GeForce RTX 2080
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How it stacks up to the flagship
Each metric is shown as a percentage of the GeForce RTX 5090 D, the strongest card we track.
Estimated benchmark results
Each result is shown as a share of the RTX 5090 D's score in the same test.
Performance breakdown
FPS Across Resolutions
Average FPS across all PC games
Cost per frame
Launch MSRP ($699) ÷ average FPS — lower is better.
What Owners Say
Owners love how it chews through 1440p gaming without breaking a sweat. The usual gripe is the high price and that the ray tracing feature feels more like a promise than a reality.
- Keeps modern games smooth and detailed
- Ray tracing adds realistic lighting effects
- Stays quiet even under heavy load
- Handles high refresh rate monitors easily
- Not enough VRAM for modern games
- Runs hot under sustained heavy loads
- No real performance uplift over previous gen
Supported technologies
Full specifications
- CUDA Cores
- 2,944
- RT Cores
- 46
- Tensor Cores
- 368
- TMUs
- 184
- ROPs
- 64
- L2 cache
- 4 MB
- Size
- 8 GB
- Type
- GDDR6
- Bus width
- 256-bit
- Bandwidth
- 448 GB/s
- Memory clock
- 1750 MHz
- Base clock
- 1515 MHz
- Boost clock
- 1710 MHz
- FP32 (float)
- 10.07 TFLOPS
- FP16 (half)
- 10.07 TFLOPS
- Pixel rate
- 109 GPixel/s
- Texture rate
- 314.6 GTexel/s
- TDP
- 215W
- Suggested PSU
- 400W
- Power connectors
- 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
- Bus interface
- PCIe 3.0 x16
- Length
- 267 mm
- Slot width
- 2-slot
- Max resolution
- 7680×4320
- Outputs
- 1x HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a, 1x USB Type-C
API and SDK support
- DirectX
- 12 Ultimate (12_2)
- Shader Model
- 6.8
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- OpenCL
- 3.0
- Vulkan
- 1.3
- CUDA
- 7.5
Our verdict on the RTX 2080
The RTX 2080 is a solid high-end card from 2018 that introduced real-time ray tracing, but its first-gen ray tracing performance was underwhelming.
Get it if you want solid 1440p gaming performance with ray tracing on a budget, and you don't mind buying used. Skip it if you need modern features like frame generation or plan to play ray-traced titles at high resolutions.
Buy it if…
- You want smooth 4K gaming at high settings.
- You do creative work like video editing or 3D rendering.
- You need a reliable card for a high-end VR setup.
Its place in the overall top
368 votes