NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Captured in Its Sleek, Green, Metal Glory

[Raevenlord]

In the aftermath of NVIDIA's RTX 20-series announcement, we returned to NVIDIA's Palladium venue to see if there were any new "faces" to spy. And sure enough, there were. Lo and behold, a non-rendered RTX 2080 Ti, which was left to reporters' guises and cameras, where we can look at the dual fan solution and NVIDIA's industrial design - which still looks great, perhaps even better, in this latest iteration.

It has to be said that the new generation of graphics cards sports internal changes as well as on the shroud: there's a revised vapor-chamber solution to keep the increased power consumption in check - and keeping that low noise profile. You'll also note the added USB Type-C connector to the back of the card, aiding in the new data transfer protocol (VirtuaLink) for VR headsets.



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[Fluffmeister]

It's a great looking card, with no doubt beastly performance that is enough to annoy anyone who hates progress.... but my credit card already needs plenty of higher than minimum payments.

 

[chaosmassive]

enough of this...this PR gimmick
just show us your FPS number already !!

 

[0x4452]

enough of this...this PR gimmick
just show us your FPS number already !!

We can only enjoy the foreplay for now

Card looks really sleek indeed!

 

[Prima.Vera]

So no longer Aventador lines type of design??

 

[Blueberries]

there's a revised vapor-chamber solution to keep the increased power consumption in check

TDP is 250W, same as Pascal.

 

[Upgrayedd]

No one stole it like that triple monitor laptop?

 

[jsfitz54]

So, how much do these new cards weigh?

What is the industry doing to combat card sag?

 

[michaelsd28]

i wish i could buy one

 

[Melvis]

 

[tvamos]

enough of this...this PR gimmick
just show us your FPS number already !!

http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Grafi...ormance-in-Shadow-of-the-Tomb-Raider-1263244/

2080Ti, 1080p, 30-60FPS with raytracing.

Also, this one reminds me old XFX design.

 

[silapakorn]

So, how much do these new cards weigh?

What is the industry doing to combat card sag?

A zip tie always works wonders.

Spoiler

 

[RejZoR]

http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Grafi...ormance-in-Shadow-of-the-Tomb-Raider-1263244/

2080Ti, 1080p, 30-60FPS with raytracing.

Also, this one reminds me old XFX design.

No one gives a fart how fast it is with ray tracing as you can't compare that with anything. 99% of games still have no ray tracing and it's that 99% that should interest gamers for performance, not that 1% of games that do. And I'm being generous with percentage because like 5 games they showcased doesn't come even close to 1%... Also, since ray tracing part has its own logic, 60fps with it doesn't necessarily translate into epic performance for non-RT workloads.

 

[xkm1948]

Just wait for W1zzard review.

Meanwhile anyone know the NDA?

 

[techy1]

well I think this is self explanatory and matches what we have heard before. I do not care about total price increase (like 700? 1000$ who cares its +/-300$ for few year spending on something that I probably will use every day),
but I have never been so disappointed with next gen gpus, no doubt RTX will be x6 times faster than GTX in Raytracing ONLY - and that is and will be a non-factor for next few years, and if nvidia could fix all this with drivers optimisation - they would have done it before presentation and show that off as much as they could - instead we got "it just works" and "JiggaRayz" for like x30 times.
the question now is - to buy a used Pascal now or wait a bit? because mining is unprofitable for only 2nd week in a row now (am I right?) - I mean all those miners will have to dump those Pascals (and flush the price regardless the RTX) now or later?

 

[cucker tarlson]

2060 10% over 1060
2070 16% over 1070
2080 14% over 1080
2080Ti 19% over 1080ti

along with ddr6 memory. 2070 may see the biggest perf increase since they're increasing bandwidth by 1.75x,

 

[stimpy88]

Wow, it's easy to see who is on the nVidia payroll - So much positive nVidia press narrative, despite most people's distrust of what nVidia is trying to hide by not mentioning...

GPP is alive in other forms...

 

[londiste]

well I think this is self explanatory and matches what we have heard before.

This is technically correct. Note that this is performance on spec Boost clock.
Now, who has seen Pascal run at its Boost clock, or even Boost 3.0 Max clock for that matter? I have had 1070, 1080 and 1080Ti, all of these have run 50+MHz above the Max Boost 3.0 clock. All Pascal cards are fine running at 2 GHz. If Turing cannot do that, it is screwed. I am willing to bet though that it is fine at 2GHz. For its own sake, it should run higher.

Also, Turing has Boost 4.0 (whatever that means but should be an improvment over already pretty good 3.0) and higher TDP that Turing cards do not have to share with RT/Tensor cores in non-RT workloads.

We will see when the reviews are out. On that topic - has anyone seen when NDAs will drop? At launch?

 

[FordGT90Concept]

What is sleek about it? It looks like an uninspired box with moderate/low cooling capacity.

 

[cucker tarlson]

What is sleek about it? It looks like an uninspired box with moderate/low cooling capacity.

lol someone's salty

 

[Liviu Cojocaru]

I like this design better than the previous one of the 10 series

 

[cucker tarlson]

I liked 10 series FE a lot, I had 1080 FE before I went AIB and it looked sleek as hell. This 20 FE is very sleek too.

 

[Vya Domus]

All Pascal cards are fine running at 2 GHz. If Turing cannot do that

Could very well be the case, base clocks are extremely conservative. 754nm^2 is simply massive and binning is very difficult, clocks generally go down with die space even if everything else remains unchanged.

The fact that the 2080ti has the same TDP as the 1080ti can only signify that on average it runs at a much lower clock speed. Or perhaps, this time around Nvidia will take some "liberty" with their TDP ratings, they did massively improve cooling after all.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

lol someone's salty

"Sleek" is synonymous with "glossy" and "graceful lines." The card is really no more glossy than your average graphics card and there's absolutely nothing graceful about the design that's fundamentally a box with some bolted on bits to obfuscate that fact.

Yes, dual fan is a step up from the previous blower design but the HSF is still wholly unremarkable compared to AIB alternatives.

 

[londiste]

Could very well be the case, base clocks are extremely conservative. 754nm^2 is simply massive and binning is very difficult, clocks generally go down with die space even if everything else remains unchanged.

The fact that the 2080ti has almost the same TDP as the 1080ti can only signify that on average it runs at a much lower clock speed.

We simply don't know yet.
However, Turings are on TSMC-s 12nm process. 16nm > 12nm is kind of what AMD did, that seemed to be in the expected range on +10% clocks (at far higher clock speeds) so we can hope.