming-video-card-08g-p4-3071-kr
That, and it also provides a fair amount of power (27W? cant remember), which is pretty helpful for those who run portable monitors (a part of the market which has seen some expansion as of late), as many are relying on a sole C port for laptop users. Some monitor manufacturers like Dell are also catching on to the video-over-C trend, which mainly benefits ultrabooks, but RTX cards with the port can tap into that as well.
It's not the sole headlining feature on RTX, but it's definitely worth more than people usually give it credit for. I mean, if we're debating over the merits of having the Virtualink port, we're already in RTX territory; since you're the type never to spend more than $200 on a card, it would never be a consideration for you anyways.
These budget RTX cards really aren't budget enough to offset the loss of FE features and their shitty coolers - anyone remember the existing 2060 KO's blocky, pencil-eraser thermal pads that defeat the purpose of thermal pads?
@bug you and I both know that's not how that works. The 2060 and 2060 Super are already 1 x 8-pin. You can't knock it down to 1 x 6-pin just by omitting the C. 2070 Black has no C, yet it is still 1 x 8-pin just like the FE 2070, which has C. As for everything else, no AIB would remotely consider doing that for a 2070 Super and above. The TU106/104/102 dies themselves carry the USB controller regardless of whether you want to include the C port or not.
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