Is the Nvidia RTX 2080 SUPER powerful enough for 1440P 144Hz gaming in 2020?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super is a powerful graphics card that has been put to the test in various games and benchmarks. In this article, we'll take a closer look at its performance, particularly in terms of rate racing.

Firstly, I want to talk about how frustrating it can be when there are multiple tiers of high settings for some reason. This seems to be the case with the RTX 2080 Super, where you have "high", "very high", and "super high" settings, as well as an "Ultra" setting that feels like a joke. To address this issue, I've chosen the preset right under Ultra, which allows us to see how the card performs in different scenarios.

After running benchmarks on various games, including fast-paced first-person shooters and more demanding modern titles, we can see that the RTX 2080 Super is performing decently well. In games like CS:GO, Rainbow Six, Battlefield 5, and Modern Warfare, the frame rates are still high, although they're not quite reaching the magical 144 FPS mark.

However, when it comes to visual safari-style games like Assassin's Creed, Tomb Raider, and Metro Exodus, the RTX 2080 Super starts to show its limitations. While the frame rates are still respectable, they're nowhere near the 100-144 FPS range that we'd consider optimal for these types of games.

Now, let's talk about rate racing performance, which is a feature that's becoming increasingly important in modern gaming. The RTX 2080 Super supports ray tracing, but its performance in this area is not as impressive as we might expect. In fact, even with the same high settings used for other games, the card struggles to maintain frame rates.

To illustrate this point, I've run some tests using different rate racing settings and observed that adding these high settings does not significantly improve visual quality but greatly impacts performance. Therefore, I would strongly recommend turning off ray tracing in games unless it's essential for your experience.

Looking ahead to the next generation of graphics cards, it's clear that the RTX 2080 Super is starting to show its age. With the rise of ray tracing and more realistic graphics, this card's limitations are becoming increasingly apparent.

In conclusion, if you're primarily concerned with conventional gaming performance, you may not need to upgrade from your current RTX 2080 Super. However, as ray tracing becomes a standard feature in games, it's essential to consider the card's rate racing performance. If you want to future-proof your system, you'll need a more powerful GPU that can handle the demands of next-gen gaming.

So, should you upgrade from your current RTX 2080 Super? The answer depends on how important ray tracing is to you and whether you're willing to invest in a new graphics card. If not, then sticking with what you have might be the best option. But if you do want to future-proof your system or take full advantage of ray tracing features, it's essential to look at what's coming next.

Let me know in the comments section below whether you're happy with your current configuration and if you'd consider upgrading when new GPUs become available. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next video!

