EVGA in the present day introduced availability of their GeForce RTX 2080 & 2070 SUPER KO graphics playing cards. Much like their authentic RTX 2060 KO graphics card, which got here in a horny value level that undercut NVIDIA’s personal $299 MSRP for the graphics card, the brand new graphics playing cards additionally carry a brand new, cheaper price level than the corporate’s (earlier) least expensive choices, the Black collection. The EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER KO will likely be retailing for $499.99 (2560 CUDA cores, 1770 MHz Boost Clock, eight GB GDDR6 reminiscence @ 14 GHz over a 256-bit bus), whereas the EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER KO (3072 CUDA cores, 1815 MHz Boost Clock, eight GB GDDR6 reminiscence @ 15.5 GHz over a 256-bit bus) will be had for $699.99. This is a decrease pricing than most competitor’s choices on this marketplace for a custom-designed RTX 2070 SUPER or RTX 2080 SUPER.
To obtain this pricepoint, some cuts have needed to be made. The playing cards ship with out a backplate, and the cooling resolution appears to be barely much less dense than the corporate’s different, costlier designs based mostly on NVIDIA’s chips. The PCB in these graphics playing cards is a {custom} design – and going to the difficulty of redesigning what was an initially beefy engineering feat implies that some cuts have been doubtless carried out on this space as properly. The new SUPER KO graphics playing cards additionally drop the Virtual Link port, that includes solely 3x DisplayPort and 1x HDMI as show outputs. EVGA’s Precision X1 overclocking utility is bundled with the graphics playing cards.
