Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Super review

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Super is basically the first RTX 2080 on steroids. What on paper appearance to be a small improvement with additional CUDA cores and faster VRAM is quite that. This Super RTX GPU features a bit additional going for it.

The initial lineup of Nvidia Alan Mathison Turing cards arrived with some terribly high costs after they were initial free, particularly the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and RTX 2080 flagships. And it hurt the billfold making an attempt to induce one. one in every of the most reasons AMD Navi GPUs have done therefore well is their balance of performance with worth. This pressure from AMD crystal rectifier Nvidia to bring their A game in addition as higher costs with their rested Super series.

Specifications and features

When you examine the Nvidia Super, and the technology behind it, it's not much different from the first round of Nvidia Turing cards that preceded it. With the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Super, you're essentially getting a somewhat more powerful RTX 2080 with 3,072 CUDA cores, as opposed to the 2,944 in the RTX 2080, with a boost clock of 1,815MHz.

It’s minimal, but it's still an improvement. However, the more significant upgrade here is the faster VRAM: you're getting up to 15.5 Gbps of memory bandwidth, next to the 14Gbps in the standard RTX 2080. Theoretically, this should help boost performance, especially with games and applications that chew through memory bandwidth. 

On a hardware level, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Super definitely delivers improved performance over the RTX 2080. However, that really isn’t enough to really blow anyone's mind, like the RTX 2070 and RTX 2060 saw more of with their Super counterparts. 

Then again, beyond hardware, there is a new software feature available that should actually be a boon to any hardware enthusiasts out there: FrameView. This is a benchmarking software and API that's considerably more accurate and even easier to use compared to many others. 

FrameView will not only show you frame rates, frame times, GPU Usage and temperature, but also break down how much power your graphics card is consuming without having to rely on costly external hardware or iffy third-party software. 

For most everyday gamers who are just trying to play the latest PC games, this might not be super useful. However, it should come in handy when you're either trying to troubleshoot potential issues, or are trying to overclock your graphics card to get its maximum potential.