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

For our temperature testing, we measure the peak GPU core temperature under load, as well as the GPU temperature with the card idling on the desktop. A reading under load comes from running the 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra stress test 20 times. An idle reading comes after leaving the system on the Windows desktop for 30 minutes.

I had to double take the first time I saw the temperature results for the RTX 2080 Ti. A peak of just 73C for Nvidia's flagship GPU? It's unheard of – and goes to show just how effective the new Founders Edition cooler is, with both the full-length vapour chamber and the new axial fans to thank here.

The thermal gun testing doesn't reveal any issues either – the hot spots on both the side and the back of the card did not top 70C. The 67.3C result for the back of the card also shows the benefit of having a backplate – you can see the heat is spread fairly evenly, as opposed to being concentrated in one area behind the GPU core.

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