The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER falls well short of the RTX 2080 Ti in gaming and synthetic benchmarks; only just beats the RTX 2080

Early reviews for the GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER and RTX 2070 SUPER cards have already appeared online, having been released just under two weeks ago, but we are still awaiting the RTX 2080 SUPER to hit the shelves. The latter is expected to arrive before the end of the month, but some synthetic and gaming benchmark results have already appeared online, which do not necessarily show the upcoming GPU in a good light.

We have seen the RTX 2060 SUPER, and RTX 2070 SUPER trading blows with the AMD Radeon RX 5700 series, with the former offering a decent performance boost over its predecessor. Unfortunately, the RTX 2080 SUPER appears to be more like an RTX 2070 SUPER to the RTX 2080 than an RTX 2060 SUPER is to its predecessor, with OpenCL and Ashes of the Singularity benchmarks demonstrating that the RTX 2080 SUPER only achieved between 6% and 8% higher scores than the RTX 2080.

The news comes courtesy of @TUM_APISAK, but we are currently unable to verify these results. However, the Twitter account has been reliable previously and seem to relay results that they have found or been sent. These are only two benchmarks too, with the Ashes of the Singularity test being run on the Crazy [4K] preset, but they do indicate where the RTX 2080 SUPER will sit among its peers.

Moreover, the RTX 2080 Ti leaves the RTX 2080 SUPER in its wake, with the latter trailing the former by between 13% and 14% in the same benchmarks. So, these early results suggest that the RTX 2080 SUPER offers little more than the RTX 2080 and a lot less than the RTX 2080 Ti. Hence, the RTX 2080 may represent better value for money if you can find one cheap online. However, the RTX 2080 SUPER Founders Edition will cost US$500 less than the RTX 2080 Ti, so perhaps a 14% performance deficit is not that bad after all.