Asus GeForce Turbo RTX 2080 vs Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super: What is the difference?
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Asus GeForce Turbo RTX 2080
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56 facts in comparison
Asus GeForce Turbo RTX 2080
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super
Why is Asus GeForce Turbo RTX 2080 better than Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super?
- 1.01 TFLOPS higher floating-point performance?
10.07 TFLOPSvs9.06 TFLOPS - 31.4 GTexels/s higher texture rate?
314.6 GTexels/svs283.2 GTexels/s - 384 more shading units?
2944vs2560 - 24 more texture mapping units (TMUs)?
184vs160 - Has USB Type-C?
Why is Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super better than Asus GeForce Turbo RTX 2080?
- 90MHz faster GPU clock speed?
1605MHzvs1515MHz - Supports ray tracing?
- Has Double Precision Floating Point (DPFP)?
- 1 more DVI outputs?
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Price comparison
User reviews
Overall Rating
Asus GeForce Turbo RTX 2080
0 User reviews
Asus GeForce Turbo RTX 2080
0. 0/10
0 User reviews
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super
3 User reviews
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super
9.0/10
3 User reviews
Features
Value for money
No reviews yet
8.0/10
3 votes
Gaming
No reviews yet
9.3/10
3 votes
Performance
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9.0/10
3 votes
Quiet operation
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9.7/10
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Reliability
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9.3/10
3 votes
Performance
GPU clock speed
1515MHz
1605MHz
The graphics processing unit (GPU) has a higher clock speed.
GPU turbo
1710MHz
1770MHz
When the GPU is running below its limitations, it can boost to a higher clock speed in order to give increased performance.
pixel rate
109.
4 GPixel/s
113.3 GPixel/s
The number of pixels that can be rendered to the screen every second.
floating-point performance
10.07 TFLOPS
9.06 TFLOPS
Floating-point performance is a measurement of the raw processing power of the GPU.
texture rate
314.6 GTexels/s
283.2 GTexels/s
The number of textured pixels that can be rendered to the screen every second.
GPU memory speed
1750MHz
1750MHz
The memory clock speed is one aspect that determines the memory bandwidth.
shading units
Shading units (or stream processors) are small processors within the graphics card that are responsible for processing different aspects of the image.
texture mapping units (TMUs)
TMUs take textures and map them to the geometry of a 3D scene. More TMUs will typically mean that texture information is processed faster.
render output units (ROPs)
The ROPs are responsible for some of the final steps of the rendering process, writing the final pixel data to memory and carrying out other tasks such as anti-aliasing to improve the look of graphics.
Memory
effective memory speed
14000MHz
14000MHz
The effective memory clock speed is calculated from the size and data rate of the memory. Higher clock speeds can give increased performance in games and other apps.
maximum memory bandwidth
448GB/s
448GB/s
This is the maximum rate that data can be read from or stored into memory.
VRAM (video RAM) is the dedicated memory of a graphics card. More VRAM generally allows you to run games at higher settings, especially for things like texture resolution.
memory bus width
256bit
256bit
A wider bus width means that it can carry more data per cycle.
It is an important factor of memory performance, and therefore the general performance of the graphics card.
version of GDDR memory
Newer versions of GDDR memory offer improvements such as higher transfer rates that give increased performance.
Supports ECC memory
✖Asus GeForce Turbo RTX 2080
✖Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super
Error-correcting code memory can detect and correct data corruption. It is used when is it essential to avoid corruption, such as scientific computing or when running a server.
Features
DirectX version
DirectX is used in games, with newer versions supporting better graphics.
OpenGL version
OpenGL is used in games, with newer versions supporting better graphics.
OpenCL version
Some apps use OpenCL to apply the power of the graphics processing unit (GPU) for non-graphical computing.
Newer versions introduce more functionality and better performance.
Supports multi-display technology
✔Asus GeForce Turbo RTX 2080
✔Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super
The graphics card supports multi-display technology. This allows you to configure multiple monitors in order to create a more immersive gaming experience, such as having a wider field of view.
load GPU temperature
A lower load temperature means that the card produces less heat and its cooling system performs better.
supports ray tracing
✖Asus GeForce Turbo RTX 2080
✔Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super
Ray tracing is an advanced light rendering technique that provides more realistic lighting, shadows, and reflections in games.
