Graphics cards/NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 is NVIDIA’s Turing desktop graphics card with 8 GB of GDDR6 memory, 2,944 shading units and a boost clock of 1800 MHz.
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Overview
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 is NVIDIA’s Turing desktop graphics card with 8 GB of GDDR6 memory, 2,944 shading units and a boost clock of 1800 MHz. These are the manufacturer’s published figures. They describe what the chip is designed to do, not what your particular machine does with it, and the gap between those two is usually cooling. A boost clock is a ceiling rather than a promise, and how long a graphics card holds it under continuous load is the one thing no specification sheet can tell you.
Specifications
- Architecture
- Turing
- Shading units
- 2,944
- Base clock
- 1520 MHz
- Boost clock
- 1800 MHz
- Memory
- 8 GB
- Memory type
- GDDR6
- Memory bus
- 256-bit
- TDP
- 225 W
- Process
- Not verified
- Launched
- 2018-09-20
Comparable within an architecture. Across vendors or generations it is not a like-for-like count.
Board power, not measured draw. A laptop GPU's power is a range the laptop maker chooses within.
Sources
Each figure, the label its source printed beside it, and the day it was read.
| Figure | As printed | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| ArchitectureTuring | NVIDIA Architecture Name | nvidia.comSpecification page | |
| Shading units2,944 | NVIDIA CUDA Cores | nvidia.comSpecification page | |
| Base clock1520 MHz | Base Clock (GHz) | nvidia.comSpecification page | |
| Boost clock1800 MHz | Boost Clock (GHz) | nvidia.comSpecification page | |
| Memory8 GB | Standard Memory Config | nvidia.comSpecification page | |
| Memory typeGDDR6 | Standard Memory Config | nvidia.comSpecification page | |
| Memory bus256-bit | Memory Interface Width | nvidia.comSpecification page | |
| TDP225 W | Graphics Card Power (W) | nvidia.comSpecification page | |
| Launched2018-09-20 | with availability starting on Sept. 20 | nvidianews.nvidia.comLaunch release |
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Compare
The 6 nearest graphics cards in the same segment, each with a published side-by-side.
What these numbers mean
Every figure on this sheet is a design target. None of it is a measurement.
Nothing above describes how a graphics card behaves twenty minutes into a sustained workload, which is where two chips with nearly identical specifications routinely diverge. A boost clock is a ceiling the vendor permits, not a rate the chip sustains, and whether it holds depends on the cooling, the case, the power profile and the room. None of those appear on a specification sheet.
We deliberately do not reduce these figures to a single score. A composite invented from specifications would look authoritative and measure nothing, and choosing the weights would be choosing the winner.