Nvidia RTX 2080 and 2080 Ti review: A tale of two very expensive graphics cards

Sam Machkovech

Specs at a glance: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition
CUDA CORES 4352
TEXTURE UNITS 272
ROPS 88
CORE CLOCK 1,350MHz
BOOST CLOCK 1,635MHz
MEMORY BUS WIDTH 352 bits
MEMORY BANDWIDTH 616GB/s
MEMORY SIZE 11GB GDDR6
Outputs 3x DisplayPort 1.4, 1x HDMI 2.0b, 1x USB Type-C (VirtualLink VR)
Release date September 20, 2018
PRICE Founders Edition (as reviewed): $1,199. Partner cards priced at: $1,169.

Like any piece of expensive technology, a top-of-the-line graphics card comes with all manner of lingo and abbreviation. You'll need a glossary to wade through the stuff inside (processors, CUDA cores, ROPs), the speeds measured (memory bandwidth, boost clocks, TeraFLOPS), and the results you want from a good card (anti-aliasing, frame rates, higher resolutions).

Thanks to Nvidia's newest products, the RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti, that required glossary is only getting bigger.

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