The detailed specifications of our new graphics card testbed system is as follows:
The full line-up of graphics cards tested are listed below:
For those of you wondering, the AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT and 5700 weren't included because they aren't comparable and no match for the GeForce GTX 2080 Super at all.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super Founders Edition | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super Founders Edition | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Founders Edition | |
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Next up, here's a list of all the benchmarks used:
The synthetic 3DMark benchmark tests graphics and computational performance at different resolutions, starting at 1080p and going all the way up to 4K. A series of two graphics test, one physics test, and then a combined test stresses your hardware in turn to assess its performance.
The GeForce RTX 2080 Super is only slightly faster than the GeForce RTX 2080 in 3DMark. In Fire Strike Ultra, it was just 3 percent ahead. The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is also still clearly the undisputed king here, coming in at roughly 20 percent quicker than the GeForce RTX 2080 Super.
Ashes of the Singularity has long been the poster child for the performance benefits a low-level API like DirectX 12 can bring. It is based on the Nitrous engine and can be extremely punishing thanks to the huge number of onscreen units and the sheer level of detail accorded to each unit. However, the CPU does become the limiting factor at lower resolutions and settings.
You only start to see more significant differences between the cards at the more demanding settings, but even then a 4K resolution and Crazy settings, the GeForce RTX 2080 Super was only a few frames ahead of the GeForce RTX 2080.
Mankind Divided features just about every trick to make your game look pretty, including things like volumetric and dynamic lighting, screenspace reflections, and cloth physics. Even though it was released in 2016, the game is capable of bringing even the most powerful systems to their knees.
The GeForce RTX 2080 Super managed to squeeze out a larger lead here, and it had around a 7 percent advantage at 1440p and Ultra settings. There was still no challenging the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti though, and that card was roughly 15 percent ahead of the GeForce RTX 2080 Super.
The latest installment in the Far Cry series is actually an AMD launch title, so it'll be interesting to see how the green camp fares here.
There's not much difference at 1080p resolutions where the CPU seems to be somewhat of a limiting factor, but as you move to the 4K resolution, the GeForce RTX 2080 Super had a roughly 12 percent advantage over its predecessor.
Metro Exodus runs better in DirectX 12, so that's the setting we chose to run our benchmarks at. There's just one caveat though – actual in-game performance is generally better than the results you get in the in-game benchmark, so this is best taken as an indicator of relative performance, rather than the absolute numbers you can expect in game.
Compared to Far Cry 5, Metro Exodus scales a lot better between different cards at the lower resolutions, and the GeForce RTX 2080 Super was just under 6 percent quicker than the GeForce RTX 2080.
Shadow of War isn't as demanding as some of the other games here, and the GeForce RTX 2080 Super pottered ahead to a 10 percent lead at a 4K resolution and Ultra settings.
Like Metro Exodus, Shadow of the Tomb Raider runs better in DirectX 12 as well. DLSS and ray tracing have been added to the game already, but these numbers are obtained without those features turned on.
Things were much closer in Shadow of the Tomb Raider, with the GeForce RTX 2080 even somehow eking out a small lead over its Super counterpart in some benchmarks. That aside, the difference between the two cards was small, coming up to just 6 percent at a 4K resolution and Ultra settings.
Division 2 is another new addition to our benchmark suite, and it replaces 2016's The Division. We've also shifted to DirectX 12 here as well because of the performance gains offered by the low-level API.
At 4K and Ultra settings, the GeForce RTX 2080 Super was ahead of its predecessor by roughly 8 percent. In comparison, the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti was faster than the former card by a good 17 percent.
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