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: entoday we're gonna look at a beast of a graphics card the nvidia r-tx 2080 super and we're gonna see whether or not it's powerful enough to get the most out of your high refresh rate 1440p gaming monitor there's one big reason why I think now is a really good time to answer this question because if some dodgy er websites on the internet are to be believed we are on the cusp of a new GPU generation from Nvidia and not only that but AMD also has some new high-end GPUs up their sleeves apparently so what I want to try and answer with today's video is if you own a current generation high-end graphics card should you even want more power now this in itself seems like a pretty stupid question to me because more is always better and you could always use more power but how much more do we need to have the ultimate high refresh rate 1440p gaming experience because if you're already getting over a hundred and forty-four frames per second in all of the games that you play with a twenty eighty super or equivalent graphics card do you really need to spend more money on a new graphics card or should you spend it on something more responsible like like cryptocurrencies now let's have a look at the contender that's going to defend this generations performance honour and kind of the previous generations we've been we've been stuck in a in a rut for a while here but anyway the graphics card is the EVGA RTX 2080 Super XE ultra now this graphics card was sent over by EVGA as a loaner unit but that won't affect my opinion on it now this specific variant of the card is actually really nice because it's not got one of those huge bulky coolers on it so it means that it fits in all form factors but you know thermal performance and stuff like that is still in check I do really like this graphics card I've been using it for the last couple of weeks and yeah I've had no problems with it now before we get any further into the video I just want to point out that there are actually going to be two stages to the benchmarks in the video today now the first one is going to look at a more conventional early 2020 gaming use case and how well the twenty eighty super handles it at 1440p high refresh rate and then the second set of benchmarks is going to look at a more a more future proof and challenging set of benchmarks yeah so stick around for all of that now we also need to look at the rest of the test system before we get into benchmarks just so that we know what we're working with as far as the CPU goes I'm using an Intel i7 9700 k overclocked to 5.1 gigahertz for all of these tests just so that we have as small as CPU bottleneck as possible because that is a pretty big issue with high refresh rate monitors even at 1440p as far as RAM goes we're using 16 gigs of DDR 430 600 megahertz now this is a Corsair Vengeance RGB pro kit sent over by Corsair 4 for testing in videos and it'll just have the rest of the test configuration listed over here over some pretty b-roll so that you know what the rest of the non directly performance affecting components are that I used for this test now before we get into the benchmarks let's just have a look at the settings that are used for the games that I tested now obviously we're using 2560 by 1440 P as the resolution and because we're using a Ben QE X 27 80 Q which has a max refresh rate of a hundred and forty four Hertz we're aiming for about a hundred and forty four frames per second from the graphics card and then finally in regards to the settings that I'm gonna use for all of the games for the majority of the games I'm going to be using high settings because as tech deals quite regularly says ultra settings is for screenshots and high settings is for actual gaming although some games do this weird thing where they have like multiple tiers of high settings for some reason so they'll have like high and then very high and then super high and then Ultra I find this really irritating for some reason I don't know why but when that's the case I choose the preset right under ultra so with that let's have a look at some benchmarks after looking at these benchmarks things are looking decent for the r-tx 2080 super especially when looking at faster paced first-person shooter games without higher FPS really matters in my opinion and I'm not only talking about potato shooters like csgo and Rainbow six but more demanding modern shooters like battlefield 5 and modern warfare are also not doing too badly although they're still definitely short of that golden 144 frame per second mark now we're moving over to more visual Safari style games like Assassin's Creed and tomb raider and Metro Exodus it's not looking as good for the 2080 Super the frame rates are still high and the games do look beautiful and plays smoothly but were not that close to the hundred and forty four frame per second golden zone although arguably hitting a hundred and forty-four frames per second in that kind of visual Safari style game is not that important in my opinion now we're looking at these results things are looking pretty rosy for the r-tx 2080 super and these results are pretty impressive although these tests don't take into account something that's slowly becoming more relevant in my opinion and that's rate racing now rate racing support may not matter that much to you at the moment but considering the fact that there are a bunch of pretty tasty ray-traced titles coming out over the next year and the new console generation is potentially also going to support it so it's going to become more mainstream I think rate racing performance is an important thing to take into account because that may be something that we're gonna get a huge jump in with the next generation although I don't want to get too much into discussing the next generation on this video so what I decided to do was use the same high settings for all of the ray-traced games that I have and see how much of a difference it makes using kind of middle-of-the-road rate racing settings on these games so let's see what happens and here is where we find the Achilles heel to this generations high-end gaming performance because even though this 2080 Super is one of the most powerful ray-tracing capable graphics cards available today it really struggles and I wasn't even using ultra rate racing settings I was using the same high settings I used for the rest of the games I do want to reiterate though that with this generation of games in the games that I tested for this video adding those high rate racing settings visually didn't make much of a difference in my opinion and it had a huge impact on the performance so I obviously would recommend everybody turn them off because there's very little improvement for a massive degradation of performance but if rate racing becomes nearly as big as in video wants us to think it's gonna get over the next couple of years then this generation of high end GPU isn't gonna age very well and this is where we need a huge jump in performance in the next generation in conclusion after having done all of these tests and gaming on the system for a while I think if all you care about is more conventional gaming performance I think you shouldn't be too worried about upgrading if you have something that performs similarly to an RT X 20/80 super unless there's a huge jump of performance in the next generation however there is one point where it falls short and that's still definitely in its rate racing performance now we still don't really know how relevant this is gonna be as time goes on but it seems like there definitely is a push in that direction from more sides than just Nvidia and with that let me know in the comments section below if you're happy with your current configuration and if you would be looking to upgrade when new GPUs do eventually come out thank you very much for watching if you liked the video like it share it with your friends subscribe to the channel and then follow me on whatever social media you're interested in I'll have them all linked in the description below