Nvidia's RTX Super graphics cards might have been designed to combat AMD's new RX 5700 Navi graphics cards, but that doesn't mean other of its more impressive cards aren't also seeing a refresh. The pinnacle of that pile is the RTX 2080 Super, which improves the 2080 performance to be that little bit closer to this-generation's performance king, the 2080 Ti.
In a leaked benchmark discovered by WCCFTech we learned that the 2080 Super has leapfrogged up the performance scale, improving its performance by just shy of 10 percent at 1440p. That's allowed it to beat out the Titan XP, the king from a few years prior, and edge just a few points behind the Titan V — a graphics card that costs thousands of dollars not too long ago.
It's still behind the 2080 Ti by a good 15 percent, and the Titan V special edition and Titan RTX are still well out in front, but the distance isn't quite so great. With the 2080 Super set to be priced at $700, that's a seriously exciting proposition for those who want Titan-level performance at a much lower price.
Rumored specifications for this new card include it using the TU104-450 GPU with 3,072 CUDA cores. That's allegedly paired up with the same 8 GB of GDDR6 memory as the standard 2080, but it will reportedly be clocked higher to 15.5 Gbps. Along with its 256-bit memory interface, that should help give it a boosted memory bandwidth.
We don't have a firm release date for the 2080 Super yet, but expect it to debut in the next couple of months.
