NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 Series Review Ft. RTX 2080 Ti & RTX 2080 Founders Edition Graphics Cards – Turing Ray Traces The Gaming Industry

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 Series - GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, The Flagship

The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is the flagship graphics card of 2018 in NVIDIA’s inventory. Featuring the latest Turing GPU architecture designed by NVIDIA, the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti will allow gamers to play new VR experiences, games with real-time raytracing and 4K HDR content at improved FPS compared to current generation graphics cards.

Coming to the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, the graphics card is powered by the Turing TU102 GPU. The TU102 GPU is the successor to NVIDIA's GP102 GPU and sticks to the same principles which made the GTX 1080 Ti and Titan XP the best enthusiast cards of 2017, which is to offer gamers the best in class performance that no other competitor GPU can match. And the 2080 Ti is just going to crush everything next to it in the performance benchmarks.

GeForce RTX — New Family of Gaming GPUs
The new GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, 2080 and 2070 GPUs are packed with features never before seen in a gaming GPU, including:

• New RT Cores to enable real-time ray tracing of objects and environments with physically accurate shadows, reflections, refractions, and global illumination.
• Turing Tensor Cores to perform lightning-fast deep neural network processing.
• New NGX neural graphics framework integrates AI into the overall graphics pipeline, enabling AI algorithms to perform amazing image enhancement and generation.
• New Turing shader architecture with Variable Rate Shading allows shaders to focus processing power on areas of rich detail, boosting overall performance.
• New memory system featuring ultra-fast GDDR6 with over 600GB/s of memory bandwidth for high-speed, high-resolution gaming.
• NVIDIA NVLink, a high-speed interconnect that provides higher bandwidth (up to 100 GB/s) and improved scalability for multi-GPU configurations (SLI).
• Hardware support for USB Type-C and VirtualLink, a new open industry standard being developed to meet the power, display and bandwidth demands of next-generation VR headsets through a single USB-C connector.
• New and enhanced technologies to improve the performance of VR applications, including Variable Rate Shading, Multi-View Rendering, and VRWorks Audio.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX/GTX "Turing" Family:

Graphics Card Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 D6	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
GPU Architecture	Turing GPU (TU117)	Turing GPU (TU117)	Turing GPU (TU116)	Turing GPU (TU116)	Turing GPU (TU116)	Turing GPU (TU116)	Turing GPU (TU106)	Turing GPU (TU106)	Turing GPU (TU104)	Turing GPU (TU102)
Process	12nm FNN	12nm FNN	12nm FNN	12nm FNN	12nm FNN	12nm FNN	12nm FNN	12nm FNN	12nm FNN	12nm FNN
Die Size	200mm2	200mm2	284mm2	284mm2	284mm2	284mm2	445mm2	445mm2	545mm2	754mm2
Transistors	4.7 Billion	4.7 Billion	6.6 Billion	6.6 Billion	6.6 Billion	6.6 Billion	10.6 Billion	10.6 Billion	13.6 Billion	18.6 Billion
CUDA Cores	896 Cores	896 Cores	1280 Cores	1408 Cores	1408 Cores	1536 Cores	1920 Cores	2304 Cores	2944 Cores	4352 Cores
TMUs/ROPs	56/32	56/32	80/32	88/48	88/48	96/48	120/48	144/64	192/64	288/96
GigaRays	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	5 Giga Rays/s	6 Giga Rays/s	8 Giga Rays/s	10 Giga Rays/s
Cache	1.5 MB L2 Cache	1.5 MB L2 Cache	1.5 MB L2 Cache	1.5 MB L2 Cache	1.5 MB L2 Cache	1.5 MB L2 Cache	4 MB L2 Cache	4 MB L2 Cache	4 MB L2 Cache	6 MB L2 Cache
Base Clock	1485 MHz	1410 MHz	1530 MHz	1530 MHz	1530 MHz	1500 MHz	1365 MHz	1410 MHz	1515 MHz	1350 MHz
Boost Clock	1665 MHz	1590 MHz	1725 MHz	1785 MHz	1785 MHz	1770 MHz	1680 MHz	1620 MHz 1710 MHz OC	1710 MHz 1800 MHz OC	1545 MHz 1635 MHz OC
Compute	3.0 TFLOPs	3.0 TFLOPs	4.4 TFLOPs	5.0 TFLOPs	5.0 TFLOPs	5.5 TFLOPs	6.5 TFLOPs	7.5 TFLOPs	10.1 TFLOPs	13.4 TFLOPs
Memory	Up To 4 GB GDDR5	Up To 4 GB GDDR6	Up To 4 GB GDDR6	Up To 6 GB GDDR5	Up To 6 GB GDDR6	Up To 6 GB GDDR6	Up To 6 GB GDDR6	Up To 8 GB GDDR6	Up To 8 GB GDDR6	Up To 11 GB GDDR6
Memory Speed	8.00 Gbps	12.00 Gbps	12.00 Gbps	8.00 Gbps	14.00 Gbps	12.00 Gbps	14.00 Gbps	14.00 Gbps	14.00 Gbps	14.00 Gbps
Memory Interface	128-bit	128-bit	128-bit	192-bit	192-bit	192-bit	192-bit	256-bit	256-bit	352-bit
Memory Bandwidth	128 GB/s	192 GB/s	192 GB/s	192 GB/s	336 GB/s	288 GB/s	336 GB/s	448 GB/s	448 GB/s	616 GB/s
Power Connectors	N/A	N/A	6 Pin	8 Pin	8 Pin	8 Pin	8 Pin	8 Pin	8+8 Pin	8+8 Pin
TDP	75W	75W	100W	120W	125W	120W	160W	185W (Founders) 175W (Reference)	225W (Founders) 215W (Reference)	260W (Founders) 250W (Reference)
Starting Price	$149 US	$149 US	$159 US	$219 US	$229 US	$279 US	$349 US	$499 US	$699 US	$999 US
Price (Founders Edition)	$149 US	$149 US	$159 US	$219 US	$229 US	$279 US	$349 US	$599 US	$799 US	$1,199 US
Launch	April 2019	April 2020	November 2019	March 2019	October 2019	February 2019	January 2019	October 2018	September 2018	September 2018

