GeForce RTX 2060 Super vs GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

Intro

The GeForce RTX 2060 Super has a core clock speed of 1470 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 14000 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and uses a 12 nm design. It is comprised of 2176 SPUs, 136 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all of that to the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER, which comes with core speeds of 1650 MHz on the GPU, and 15500 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 3072 SPUs along with 192 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.