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GIGABYTE has just unleashed its range of GeForce RTX 20 SUPER graphics cards led by the new flagship AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 8G graphics card and boy... does it look good. All of the new AORUS GeForce RTX 20 SUPER series cards look awesome, but the flagship AORUS RTX 2080 SUPER 8G takes the cake.

The new AORUS GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 8G features a huge triple-fan WINDFORCE STACK cooler with 3 x 100mm fans keeping the graphics card nice and cool, and a metal backplate on the back. GIGABYTE is keeping the entire card cool with VRAM and MOSFET cooling, especially the high-speed GDDR6 at 15.5Gbps on the new RTX 2080 SUPER cards.

As you can see the cooling system is pretty elaborate. GIGABYTE has infused the AORUS card with a "multi-layered design" that features wing shaped contours and resembles, in their words "the falcon's high velocity ascension and dive through the skies".

Now that NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 20 SUPER series graphics cards are here, with my review on the GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER available right here, ZOTAC has officially unveiled its new range of GeForce RTX 20 SUPER series graphics cards.

ZOTAC have 3 of each card in the RTX 2060 SUPER, RTX 2070 SUPER and RTX 2080 SUPER. First off we have the ZOTAC GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER AMP Extreme, followed by the RTX 2080 SUPER AMP and RTX 2080 SUPER TWIN FAN. The custom RTX 2070 SUPER cards are the same from ZOTAC in that there'll be a SUPER AMP Extreme, SUPER AMP, and SUPER TWIN FAN version while the RTX 2060 SUPER cards change things up offering a SUPER MINI variant for tiny-but-powerful gaming PCs.

The ZOTAC GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER AMP Extreme will have its GPU boost clocks at 1875MHz and I'm sure with much more OC headroom, as well as its 8GB of GDDR6 clocked at 15.5Gbps (a normal thing for the new RTX 2080 SUPER cards). It features ZOTAC's beautiful use of RGB lighting, with a triple-fan cooler keeping the Turing GPU and GDDR6 nice and cool. This will be the one to look for when it comes to brute performance from SUPER and ZOTAC.

NVIDIA has had ray tracing capable hardware in the form of the kick ass GeForce RTX graphics cards for close to a year now, and even AMD's next-gen-and-finally-nearly-here Navi-based Radeon RX 5700 series cards launch on 7/7, they still won't pack ray tracing abilities.

This doesn't mean RTG engineers haven't been working on ray tracing in Navi, as the GPU architecture finds a new home inside of both the next-gen Xbox and PlayStation consoles which will both have ray tracing abilities, meaning AMD has been working on ray tracing for years. According to a new report by Tom's Hardware, AMD filed for a patent in 2017 which described a "hybrid" ray tracing solution that wouldn't solely rely on hardware-accelerated ray tracing.

NVIDIA has dedicated hardware on every GeForce RTX card for its real-time ray tracing, but AMD is looking to simplify things for next-gen Radeon cards. According to the recently discovered patent AMD will be using both existing shading units and "fixed function" hardware while saying "flexibility is preserved" for developers. This method, according to AMD's latest, would see performance and processing issues for hardware and software-based ray tracing be solved.

ASUS is about to launch 33 different SKUs of GeForce RTX SUPER graphics cards, but GIGABYTE has its Taiwanese competitor beat with an insane 69 different SKUs coming in the next few months.

GIGABYTE's more extensive list of GeForce RTX SUPER graphics cards is a little more interesting as the company is going to be launching a Mini-ITX range of GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER and RTX 2060 SUPER cards. These Mini-ITX cards will be small but hella powerful as the RTX 2060 SUPER and RTX 2070 SUPER are great upgrades on what the current models are, and will fit into small form factor (SFF) gaming rigs.

The flagship AORUS RTX SUPER range will include RTX 2080/2070/2060 models, while the GAMING RTX SUPER brand will also host all three SUPER models, the TURBO range will only pack RTX 2080 SUPER and RTX 2070 SUPER versions. GIGABYTE's popular WINDFORCE range will have RTX 2080/2070/2060 SUPER models, the Mini-ITX range only has RTX 2070/2060 SUPER, while the 'other models' include two additional RTX 2060 SUPER SKUs.

As we get closer to the official launch of NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER and GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER graphics cards, we're finding out more and more from AIB partners like ASUS and GIGABYTE.

ASUS looks to have a huge 33 different SKUs of the GeForce RTX SUPER series, with custom versions of the RTX 2080 SUPER, RTX 2070 SUPER, and RTX 2060 SUPER all in the pipeline. We're looking at the ROG STRIX RTX 2080 SUPER being the flagship model in the RTX 2080 SUPER range (which is coming later this month) while the RTX 2060 SUPER and RTX 2070 SUPER will both have their own ROG STRIX custom models available very soon.

