Nvidia Geforce Rtx 2080 Specs
Nvidia’s Nsight Visual Studio Edition application is used to inspect the state of the GPUs. Nvidia Titan RTXAPI supportDirect3DDirect3D 12.0 OpenCLOpenCL 3.0OpenGLOpenGL 4.6VulkanVulkan 1.2HistoryPredecessorGeForce 10 seriesVariantGeForce 16 seriesSuccessorGeForce 30 seriesThe gtx 1080 8gb GeForce 20 series is a family of graphics processing units developed by Nvidia. Serving as the successor to the GeForce 10 series, the line started shipping on September 20, 2018, and after several editions, on July 2, 2019, the GeForce RTX Super line of cards was announced.
The RTX 2080 Ti is untouched, for now, and remains at the top of Nvidia’s product stack at $1,200 with the 2080 Super slotting in below it for $500 less. Despite matching the previous flagship in performance – a card that saw my test system draw around 403W under load, the RTX 3070 managed the same performance at just 343W. This makes it the ideal partner for small form factor systems too, where undervolting might yield far lower power draw and temperatures than the RTX 2080 Ti. Meanwhile, DLSS is artificial intelligence that actively adjusts the resolution in a game to maximize frame rates in areas where resolution isn’t as important and to maximize resolution when the scene calls for it. For example, if you’re sprinting in a first-person shooter, you don’t need high resolution for a hazy scene, but if you’re stopped in the middle of a vibrant forest, the higher resolution will be utilized.
It offers the same performance as the Ti, at least in my benchmarks, as the RTX 2080 Ti, which while a two year-old card is still a mighty piece of silicon. However, the latter costs three times as much, which really highlights the value proposition of the RTX 3070, which holds true both with RTX features on and off. When ray tracing and DLSS inevitably make their way across the gaming landscape, the difference between having an RTX or GTX GPU on your gaming laptop will become much more apparent. The problem is we currently don’t have even a handful of games that make use of this technology. If you’re prepared to hand over the kingly sum of $719 (about £570, AU$1030) that this graphics card demands, you won’t come away disappointed. Other than the Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti, there isn’t another graphics card faster than this currently, or one that could possibly deliver a 4K 60 fps gaming experience all on its own.
The TU104 graphics processor is a large chip with a die area of 545 mm² and 13,600 million transistors. Unlike the fully unlocked GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER, which uses the same GPU but has all 3072 shaders enabled, NVIDIA has disabled some shading units on the GeForce RTX 2080 to reach the product’s target shader count. Also included are 368 tensor cores which help improve the speed of machine learning applications. NVIDIA has paired 8 GB GDDR6 memory with the GeForce RTX 2080, which are connected using a 256-bit memory interface. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 1515 MHz, which can be boosted up to 1710 MHz, memory is running at 1750 MHz .
Variable Rate Shading focuses processing power on areas of rich detail, boosting overall performance without affecting perceived image quality. Mesh Shaders advanced geometry processing supports an order of magnitude more objects per-scene, allowing the creation of rich complex worlds. Dedicated ray tracing hardware enables fast real-time ray tracing with physically accurate shadows, reflections, refractions, and global illumination. GeForce is light years ahead of other cards, delivering truly unique real-time ray-tracing technologies for cutting-edge, hyper-realistic graphics. Microsoft designed this system to be a lightweight laptop that’s easy to carry around.