Nvidia sneaks out upgrades to mobile Geforce RTX

In early April, Nvidia launched the Geforce RTX Super for laptops. First out was the unveiling of Geforce RTX 2080 Super and RTX 2070 Super which was quickly followed by an accidental disclosure of RTX 2060 Super. Nvidia’s new cards come with higher performance and are more energy efficient.

Reportedly, the original Geforce RTX 2060 and 2070 have now received similar upgrades as the recently released Super Series. This means that Nvidia has equipped the cards with more energy-efficient GDDR6 memory and new voltage regulators – this combination will make it possible to push the cards up to higher speeds.

According to reports, the new bottling of the Geforce RTX 2070 will have an increase of 45 MHz, which means that the card will land at 1,485 MHz. With the new voltage regulators, the cards become capable of handling more power in total, and the more power-efficient GDDR6 memory thus allows the graphics circuit to use a larger share of the power budget.

To grasp the changes that have been made to previous cards, it is worth having a brief overview of the different iterations of cards from the Geforce RTX 2000 series. First out in the series was the performance-oriented Max-P, which was launched in January 2019 and includes Geforce RTX 2060, 2070 and 2080. Later, a Max-Q revision of the cards was released which aimed to make the cards more energy efficient, which is also slightly slower than Max-P.

Nvidia has changed the SKU (Stock Keeping Unit) number for both models in order to keep the different versions separate. The updated Geforce RTX 2060 thus gets the new SKU number N18E-G1-B while the newer RTX 2070 is named as N18E-G1R. As this is a silent rollout, the upgraded variants are likely to become part of future Geforce RTX-equipped computers, without manufacturers adjusting prices or applying any special labeling.

Source: Techpowerup via Computerbase

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