The youtubers were wrong (2080 Super)

[mardon85]

On its release the 2080 Super got a real panning from the youtube community saying it was pointless etc. I managed to get my hands on one at a great price (£480) and set about overclocking it.

The GDDR6 Samsung Memory on these things is unreal. I was able to achieve a stable overclock of 9000Mhz (18Ghz double data rate) on the RAM which will close the gap on the larger memory bus of the 2080Ti.

The card I had wasn't a great overclocker and only achieved 2050Mhz locked using a Kraken G12 AIO with temps around 50C. Performance was fantastic and I was very happy with the card.

 

Unfortunately due to an error all of my own creation the card is now dead. I replaced the 2080 Super with a 2080Ti which arrived yesterday. Unfortunately the Ebay listing was wrong and I got a Gigabyte Windforce none A chip vs the Gaming OC A Chip I had paid for so it's going back today. However this didn't stop me running a few Time Spy Extreme benchmarks. The overclocked 2080 Super is within 502 graphics score points of a stock 2080 Ti. Obviously overclocked the difference will be much bigger. However an impressive result nevertheless for a significantly cheaper product. 

 

Compare link: https://www.3dmark.com/compare/spy/10597956/spy/9838792

 

... port royal on the other hand is a bit of a blood bath for the 2080 Super 

 

https://www.3dmark.com/compare/pr/217933/pr/192895

 

[Samfisher]

Your CPU clocks aren't even the same between the 2.

[mardon85]

Well picked up.. Compare just the GPU score and my point still stands.

[Sir0Tek]

So I guess the point is the 2080S isn't that shabby (especially when compared to the non-S) due to it's OC-capabilities?

[mardon85]

8 minutes ago, Sir0Tek said:

So I guess the point is the 2080S isn't that shabby (especially when compared to the non-S) due to it's OC-capabilities?

Yes I think out the box 5% probably is a bit of a disappointment but it doesn't cost any more. However once overclocked it certainly becomes are more attractive option.

I'm only just reading about power limits now and if there was a BIOS with a higher limit i'm sure I could have gone further with the 2080 Super. It wasn't that it was crashing above 2050mhz it just wouldn't hold clocks sustained over that amount. So who knows, perhaps I could have closed the gap some more. RIP little 2080 Super, sorry I fried you.

[Noah0302]

You had back luck on your core since my non Super 2080 can hit 2150, but the memory is insane dude

[mardon85]

2 minutes ago, Noah0302 said:

You had back luck on your core since my non Super 2080 can hit 2150, but the memory is insane dude

Yes its the new Samsung DDR6. That's an average overclock people are getting more. I'd love to see what a golden chip could do on a 130% power limit BIOS.

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[Sir0Tek]

Shame that it's not the memory bottlenecking the card, otherwise the improvements would have been much better.

I remember that I didn't care much about low stock memory-clocks back in the days because memory usually overclocks quite well. Well, not as good as in the example above, though.

[xAcid9]

I thought the reason it was pointless was because the performance is close to 2080?

[mardon85]

34 minutes ago, xAcid9 said:

I thought the reason it was pointless was because the performance is close to 2080?

Yes within 5% I believe. I wonder if a golden 2080 OC vs a golden 2080 Super OC would be within 5% of each other?