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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce RTX 2080 Super sales 2 July 2019 at a recommended price of $699. This is high-end Turing architecture desktop card based on 12 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 8 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 15.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 495.9 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. One 6-pin and one 8-pin connectors are required, and power consumption is at 250 Watt.

It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 74.00 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti.

General info

Of GeForce RTX 2080 Super's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in our rating

Value for money (0-100)

1.81

Architecture

Turing

GPU code name

Turing TU104

Market segment

Desktop

Launch date

2 July 2019 (1 year ago)

Launch price (MSRP)

$699

Price now

$1544 (2.2x MSRP)

of 9999 (Radeon Pro Vega II)

Technical specs

GeForce RTX 2080 Super's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce RTX 2080 Super's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3072

of 10752 (GA102)

Core clock speed

1650 MHz

of 2233 (Playstation 5 GPU)

Boost clock speed

1815 MHz

of 2903 (Radeon Pro W6600)

Number of transistors

13,600 million

of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile)

Manufacturing process technology

12 nm

of 5 (Apple M1 GPU)

Thermal design power (TDP)

250 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Texture fill rate

348.5

of 781.8 (Radeon Pro W6900X)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on GeForce RTX 2080 Super's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Length

267 mm

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce RTX 2080 Super: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

of 80 (A100 SXM4 80 GB)

Memory bus width

256 Bit

of 6144 (GRID A100A)

Memory clock speed

15500 MHz

of 19500 (GeForce RTX 3090)

Memory bandwidth

495.9 GB/s

of 1024 (Radeon VII)

Shared memory

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce RTX 2080 Super. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C

HDMI

G-SYNC support

Technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce RTX 2080 Super. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Ready

API support

APIs supported by GeForce RTX 2080 Super, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_1)

Shader Model

6.5

OpenGL

4.6

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.131

CUDA

7.5

Benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance of GeForce RTX 2080 Super. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

74.00

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

140388

3DMark Fire Strike Score

23364

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature seemingly made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic enough graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

27398

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

40408

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

515887

SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 sw-03

SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 snx-02

SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 showcase-01

141

SPECviewperf 12 - Showcase

144

SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 mediacal-01

SPECviewperf 12 - Maya

This part of SPECviewperf 12 workstation benchmark uses Autodesk Maya 13 engine to render a superhero energy plant static scene consisting of more than 700 thousand polygons, in six different modes.

135

SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 maya-04

132

SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 energy-01

12.6

SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 creo-01

SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 catia-04

107

SPECviewperf 12 - specvp12 3dsmax-05

221

SPECviewperf 12 - 3ds Max

This part of SPECviewperf 12 benchmark emulates work with 3DS Max, executing eleven tests in various use scenarios, including architectural modeling and animation for computer games.

226

Passmark

This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

19497

Game benchmarks

Let's see how good GeForce RTX 2080 Super is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

This video card matches 100% minimum and 100% recommended requirements of all games known to us.

Minimum

100%

Recommended

100%

Minimum

100%

Recommended

100%

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

1080p

143

1440p

104

Relative perfomance

Overall GeForce RTX 2080 Super performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop video cards.

100 %

GeForce RTX 2080 Super

AMD equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce RTX 2080 Super from AMD is Radeon RX 6700 XT, which is slower by 5% and lower by 7 positions in our rating.