Nvidia's new range of Super graphics cards, refreshing the RTX 2060, 2070, and 2080, have landed and the results are impressive, but feel a little late. This is where we hoped the original lineup of RTX Turing graphics cards were going to be when they debuted in 2018, but at least we're here now. And better yet, the prices aren't changing either.
The RTX 2080 Super, RTX 2070 Super, and RTX 2060 Super all see boosted CUDA core-counts over their non-Super alternatives. There's been a little fiddling with clock speeds too, with some cards seeing boosts and others seeing slight reductions, but across the board performance has gone up by 10-15 percent, making cards like the RTX 2060 Super competitive with the likes of the Vega 64 and edging close towards the AMD Radeon VII — making that near-$700 card pretty redundant on a performance front.
The RTX 2060 Super has also seen its memory increased from 6GB of GDDR6 to 8GB, which gives it a much greater memory bandwidth and a larger buffer for high-resolution textures and a number of modern graphical features. No longer will that mid-range solution be separated from the pack. It is, however, more expensive. Where the RTX 2080 and 2070 Super will retain their $500 and $600 price tags, respectively, replacing the non-Super versions of the cards. The RTX 2060 Super, however, will sit above its non-Super counterpart, with a price tag of $400.
That extra $50 is worth it though. The RTX 2060 Super is a killer card.
What this means for the Radeon RX 5700 and 5700 XT, though, remains to be seen.