The company will be launching ROG STRIX, DUAL, TUF3, TURBO, and PHOENIX variants of the GeForce RTX SUPER series, with the PHOENIX limited to just the RTX 2060 SUPER, and a single TURBO model of the RTX 2080 SUPER (as well as a TURBO model of the RTX 2060/2070 SUPER, too).

AMD is just over a week away from launching its new Radeon RX 5000 series graphics cards based on the new Navi GPU architecture, and while we'll see the Radeon RX 5700 XT and RX 5700 -- there won't be any high-end flagships to compete against the RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti.

According to new leaks stumbled upon by Komachi on Twitter, it looks like SAPPHIRE is working on a bunch of new Navi-based Radeon RX 5000 series cards including some purported flagship models we haven't heard about yet. We're looking at the Radeon RX 5900, RX 5900 XT, RX 5950 and RX 5950 XT as the new high-end Navi-based graphics cards to be excited for -- but are they based on Navi 10 or 20? That we don't know.

We could expect a dual-GPU variant in the Radeon RX 5950 XT which would be really cool, but I can't imagine the power numbers on that thing.

VESA has just announced the fresh new DisplayPort 2.0 standard that drives supported resolutions right up to 16K, which comes in at an eye-weltering 15360x8460, and DP 2.0 can do it at 60Hz.

DisplayPort 2.0 can also do dual 8K monitors both at 120Hz which is astounding, considering DP 1.4-based 8K monitors use dual DP cables to hit 8K60. This is the first update to the DisplayPort spec since 2016 with DP 1.4a, which compared to that DP 2.0 has 3x more bandwidth which is the driving force behind the huge uptick in resolution support. VESA Board Chair Alan Kobayashi explains: "DP 2.0 represents one of our most significant milestones in the history of DisplayPort, and is the culmination of several years' effort and major enhancements to this ubiquitous standard".

DP 2.0 supports multiple high-res, high refresh rate displays with the increased bandwidth allowing for 2 x 8K 120Hz monitors, or 2 x 4K 144Hz monitors which is just incredible. Not only that but we'll have support for 10K monitors as well. This is all thanks to that increased bandwidth that the new DP 2.0 standard is capable of, speaking of which here are the raw bandwidth and effective bandwidth numbers:

NVIDIA is currently preparing its GeForce RTX SUPER series of graphics cards in the coming weeks, with WCCFTech stirring the pot today with some exclusive news on pricing of the new SUPER cards. This is what we're told to expect:

I posted my own GeForce RTX SUPER series price prediction a little under two weeks ago now and seemed to be pretty much on the money with WCCFTech's exclusive sources. I expect the pricing to be a little more competitive, but NVIDIA can do whatever they want with the high-end/enthusiast market when they're that far ahead.

We're just getting 7nm parts in the form of AMD's upcoming Ryzen 3000 series and Radeon RX 5700 series products, but TSMC has decided that it is time to announce R&D has begun for the 2nm node.

We will soon be hearing more about the 5nm and 3nm nodes from the likes of Samsung and TSMC as research into those processes has already begun, but the news on 2nm is super new. Zhuang Zishou, a senior director at TSMC, explained to Taiwanese media that the 2nm plant will join the other next-gen node plants in Hsichu, Taiwan.

Hsichu is where the huge Science Park is located where 400 tech companies reside, with TSMC hoping to get the 2nm plant operational by 2024. The road to 2nm is pretty damn insane, as we're quickly shifting from 14/16nm to 7/10nm, while 5/3nm are in the works and now R&D on 2nm has begun.

E3 2019 - NVIDIA has just had a super announcement at E3 2019 with news that the company has teamed with CD Projekt RED on bringing RTX effects into Cyberpunk 2077, which was recently detailed at E3 2019 and features Keanu Reeves in a starring role.

Cyberpunk 2077 is yet another major AAA title to receive RTX abilities, with the recently-announced Call of Duty: Modern Warfare rebooted with RTX abilities and it looks beyond gorgeous. There's also Control from Remedy, as well as the new Wolfenstein and many other games in the pipeline with RTX abilities coming. Cyberpunk 2077 with RTX is a big, big deal as it is one of, if not the most-hyped game in many years.

NVIDIA securing Cyberpunk 2077 as an RTX-capable game will definitely be a huge hit for 2020, and it'll be a SUPER time for gamers. Cyberpunk 2077 drops on April 16, 2020 and stars Keanu Reeves (!!!).