The Nvidia RTX 2080 RTX Ti graphics card is finally here! No more rumors! But the most important question, will it keep up to the expectations of its users and outrun its predecessor the Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti?
In this article we'll be comparing the RTX 2080 TI to the 1080 TI :
Nvidia’s 10-series graphics card arrived more than two years before those of this new Turing generation. However, the GTX 1080 Ti was not in that first May 2016 wave of releases.
It arrived almost a year later, announced in March 2017. As such, it’s almost 18 months older than the RTX 2080 Ti.
Nvidia’s RTX series was officially detailed on 20 August, a month before its 20 September available date.
For starters there's is a huge price difference, the GTX 1080 TI costs around 700$ while the RTX 2080 TI costs around 1200$.
Personal opinion : it is logical that the RTX is more expensive than the GTX but the cost of it is a little bit too high for most of the gamers not everyone can afford it which may be a setback for Nvidia that is imposing that huge amount.
Specs comparison :
The Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti has roughly 21.5% more CUDA cores than the GTX 1080 Ti; 4352 to 3584. Just like the step-down RTX 2080, though, quoted Boost clock speed is actually slightly lower in the new model.
It’s 1545MHz in the RTX 2080 Ti, and 1582MHz in the GTX 1080 Ti. However, such a small difference isn’t that meaningful and the actual speeds used will vary between manufacturer cards anyway. The Founders Edition card’s clock speed is 1635MHz, for example.
Memory bandwidth is more important. Like the GTX 1080 Ti, the RTX 2080 Ti has 11GB of RAM, but it’s of the GDDR6 variety rather than GDDR5x. Memory bandwidth is up from 484GB/sec to 616GB/sec – a 27% increase.
Capability increases of 21-27% don’t sound too impressive when you consider that the RTX 2080 Ti costs 50% more than the GTX 1080 Ti.
The performance difference between the RTX 2080 Ti and GTX 1080 Ti with current games is unlikely to be eye-opening. And certainly not ‘£1000 eye-opening’. However, there’s more to the RTX range.
It features the Tensor core hardware previously only seen in the far more expensive $10,000 Tesla V100 and $3000 Titan V cards. This, combined with the new Turing SM and RT Core, is what makes the Turing generation interesting.
This new hardware provides AI-assisted real-time ray tracing. The RT Core handles the ray tracing, and the Tensor core is designed for denoising, which would be used to make graphics look sharper and cleaner in games.
Nvidia says you’ll get up to 6x performance in this field with a Turing card.
Final verdict and personal opinion :
The RTX 2080 TI is the best graphic card ever made, it's going to be a killer despite the price, the specs of this master piece are already high above every graphics card ever made! I can't wait to see what this baby can do in the future!
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