Supports 3D
✔Asus GeForce Turbo RTX 2080
✔Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super
Allows you to view in 3D (if you have a 3D display and glasses).
supports DLSS
✔Asus GeForce Turbo RTX 2080
✔Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super
DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) is an upscaling technology powered by AI. It allows the graphics card to render games at a lower resolution and upscale them to a higher resolution with near-native visual quality and increased performance. DLSS is only available on select games.
PassMark (G3D) result
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This benchmark measures the graphics performance of a video card. Source: PassMark.
Ports
has an HDMI output
✔Asus GeForce Turbo RTX 2080
✔Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super
Devices with a HDMI or mini HDMI port can transfer high definition video and audio to a display.
HDMI ports
More HDMI ports mean that you can simultaneously connect numerous devices, such as video game consoles and set-top boxes.
HDMI version
HDMI 2.0
HDMI 2.0
Newer versions of HDMI support higher bandwidth, which allows for higher resolutions and frame rates.
DisplayPort outputs
Allows you to connect to a display using DisplayPort.
DVI outputs
Allows you to connect to a display using DVI.
mini DisplayPort outputs
Allows you to connect to a display using mini-DisplayPort.
Miscellaneous
Has USB Type-C
✔Asus GeForce Turbo RTX 2080
✖Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super
The USB Type-C features reversible plug orientation and cable direction.
USB ports
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With more USB ports, you are able to connect more devices.
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Nvidia RTX 2080 Super review: the 2070 Super has stolen its Turing thunder
Perfunctory.
That’s the one word which keeps bubbling to the surface as I marshal my feelings about the Nvidia RTX 2080 Super. On the one hand its very existence is thoroughly pleasing, but where the impressive RTX 2070 Super feels like a genuine upgrade over the original 2070, this RTX 2080 Super, welcome as it is, is a far more iterative, purely functional update. Perfunctory, see?
That’s arguably a matter of necessity, however. Nvidia is facing some stiff competition in the high-performance graphics card market for the first time in a long time, where the AMD RX 5700 XT has been priced aggressively – and, if you believe AMD’s Scott Herkelman, very tactically – against the middle tier of the GeForce RTX cards. And so the RTX 2070 Super has had to be, well, Super to beat it. To that end it uses a completely different GPU to its forebear while retaining the same basic MSRP.
The RTX 2080 Super, on the other hand, doesn’t really have anything to go up against. There’s no AMD RX 5900 to give it cause for concern, and therefore nothing to really have its price/performance metrics measured against.
Apart from its own GeForce progenitor, the OG RTX 2080, that is.
You could argue then that the RTX 2080 Super doesn’t really need to exist at all, which means you have to give kudos to Nvidia for essentially giving us something for nothing. Well, $699 isn’t exactly nothing, but when this is the same price as the MSRP of the base RTX 2080, and $100 cheaper than the previous Founders Edition, while also delivering consistently higher gaming performance than either, you can see what I mean.
Nvidia doesn’t need to give us perfect Turing TU104 GPUs for $1,400 less than they cost inside the similarly specced RTX Quadro 5000 cards, and yet I’m sitting here with the RTX 2080 Super and still feeling a little underwhelmed. Now, it’s either that I’m just another over-indulged, self-entitled journalist, or maybe the RTX 2070 Super has changed the high-end market and we now expect a little more when we make the step up the graphics card ladder.
What are the Nvidia RTX 2080 Super specs?
As I said earlier, Nvidia is giving us perfect TU104 GPUs with the new RTX 2080 Super, and by that I mean the graphics silicon at its heart is using the full extent of the Turing chip’s potential power.
Where the original RTX 2080’s TU104 GPU was restricted to 2,944 CUDA cores, the RTX 2080 Super comes with all 3,072 CUDA cores in play across its 48 SMs.
That’s two more than the OG 2080, which necessarily means that the new card also comes with another two RT Cores, and therefore another 16 Tensor Cores, because of the way the Turing architecture has been built. That’s not going to massively alter the real-time ray tracing performance of the new RTX 2080 Super, but it does mean there’s no DXR performance left on the factory floor this time. And it also means there’s no faster card for ray tracing this side of $1,000.
