Official Nvidia Rtx 2080 Ti, 2080, & 2070 Specs, Price, Release Date
The results are similar in the Arnold for Maya scene, although the V-Ray architectural scene still won’t render on either GeForce card. All that said, Nvidia hasn’t increased the price of this GPU at all, so there’s not anything to officially complain about as they’re not price gouging here. It’s possible the Super card might be significantly faster on a different game that I didn’t test, but with the games I tested, there was almost no difference between the Super version and the regular version. Overall this is a very mild spec bump, especially compared to the treatment the 2070 and 2060 received. It’s a bit similar to when Nvidia released a “new” version of the GTX 1060 with faster memory, and nobody really cared about it since the performance bump was so tiny. Serving as the successor to the GeForce 10 series, the 20 series marked the introduction of Nvidia’s Turing microarchitecture, and the first generation of RTX cards, the first in the industry to implement realtime hardware ray tracing in a consumer product.
The only problem is that, for Core i5 PC owners at least, the GTX 1080Ti offers a near identical experience for less money. To help answer those questions, I’ve got the Founders Edition of Nvidia’s gigabyte gtx 1060 3gb (to see what its beefy big brother’s like, have a read of my Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080Ti review instead). For those of you who like numbers out there, the next two paragraphs are for you. Like all RTX 2080 cards you’ll be able to buy soon, you’ll find 8GB of GDDR6 memory here that can deliver a massive 448GB/s of memory bandwidth, as well as 2944 CUDA cores and a base clock speed of 1515MHz. Where this card differs from the reference spec is its boost clock speed, which has been raised from 1710MHz to 1800MHz. NVIDIA announced its new Turing video cards for gaming today, including the RTX 2080 Ti, RTX 2080, and RTX 2070.
As you can see from the results above, this is much slower than accessing on-board memory, and much less reliable. Starting at 4K resolution, there is almost no difference between the Super variant and the OG 2080. There is a bump of about 5 percent in the Witcher, but in the rest of the games, it’s too close to declare one card faster than the other. To test the RTX 2080 Super I tossed it into a brand-new GPU test bench, which was upgraded due to the untimely death of our previous Skylake platform. The new rig consists of a Core i5-9600K CPU, an MSI Z390 motherboard, Corsair PSU, 16GB of Corsair memory, and a SanDisk SSD. I ran all the tests at the highest settings available for each game without anti-aliasing, running DX11 by default. Nvidia has given the RTX 2080 Super faster memory and a few more CUDA cores while leaving the price exactly the same at $699, so it’s kind of a free upgrade of sorts.
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 RTX 2080 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.
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 .
By November 2018, MSI was offering nine different RTX 2080-based graphics cards. Released in December 2018, the line’s Titan RTX was initially priced at $2500, significantly more than the $1300 then needed for a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. The RTX 2080 isn’t quite as powerful as the RTX 2080 Ti, but you won’t find any other mainstream graphics cards as powerful as the 2080. If you’re seeking a high end graphics card that’ll cost less than $500, you’re stuck with the $399 (about 320, AU$570) Radeon RX Vega 64.
The GeForce 20 series was finally announced at Gamescom on August 20, 2018, becoming the first line of graphics cards “designed to handle real-time ray tracing” thanks to the “inclusion of dedicated tensor and RT cores.” There’s been a lot of fanfare around its quite nifty ray-tracing tech, not to mention all the other cool RTX things it can do, but is it really the best graphics card of all time? Square Enix have yet to patch in the RTX update for Shadow of the Tomb Raider, for instance, and Final Fantasy XV is still awaiting its DLSS update. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 is the next chapter in high-performance gaming graphics cards. Featuring the latest Turing GPU architecture designed by NVIDIA, the GeForce RTX 2080 will allow gamers to play new VR experiences, games with real-time raytracing and beyond 4K content at improved FPS compared to current generation graphics cards.
AMD’s highest-end Vega graphics card is getting long in the tooth after a year. It’s also worth noting that the Team Red is gearing up to unleash its AMD Navi cards, which have a couple of under $500 options. Browse all of the latest GeForce RTX graphics cards powered by the all-new NVIDIA Turing architecture. The GeForce RTX NVLink™ bridge connects two NVLink SLI-ready graphics cards with 50X the transfer bandwidth of previous technologies.
Nvidia’s new high-end graphics cards are the GeForce RTX 2070, gigabyte gtx 1060 3gb and RTX 2080 Ti, the company announced today during a pre-Gamescom 2018 livestream from Cologne, Germany. This means that a solution based on a 384-bit interface and surrounded by 12 DRAM dies could feature up to 24 GB of VRAM while a 256-bit solution can house up to 16 GB of VRAM. While VRAM is one thing, the maximum bandwidth output on a 384-bit card can reach a blistering fast 672 GB/s while the 256-bit solution can reach a stunning 448 GB/s transfer rate on existing 14 Gbps dies which are in full production.