Palit RTX 2080 SUPER WGRP Review

1. Introduction2. Palit RTX 2080 SUPER WGRP3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy (1080p, 1440p, 4K)5. 3DMark Port Royal (1440p DXR)6. Battlefield V (1080p, 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. Metro Exodus (1080p, 1440p, 4K)11. Middle Earth: Shadow of War (1080p, 1440p, 4K)12. Shadow of the Tomb Raider (1080p, 1440p, 4K)13. Battlefield V w/ DXR (1080p, 1440p, 4K)14. Shadow of the Tomb Raider w/ DXR (1080p, 1440p, 4K)15. Clock Speed16. Temperatures17. Acoustics18. Power Consumption19. Overclocking: Games Testing Part One20. Overclocking: Games Testing Part Two21. Closing Thoughts22. View All Pages

Over the last few weeks, we have focused almost exclusively on AMD's Navi-based graphics cards. Today, we step over to Team Green, with a look at Palit's RTX 2080 SUPER WGRP. WGRP stands for ‘White GameRock Premium', and this is a limited edition model with the white shroud. You can, however, pick up a regular GRP in black if you prefer. As Palit's flagship 2080 SUPER card, just how well does it perform?

The Palit RTX 2080 SUPER WGRP isn't just a pretty face, though – it is rocking a custom PCB with enhanced power delivery, a factory overclocked core and a beefy 2.7-slot cooler as well. Priced at £749.99 here in the UK – though currently on sale for £709.99 at Overclockers UK – you're certainly paying a fair premium over the £669 price of the Founders Edition, so has Palit done enough to justify the extra expense?

GPU	RTX 2080 SUPER	RTX 2080 (FE)	RTX 2070 SUPER	RTX 2070 (FE)	RTX 2060 SUPER
SMs	48	46	40	36	34
CUDA Cores	3072	2944	2560	2304	2176
Tensor Cores	384	368	320	288	272
Tensor FLOPS	89	85	72	63	57.4
RT Cores	48	46	40	36	34
Texture Units	192	184	160	144	136
ROPs	64	64	64	64	64
Rays Cast	8 Giga Rays	8 Giga Rays	7 Giga Rays	6 Giga Rays	6 Giga Rays
GPU Boost Clock	1815 MHz	1800 MHz	1770 MHz	1710 MHz	1650 MHz
Memory Data Rate	15.5 Gbps	14 Gbps	14 Gbps	14 Gbps	14 Gbps
Total Video Memory	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6
Memory Interface	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit
Memory Bandwidth	496.1 GB/sec	448 GB/sec	448 GB/sec	448 GB/sec	448 GB/sec
TGP	250W	225W	215W	185W	175W

As a quick refresher of the core spec of RTX 2080 SUPER, it is based on the same TU104 GPU as the vanilla RTX 2080 but the difference is the 2080 SUPER uses a full implementation of that GPU – so it has an extra 2 SMs, or 128 CUDA cores, versus the TU104 found in RTX 2080.

Touching on clock speed, reference RTX 2080 SUPER ships with an 1815MHz boost clock, but Palit has upped that by 45MHz. It may not sound like much, but we do also have to factor in GPU Boost so the card will likely be running faster than 1860MHz anyway, but that is something we look at later in this review.

On top of that, while there is still 8GB GDDR6 memory as per vanilla RTX 080, 2080 SUPER has memory modules rated at 15.5Gbps, up from 14Gbps from the card's predecessor. Total graphics power is rated at 250W, which is the same as the Founders Edition.

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