It is also the successor to the GTX 1080, seeing spec-up internals and boosting performance compared to its Pascal generation counterpart, which allows significantly more stable frame rates when running Ultra HD games. However, improved frame rates are not the only incentive to upgrade this time round.
As all graphics cards in the Turing family, Nvidia RTX 2080 has support for real-time ray tracing and Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS)
Performance
Improvements in the architecture have also been used in the 20-Series graphics chips. The rise in CUDA cores seems to be the most relevant, provided that it is the most critical aspect to drive certain frame rate figures as high as possible.
The RTX 2080 sports a 15% improvement in CUDA cores over the GTX 1080. Our comparison findings indicate that this turns into a major increase in all-round efficiency.
On a more sour note, the RTX 2080 is actually behind the last-gen GTX 1080 Ti for CUDA cores. In fact, the difference between the two is 17.86 percent. Of course, as the GTX 1080 Ti has an older Pascal architecture, the disparity in the CUDA cores does not automatically mean that it does. The GTX 1080 Ti has superior performance. The RTX 2080 also has 8 GB of 14Gbps of GDDR6 memory on offer, while the boosted clock speeds can reach an impressive 1800MHz when overclocked – although we found overclocked clock speeds that even surpassed that figure.
The RTX 2080 sports a 15% improvement in CUDA cores over the GTX 1080. Our comparison findings indicate that this turns into a major increase in all-round efficiency.
On a more sour note, the RTX 2080 is actually behind the last-gen GTX 1080 Ti for CUDA cores. In fact, the difference between the two is 17.86 percent. Of course, as the GTX 1080 Ti has an older Pascal architecture, the disparity in the CUDA cores does not automatically mean that it does. The GTX 1080 Ti has superior performance. The RTX 2080 also has 8 GB of 14Gbps of GDDR6 memory on offer, while the boosted clock speeds can reach an impressive 1800MHz when overclocked – although we found overclocked clock speeds that even surpassed that figure.
Conclusion
If you switch from the GTX 1080 to the RTX 2080, you'll get a meaty update. If you're trying to improve the frame rates for 4 K play, then the RTX 2080 seems to be a worthy update.
There is one major issue, however: the GTX 1080 Ti is available at a lower price and offers almost the same performance as the RTX 2080 for 4 K content, despite having an older architecture.
There is one major issue, however: the GTX 1080 Ti is available at a lower price and offers almost the same performance as the RTX 2080 for 4 K content, despite having an older architecture.
