NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Super - Should We Prepare For a New Flagship?
NVIDIA will soon give us a new flagship graphics card, the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Super. There are rumors about this new graphics card from time to time and with a launch window apparently planned for early 2020, we now have a source that talks about the specifications that this card may have and what expectations we can have.
The latest information on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti SUPER comes again from Kopite7kimi on Twitter, whose rumors about the RTX Super and GeForce GTX 16 series have proven to be correct. His latest posts talk about the specifications of the graphics card and what kind of performance it will offer.
It looks like the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti SUPER will be equipped with 4608 cores and 16Gbps GDDR6 memory. The 4608 CUDA cores mean that the Turing TU102 will be present in its strongest form on the new board, offering 576 tensor cores, 72 cores for Ray Tracing, 288 texture units and 96 ROPs.
Also, the speeds of GeForce RTX 2080 Ti SUPER could be somewhere in the area of 1700Mhz, which means that it would be faster than the Titan RTX; a decision that NVIDIA will hardly make, because the only advantage Titan would have compared to the RTX 2000 series would only be the memory capacity.
As far as memory is concerned, this is said to be made up of 16Gbps GDDR6 modules. There is no mention of the memory bus or the memory capacity of the new RTX 2080 Ti SUPER, and the only difference between the new flagship and the monster Titan RTX could now be reduced only to the memory capacity on the board. Titan RTX offers 24GB of GDDR6 14Gbps memory and a 384-bit bus.
The new SUPER series board could go in two directions: either a 12GB GDDR6 variant with a 384-bit bus or an 11GB GDDR6 352-bit variant. The latter seems plausible, but especially since the top GeForce cards used a memory bus cut, and the 384-bit upgrade would be super, for sure. RTX 2080 SUPER did not provide full support for the 16Gbps GDDR6 modules as it would have required a PCB overhaul which would have resulted in extra costs. Of course, in the case of the Ti SUPER variant, the integrators think they will want to make the necessary improvements.
The most important factor in the purchase decision, however, is the price of the video card. I think NVIDIA will do the same as the rest of the SUPER series, so they will eliminate the fee for the Founders Edition and keep the MSRP, which in the case of RTX 2080 Ti was $999. NVIDIA allows itself to make this move because Turing has been in production for over a year and it is no longer the case of limited stocks affecting plate production. As for the launch, NVIDIA could present the new board at CES 2020.
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