The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super Review: Memories of the Future
by Ryan Smith on July 23, 2019 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
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The Test
For the launch of the RTX 2080 Super, NVIDIA has rolled out a new set of drivers to enable the card: 431.56. These drivers don’t offer any performance improvements over the 431.15 drivers in our games, so the results are fully comparable.
Meanwhile, I've gone ahead and tossed in the Radeon RX 5700 XT in to our graphs. While it's aimed at a distinctly lower market with its $399 price tag, it has the potential to be a very strong spoiler here, especially for 1440p gaming.
| CPU: | Intel Core i9-9900K @ 5.0GHz |
| Motherboard: | ASRock Z390 Taichi |
| Power Supply: | Corsair AX1200i |
| Hard Disk: | Phison E12 PCIe NVMe SSD (960GB) |
| Memory: | G.Skill Trident Z RGB DDR4-3600 2 x 16GB (17-18-18-38) |
| Case: | NZXT Phantom 630 Windowed Edition |
| Monitor: | Asus PQ321 |
| Video Cards: | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super Founders Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super Founders Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 AMD Radeon VII AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 AMD Radeon R9 390X |
| Video Drivers: | NVIDIA Release 431.15 NVIDIA Release 431.56 AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.7.1 |
| OS: | Windows 10 Pro (1903) |
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yetanotherhuman - Wednesday, July 24, 2019 - link
A real shame the 1080 Ti isn't in the benchmarking graphs, it's clearly the competitor card to the 2080 and 2080 Super. It would show just how little NVIDIA has done in giving us better performance to price in just over 2 yearsDanNeely - Wednesday, July 24, 2019 - link
It needs retested first. Look at Bench, it's not in the 2019 GPU bench yet; hopefully this is just a case of not gotten to it yet (2019 GPU bench is still fairly sparse vs 2018) and not a case of the card being assigned to someone other than Ryan and thus not being available for him to cycle through the GPU benchmark box.imaheadcase - Wednesday, July 24, 2019 - link
Its really weird you never include the 1080 Ti in the benchmarks.bill.rookard - Wednesday, July 24, 2019 - link
The 5700XT certainly is a spoiler of sorts, 80-90% of the performance for a little more than half the price.Ranger90125 - Thursday, July 25, 2019 - link
Good review...thanks. I'm assuming that the most important aspect of the Super cards i.e. the ray tracing perf, is very similar going from RTX2080 TO RTX2080 Super? ;)Kishoreshack - Thursday, July 25, 2019 - link
How do I donate to Anandtech for writing such excellent articles?bajs11 - Friday, July 26, 2019 - link
single digit improvement while still being overpriced as the original 2080Where I live the original 2080 still cost over 700 usd while the super are about 150 bucks more...
maybe they are a lot cheaper in the states
ballsystemlord - Saturday, July 27, 2019 - link
Spelling and grammar corrections so far:"However it's still requires more power than the RTX 2080 vanilla, ..."
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"...which its much better performance-per-dollar ratio."
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"...with its much better performance-per-dollar ratio."
Beaver M. - Saturday, July 27, 2019 - link
So Nvidia now thinks 8 GB is enough from 2060S through 2080S? Sure sure.But I guess there are still enough victims who will buy this overpriced and not future proof crap.
DillholeMcRib - Sunday, July 28, 2019 - link
I have no idea why anyone would pay the Nvidia tax with the Radeon Navi stuff out.Right now I am using the 5700 XT and while it is a little loud, it matches up really well with the 2070 Super for $100 less. RTX specific stuff is virtually non existent.