Nvidia ‘Super’ Launch Schedule Leaked
Ok, so at this point, it’s pretty much a nailed on guarantee that the Nvidia ‘Super’ (teased earlier this year) is a brand new range of graphics cards. Well, brand new in so much that a refresh of the 20XX series could be considered new. We have, after all, seen more than enough now to be satisfied with that position. This, despite no formal confirmation from Nvidia themselves. At least… not yet!
In a report via WCCFTech, however, the reported release schedule for the graphics card range has been revealed and surprisingly, we may not have long to wait until these are actually hitting the shelves.
What Do We Know?
As part of the leak, it is suggested that Nvidia will make the formal reveal in a little over a weeks time. This will be followed up with the formal release of the first ‘Super’ graphics cards (2060/2070) the following week, and the 2080 before the end of the month.
- July 2: Planned announcement day for all graphics cards (RTX 2060 SUPER, RTX 2070 SUPER, RTX 2080 SUPER). AKA soft launch.
- July 9: GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER and GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER arrive on shelves.
- July 23: GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER planned to hit the shelves. [Tentative]
What Do We Think?
In truth, and I fully admit that this may not be an opinion shared by all my colleagues, I’m not entirely impressed with the Super. While the branding would suggest that they are overpowered version of their namesakes, all the evidence suggests that they are (more accurately) watered-down versions of their higher tier card. This isn’t a ‘Super’ 2060, it’s a ‘Sub-Par’ 2070. In addition, it doesn’t appear that from a price perspective, they’re going to be a hugely attractive option either. Well, at least not based on the base or higher tier models which will be (comparatively) less expensive.
It may simply be knee-jerk to AMD’s upcoming RX 5700 XT. Either way, however, more graphics cards can only be good news for us consumers. Best of all though, we seemingly don’t have long to find out!
What do you think? – Let us know in the comments!
I agree completely with your assessment so far in the feeling that these are not impressive. It’s basically just a shift down in pricing segment, which is LONG overdue. Turing has been a total flop, IMO, primarily due to NVidia’s ludicrous pricing. I’m still sitting on (2) 1080 Ti cards and I would have upgraded at Turing’s release if the 2080 Ti had been reasonably priced, and I honestly anticipate continuing to sit on my existing cards until Intel Xe or Nvidia 3000 series as I have no faith that NVidia will release a reasonable pricing scheme.
There’s a chance I’ll actually be pleasantly surprised, and my wallet is on standy in the unlikely event that happens, but we’ll see. NVidia have not impressed me for a couple years now.
Turing is a really shitty deal for those of us with 1080 Ti cards also – the 2080 Ti is so badly priced that very few people are buying it, but the 2080 only has 8GB of VRAM, so most folks with a 1080 Ti basically have no upgrade path right now unless they’re willing shell out insane amounts of money for a meager performance bump.
The only way the new 2080 Ti Super model would impress me enough to buy it at $1200 per unit would be if it offers at least an 80% performance bump over 1080 Ti. Anything less @ $1200 per unit is completely unacceptable.
1660ti $290, 2060 $349 minus $30 off plus $30 game. effectively $289 plus a few more free on chip bonuses. works for me.
I’m also sitting on a pair of 1080ti’s in SLI.
From what I’ve seen online, I’m still getting better performance than a single 2080ti just without the ray tracing performance.
So why would I upgrade.
I wouldn’t get anything less than a pair of 2080ti’s and the performance uptick isn’t worth
Three Grand (including sales tax)
It’s my hope that INTEL comes up with something in the way of advanced graphics SOON and put’s Nvidia out of business…Let me see if I understand this correctly, I can buy the fastest gaming CPU in the world for less than 500 dollars but the latest graphics processor in 1300. Joke