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Nvidia) is that at least a couple of the Super line of GPUs
(the RTX 2070 Super and RTX 2060 Super) could be
binned versions of the GPU released last year that, in
each case, is one tier above. The company’s claim that
“the Supers are based on the same Turing GPUs as the
original 20 Series” lends credence to that idea.
The two options are that, for example in the case of the
RTX 2070 Super, either Nvidia has improved its ability
to engineer a 10.8-billion transistor TU106 chip to
produce sub-RTX 2080 results on a die that’s exactly the
same transistor count (13.6 billion) as the TU104 die’s
(the RTX 2080’s). Or the Supers represent amped-up
versions of the RTX 2060, RTX 2070, and RTX 2080
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scenario seems rather unlikely.
This assumption is shored up by the fact that Nvidia
hasn’t announced an RTX 2080 Ti Super card. If each
Super is sourcing its GPU from another, existing one, the
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti doesn’t have any up-ladder
equivalent outside of the Nvidia RTX Titan, which is
twice the cost of the RTX 2080 Ti and based on an
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Finally, there’s another clue: The GeForce RTX 2070
and RTX 2080 will be replaced by the RTX 2070 Super
and RTX 2080 Super, respectively, but the non-Super
GeForce RTX 2060 will remain on sale.
HAVEN’T WE SEEN YOU BEFORE?
If you’ve already seen what the RTX 2070 Founders
Edition looks like, you won’t be too surprised by what
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the original RTX 2070 card is replicated here, aside from
a few subtle changes to the shell.
Nearly every
aspect of the
original RTX
2070 card is
replicated
here, aside
from a few
subtle changes
to the shell.