Nvidia’s unveiled not one, but three “Super” variants of its existing GeForce RTX 20-series graphics cards, along with a new FrameView tool intended to give enthusiasts and reviewers deeper insight into the performance and power consumption of GPUs. And the new cards don’t really cost more than their slower, older counterparts. As detailed in numerous rumors and leaks over the last month or so, the RTX 2060, 2070, and 2080 desktop cards will all have Super versions. The cards offer modest speed bumps while maintaining the same price point as the current line of RTX cards, which first hit the market last fall and introduced new visual fidelity and lighting features to PC gaming like real-time ray tracing.
The GeForce RTX 2060 Super starts at $399; the GeForce RTX 2070 Super at $499; and the GeForce RTX 2080 Super at $699. The GeForce RTX 2060 Super falls within spitting distance of the original $499 RTX 2070, while the new RTX 2070 Super greatly closes the gap with the original $699 RTX 2080. The RTX 2060 Super also shores up weak points in its $349 non-Super cousin, bumping the memory capacity from 6GB to 8GB and the memory interface from 192-bit to 256-bit, justifying its $50 price premium.
Nvidia says that it “offers more performance than the RTX 2080 at the same price. Memory speed has been cranked up to 15.5Gbps. It’s faster than Titan Xp.”
Nvidia isn’t overhauling the entire RTX 20-series lineup. Tony Tamasi, VP of content and technology at Nvidia, told reporters that while the company expects market forces to replace the older RTX 2070 and 2080, it plans on keeping the 6GB RTX 2060 non-Super around at its original price point (presumably because the RTX 2060 Super costs more). The ferocious GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is also sticking around in its original ass-kicking form.
