Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super

A modest boost to performance

- Jarred Walton

NINE MONTHS AFTER the RTX 2070 went on sale, yields have likely improved and Nvidia now has a reason to improve performance. The result is the RTX 2070 Super, moving up to the TU104 GPU with additional cores and performance. Silly branding aside (seriously, “Super” was the best name Nvidia could come up with?), there’s not much new to report. The GeForce RTX 2070 Super uses the same Turing architecture as the existing RTX cards, and the summary is that additional CUDA cores and higher clock speeds make it faster than the outgoing RTX 2070. Unlike the vanilla RTX 2060, which will remain on sale even though there’s an RTX 2060 Super, vanilla 2070 and 2080 cards are being phased out.

The 2060 Super has the advantage of being able to add more memory and thus increase bandwidth relative to the vanilla 2060. The RTX 2070 already uses a fully enabled TU106 chip, so Nvidia needs to look elsewhere if it’s going to improve performance by adding more cores. And “elsewhere” means moving to the larger TU104 chip that’s also in the RTX 2080.