The new chip has, like its other Super brethren, also been clocked higher than the previous generation of RTX GPUs. Here you’re looking at the RTX 2080 Super coming out with a boost clock of 1,815MHz as opposed to the OG 2080’s 1,710MHz boost.
| RTX 2080 Super | RTX 2080 FE | RTX 2070 Super | |
| GPU | TU104 | TU104 | TU104 |
| SMs | 48 | 46 | 40 |
| CUDA cores | 3,072 | 2,944 | 2,560 |
| Tensor cores | 384 | 368 | 320 |
| RT cores | 48 | 46 | 40 |
| Base clock | 1,650MHz | 1,515MHz | 1,605MHz |
| Boost clock | 1,815MHz | 1,800MHz | 1,770MHz |
| Memory | 8GB GDDR6 | 8GB GDDR6 | 8GB GDDR6 |
| Memory speed | 15. 5Gbps |
14Gbps | 14Gbps |
| Memory bus | 256-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit |
| TDP | 250W | 215W | 215W |
| Price | $699 | $799 | $499 |
As always that doesn’t tell the whole story because Nvidia always likes to make you think you’re getting a little more than advertised – during our testing the RTX 2080 Super’s GPU ended up moving between 1,920 – 1,935MHz under gaming loads. That’s quite a bit above the rated boost clock and comes courtesy of the Nvidia’s GPUs ability to push their operating frequencies as far as possible within the bounds of thermal and power envelopes.
Potentially the biggest change between the RTX 2080 and its new Super replacement is the use of 15.5Gbps GDDR6 instead of the 14Gbps version all the other RTX cards use, including the hyper-expensive RTX 2080 Ti. On the original Founders Edition cards Nvidia seemed to only be using Micron GDDR6 but with this RTX 2080 Super we’ve got Samsung taking care of the video memory duties.
Considering we could bump the Micron memory on the RTX 2070 Super up above 15.5Gbps with a little light overclocking, and the change barely registered in-game, it’s maybe not that big of a switch in terms of actual performance.
But, like the other RTX Super cards, Nvidia has mercifully ditched the Founders Edition tax here. The original RTX 2080 FE featured a factory overclocked GPU, which at least gave it a semblance of reason behind the higher $799 price tag, but the new RTX 2080 Super is faster than the OC OG and its Founders Edition (read: reference card) retails for the standard $699 MSRP.
And that means this is a direct replacement for the original 2080 card – in fact the only non-Super RTX card still with a place in Nvidia’s revised stack is the RTX 2060, and I do question what the value of keeping it around is given the price cuts of the AMD RX 5700-series cards and what that’s done to the lowest rung of the RTX ladder.
Nvidia RTX 2080 Super benchmarks
How fast is the Nvidia RTX 2080 Super?
The RTX 2080 Super is faster than the RTX 2080.
That ought to be a given considering we’re talking about a higher-clocked chip with more of everything inside it, as well as one with some speedier high-spec graphics memory attached to it. But it’s the actual performance delta between the two cards which is the interesting thing.
At the most we’re talking 7% faster at the highest 1440p settings, and at the other end of the scale that’s down to just 2%, which is getting into the realms of statistical variance rather than a definitive performance lead. On average we’re looking at around a 5% delta between the straight 2080 Founders Edition and the Super card.
It only gets a little hotter than the slightly cut-down, though moderately overclocked original, and draws only a little extra juice from the wall. Though is still a good chunk less power-hungry than the demonstrably slower GTX 1080 Ti.
And honestly, that’s all Nvidia has promised with the RTX 2080 Super. This hasn’t been created as a game-changing graphics card release, just a GPU that’s almost the logical extension of the current Super strategy.
So we shouldn’t be surprised that the performance jump isn’t that great compared with the RTX 2080.
But what about the RTX 2070 Super and the RX 5700 XT? Obviously the RTX 2080 Super is faster than both, but considering there is a 40% difference in price between the two RTX Super cards, and a massive 75% difference compared with the Navi-based Radeon card, the frame rate delta isn’t that great.
