NVIDIA RTX 2060/2070/2080 super specification released, overall performance increased by 15%

ByAdan Flannigan 2019-07-05 1062

This world will be improved if it is competitive! On April 24, 2019, NVIDIA completed the entire layout of the Turing GPU following the release of the GTX 1650, the last member of the NVIDIA Turing family. However, AMD announced that the Navi-based RX 5700 / 5700XT will be available in July at the Taipei Computer Show in late May, and that the performance of the RTX 2060 or RTX 2070 is declining and the price is lower.

It appears that NVIDIA is not Intel, and does not arbitrarily allow AMD to capture its own market share. It is obviously not the best strategy to put the RTX 2080 in a lower performance than the RX 5700 XT. The NVIDIA decided to develop a new GPU to regain its competitive advantage.

Like the RTX 2070/2060, the RTX 2060 Super uses the TU106 core, but the RTX 2060 has a significantly improved specification: The stream processor was upgraded from 1920 to 2176 and the ROPs from 48 to 64. The GDDR6 memory was increased from 192-bit 6 GB to 256-bit 8 GB and the frequency kept at 14 GHz. According to NVIDIA, performance is improved by at least 15 to 20%. It is no problem to surpass GTX 1080.

Since the number of complete TU106 core stream processors is 2304, the RTX 2070 Super can only use a higher order TU104 core and castrate it accordingly. Compared to the RTX 2070, the number of stream processors has increased from 2034 to 2560. The original 144 texture units were also increased to 160. The memory specifications remain unchanged at 14 Gbit / s and 8 GB. According to NVIDIA, the performance of the RTX 2070 Super can be seen in the GTX 1080 Ti.

As for the RTX 2080 Super, NVIDIA didn’t use the complete TU104 core when release RTX 2080. The RTX 2080 Super is the complete of the TU104, which with 3072 stream processors and 192 texture units.

Since the RTX 2060/2070 has added Super 256 stream processors and the RTX 2080 Super has only added 128 more to further improve performance, NVIDIA has decided to increase the memory frequency from the original 14 Gbps to 15.5 Gbps, increasing the memory bandwidth as well. It reached 496 GB / s.

The parameter specifications of RTX 2060/2070/2080 Super are as follows:

Graphic	RTX 2060 Super	RTX 2060	RTX2070 Super	RTX 2070	RTX 2080 Super	RTX 2080
Architecture	Turing	Turing	Turing	Turing	Turing	Turing
GPU	TU106-410	TU106-200	TU104-410	TU106-400	TU104-450	TU104-400A
Number of transistors	108 billion	108 billion	13.6 billion	108 billion	136 billion	136 billion
Core area	445 ㎜²	445 ㎜²	545 ㎜²	445 ㎜²	545 ㎜²	545 ㎜²
Manufacturing process	12 nm	12 nm	12 nm	12 nm	12 nm	12 nm
CUDA	2176	1920	2560	2304	3072	2944
ROPs	64	48	64	64	64	64
Tensor Cores	272	240	320	288	384	368
RT Cores	34	30	40	36	48	64
VRAM	8GB	6GB	8GB	8GB	8GB	8GB
Memory Type	GDDR6	GDDR6	GDDR6	GDDR6	GDDR6	GDDR6
TDP	175W	160W	215W	175W	250W	225W
Price	$399	$349	$499	$499	$699	$699

In the above form, the RTX 2060 Super shows the largest increase: When the RTX 2060 is removed, a large vacuum is created between the RTX 2060 Super and the GTX 1660 Ti. Will coexist with the RTX 2060. The RTX2060 Super with 399 US dollars is 50 US dollars more expensive than the RTX 2060.

The RTX 2070/2080 Super is completely identical to the original RTX 2070/2080 after its official launch, i.e. the RTX 2070/2080 is completely withdrawn from the market.