 Today Nvidia is finally spilling the beans on Super and launching what they're calling the RTX 2060, 2070 and 2080 Super. But just because they call it that doesn't mean it's true. Even so, maybe the branding isn't worth getting caught up on if the cards themselves are decent or, perhaps more importantly, if they're priced well. But is this launch just a PR stunt to steal AMD's thunder or is this the unexpected refresh? We didn't even know we needed. Speaking of things you didn't know you needed, GlassWire is here to help make your life a little more super by instantly letting you see your past and present network activity. It can detect malware and other badly behaving apps on your PC or Android device and block their connections to prevent a bad situation from getting worse. Use offer code LINUS and get 25% off GlassWire at the link below. First I have to just come out and say it. The branding is downright repulsive. IMHO, that Super on a green field doesn't really scream high end and instead it kind of looks like something that came out of a ghost shift at an unsupervised factory somewhere. Maybe that's a bit harsh, but I feel like they really missed the point on what a premium aesthetic looks like. Hopefully OEM cards don't have to deal with that. Anyway, now that that's out of my system, what's so Super about Super? As it turns out, quite a bit, so let's take a look at the cards we have for testing today. The GeForce RTX 2060 Super and RTX 2070 Super and compare them to the original lineup. Hmm, doesn't the new 2060 Super look a lot like the old 2070? And look at the power connectors and length of the new 2070 Super. They're almost identical to the old 2080. Because, well, they're kind of the same card. Except only kind of? When we compare the spec sheets of the Super lineup against the originals, we've got an interesting story to tell, particularly in the case of the RTX 2060 Super. Unlike the original, it now has 8GB of RAM like the rest of the family, and we can see that its core count and TDP are much closer to the OG 2070 than the 2060. The new 2070 Super, meanwhile, didn't get as big of a buff, but is still clearly based on the 2080 with nearly the same TDP and requiring that second PCIe power cable, which it didn't before. I'd like to think of it kind of like a 27 DTI. With that in mind, the Super cards are pretty good upgrades as long as the price is right, and it kind of is. The new cards are being launched at the previous ones' price points, which gives us roughly the performance per dollar on paper that a lot of us expected from the original RTX launch. It seems like it's a pretty generous offer from Nvidia, and they say it's a result of binning and better yields after 10 months of teething, which sounds reasonable enough, whatever the other reasons Nvidia might have. Radeon Convictus! The fact remains that these cards appear to be a pretty great value for the consumer, or at least it seems that way on paper. We need to see for ourselves, so it's off to our trusty GPU test bench to do some testing. And if you're watching this in the future, the reason we're not including any AMD gear right now is, well, AMD's RDNA-based Radeons aren't out yet. But they are using GeForce as a point of comparison, so that's what we'll do too. Firing up our gaming tests, our theory is basically proven. The RTX 2070 Super is quite close to the RTX 2080 here, and the RTX 2060 Super is even closer to the RTX 2070 than we might have thought. This carries over when we turn on RTX, where the RTX 2060 Super definitely punches above its weight class as a 60 series part. Now, we tested these games at 1440p, but a big part of Nvidia's appeal with the RTX 2060 Super is its claimed ability to do 60fps ray tracing at 1080p. So we have to validate that as well, and yep, looks like that's a confirmed 60fps. Nice. Now, productivity is where these cards don't get quite so big of a boost, consistently coming in between their predecessors and the next tier up. The RTX 2070 Super manages to get in some good performance numbers compared to the 2080 in shorter tests like Blender's BMW and V-Ray, but that's primarily down to the higher stock boost clock. On longer tests like Redshift and SpecViewperf, the RTX 2080 decisively pulls ahead, while the RTX 2060 Super for its part falls a lot shorter of the RTX 2070's performance level than I would have thought going into this. When it comes to thermals, in spite of the mean potential, it doesn't really look like Super gets that hot. Even under a Power Virus load, neither card approached the 80 degree threshold, and in a gaming scenario, things didn't get any worse. Power consumption was similarly within levels we'd expect, and the GPUs are basically pulling as much power as their stated TDPs. Where things get interesting is when we look at the boost clocks. Yes, under a Power Virus load, they're barely maintaining a boost over a base clock, but in a game scenario, they were rock solid, well above their advertised boost clocks. And all in all, that's a pretty nice combo of performance, power draw, and thermals for a stock card. So, should you buy a Super card? Well, that's the thing. You might not have a choice, as Nvidia is discontinuing the RTX 2070 and RTX 2080 and directly replacing them with the new cards. So, while the RTX 2070 might represent a good value when they're on clearance, the Super version is basically always a good idea, even over the more powerful RTX 2080. Although, again, if you can find one for cheaper on final sale, go for it. And the same is true of the RTX 2060 Super, where it completely absolutes the RTX 2060, which Nvidia is keeping for some reason. For giggles, if we compare the two new Super cards directly, once again, the RTX 2060 Super steals the show. Although, this assumes you're okay with the value of 1080p gameplay. So, really, what has Nvidia accomplished here? Well, they managed to get out ahead of AMD's Navi-based Radeon 5700 series, yes. But the question we really need to ask ourselves now is, who do we thank for that? Do we thank TSMC for making mass production of Turing chips more economically viable? Do we thank Nvidia for taking a hit on GPU pricing and better binning? Or do we thank AMD for giving Nvidia the nudge they needed to drop an artificial price premium? The answer you choose probably depends on how you view the jolly green giant. But the reality is it's probably a perfect storm that led to this price drop. 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