On the ray-tracing side, NVIDIA notes an increase from 5 Giga Rays to 6 Giga Rays. Instead, it says the maximum Tensor FLOPS raises from 51.6 to 57.4, which is inline with the improvements elsewhere, suggesting there are additional active Tensor cores. Although the spec sheet notes an increase of four SMs, which makes sense given the boost to CUDA cores, it doesn't mention a change to Tensor or RT core counts. In NVIDIA's current architecture, these SMs also house Tensor cores for AI and RT cores for ray-tracing. The second price you pay is one of power draw: NVIDIA says the Super card will pull a peak of 175 watts from your PSU, up slightly from the previous 160W power envelope.Ī side-note: NVIDIA packages CUDA cores and texture units inside a streaming multiprocessor (SM). NVIDIA says this puts the RTX 2060 Super almost on par with the original RTX 2070 and ahead of last generation's GTX 1080. That's a huge change for the better and should boost performance a lot.Īlthough the raw TFLOPs improvement doesn't look that impressive - 7.2 at FP32 vs 6.5 - all told, these tweaks should eke out an extra 15 percent of performance over the base model. When combined with an improved 256-bit memory interface, this increases bandwidth by 33-percent to 448 GB/sec. The most significant change, however, is memory: The 2060 Super has 8GB, as opposed to the regular card's 6GB. There's also an improved base clock of 1,470MHz (versus 1,365MHz prior), but on the negative side, there's a slightly reduced boost clock of 1,650MHz (down from 1,680MHz).
In terms of new stuff, you get an extra 256 CUDA cores (giving 2,176 total) and 16 extra texture units (for 136 total).
The new card comes in at $399 - $50 more than the regular edition - and it actually has more in common with the original 2070. The first meaning of "Super" is "similar to card already on sale, but better." That's a lot like the Ti moniker NVIDIA often uses, and it accurately describes the most changed of the new cards, the RTX 2060 Super. What does that "Super" mean? Well, there's not a single answer to that. With AMD's next generation of GPUs just days away, NVIDIA is making good on its drawn-out tease with a trio of new graphics cards: the RTX 2060 Super, RTX 2070 Super and the RTX 2080 Super.