Test - Nvidia RTX 2080 Founders Edition |Specs

Test – Nvidia RTX 2080 Founders Edition
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Introduction

Hello everyone!

Nvidia has been offering us its new graphics cards for a few months, changing the eternal GTX for a small RTX! Behind this change is an evolution of functionality to support the latest and greatest technologies like hardware accelerated ray tracing and DLSS. After testing the Asus ROG Strix RTX 2080 Ti, we managed to get a reference model from Nvidia, the RTX 2080 Founders Edition.
So we are going to show you the map itself, as well as of course the whole battery of custom tests that are going well, because that’s part of what you’re here for! For a presentation of the different technologies put forward by the RTX, we invite you to go and see directly here. Let’s take a closer look!

Presentation

Technical characteristics

	Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti benchmark	Nvidia RTX 2080 Founders Edition	Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti reference
GPU	Pascal	Turing	Turing
Engraving fineness	16 nm	12 nm	12 nm
SMs	28	46	68
CUDA hearts	3584	2944	4352
Cœurs Tensor	–	368	544
Base GPU frequency	1480 MHz	1515 MHz	1350 MHz
GPU frequency with boost	1582 MHz	1710 MHz (Reference) 1800 MHz (Founders Edition)	1545 MHz (Reference) 1635 MHz (Founders Edition)
Memory Frequency	11 Gbps	14 Gbps	14 Gbps
Memory	11 Go de GDDR5X	8 Go de GDDR6	11 Go de GDDR6
Memory bus	352 bit	256 bit	352 bit
Connectivity	3 x Displayport 1 x HDMI 1 x USB Type-C	1 x HDMI 2.0b 3 x Displayport 1.4 1 x USB Type-C	1 x HDMI 2.0b 3 x Displayport 1.4 1 x USB Type-C
Dimensions	26.9 x 11.8 x 3.8 mm	26.67 x 11.57 x 3.8 cm	26.67 x 11.57 x 3.8 cm
Food	2 x 8-pin	1 x 6-pin & 1 x 8-pin	2 x 8-pin
Consumption	250 Watts	215 Watts (Reference) 225 Watts (Founders Edition)	250 Watts (Reference) 260 Watts (Founders Edition)

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The RTX 2080 Founders Edition is therefore a card based on a Turing GPU, but of course limited compared to the RTX 2080 Ti that we tested previously. The fineness of the engraving of 12 nm (against 16 nm for the GTX 1080 / Ti) can accommodate no less than 18.6 billion transistors, which is clearly not nothing!

Compared to the RTX 2080 Ti, we have here a number of streaming processors going from 68 to 46, CUDA cores from 4352 to 2944 as well as Tensor cores from 544 to 368. This is clearly not nothing when the we calculate the percentage difference between the two cards, but in order not to have too big a difference in practice, the GPU frequency is revised upwards. Indeed, the RTX 2080 turbine at a base frequency of 1515 MHz (against 1350 MHz) for 1800 MHz in turbo mode (for the founders, 1710 MHz for the classic RTX 2080), this should partly compensate for the general decrease in the number. of hearts. On the memory side, we are still in the presence of GDDR6 but we go from 11 to 8 GB on a 256 bit bus, i.e. a flow of 448 GB / s instead of the 660 GB / s of the RTX 2080 Ti.

The RTX 2080 Founders Edition is a rather compact card for today’s standards, 26.67 cm long, 11.57 cm high and 3.8 cm thick, so it shouldn’t be a problem in an ATX case. or micro-ATX (and even mini-ITX designed to accommodate standard graphics cards). Power is supplied via two PCI-E connectors, 1 x 6 and 1 x 8-pin for a maximum TDP of 225 Watts (215 Watts for the classic model). We are still talking about 35 Watts less than the RTX 2080 Ti, a drop which is not necessarily significant in practice.

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The price set by Nvidia for this card is 849 €, but it is however possible to find partner models at around a hundred euros less, this remains however a sacred sum even though it is not even a question of the Ti version (which costs € 1,259 in the Founders version). We will not compare it with the RTX Titan offered at 2700 € either.