MSI GeForce RTX 2080 DUKE OC 8 GB Graphics Card Review – $829.99 US For Tri-Frozr Cooler on Founders Edition PCB

MSI GeForce RTX 2080 DUKE OC Benchmarks (DirectX 12)

Ashes of The Singularity: Escalation

NVIDIA and AMD have been tweaking the performance of their cards for Ashes of the Singularity since the title released. It was the first to make use of the DirectX 12 API and the first to leverage from the new Async compute technology that makes use of the DX12 renderer to improve performance.

Battlefield 1

Battlefield 1 takes us back to the great war that was meant to end all wars aka World War 1. Using the latest Frostbite tech, the game does a good job at looking gorgeous in all ways possible. From the open world environments to the intense and gun-blazing action, this multiplayer and single player FPS title is one of the best Battlefields to date.

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

Humanity is at war with itself and divided into factions. On one end, we have the pure and on the other, we have the augmented. That is the world where Adam Jensen lives in and this is the world of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. The game uses the next generation Dawn Engine that was made by IO interactive on the foundation of their Glacier 2 engine. The game features support of DirectX 12 API and is one of the most visually intensive titles that taxes the GPU really hard.

Hitman (2016)

With the latest drivers, NVIDIA has managed to up the performance of their Pascal and Maxwell parts in Hitman (2016). The game has been a major win for AMD graphics cards that still show a strong gain in performance when switching over from DX11 to DX12, but NVIDIA is slowly catching up with their drivers.

Shadow of The Tomb Raider

The Rise of The Tomb Raider

The rise of the Tomb Raider is one of the most beautiful games that I have played recently and was patched to the DX12 API. The game features a wide variety of settings and we chose Very High, HBAO+ without any AA.

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8.5

WCCFTECH RATING

MSI's GeForce RTX 2080 DUKE OC packs a superb cooler on a nicely designed Founders Edition PCB, offering great performance at just $30 US over the NVIDIA FE solution. But the high-price for a **80 series cards and lack of RTX titles at launch still makes the GTX 1080 Ti looks like an impressive card.

Pros

• Great performance at the 4K resolution
• Great upgrade from GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 Users
• Factory Overclocked Out of Box
• Tri Frozr heatsink cooling performance is great
• Refreshing new MSI Gaming design
• ZeroFrozr Technology Included on Torx 3.0 fans
• Great overclocking potential, full tuning options
• Memory modules on the Gaming X Trio can hit more than 550 GB/s bandwidth
• Backplate includes heat pads for increased heat dissipation
• RGB Lighting support on the shroud and sides are a plus
• Support for real-time ray tracing and DLSS features in next-generation gaming titles
• Good driver support for GeForce products, compatibility with DX11, DX12, Vulkan, OpenGL titles
• Performance per watt is great on Pascal graphics cards
• Lot's of display connectivity, great for VR and multi-display PCs.

Cons

• Very High Price ($829.99 US)
• Performance same as custom GeForce GTX 1080 TI models
• Not much of a performance improvement over Founders Edition RTX 2080
• Very high power consumption when overclocked
• No RTX and DLSS games available at launch

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