Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition 11GB Review

1. Introduction2. Turing Architecture: SM, GDDR6 and NVLink3. Turing Architecture: Ray Tracing and AI4. RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition5. Testing Methodology6. 3DMark (1080, 1440p, 4K)7. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (1080p, 1440p, 4K)8. Far Cry 5 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)9. Ghost Recon: Wildlands (1080p, 1440p, 4K)10. Middle Earth: Shadow of War (1080p, 1440p, 4K)11. Shadow of the Tomb Raider (1080p, 1440, 4K)12. Ray Tracing Tested13. DLSS Tested14. Temperatures15. Acoustics16. Power Consumption17. Clock Speed18. Overclocking: 3DMark and Games19. Overclocking: Thermals, Acoustics, Power20. Closing Thoughts21. View All Pages

Following on from the huge success that was the Pascal architecture, today marks the release of Nvidia's Turing architecture into the wild. We have reviews of both the RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti ready for launch – but this particular review focuses on the £1099 behemoth that is the RTX 2080 Ti.

Nvidia has certainly gone with a different pricing strategy with Turing – the GTX 1080 Ti costs £669 , when its supposed successor will set you back an extra £430 at launch. That's an effective 64% generation price hike – so what are you getting for your money?

Foremost among the appeal of the RTX 2080 Ti is the ray tracing abilities. As you may already be aware, we cannot yet test this feature out in actual games – we are still waiting for Microsoft's DirectX Raytracing (DXR) update that is slated for next month. We do have the results from one ray tracing demo, presented later in this review, while of course there are the usual slew of benchmarks as well.

GPU	RTX 2080 Ti (FE)	GTX 1080 Ti (FE)	RTX 2080 (FE)	GTX 1080 (FE)
SMs	68	28	46	20
CUDA Cores	4352	3584	2944	2560
Tensor Cores	544	N/A	368	N/A
Tensor FLOPS	114	N/A	85	N/A
RT Cores	68	N/A	46	N/A
Texture Units	272	224	184	160
ROPs	88	88	64	64
Rays Cast	10 Giga Rays/sec	1.1 Giga Rays/sec	8 Giga Rays/sec	0.877 Giga Rays/sec
RTX Performance	87 Trillion RTX-OPS	11.3 Trillion RTX-OPS	60 Trillion RTX-OPS	8.9 Trillion RTX-OPS
GPU Boost Clock	1635 MHz	1582 MHz	1800 MHz	1733 MHz
Memory Clock	7000 MHz	5505 MHz	7000 MHz	5005 MHz
Total Video Memory	11GB GDDR6	11GB GDDR5X	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR5X
Memory Interface	352-bit	352-bit	256-bit	256-bit
Memory Bandwidth	616 GB/sec	484 GB/sec	448 GB/sec	320 GB/sec
TDP	260W	250W	225W	180W

Note: GPU-Z has not yet been updated to show all of the RTX 20 series specs.

On paper, the Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti is nothing short of a spec monster. Not only does it sport 4352 CUDA cores – up from 3584 in the GTX 1080 Ti – but architectural improvements (detailed on the next page) mean these cores are even more effective than previous generations. The new GPU is also fabricated on a 12nm process, where Pascal used the 16nm process.

68 RT cores and 544 Tensor Cores also single this card out as a new GPU – Pascal does not have any such cores, and they were only first introduced with Volta's GV100.

In terms of clock speed, we can expect lower speeds than the RTX 2080, which benefits in that regard thanks to its lesser core count, but we can still expect the RTX 2080 Ti to exceed its rated 1635MHz clock thanks to GPU Boost 4.0.

One thing that remains consistent from the GTX 1080 Ti is the amount of VRAM, at 11GB. The RTX 2080 Ti, however, uses GDDR6 memory over a 352-bit bus, with memory bandwidth totalling 616 GB/s.

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