Palit RTX 2080 GameRock Premium 8GB Review

1. Introduction2. Palit RTX 2080 GameRock Premium3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark (1080p, 1440p, 4K)5. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (1080p, 1440p, 4K)6. Far Cry 5 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)7. Ghost Recon: Wildlands (1080p, 1440p, 4K)8. Middle Earth: Shadow of War (1080p, 1440p, 4K)9. Shadow of the Tomb Raider (1080p, 1440, 4K)10. Clock Speed11. Temperatures12. Acoustics13. Power Consumption14. Overclocking: 3DMark and Games15. Overclocking: Thermals, Acoustics, Power16. Closing Thoughts17. View All Pages

Continuing our look at the range of RTX 2080 partner cards which have just hit the market, today our attention turns to the Palit RTX 2080 GameRock Premium. It's the biggest aftermarket card we've seen so far, measuring almost 30cm in length, while it also has one of the fastest out of the box boost clocks that we've seen. The question is: is it worth the extra cash over the Founders Edition?

Priced at £830 here in the UK, the Palit RTX 2080 GameRock Premium is £80 more expensive than Nvidia's own RTX 2080 Founders Edition card. With a much larger cooler and higher boost clock, though, it could well prove to be worth the extra outlay. Let's see how the card compares.

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

We already know that the TU104 chip used for the RTX 2080 cards sports 2944 CUDA cores, as well as 368 Tensor Cores and 46 RT Cores. Its memory operates over a 256-bit bus with a total bandwidth of 448 GB/s.

What the Palit RTX 2080 GameRock Premium does is raise the boost clock from 1800MHz (from the Founders Edition) to 1875MHz – one of the higher boost clocks we have seen from an aftermarket RTX 2080. This is the out of the box speed, too – no need to download any software to enable an ‘OC mode' or anything like that.

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