Nvidia RTX 2060 SUPER Founders Edition 8GB Review

1. Introduction2. Nvidia RTX 2060 SUPER Founders Edition Card3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy (1080p, 1440p, 4K)5. 3DMark Port Royal (1440p DXR)6. Battlefield V (1080p, 1440p, 4K)7. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (1080p, 1440p, 4K)8. Far Cry 5 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)9. Ghost Recon: Wildlands (1080p, 1440p, 4K)10. Metro Exodus (1080p, 1440p, 4K)11. Middle Earth: Shadow of War (1080p, 1440p, 4K)12. Shadow of the Tomb Raider (1080p, 1440p, 4K)13. Battlefield V w/ DXR (1080p, 1440p, 4K)14. Shadow of the Tomb Raider w/ DXR (1080p, 1440p, 4K)15. Clock Speed16. Temperatures17. Acoustics18. Power Consumption19. Overclocking: 3DMark and Games20. Overclocking: Temperatures, Acoustics, Power21. Closing Thoughts22. View All Pages

We've been hearing about ‘SUPER' ever since Nvidia posted a short teaser video at the end of May. Computex and then E3 came and went, with not a word from the company about what to expect. That all changes today, however, as Nvidia has announced three new ‘SUPER' versions of the RTX 2060, RTX 2070 and RTX 2080.

In this review we will be focusing on RTX 2060 SUPER, but we also have launch day coverage of RTX 2070 SUPER over here if you are interested. What makes this card SUPER, and is it any good?

The first thing you need to know about Nvidia's SUPER line up of cards, is that we are not really seeing anything we haven't seen before. By that I mean, for the 2060 and 2070 SUPER editions at least, Nvidia has simply taken its existing TU106 and TU104 GPUs, shaved off some SMs and called the end results ‘SUPER'. The rumours about faster 16Gbps GDDR6 memory have not turned out to be true for these cards.

In the case of the RTX 2060 SUPER, Nvidia has taken the TU106 GPU and disabled two SMs, giving a total of 34 and therefore 2176 CUDA cores. This positions it closer to the RTX 2070 than the actual RTX 2060, despite the naming. It also keeps the 8GB GDDR6 memory found on its bigger brother, so perhaps it is more accurate to think of it as a ‘2070 Lite' rather than ‘2060 SUPER', but it is what it is.

GPU	RTX 2080 (FE)	RTX 2070 SUPER	RTX 2070 (FE)	RTX 2060 SUPER	RTX 2060 (FE)
SMs	46	40	36	34	30
CUDA Cores	2944	2560	2304	2176	1920
Tensor Cores	368	320	288	272	240
Tensor FLOPS	85	72	63	57.4	51.6
RT Cores	46	40	36	34	30
Texture Units	184	160	144	136	120
ROPs	64	64	64	64	48
Rays Cast	8 Giga Rays	7 Giga Rays	6 Giga Rays	6 Giga Rays	5 Giga Rays
GPU Boost Clock	1800 MHz	1770 MHz	1710 MHz	1650 MHz	1680 MHz
Memory Data Rate	14 Gbps	14 Gbps	14 Gbps	14 Gbps	14 Gbps
Total Video Memory	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	6GB GDDR6
Memory Interface	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit	192-bit
Memory Bandwidth	448 GB/sec	448 GB/sec	448 GB/sec	448 GB/sec	336.1 GB/sec
TDP	225W	215W	185W	175W	160W

The decision to present RTX 2060 SUPER as RTX 2070 minus one Texture Processing Cluster (each TPC houses 2x SMs) has other consequences, aside from the reduced CUDA core count. It also means the 2060 SUPER has less RT cores, with a total of 34, while its Tensor core count is bumped down from 288 to 272.

Out of the box clock speed is also relatively slow compared to other Turing cards, with a rated boost clock of 1650MHz. This is the reference speed, meaning the Founders Edition card we are reviewing today is a reference card rather than a factory overclocked model, but the likes of Gigabyte, ASUS, MSI will be releasing factory overclocked cards.

Lastly, as we already touched on, RTX 2060 SUPER has 8GB GDDR6 memory, again clocked at 1750MHz (14000MHz effective) – the same as every other RTX card available. This means memory speeds have not been increased for this SUPER card.

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