Thinkstation Nvidia Geforce Rtx2080 Super 8gb Gddr6 Graphics Card
The gtx 1080 8gb 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.
As with the previous group test, the test system for this review was a BOXX Technologies APEXX T3 workstation sporting an AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX CPU, 128GB of 2666MHz DDR4 RAM, a 512GB Samsung 970 Pro M.2 NVMe SSD, and a 1000W power supply. Before I discuss the cards on test, here’s a quick recap of some of the technical terms I touched on in the previous review. Finally, when it comes to overclocking the RTX 2080 Super performed admirably. Running Heaven 4.0 and nudging the offset ever-so-slightly until things went sideways, I was able to hit a maximum stable clock of 2025MHz. Even at these high clocks the GPU only got a mildly toasty 76C, which is impressive given the recent tests of AMD’s card, which run hotter and louder than Nvidia’s Turing cards. At 2560 x 1440 things are looking a little better for the RTX 2080, as it’s able to crank out really high framerates in most titles, except for Metro’s brutal benchmark.
Here, Noctis and pals could romp around the plains of Duscae at 55-60fps on the GTX 1080Ti with all of Nvidia’s super graphics switched on at Highest, but the RTX 2080 could only match that speed when I disabled the intensive VXAO option. At 4K, the GTX 1080Ti managed a steady 45-47fps on Highest with all of Nvidia’s fancy graphics effects turned off, whereas the RTX 2080 could only get between 40-43fps on the same settings. Elsewhere, however, the two cards were pretty much neck-and-neck at both 4K and 1440p. In Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, for example, the RTX 2080 managed a very respectable 52fps average on Ultra High at 4K in its internal benchmark, but the GTX 1080Ti was right alongside it with its average of 51fps. What’s more, the GTX 1080Ti actually pulled ahead at 1440p, reaching an average of 79fps on Ultra High compared with the RTX’s 71fps. Still, I can only work with what I’ve got, and really, I would have hoped a top of the line Core i5 would have proved a decent enough partner for it.
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 .
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 gigabyte gtx 1060 3gb 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.
The display also has a high 4K resolution and a USB-C port that doubles as both a video connection and a charging port for compatible notebooks. Right now you can get this display from Dell marked down from $1,069.99 to just $799.99. When it comes to the cooler design, NVIDIA is taking a major departure from their blower styled cooler from previous reference designs and going for a strong dual fan cooling gtx 1090 system which is said to deliver better cooling performance. The cooler comprises of dual rotatory fans that push cool air towards a large heatsink block that is made up of several aluminum fins and interconnects via heat pipe technology. The cooler has a high-performance vapor chamber underneath the hood which uses a copper base to effectively dissipate heat from the GPU and surroundings such as the VRAM.
For those who like to know what difference is between GDDR5 and GDDR56, we know from the official specifications published by JEDEC both memory standards are not a whole lot different from each other but they aren’t the same thing either. The GDDR6 solution is built upon the DNA of GDDR5X and has been updated to deliver twice the data rate and denser die capacities. Hardware support for USB Type-C™ andVirtualLink™, a new open industry standard being developed to meet the power, display and bandwidth demands of next-generation VR headsets through a single USB-C™ connector. New memory system featuring ultra-fast GDDR6 with over 600GB/s of memory bandwidth for high-speed, high-resolution gaming.
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 RTX 2080 (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.