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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GreenReaper - Wednesday, July 24, 2019 - link
The price is the price. If you want to help clarify the relative prices, it'd be better to use a visual aid.Spunjji - Friday, July 26, 2019 - link
Entirely in favour of rounding, here - I think SuperiorSpecimen has the right idea about how to do it.hosps - Tuesday, July 23, 2019 - link
Any chance in seeing an RTX enabled comparison between the various card levels?Spunjji - Friday, July 26, 2019 - link
I second that request. There's too much talk of the 2060 being the "cheapest RTX card" and not enough about whether it's actually a good experience. It would be helpful to know what the minimum investment is for a decent experience.DanNeely - Tuesday, July 23, 2019 - link
Are the synthetic tests without a 5700 score still due to lingering driver problems, or have you just not had time to try testing again?Ryan Smith - Tuesday, July 23, 2019 - link
By synthetic, I'm assuming you mean compute? If so, the answer is yes. AMD has not dropped a major driver update for Navi since the launch, so nothing has changed.Ferrari_Freak - Tuesday, July 23, 2019 - link
The Division 2 4K 99th percentile results seem to be mislabeled (or there was something wrong in the test). The RX 5700XT and GTX 1080 are showing a higher 99th percentile value than the average.Ryan Smith - Tuesday, July 23, 2019 - link
Whoops. Fixed that in the source data, but it didn't propagate to the graphs. It's fully fixed this time.designgears - Tuesday, July 23, 2019 - link
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-card...That shows MSRP at $1199.00, not $999.00.
Ryan Smith - Tuesday, July 23, 2019 - link
That's NVIDIA's factory-overclocked card. $999 is supposed to be the MSRP for reference-clocked cards (but good luck getting one for under $1149 right now).