PNY RTX 2080 Ti XLR8 Gaming Review

1. Introduction2. PNY RTX 2080 Ti XLR8 Gaming3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy (1080p, 1440p, 4K)5. 3DMark Port Royal (1440p DXR)6. Battlefield V (1080p, 1440p, 4K)7. The Division 2 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)8. F1 2019 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)9. Far Cry New Dawn (1080p, 1440p, 4K)10. Gears 5 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)11. Ghost Recon: Wildlands (1080p, 1440p, 4K)12. Metro Exodus (1080p, 1440p, 4K)13. Middle Earth: Shadow of War (1080p, 1440p, 4K)14. Shadow of the Tomb Raider (1080p, 1440p, 4K)15. Total War: Three Kingdoms (1080p, 1440p, 4K)16. Battlefield V w/ DXR (1080p, 1440p, 4K)17. Clock Speed18. Temperatures19. Acoustics20. Power Consumption21. Overclocking: Frequency and Games22. Overclocking: Temperatures, Acoustics, Power23. Closing Thoughts24. View All Pages

Nvidia's RTX 2080 Ti launched over a year ago, and since then it has remained the fastest consumer graphics card on the market, withstanding challenges from AMD's Radeon VII and Nvidia's own RTX 2080 SUPER. We've reviewed a number of ultra high-end 2080 Ti custom cards, many costing close to £1500. If you don't want to spend quite so much, PNY's 2080 Ti XLR8 Gaming may be worth a look – it's a triple-fan card that's priced just over £1000.

There's no such thing a ‘cheap' RTX 2080 Ti, but for a card like PNY's XLR8 Gaming the price of £1009 is somewhat lower than we have seen from other triple-fan behemoths like MSI's Lightning Z. Despite that, the XLR8 Gaming still ships with a weighty, three-fan cooler while its shroud also sports some aluminium plates as well.

We've updated a number of our games since our initial 2080 Ti review, so how well does this card perform when testing some of the latest titles? Let's find out.

GPU	RTX 2080 Ti (FE)	RTX 2080 SUPER	RTX 2080 (FE)	RTX 2070 SUPER	RTX 2070 (FE)
SMs	68	48	46	40	36
CUDA Cores	4352	3072	2944	2560	2304
Tensor Cores	544	384	368	320	288
Tensor FLOPS	114	89	85	72	63
RT Cores	68	48	46	40	36
Texture Units	272	192	184	160	144
ROPs	88	64	64	64	64
Rays Cast	10 Giga Rays	8 Giga Rays	8 Giga Rays	7 Giga Rays	6 Giga Rays
GPU Boost Clock	1635 MHz	1815 MHz	1800 MHz	1770 MHz	1710 MHz
Memory Data Rate	14 Gbps	15.5 Gbps	14 Gbps	14 Gbps	14 Gbps
Total Video Memory	11GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6
Memory Interface	352-bit	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit
Memory Bandwidth	616 GB/sec	496.1 GB/sec	448 GB/sec	448 GB/sec	448 GB/sec
TGP	260W	250W	225W	215W	185W

Before we get into the review itself, let's just remind ourselves of the core spec of RTX 2080 Ti. Using the TU102 GPU, with a 754 mm² die size, this is nothing short of a monster – 68 Streaming Multiprocessors, each with 64 CUDA Cores, gives this GPU total of 4352 cores, which is still over 1200 more than the RTX 2080 SUPER which launched in July. Each SM also houses one RT Core, so we have 68 of those used to power real-time ray tracing in games which support the technology.

Boost clocks for this card are unchanged from the Founders Edition, with a 1635MHz rated clock speed. Technically this means the card is factory overclocked, as true reference clock for 2080 Ti is 1545MHz boost, but PNY hasn't pushed clocks further than the Founders Edition.

Elsewhere, the 11GB of GDDR6 memory is the most VRAM we've seen on a consumer RTX card, though it is clocked at 14Gbps instead of 15.5Gbps as per 2080 SUPER. Still, over a 352-bit bus this puts total memory bandwidth at 616 GB/s. Lastly, total graphics power (TGP) is rated at 260W.

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