While gamers and hardware fans eagerly await real-world testing of Nvidia's upcoming 2000-series graphics cards, some early results have appeared online of an alleged RTX 2080 being tested in the 3DMark TimeSpy demo and the results are pretty good. They show the card as being around 30 percent faster than a GTX 1080, a little bit faster than the GTX 1080 Ti and of comparable power to the Titan XP. But there is a catch.
While the specifications of this "Generic VGA" card do look very much like a 2080 -- it has the right amount of memory, the right memory bus clock, and overclocker APISAK claims as such -- the core clock is a little suspect.
RTX 2080? ( NVIDIA Graphics Device 8GB )
Time Spy Gpu Score 10,030https://t.co/wqRn8tt5QE— APISAK (@TUM_APISAK) August 28, 2018
Indeed the supposed 2080 appears to have been heavily overclocked. When boosted, the standard 2080 is supposed to have a clock speed of 1,710MHz, but this card looks to have been clocked at around 2,000MHz. That's a fantastic overclock and if achievable with anything other than super, sub-zero cooling systems like liquid nitrogen is that's good news for potential buyers.
But for those who don't overclock, it paints a worrying picture of the RTX 2080's performance. If it needs a near 20 percent overclock to only just beat the 1080 Ti, its standard performance may only be 15-20 percent better than a 1080, which isn't a very big gain for a cost that is around double that of its last-generation counterpart.
We'll find out more about this card and its contemporaries' capabilities as we approach their September 20 launch date.
