Nvidia’s rumoured to be working on a fully unlocked RTX 2080 Super GPU
Nvidia’s rumoured to be working on a fully unlocked RTX 2080 Super GPU
To do this, Nvidia is reportedly working on an RTX “Super” series of graphics cards, updated versions of their existing offerings which utilise more of Nvidia’s Turing silicon and make use of refined GDDR6 memory modules.
In the case of the RTX 2080, Nvidia may be planning to release a new SUPER model which offers 16Gbps GDDR6 memory, providing a memory bandwidth boost of around 14%, and utilises the remaining cores on the company’s TU-104 silicon. This change ups Nvidia’s CUDA core count from 2944 to 3072, an increase of about 4.3%. This information comes via kimi7kop on Twitter.
While these specifications make sense, given what we know about Nvidia’s Turing GT-104 core and GDDR6 memory technology, it is worth reiterating that these are merely rumours. Take this information with a large helping of salt, as given what AMD has revealed about Navi, Nvidia seems to have little need to update their RTX 2080 lineup.
| Nvidia Founders Edition Graphics | Geforce RTX 2080 Ti | Geforce RTX 2080 Super (Rumoured) | Geforce RTX 2080 | Geforce RTX 2070 |
| Architecture | Turing | Turing | Turing | Turing |
| CUDA Cores | 4,352 | 3072 | 2944 | 2304 |
| Base Clock |
1350MHz | ???MHz | 1510Mhz | 1410MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1635MHz | ???MHz | 1800MHz | 1710MHz |
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Capacity | 11GB | 8GB | 8GB | 8GB |
| Memory Speed | 14Gbps | 16Gbps | 14Gbps | 14Gbps |
| Memory Bandwidth | 616GB/s | 512GB/s | 448GB/s | 448GB/s |
| Memory Bus Size | 352-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit |
| SLI | Via NVLink | Via NVLink | Via NVLink | N/A |
Nvidia released their RTX 2080 graphics card without fully utilising their GT104 silicon, making the idea of a refined RTX 2080 “Super” series graphics card more than feasible, especially given the availability of faster GDDR6 memory modules. Whether Nvidia feels the need to release such a graphics card remains to be seen.
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