Conclusion

Whereas competition from AMD forced Nvidia to improve its price-performance with RTX 2060 Super and RTX 2070 Super, RTX 2080 Super is much less exciting in that regard.

The small bit of good news is that when you compare Founders Edition to Founders Edition, Nvidia is offering 6.5 percent more performance at a $100 lower price point now compared to RTX 2080. The problem, of course, is that RTX 2080 was never good value to begin with, and sadly, this is a legacy the RTX 2080 Super seems content to carry forward. It’s never more than 17 percent faster than RTX 2070 Super, yet it’s over 1.4x the asking price. It also isn’t really capable of making the jump to 4K gaming across the board like the RTX 2080 Ti is.

The game bundle deal offers no saving grace either, with RTX 2080 Super qualifying for the same free titles – Wolfenstein: Youngblood and Control – as RTX 2070 Super.

Despite the Founders Edition design itself continuing to hold sway, there’s really little else to say. High-end GPUs certainly don’t scale on price-performance as well as lower-end/mid-range parts, but RTX 2080 Super is simply too wide of the mark, and we can’t recommend it.

At $599, it would have had some appeal. Perhaps the cost of using fully enabled TU104 dies and faster-than-ever GDDR6 has driven up costs to the point where this is unrealistic, but we suspect it’s more to do with a lack of competitive pressure. It’ll be interesting to see if AMD can force a price drop with more powerful Navi cards in the future, though none are yet confirmed.

For 1440p gaming, if you’re dead set on spending this sort of cash on a GPU, the RTX 2080 Super is technically the only real choice, but you’d be much better off scaling back your GPU budget to £500 or so and opting for an overclocked RTX 2070 Super, or maybe even a third-party RX 5700 XT, depending on how that plays out in a few weeks, and putting the spare cash elsewhere in your system. Both cards are excellent 1440p cards after all. Meanwhile, anyone looking to step up all the way to 4K will be better off saving up and going all-out with RTX 2080 Ti.