and until the next video byetoday we're gonna look at a beast of a graphics card the nvidia r-tx 2080 super and we're gonna see whether or not it's powerful enough to get the most out of your high refresh rate 1440p gaming monitor there's one big reason why I think now is a really good time to answer this question because if some dodgy er websites on the internet are to be believed we are on the cusp of a new GPU generation from Nvidia and not only that but AMD also has some new high-end GPUs up their sleeves apparently so what I want to try and answer with today's video is if you own a current generation high-end graphics card should you even want more power now this in itself seems like a pretty stupid question to me because more is always better and you could always use more power but how much more do we need to have the ultimate high refresh rate 1440p gaming experience because if you're already getting over a hundred and forty-four frames per second in all of the games that you play with a twenty eighty super or equivalent graphics card do you really need to spend more money on a new graphics card or should you spend it on something more responsible like like cryptocurrencies now let's have a look at the contender that's going to defend this generations performance honour and kind of the previous generations we've been we've been stuck in a in a rut for a while here but anyway the graphics card is the EVGA RTX 2080 Super XE ultra now this graphics card was sent over by EVGA as a loaner unit but that won't affect my opinion on it now this specific variant of the card is actually really nice because it's not got one of those huge bulky coolers on it so it means that it fits in all form factors but you know thermal performance and stuff like that is still in check I do really like this graphics card I've been using it for the last couple of weeks and yeah I've had no problems with it now before we get any further into the video I just want to point out that there are actually going to be two stages to the benchmarks in the video today now the first one is going to look at a more conventional early 2020 gaming use case and how well the twenty eighty super handles it at 1440p high refresh rate and then the second set of benchmarks is going to look at a more a more future proof and challenging set of benchmarks yeah so stick around for all of that now we also need to look at the rest of the test system before we get into benchmarks just so that we know what we're working with as far as the CPU goes I'm using an Intel i7 9700 k overclocked to 5.1 gigahertz for all of these tests just so that we have as small as CPU bottleneck as possible because that is a pretty big issue with high refresh rate monitors even at 1440p as far as RAM goes we're using 16 gigs of DDR 430 600 megahertz now this is a Corsair Vengeance RGB pro kit sent over by Corsair 4 for testing in videos and it'll just have the rest of the test configuration listed over here over some pretty b-roll so that you know what the rest of the non directly performance affecting components are that I used for this test now before we get into the benchmarks let's just have a look at the settings that are used for the games that I tested now obviously we're using 2560 by 1440 P as the resolution and because we're using a Ben QE X 27 80 Q which has a max refresh rate of a hundred and forty four Hertz we're aiming for about a hundred and forty four frames per second from the graphics card and then finally in regards to the settings that I'm gonna use for all of the games for the majority of the games I'm going to be using high settings because as tech deals quite regularly says ultra settings is for screenshots and high settings is for actual gaming although some games do this weird thing where they have like multiple tiers of high settings for some reason so they'll have like high and then very high and then super high and then Ultra I find this really irritating for some reason I don't know why but when that's the case I choose the preset right under ultra so with that let's have a look at some benchmarks after looking at these benchmarks things are looking decent for the r-tx 2080 super especially when looking at faster paced first-person shooter games without higher FPS really matters in my opinion and I'm not only talking about potato shooters like csgo and Rainbow six but more demanding modern shooters like battlefield 5 and modern warfare are also not doing too badly although they're still definitely short of that golden 144 frame per second mark now we're moving over to more visual Safari style games like Assassin's Creed and tomb raider and Metro Exodus it's not looking as good for the 2080 Super the frame rates are still high and the games do look beautiful and plays smoothly but were not that close to the hundred and forty four frame per second golden zone although arguably hitting a hundred and forty-four frames per second in that kind of visual Safari style game is not that important in my opinion now we're looking at these results things are looking pretty rosy for the r-tx 2080 super and these results are pretty impressive although these tests don't take into account something that's slowly becoming more relevant in my opinion and that's rate racing now rate racing support may not matter that much to you at the moment but considering the fact that there are a bunch of pretty tasty ray-traced titles coming out over the next year and the new console generation is potentially also going to support it so it's going to become more mainstream I think rate racing performance is an important thing to take into account because that may be something that we're gonna get a huge jump in with the next generation although I don't want to get too much into discussing the next generation on this video so what I decided to do was use the same high settings for all of the ray-traced games that I have and see how much of a difference it makes using kind of middle-of-the-road rate racing settings on these games so let's see what happens and here is where we find the Achilles heel to this generations high-end gaming performance because even though this 2080 Super is one of the most powerful ray-tracing capable graphics cards available today it really struggles and I wasn't even using ultra rate racing settings I was using the same high settings I used for the rest of the games I do want to reiterate though that with this generation of games in the games that I tested for this video adding those high rate racing settings visually didn't make much of a difference in my opinion and it had a huge impact on the performance so I obviously would recommend everybody turn them off because there's very little improvement for a massive degradation of performance but if rate racing becomes nearly as big as in video wants us to think it's gonna get over the next couple of years then this generation of high end GPU isn't gonna age very well and this is where we need a huge jump in performance in the next generation in conclusion after having done all of these tests and gaming on the system for a while I think if all you care about is more conventional gaming performance I think you shouldn't be too worried about upgrading if you have something that performs similarly to an RT X 20/80 super unless there's a huge jump of performance in the next generation however there is one point where it falls short and that's still definitely in its rate racing performance now we still don't really know how relevant this is gonna be as time goes on but it seems like there definitely is a push in that direction from more sides than just Nvidia and with that let me know in the comments section below if you're happy with your current configuration and if you would be looking to upgrade when new GPUs do eventually come out thank you very much for watching if you liked the video like it share it with your friends subscribe to the channel and then follow me on whatever social media you're interested in I'll have them all linked in the description below and until the next video bye