Nvidia Geforce Rtx 2080 Ti Reviews
And if you’d bought one at launch, you’ll have had the top gaming GPU for around two years now. For those with deep enough pockets, by all means, forget the price and go nuts—it’s still the king of the graphics card playground this many years on. If all you care about is extreme performance, pay no heed to the man behind the curtain and get your game on. The upgrades to the RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition are interesting, specifically with the cooling design.
From its stellar graphics and overall performance, lightning-fast transfer speeds and surprising endurance, there’s just a whole lot of win underneath that 0.7-inch chassis. And I didn’t even mention the lovely display and cushy, customizable keyboard. The 15.6-inch panel is nice and vivid with a passable audio system and a fullsize keyboard with nice, clicky keys. The gaming laptop also sports a SSD with “blink-and-you’ll-miss-it? speed. If you want serious power in a nice portable design, the Acer Predator Triton is a good gaming laptop that should be at the top of your list. It offers a great mix of graphics and overall power, something you can’t get in every gaming laptop. And thanks to the Turbo option, you can squeeze even more power out of the GPU.
After all, it should still have the power to deliver strong gaming performance for a good few years yet. While the monstrously powerful GeForce RTX 3090 is the top graphics card in the range, its $1,499 price is very steep. And the more affordable GeForce RTX 3070 offers a lot of performance for $499, but some might want a little more power. Most of the extra money you’re forking over for the Founders Edition goes into its overclocking-ready power-delivery hardware and heavy-duty cooling system. I’ll be watching with great interest how partner-board companies outfit their models to compete.
Built with up to 4352 CUDA cores, creators and gamers can take advantage of the 18.6 billion transistors within the unit to take on any workload. The massive 754-square-millimeter die, which is 60% larger than the GTX 1080 Ti’s die, gives significant performance gains. There are 544 Tensor cores, 78T RTX-OPS, 68 RT cores, and 10 Giga Rays/sec. The gtx 1080 8gb supports NVIDIA’s DLSS 2.0 and Ansel, and is compatible with G-Sync and NVLink. The graphics card has two NVLink connectors along its top edge for SLI support, but only one is needed to support SLI. The RTX 2080 Ti, once a high-end GPU, could become a strong mid-tier graphics card.
Anyone who has spent an age tinkering with this setting or that setting to get a few extra frames knows what an arduous process it can be. With the latest nVidia GPU the concept of “spending a bit more” is stretched towards its breaking point, but it’s a flagship GPU, and they’ve never come cheap. Nvidia’s flagship GPU should be able to run the majority of video games at 60fps in 4K with all the graphics setting cranked to the max, which is a feat previous graphics card have struggled to match. If money is of little concern and you fancy the most powerful graphics card available, then the 2080 Ti is the card to go for. Hitting the frame rate sweet spot with a benchmark score of 65fps in Ultra HD, the RTX 2080 Ti saw a performance boost of 23% when compared to the GTX 1080 Ti and a 41% improvement over the GTX 1080 Ti.
While the speed is impressive the most impressive feature, ray tracing, won’t be available in games until October and will only be available in some games. If you don’t know what that is that’s okay—outside of special effects houses and GPU enthusiast forums ray tracing isn’t a commonly known thing. Ray tracing is a kind of rendering in which each individual virtual ray of light in a computer generated environment is traced from its source to objects it can reflect on. But ray tracing also means those rays can be blocked by a figure who moves in front of them, or distorted as they passes through translucent objects. This means objects in a computer generated environment—like a video game—will reflect light more as they would in the natural world.
To put that simply it appears to be an attempt at a realistic representation of lighting. The G3 15 offers strong performance with its 9th Gen Core i5 CPU and GTX 1650 GPU backed by the full power of the Alienware Command Center –– all for under $1,000. Combine that with great battery life, with plenty of ports and a relatively comfortable and you have a badass gaming machine. However, the G3’s affordable price does come at the cost of a relatively dull 15.6-inch display.
It’s also future-proofed thanks to the addition of ray tracing and DLSS technologies. For the most intensive games available, the RTX 2080 Ti sees enough of a performance increase to justify the upgrade. That’s a noticeable jump from the GTX 1080 Ti figure of 361W, so make sure you’ve got the right hardware if you’re looking to upgrade. Although if you’re got a beefier processor installed, you might want to double-check your rig’s power consumption to see it doesn’t surpass that figure. In the near-future, I will also be adding the benchmark results for Nvidia’s RTX 2080, so you know which of the new Turing cards is the best for you.
The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti has 56.5 percent more of each, which could make a big difference when the first games with ray tracing and Nvidia’s Deep Learning Super Sampling arrive. They aren’t here yet so we can’t benchmark them, but it’s something to be aware of if you’re all-in on the idea of ray tracing. Reference speeds for both cards are slower out-of-the-box than those of their predecessors, however. Our experience with an early version of the tool wasn’t quite so seamless, but we’ll be testing release versions of Scanner ASAP. Look for it in updated versions of popular overclocking software, such as EVGA’s Precision. The 2080 Ti, and its slightly less powerful sibling the 2080, are Nvidia’s first consumer intended graphics cards based on its new Turing architecture. The secret sauce of the Turing architecture is a lot more power to devote to artificial intelligence.