The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super Review: Memories of the Future
by Ryan Smith on July 23, 2019 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
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Grand Theft Auto V
Now a truly venerable title, GTA V is a veteran of past game suites that is still graphically demanding as they come. As an older DX11 title, it provides a glimpse into the graphically intensive games of yesteryear that don't incorporate the latest features. Originally released for consoles in 2013, the PC port came with a slew of graphical enhancements and options. Just as importantly, GTA V includes a rather intensive and informative built-in benchmark, somewhat uncommon in open-world games.
The settings are identical to its previous appearances, which are custom as GTA V does not have presets. To recap, a "Very High" quality is used, where all primary graphics settings turned up to their highest setting, except grass, which is at its own very high setting. Meanwhile 4x MSAA is enabled for direct views and reflections. This setting also involves turning on some of the advanced rendering features - the game's long shadows, high resolution shadows, and high definition flight streaming - but not increasing the view distance any further.
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yetanotherhuman - Wednesday, July 24, 2019 - link
A real shame the 1080 Ti isn't in the benchmarking graphs, it's clearly the competitor card to the 2080 and 2080 Super. It would show just how little NVIDIA has done in giving us better performance to price in just over 2 yearsDanNeely - Wednesday, July 24, 2019 - link
It needs retested first. Look at Bench, it's not in the 2019 GPU bench yet; hopefully this is just a case of not gotten to it yet (2019 GPU bench is still fairly sparse vs 2018) and not a case of the card being assigned to someone other than Ryan and thus not being available for him to cycle through the GPU benchmark box.imaheadcase - Wednesday, July 24, 2019 - link
Its really weird you never include the 1080 Ti in the benchmarks.bill.rookard - Wednesday, July 24, 2019 - link
The 5700XT certainly is a spoiler of sorts, 80-90% of the performance for a little more than half the price.Ranger90125 - Thursday, July 25, 2019 - link
Good review...thanks. I'm assuming that the most important aspect of the Super cards i.e. the ray tracing perf, is very similar going from RTX2080 TO RTX2080 Super? ;)Kishoreshack - Thursday, July 25, 2019 - link
How do I donate to Anandtech for writing such excellent articles?bajs11 - Friday, July 26, 2019 - link
single digit improvement while still being overpriced as the original 2080Where I live the original 2080 still cost over 700 usd while the super are about 150 bucks more...
maybe they are a lot cheaper in the states
ballsystemlord - Saturday, July 27, 2019 - link
Spelling and grammar corrections so far:"However it's still requires more power than the RTX 2080 vanilla, ..."
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"...which its much better performance-per-dollar ratio."
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"...with its much better performance-per-dollar ratio."
Beaver M. - Saturday, July 27, 2019 - link
So Nvidia now thinks 8 GB is enough from 2060S through 2080S? Sure sure.But I guess there are still enough victims who will buy this overpriced and not future proof crap.
DillholeMcRib - Sunday, July 28, 2019 - link
I have no idea why anyone would pay the Nvidia tax with the Radeon Navi stuff out.Right now I am using the 5700 XT and while it is a little loud, it matches up really well with the 2070 Super for $100 less. RTX specific stuff is virtually non existent.