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We’re not entirely convinced the extra model was necessary. The GeForce RTX 2060 Super adeptly slips into its lineup to serve this exact purpose. Since it plans to continue selling GeForce RTX 2060, the company needed something notably faster, but not such an improvement that it’d outmaneuver existing GeForce RTX 2070 cards. Nvidia is shooting for a very specific performance profile here. Infusing the design with 33% more throughput has other pleasant side effects, like increasing memory capacity to 8GB, adding an extra megabyte of shared L2 cache, and exposing two more ROP partitions for a total of 64 ROP units. Enabling them on GeForce RTX 2060 Super confers a substantial bandwidth boost, from 336 GBps to 448 GBps using the same 14 Gbps GDDR6 modules. A complete TU106 GPU boasts eight 32-bit controllers, two of which are disabled on GeForce RTX 2060 to create an aggregate 192-bit path. The 2060 Super benefits from a wider 256-bit memory bus, too. And sure enough, the Founders Edition card Nvidia sent us to test does have the physical interface exposed. On the bright side, adopting TU104 means that GeForce RTX 2070 Super theoretically supports a single x8 NVLink connection capable of 50 GB/s bidirectionally. Incidentally, the 2070 Super does duck in under GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition and its 225W spec. Efficiency would appear to take a hit, then, in the interest of absolute frame rates. A 215W rating is 23 percent higher than the older card’s 175W specification, pushing power consumption higher than the 2070 Super’s average performance increase. The effect of adopting a larger, more sophisticated graphics processor and then goosing its clock rate does incur a substantial power penalty compared to the original GeForce RTX 2070. Each of their 32-bit memory controllers is associated with 512KB of L2 cache and eight ROPs, so the two GPUs similarly feature 4MB of L2 and 64 ROPs. TU104 and TU106 both boast 256-bit aggregate memory buses populated by 8GB of GDDR6 moving data at up to 448 GBps. In our testing, GeForce RTX 2070 Super averaged 1,870 MHz to the vanilla 2070’s 1,806 MHz. Whereas GeForce RTX 2070 launched with a 1,410 MHz base frequency and 1,710 MHz GPU Boost rating, the 2070 Super starts at 1,605 MHz, yet typically operates at 1,770 MHz according to Nvidia. That 11 percent infusion of resources is then amplified by higher clock rates. Multiply out the contents of each SM by 40 and you get a front-end with 2,560 CUDA cores, 320 Tensor cores, 40 RT cores, and 160 texture units. But if the company wanted to beat AMD’s reported Radeon RX 5700 XT performance claims, it’d need something faster.Ĭarving out eight of the chip’s Streaming Multiprocessors leaves a GPU with 40 active SMs spread across five or six Graphics Processing Cluster (GPC) building blocks-this number varies depending on where the SMs are excised. Nvidia probably could have bumped its 1,710 MHz GPU Boost rating up a bit.
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The card we introduced in Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Founders Edition Review: Replacing GeForce GTX 1080 utilized a complete TU106 processor.
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Drilling down, though, the 2070 Super is built on an entirely different GPU than its predecessor. Nvidia presents GeForce RTX 2070 Super as a faster version of the vanilla 2070, which just so happens to outperform the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti. And with a list of ray-traced games that keeps on growing, it’s getting harder and harder for skeptics to call the technology a gimmick. The addition of real-time ray tracing support is where the company hopes to push future-minded gamers over the edge. It’s charging as much as possible at each performance point, while addressing the competition in today’s top titles. Nvidia isn’t trying to woo enthusiasts with bargain pricing here. Of course, a $20-higher price tag will give gamers something to think about if both cards trade blows. Nvidia says its 2060 Super averages 15% better performance than the standard 2060, which could make it slightly faster than Radeon RX 5700 with the added benefit of those fixed-function RT cores. A $380 Radeon RX 5700 similarly splits the GeForce RTX 2060 Super and GeForce RTX 2060.