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti ($1199 USD) - The Flagship GeForce Turing Graphics Card – 260W TDP and 11 GB GDDR6 Memory

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti features the TU102 GPU (TU102-300-A1) core which comprises of 4352 CUDA cores. NVIDIA's 12nm FinFET architecture allows higher core count while retaining faster clock speeds which we have already seen on Pascal cards. The chip houses 18.6 Billion transistors which are a huge jump compared to the 12 Billion transistors on the Pascal GP102 GPU. The card delivers much higher performance due to enhanced core design that adds incremental IPC gains.

The actual clock speeds are maintained at 1350 MHz base and 1545 MHz boost (1635 MHz OC on Founders Edition). The chip features 11 GB of GDDR6 (next-gen) memory featured across a 352-bit bus and clocked at 14 GB/s. This leads to a total bandwidth of 616 GB/s.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition features a TDP of 260W (250W for the custom models) which goes in line with previous flagship cards. Coupled with a very smooth power delivery system to avoid leakage, the chip is one of the most efficient GPU architecture ever designed for gamers. The display outputs for the card include 3 DisplayPort 1.4 (4K @ 120 Hz), 1 HDMI 2.0b (4K @ 60 Hz) and USB Type-C connector for the Virtual link which means that it is capable to support all next-gen displays with new standards. Power is fed through a dual 8 pin connector configuration.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 Series Design, Next-Gen NVTTM With Dual Fan Cooler, Beefy Aluminum Fin Based Heatsink, 13+3 Phase PCB, NVLINK For Dual-Way Multi-GPU Functionality

When it comes to the cooler design, NVIDIA is taking a major departure from their blower styled cooler from previous reference designs and going for a strong dual fan cooling system which is said to deliver better cooling performance. The cooler comprises of dual rotatory fans that push cool air towards a large heatsink block that is made up of several aluminum fins and interconnects via heat pipe technology. The cooler has a high-performance vapor chamber underneath the hood which uses a copper base to effectively dissipate heat from the GPU and surroundings such as the VRAM.

All of this is packed beneath an elegant looking cooler which doesn't use the same design pattern as the GeForce 10 series founders edition cards. Those went with a more polygonal texture but this is more of a plain design featuring an aluminum shroud with a matte black finish in the center. The RTX 2080 / 2080 Ti logo is seen on the side and has LEDs to glow when the card is operational. The shroud engulfs the entire card, leading from the top and even the back which acts as a backplate and looks very neat.

The factory overclocked GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition graphics card features a next-gen 13-phase power supply for maximum overclocking and dual-axial 13-blade fans coupled with a new vapor chamber for ultra-cool and quiet performance. via NVIDIA

In addition to the cooler, the RTX 20 series cards rock a single NVLINK connector, capable of offering dual way multi-GPU functionality. The RTX 2080 cards will operate at (x8/x8) mode while RTX 2080 Ti cards would operate in (x16/x16) mode. The GeForce RTX 2070 won't offer any NVLINK connectors.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Official Photo Gallery:

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Official PCB Shot:

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