44 PCWorld AUGUST 2019REVIEWS NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 2060 SUPER AND RTX 2070 SUPER
more powerful GeForce RTX 2080 Super
variant (go.pcworld.com/rtsp) waiting in the
wings for a July 23 launch. The GeForce RTX
2060 Super and 2070 Super will launch on
July 9, in both the Nvidia Founders Edition
models we’re reviewing here as well as
customized versions by board makers like
EVGA, Asus, and Gigabyte.
The timing’s no coincidence. AMD’s
long-awaited Radeon RX 5700 and 5700 XT
(go.pcworld.com/57xt) are scheduled to
release on July 7 with all sorts of cutting-edge
technologies, from PCIe 4.0 to an all-new
“RDNA” graphics architecture to 7nm
transistors. AMD showed its duo knocking off
the non-Super RTX 2060 and 2070 in early
teasers, and priced its cards to take on
Nvidia’s entry-level ray-tracing options.Are the Super upgrades super enough to
spoil Radeon’s big day? Let’s find out.SPECS, FEATURES,
AND PRICE
Nvidia equipped all its Super variants with
bigger, badder GPUs, and in the case of the
GeForce RTX 2060 Super, a more robust
memory configuration as well. The original
$350 GeForce RTX 2060 (go.pcworld.com/
rt60) will remain available, though Nvidia
expects the new Super variants to replace the
vanilla RTX 2070 and 2080 in the market. Our
coverage of the Nvidia Super and FrameView
benchmarking tool releases (go.pcworld.
com/fmvw) details how the rejiggered RTX
20-series product stack will look heading into
the summer.