NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 And RTX 2080 Ti Benchmark Review: Turing Is A Beast

Name: GeForce RTX 2080
Brand: GeForce

by Dave Altavilla, Marco Chiappetta — Wednesday, September 19, 2018, 09:00 AM EDT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 and 2080 Ti: 3DMark Time Spy And Fire Strike

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3DMark Time Spy is a synthetic DirectX benchmark test from Futuremark. It features a DirectX 12 engine built from the ground up to support bleeding-edge features like asynchronous compute, explicit multi-adapter, and multithreading. Time Spy is designed to test the DirectX 12 performance of the latest graphics cards using a variety of techniques and varied visual sequences. This benchmark was developed with input from AMD, Intel, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and the other members of the Futuremark Benchmark Development Program, to showcase the performance and visual potential of graphics cards and other system resources driven by close-to-the-metal, low-overhead APIs.

3DMark Time Spy

Direct X 12 Performance

3DMark Time Spy

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The GeForce RTX 2080 and 2080 Ti continued their winning ways in the Time Spy benchmark. Once again, the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti leads the pack by a wide margin, followed by the GeForce RTX 2080 cards. And, here too, the GeForce RTX 2080s are able to outpace the Titan Xp and GeForce GTX 1080 Ti by a few percentage points.

Futuremark 3DMark Fire Strike

Synthetic DirectX Gaming

3DMark Fire Strike has multiple benchmark modes: Normal mode runs at 1920x1080, Extreme mode targets 2560x1440, and Ultra mode runs at a 4K resolution. GPU target frame buffer utilization for normal mode is 1GB and the benchmark uses tessellation, ambient occlusion, volume illumination, and a medium-quality depth of field filter. The more taxing Extreme mode targets 1.5GB of frame buffer memory and increases detail levels across the board. Ultra mode is explicitly designed for high-end and CrossFire / SLI systems and cranks up the quality even further. GT 1 focuses on geometry and illumination, with over 100 shadow casting spot lights, 140 non-shadow casting point lights, and 3.9 million vertices calculated for tessellation per frame. GT2 emphasizes particles and GPU simulations.

3DMark Fire Strike

The performance trend shifts somewhat in the Fire Strike benchmark. Here, the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti once again takes the pole position, but the Titan Xp and GeForce GTX 1080 Ti are able to overtake the GeForce RTX 2080 cards.