Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Super 8GB gaming performance – First benchmarks

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The cat’s out of the bag then, and the GeForce RTX 20 Super refresh will begin rolling out from the July 9th. At the bottom of the heap will be the GeForce RTX 2060 Super, although it happens to be the bottom of a mighty fine looking heap.

Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 2060 Super has rocked up and made vanilla RTX 2060 owners feel very sad indeed. Those great but overpriced cards have now effectively been replaced by a performance heavy successor which appears to be everything we’d hoped for in the first place.

RTX 2070 Super 8GB First Benchmarks

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Super 8GB Specs

Specs-wise, the GeForce RTX 2060 Super 8GB slots in snugly between the RTX 2060 and the RTX 2070. However, it’s been gifted with an extra couple of GB of GDDR6 memory which should help at higher resolutions, as well as a higher core clock than both its neighbours, helping nudge the RTX 2060 Super into the realm of the RTX 2070.

Check out the rest of the RTX Super lineup

	GeForce RTX 2060	GeForce RTX 2060 Super	GeForce RTX 2070	GeForce RTX 2070 Super	GeForce RTX 2080	GeForce RTX 2080 Super	GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
GPU Architecture	Turing	Turing	Turing	Turing	Turing	Turing	Turing
GPU	TU106	TU106	TU106	TU104	TU104	TU104	TU102
Process Node	12nm NFF	12nm NFF	12nm NFF	12nm NFF	12nm NFF	12nm NFF	12nm NFF
CUDA Cores	1920	2176	2304	2560	2944	3072	4352
Tensor Cores	240	272	288	320	368	384	544
RT Cores	30	34	36	40	46	48	68
Core Clock	1365 MHz	1470 MHz	1410 MHz	1605 MHz	1515 MHz	1650 MHz	1350 MHz
Boost Clock	1680 MHz	1650 MHz	1620 MHz	1770 MHz	1800 MHz	1815 MHz	1545 MHz
Memory	6GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	11GB GDDR6
Memory Speed	14 GHz	14 GHz	14 GHz	14 GHz	14 GHz	15.5 GHz	14 GHz
Memory Interface	192-bit	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit	352-bit
Memory Bandwidth	336GB/s	448GB/s	448GB/s	448GB/s	448GB/s	496GB/s	616GB/s
TDP	160W	175W	175W	215W	215W	250W	285W
Power Input	1x 8-pin	1x 8-pin	1x 8-pin	1x 6-pin & 1x 8-pin	1x 6-pin & 1x 8-pin	1x 6-pin & 1x 8-pin	2x 8-pin
Founders Price	$349	$399	$599	$499	$799	$699	$1199
Normal Price	$349	$399	$499	$499	$699	$699	$999

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Super Performance

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Super 1080p

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Super 1440p

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Super 4K

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Super vs Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Super vs Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Super vs Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super

The GeForce RTX 2060 Super offers almost identical performance to the current GeForce RTX 2070. It’s also $100 cheaper, so it’s obvious where the benefits lie here. At $50 cheaper, the RTX 2060 still has its place but you’re now getting a very decent jump in performance for making that leap from a $350 RTX 2060 up to a $400 RTX 2060 Super. That extra couple of gigs of VRAM is sure to come in handy down the line as well.

Performance at 1080p is, predictably, fantastic for the RTX 2060 Super 8GB. This is a graphics card which will just breeze through the latest AAA games at this resolution, although we’d still expect one or two snags once ray tracing’s involved.

The RTX 2060 Super is also an incredibly strong 1440p video card and does a fantastic at aping the RTX 2070’s performance for just $399. That’s still a price that a lot of folks will balk at but the value proposition is certainly better than it once was. If I’d bought an RTX 2060 in the last few weeks I’d be feeling livid.

The higher the resolution, the more the Super card can stretch its legs over the bog-standard RTX 2060. That extra 2GB GDDR6 is certainly going to come in handy. 4K gaming is arguably a bridge too far for this graphics card though, and you should certainly be aiming higher if you want to reliably game at 4K.

On paper, at least, it looks as if Nvidia has rocked up and delivered a graphics card which could well go toe-to-toe with AMD’s upcoming Radeon RX 5700 XT with a 20% cheaper price tag. Gulp. Until we find out the actual 5700 XT performance that’s all ifs and maybes though, and the here and now the RTX 2060 Super shows all the hallmarks of a satisfying yet hardly groundbreaking refresh.