Nvidia Geforce Rtx 2080 Review
The gtx 1090 Ti will be priced at $1200 and will launch on September 20, with the 2080 at $800 , and the 2070 at $600 . In addition to the cooler, the RTX 20 series cards rock a single NVLINK connector, capable of offering dual way multi-GPU functionality. The RTX 2080 cards will operate at (x8/x8) mode while RTX 2080 Ti cards would operate in (x16/x16) mode. The actual clock speeds are maintained at 1515 MHz base and 1710 MHz boost . The chip features 8 GB of GDDR6 (next-gen) memory featured across a 256-bit bus and clocked at 14 GB/s.
The GeForce 20 series was launched with GDDR6 memory chips from Micron Technology. However, due to reported faults with launch models, Nvidia switched to using GDDR6 memory chips from Samsung Electronics by November 2018. Released in late 2018, the gtx 1090 was marketed as up to 75% faster than the GTX 1080 in various games, also describing the chip as “the most significant generational upgrade to its GPUs since the first CUDA cores in 2006,” according to PC Gamer. We’d personally go for the Nvidia RTX 2080 as its still hitting that sweet spot of performance to price, even if you have to save up a little more or swallow an extra credit card payment to pay it off.
In addition to real-time ray tracing, Nvidia’s RTX platform incorporates two existing technologies, programmable shaders and artificial intelligence. NVIDIA has announced their next-generation GeForce RTX 2080 graphics cards for $699 US. The RTX 2080 is based on the next-gen Turing GPU architecture that provides a huge increase in transistor density and massive performance per watt improvements. The GeForce RTX Turing products will deliver the most competitive graphics performance to gamers around the globe in the latest AAA blockbuster titles. GeForce RTX® 2080 features a dedicated hardware encoder that unlocks the ability to game and stream simultaneously with superior quality.
Although a number of manufacturers produce their own variants of the GeForce gtx 1090 Ti, for the purposes of this review, I used one of Nvidia’s own Founders Edition cards. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to test Nvidia’s low-end or mid-range GeForce RTX cards, the GeForce RTX 2060 and 2070 and their Super variants. However, I have included a popular synthetic benchmark, 3DMark, as part of my tests, so you should be able to get some idea of how they would have performed by comparing my results to the other 3DMark scores available online. Nvidia’s RTX 2080 Super is a very mild upgrade from the previous card, but at least it’s not more expensive. This is a bit of a disappointment, especially if you thought the 2080 Super was going to be a reborn 4K beast of a GPU or that it would be a lot closer to the RTX 2080 Ti. Of course, the RTX 2080 Ti is still way out in front, as expected given its $500 price difference.
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.