First Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Super benchmark leaks ahead of expected launch today

That oft-reliable source for graphics cards leaks has graced us with another gift. Yep, it’s none other than Final Fantasy XV’s official benchmark tool, which features performance numbers from Nvidia’s imminent GeForce RTX 2080 Super graphics card.

This tells us the GeForce RTX 2080 Super is definitely in reviewers’ hands already ahead of an expected official launch later today. Utilising the same Turing GPU architecture as the rest of the RTX series, the RTX 2080 Super is heading market priced at $699. It’s the same price tag as the base RTX 2080’s launch price.

Onto the performance then. We’ve now got our first peek at how the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Super stacks up version the RTX 2080 it’s replacing. The Final Fantasy XV results are from 1440p screen resolution benchmarks at the High Quality graphics preset. Nvidia’s RTX 20880 Super scores 8663 in the FFXV benchmark, equivalent to an average of 86.6 frames per second.

As for how this stacks up against its competition, this makes the RTX 2080 Super around 7.5% faster than an RTX 2080 and just 2% slower than an Nvidia Titan V. Considering the Nvidia Titan V launched just 18 months ago with a $3000 price tag, that’s not bad at all. In comparison to the outgoing RTX 2080 it’s not exactly an earth-shattering improvement but it is 7.5% higher FPS for the same price tag.

	Price	Average FPS	Cost Per Frame
RTX 2080 Ti	$999	99.2	$10.07
RTX 2080 Super	$699	86.6	$8.07
RTX 2080	$699	80.5	$8.68

If you’re fortunate enough to be rocking a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (or two), your silicon throne is still intact. The GeForce RTX 2080 Super comes up well short of the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, scoring frame rates 14.5% slow than Team Green’s flagship gaming GPU.

Overall, the GeForce RTX 2080 Super is shaping up to be the most tepid of the Super upgrades, offering modest performance gains that are hardly going to have vanilla RTX 2080 owners sobbing into their RGB tissues. Still, it’s more power for the same price, which in the short term helps to elevate Nvidia a fair whack ahead of AMD’s best efforts.

	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	$1,199
Normal Price	$349	$399	$499	$499	$699	$699	$999