With such a huge gulf in adoption rates, Nvidia has been trying its best to
convince gamers that GeForce RTX is the way forward (among cards for AAA,
single-player games), while also bridging the price gap with cheaper options
such as the non-RTX GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, cards targeted more toward the
needs of esports-focused players and budget-minded shoppers playing at
1080p, tops.
Nvidia now has three new weapons in the RTX arsenal: the GeForce RTX 2060
Super, RTX 2070 Super, and RTX 2080 Super GPUs, which are 15 percent
fasteron average than theirnon-super counterparts, according to Nvidia. The
RTX 2060 Super is $399, just $50 more than the non-Super, and the RTX 2070
Super retails for $499. Both were released July 8. The RTX 2080 Super went on
sale for $699 on July 23rd.
Retaining both the RT and Tensor cores that distinguish the RTX line (and
which make ray-tracing and DLSS possible), the Super line looks like Nvidia’s
second attempt to convince gamers that investing in RTX is worthwhile, despite
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and Shadow of the Tomb Raider are the big ones at the moment.)
But with no mention of an architecture overhaul or heavy new tech under the
hood, what makes Super cards so super?