![]() ![]() The PC also uses fast DDR4-3200 CL14 G.Skill memory and SSD storage to ensure the GPU is the limiting factor in performance (as much as possible). In a few instances an i7-9700K or i9-9900K might be fractionally faster in games, but typically the difference is less than two percent. It includes a Core i7-8700K overclocked to 5.0GHz to ensure the CPU isn't a bottleneck in testing. I continue to use our standard GPU testbed from about two years ago. We'll be looking at performance in Youngblood later this week, but for now I'm keeping ray tracing features off for the performance tests so that I can compare AMD and Nvidia results. At least there are now five fully released ray tracing games available-six once Wolfenstein: Youngblood launches on Thursday. Nvidia's Turing architecture is still the building block of the current generation graphics cards, and the RTX cards all feature Tensor cores for deep learning and DLSS, along with RT cores to help accelerate the ray/triangle intersection calculations at the heart of ray tracing algorithms. In terms of features, nothing has changed since last year's GeForce RTX launch. Power use has increased more than performance, indicating the GPU is nearing the limits of its design. Notice how the TBP (typical board power) has already jumped 35W compared to the 2080. Sure, you can probably squeeze a few percent more performance out of the card via manual overclocking, but it's definitely going to be a case of diminishing returns. All the SMs, cores, and memory controllers are enabled, and clockspeeds have been pushed about as far as you're likely to see. (Technically speaking, Nvidia isn't using the Founders Edition branding with the new Super cards, but that's basically what they are.)Īs far as the RTX 2080 Super is concerned, this is the maxed-out implementation of the TU104 chip. ![]() If you've been thinking about buying a $700 graphics card, the RTX 2080 Super now claims top honors-and this time there's no $100 price premium at play if you buy the Founders Edition direct from Nvidia. ![]() If you already bought an RTX 2080, you can get nearly the same level of performance via overclocking (specifically, increasing the GDDR6 clocks). It's not an incredibly exciting launch, in other words. Depending on your reference point, GPU clocks are either nearly the same (2080 Founders Edition) or about 100MHz faster (reference 2080 clocks). The 2080 Super specs were released earlier in the month, and they're exactly what you'd expect from a mid-cycle product update: Take the same TU104 GPU that's used in the RTX 2080 (and 2070 Super now), enable all of the streaming multiprocessors (SMs) and CUDA cores, and crank the GDDR6 memory clock from 14Gbps up to 15.5Gbps. ![]()
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