If you brought a new RTX GPU recently, I have some bad news for you. Nvidia has just gone ahead and launched a new line of RTX GPUs. The company is launching its new RTX SUPER GPUs today, and it’s claiming to offer up to 25% increases in performance.
The new SUPER line comes with the RTX 2060 SUPER, the RTX 2070 SUPER, and the RTX 2080 SUPER. Here’s what’s new:
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Nvidia upgrading the RTX GPUs in such a short period could be a real bummer to those who only purchased the original RTX 20-series GPUs recently. These upgrades are still very impressive, though, with Nvidia promising massive performance games in a lot of popular titles. The new SUPER GPUs will be available for purchase this month, with the RTX 2060 SUPER and 2070 SUPER coming on the 9th of July, followed by the RTX 2080 Super on the 23rd of July.
Stooks
<p>So glad I moved my gaming to the Xbox One X. Chasing this hardware BS is not fun. Game developers never fully take advantage of the extra features in these cards so if you need a speed bump its a brute force bump of the next generation, costing more than a Xbox One X console most of the time. </p><p><br></p><p>MY 1080GTX will last a long time, especially since the only PC game I still have on my computer is DCS and my 1080 crushes that game in 1440p.</p>
Stooks
<blockquote><em><a href="#439196">In reply to evox81:</a></em></blockquote><p>I have never gotten 4-5 years out of a gaming rig. Video cards are 3 years at the most before I start dropping settings in new games. CPU/Motherboard memory upgrades can wait longer but if you need to upgrade any of that you can get to a point where a CPU upgrade needs new chipset/motherboard or a RAM upgrade does the same around the 3 year mark.</p>
pargon
Premium Member<blockquote><a href="https://www.thurrott.com/hardware/209627/nvidia-introduces-upgraded-rtx-gpus-with-new-super-line#439295" target="_blank"><em>In reply to Stooks:</em></a></blockquote><blockquote><em>if you buy the higher end GPUs they usually will resale for a good bit. </em></blockquote><blockquote><em>Nvidia and AMD cannibalize their low end parts all the time and when those are obsolete no one wants them. But the features on the upper tier trickle down and the margins are so much higher so they still remain higher priced than the mid-range gear. You can enjoy a better experience longer and recoup much of your money for the next upgrade.</em></blockquote><blockquote><em> Sold a GTX 1070 for about $250 that I paid $470 and used for 2.5 years.</em></blockquote><blockquote><em>Sold</em> some Radeon 7950s for over half of what I paid for them and had used them for 4 years. eBay is your friend!</blockquote>
Stooks
<blockquote><em><a href="#439211">In reply to codymesh:</a></em></blockquote><p>Nvidia has a long history of doing this. They hold back stuff, waiting for AMD to catch up, drop something faster, lower the price of the current models to under cut AMD.</p><p><br></p><p>Honestly at this point I would go with AMD a certain price point/performance bracket even it cost a tad more and was not as fast on a benchmark just to stick it too Nvidia. My next PC upgrade will be a AMD 3000 series CPU and AMD GPU.</p>