Nvidia launches RTX Super series in a bid to make ray tracing more affordable

Yesterday, Nvidia intensified its battle against AMD with the first formidable response to the Radeon RX5000 GPUs since their launch in May. Team Green launched its new RTX Super series with better performance than traditional RTX cards.

Nvidia released Super versions of the RTX 2060, 2070 and 2080. Recently leaked benchmarks have suggested the RX5000 GPU surpass the RTX 2060, while the RTX 2070 falls short against the RX 5000 XT. Nvidia’s Super cards attempt to bridge the gaps in performance supposedly created by Team Red’s RX 5000 series.

Let’s take a look at the three Super additions that will join Nvidia’s RTX lineup.

The GeForce RTX 2060 Super comes in as the cheapest card in the lineup, starting at Rs 34,890. Nvidia claims the RTX 2060 Super offers up to 22-per cent better performance than the RTX 2060. The 2060 Super card also gets an 8GB RAM upgrade as compared to the 6GB on the 2060. While the RTX 2060 managed to hold its ground against the GTX 1080, the RTX 2060 Super is capable of surpassing it.

Specs	RTX 2060 Super	RTX 2060
CUDA Cores	2176	1920
ROPs	64	48
Core Clock	1470MHz	1365MHz
Boost Clock	1650MHz	1680MHz
Memory Clock	14Gbps GDDR6	14Gbps GDDR6
VRAM	8GB	6GB
Memory Bus Width	256-bit	192-bit
TFLOPS	7.2 TFLOPS	6.5 TFLOPS
TDP	175W	160W
Price (Rs)	28,000	34,890

The second addition to the list is the RTX 2070 Super, starting from Rs 43,600. As compared to the RTX 2070, the Super variant delivers up to 24-per cent faster (Average 16%) performance. Nvidia says the RTX 2070 Super can perform better than the GTX 1080 Ti.

Specs	RTX 2070 Super	RTX 2070
CUDA Cores	2560	2304
ROPs	64	64
Core Clock	1605MHz	1410MHz
Boost Clock	1770MHz	1620MHz
Memory Clock	14Gbps GDDR6	14Gbps GDDR6
VRAM	8GB	8GB
Memory Bus Width	256-bit	256-bit
TFLOPS	9.1 TFLOPS	7.5 TFLOPS
TDP	215W	175W
Price (Rs)	38,000	43,600

The last and most expensive addition to Nvidia’s list is the RTX 2080 Super. The memory speed of the RTX 2080 Super is cranked up to 15.5Gbps. Nvidia also claims that the RTX 2080 Super is faster than the GeForce Titan Xp and starts at Rs 61,400 in India. The GeForce Titan Xp costs upwards of $1000 in the United States.

One of the best things about the new Super cards is that they’ve launched at the same price as traditional RTX cards, which also got a price cut. Take, for example, the RTX 2060, which starts from Rs 28,000, down from Rs 32,000. The Super cards also offer a decent performance bump with the RTX 2060 Super offering the best price-to-performance. Moreover, Nvidia claims the RTX 2060 Super can offer 60 fps on high-settings with ray tracing turned on.

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 and 2070 Super versions will be available on the 9th of July, while the RTX 2080 Super will arrive on the 23rd of July.

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