GeForce RTX 2060 Super vs GeForce RTX 2080

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce RTX 2080, which makes use of a 12 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 1515 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM runs at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this card. It features 2944 SPUs as well as 184 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2060 Super		175 Watts
GeForce RTX 2080		215 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (23%)

Memory Bandwidth

Both cards have the exact same memory bandwidth, so in theory they should have identical performance. (explain)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 is quite a bit (approximately 39%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 2060 Super. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080		278760 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 2060 Super		199920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 78840 (39%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2080 is superior to the GeForce RTX 2060 Super, but only just. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080		96960 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 2060 Super		94080 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2880 (3%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.