Redditor buys RTX 2080 Ti Super engineering sample on eBay, has the same number of cores as an RTX Titan but half the VRAM

An engineering sample of a reported GeForce RTX 2080 "Ti Super" has emerged, confirming that NVIDIA was toying with the idea of refreshing its entire RTX 20 series lineup with a Super model (not just the RTX 2080, 2070 and 2060). Discovered by Videocardz, a Redditor bought a working engineering sample of an RTX 2080 Ti Super on eBay and shared images of the card to prove its legitimacy.

The card features the same Founders Edition design as all other RTX 20 series (Founders Edition) models, but the color scheme on the Ti Super variant is noticeably different from all other RTX 20 series Super variants, featuring a black color scheme, with a mirror-like finish in between the card's twin fans.

One oddity with the card's exterior is the badging, which only says "RTX 2080 Super" and is missing the Ti nomenclature. If you want to dive into the weeds, this could mean NVIDIA was thinking about giving the RTX 2080 Super RTX Titan-like specs, but likely NVIDIA opted to use an RTX 2080 Super's middle piece for its engineering samples to save time.

Based on specs taken from GPU-Z by the Redditor, the RTX 2080 Ti Super is essentially an RTX Titan with half the VRAM capacity featuring 4,608 CUDA cores and 12GB of GDDR6 memory fitted to a 384-bit bus. Compared to the RTX 2080 Ti, the Super variant has one more gigabyte of VRAM and 6% more CUDA cores. But one area where the RTX 2080 Ti Super improves noticeably over the 2080 Ti and RTX Titan is in memory bandwidth, featuring 768GB/s of memory throughput, giving the GPU over 100GB/s more bandwidth than the two aforementioned Turing GPUs.

The Redditor claimed the card was working and was even able to get an NVIDIA driver to install after modifying an .INI file to make the driver interface with the RTX 2080 Ti Super. It's a shame we don't have any benchmark results, but it's inevitable the card will perform similarly to the vanilla RTX 2080 Ti and RTX Titan based on the card's specs. That said, at higher resolutions there's a chance the card could perform better than the two aforementioned cards thanks to its higher memory performance. For the uninitiated, NVIDIA launched the RTX 20 Super refresh in 2019 featuring the RTX 2080 Super, RTX 2070 Super and RTX 2060 Super. NVIDIA has periodically done Super refreshes since then and is rumored to be planning a Super refresh for the RTX 50 series by 2027.