After releasing two Supers in early July, today Nvidia completed the trio with the release of the RTX 2080 Super. 2060 Super and 2070 Super have replaced the original RTX 2070 and 2080 to a greater or lesser degree. Will the 2080 Super challenge the next graphics card in the Nvidia stack, namely the all-around 2080 Ti? In short, no-but the new card does retain a conservative performance advantage over the original 2080 and is $ 100 cheaper than the RTX 2080 Founders Edition, which debuted in 2018. This should make the 2080 Super the obvious second graphics card on the market. Ahead of the original RTX 2080 and AMD's Radeon 7, but how close is the game?
As with earlier Super cards, the horsepower of the 2080 Super can be increased by upgrading to some key specifications. First of all, the 2080 Super is the first full-featured TU104 GPU to bring all 3072 CUDA cores to the consumer sector, adding 128 CUDA cores compared to the standard RTX 2080-with a small increase to boost the clock. Its memory data rate has also increased from 14Gbps to 15.5Gbps, correspondingly increasing the memory bandwidth from 448GB / s to 496GB / s-in our tests, this is just the beginning of the card's possible increase in memory bandwidth. All these changes are reflected in the moderately high TDP of the 2080 Super, which is rated at 250W compared to the original 2080's 215W.
Despite the higher power consumption, only the design changes between the RTX 2080 FE and RTX 2080 Super FE cards. The new model has a reflective surface between its two axial fans and is labeled with a green "Super" word mark, but with the same two-slot design as the previous generation, the feel is also reassuring. The port report also remains the same, with six- and eight-pin auxiliary power connectors and the same I / O quintet: three DisplayPort, one HDMI port, and one USB-C VirtualLink port. We didn't expect this to change-except that it might contain spoilers or some flame decals-it's best to make sure everything is correct.
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