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The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super & RTX 2060 Super Review: Smaller Numbers, Bigger Pe
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After a long quiet period in the realm of high-end GPUs, things are about to get exciting again. Last month AMD announced their new mid-to-high range of video cards, the Radeon RX 5700 series, based on their new Navi GPU architecture and associated 7nm Navi 10 GPU. AMD has already revealed essentially everything about these cards in advance, and that launch is fittingly coming up on Sunday, July 7th (7/7).

But first, NVIDIA would like to have a word.

Ever since Computex, NVIDIA has been teasing a “Super” announcement of their own. And this morning, that announcement is finally coming to fruition. NVIDIA is launching a mid-generation kicker for their mid-to-high-end video card lineup in the form of their GeForce RTX 20 series Super cards. Based on the same family of Turing GPUs as the original GeForce RTX 20 series cards, these new Super cards – all suffixed Super, appropriately enough – come with new configurations and new clockspeeds. They are, essentially, NVIDIA’s 2019 card family for the $399+ video card market.

When they are released on July 9th, the GeForce RTX 20 series Super cards are going to be sharing store shelves with the rest of the GeForce RTX 20 series cards. Some cards like the RTX 2080 and RTX 2070 are set to go away, while other cards like the RTX 2080 Ti and RTX 2060 will remain on the market as-is. In practice, it’s probably best to think of the new cards as NVIDIA executing as either a price cut or a spec bump – depending on if you see the glass as half-empty or half-full – all without meaningfully changing their price tiers.

In terms of performance, the RTX 2060 and RTX 2070 Super cards aren’t going to bring anything new to the table. In fact if we’re being blunt, the RTX 2070 Super is basically a slightly slower RTX 2080, and the RTX 2060 Super may as well be the RTX 2070. So instead, what has changed is the price that these performance levels are available at, and ultimately the performance-per-dollar ratios in parts of NVIDIA’s lineup. The performance of NVIDIA’s former $699 and $499 cards will now be available for $499 and $399, respectively. This leaves the vanilla RTX 2060 to hold the line at $349, and the upcoming RTX 2080 Super to fill the $699 spot. Which means if you’re in the $400-$700 market for video cards, your options are about to get noticeably faster.

The timing on all of this is quite interesting, of course. NVIDIA is launching these cards just in time to match AMD’s own Radeon RX 5700 launch. And while NVIDIA’s official line is that this launch is driven by economies of scale and slow card sales due to poor pricing – both valid points that I will grant NVIDIA – to call a spade a spade this is clearly NVIDIA looking to counter AMD’s launch. AMD showed their cards early (literally and figuratively), so NVIDIA and the rest of the world were able to see what kind of performance AMD is expecting to get and at what prices those cards will roll out.

Ultimately by launching faster cards at $400 and $500 now, NVIDIA is looking to protect their massive market share while moving the goalposts on AMD (ed: or maybe just removing the football entirely). After today, the next move is AMD’s, but as we’ll see in our benchmarks of the new RTX 20 Super cards, they’ll need to react if they want to maintain their momentum. In the meantime, I think it’s fair to say that everyone is just happy to see pricing come down on NVIDIA’s capable but overpriced Turing video cards.
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