Tuesday, August 21st 2018
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Captured in Its Sleek, Green, Metal Glory
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.
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.
52 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Captured in Its Sleek, Green, Metal Glory
just show us your FPS number already !!
Card looks really sleek indeed!
What is the industry doing to combat card sag?
2080Ti, 1080p, 30-60FPS with raytracing.
Also, this one reminds me old XFX design.
Meanwhile anyone know the NDA?
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?
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,
GPP is alive in other forms...
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?
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.
Yes, dual fan is a step up from the previous blower design but the HSF is still wholly unremarkable compared to AIB alternatives.
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.