Again, taking the highest 1440p settings as representative, the biggest delta between the two GeForce GPUs is 14% and the lowest just 6%. That 14% could sound like a decent uptick in performance, but in reality that’s just a change from running at 85fps to 97fps in Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and that’s not a perf boost that, to me, which warrants spending another $200 to get.
3DMark aside, the latest Tomb Raider game is where the biggest performance difference exists between the RTX 2080 Super and the RX 5700 XT too. At 23%, or 18fps faster that looks like a pretty big chunk of extra fps fun from the GeForce GPU, but in raw numbers that still only equates to a change from 79fps to 97fps. For $300.
And, despite the fact that we are talking about a more forward-looking and efficient 12nm GPU than AMD’s 7nm chip, don’t think you’re going to be able to extend that lead through any overclocking magic. The RTX 2080 Super is already clocked higher than the factory overclocked Founders Edition RTX 2080, so you’re not going to get a lot extra out of this packed TU104 chip. Our reference Super card offered an average overclock of around 40MHz after going through all its OC Scanner algorithmic voltage-testing fun. And that offered, at absolute best, another 4fps. Strong.
Is the Nvidia RTX 2080 Super worth it?
With no direct competition at this level Nvidia doesn’t need to release the RTX 2080 Super, but I have to give kudos to the fact that it has. The green team has created a faster version of the previous card but isn’t actually asking any more money for the privilege, and that is almost uncharacteristically charitable. In fact, compared with the original price of the RTX 2080 Founders Edition it’s nominally $100 cheaper.
It’s also interesting that, without any pressure on it to do so, Nvidia is giving us perfect TU104 GPUs for a lot less cash than the $2,000 RTX Quadro 5000 cards. Sure, you get double the memory on the pro cards, and a different level of support, but we’re still talking about the same GPU silicon. It surely highlights how good the 12nm yields are with Turing if Nvidia’s foundry partners can make enough fully functional, high-clocked chips to fit into the RTX 2080 Super, with the RTX 2070 Super looking after the rest.
The struggle is that even at its $699 base MSRP the RTX 2080 has always seemed like an expensive graphics card. And not in that ‘enthusiast GPUs are all stupidly priced’ kind of way, either. For all that Nvidia would like you to compare it, generation-on-generation, against the old GTX 1080, in reality the RTX 2080 was always the Turing successor to the GTX 1080 Ti. It’s essentially the same price and pretty much just gives us the same level of gaming performance.
The argument has always been that the added bonus of DXR/RTX ray tracing, with the AI-powered DLSS feature, gives the Turing cards that little bit of extra perceived value compared with the Pascal generation of GPUs. But that’s hard to parse when most games you’ll be playing today won’t activate any of that extra RTX silicon.
And that’s all been compounded by the release of the RTX 2070 Super. Using the same GPU as both the RTX 2080 and its Super replacement, the RTX 2070 Super sometimes outperforms the old GTX 1080 Ti and does it for $200 less than the Pascal card’s original asking price. That’s what you want from a gen-on-gen evolution.
That also puts it close to this RTX 2080 Super in performance too… to the point where I’d struggle to recommend you spend the extra cash over the RTX 2070 Super. That said, if do you want to future-proof your rig with the top-spec ray tracing capable graphics card, without having to spend over a grand on the borderline absurd RTX 2080 Ti, then this is 100% the best card for you.
It might become easier to make the case for the RTX 2080 Super over time given the groundswell of RTX-supporting titles spilling out of E3, and potentially Gamescom next month too. With the new ray tracing consoles coming out next year, the number of compatible games using the fancy lighting effects will only increase, and you’ll definitely need a capable GPU to cope with their demands. We’re looking at you Cyberpunk.
For now, when we’re talking about purestrain rasterised rendering performance for games, the RTX 2070 Super is arguably the Turing card that we’d recommend today. It’s got that price/performance sweet spot, though is itself being put under increasing pressure by AMD’s RX 5700 XT. The ephemeral lure of future ray tracing performance does stifle the Radeon’s promise somewhat, and that’s where the RTX 2080 Super is going to hope there’s enough interest to make its superior DXR performance worth the money.
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