Nvidia has pushed back the launch of its RTX 2080 Ti graphics card by a week, meaning that anyone who spent as much as $1,200 to pre-order one won't get their hands on it until September 27. There is a chance that some cards could show up earlier, with some availability likely to be had between the originally planned launch date and the 27th, but for the most part that's unlikely.
After the initial unveiling of Nvidia's RTX 2000-series graphics cards earlier in September, Nvidia pledged to launch both the RTX 2080 and 2080 Ti on September 20, with some cards shipping out to consumers over the following days. The 2070 as yet has no set release date, but was and is expected to debut sometime in October. Along with typical generational performance improvements, the cards were also slated to sport new features like ray tracing and deep learning super sampling support thanks to the new RT and Tensor cores.
That will still be the case when the cards debut, but the 2080 Ti will now do so a week or so later. This delayed launch should have no effect on the debut of the 2080, with no news of a delay on that front. Likewise, the 2070 is also expected to make its appearance in October, though with that loose launch date it's not clear if any kind of delay has been levied against its hardware.
Of the three cards, the 2080 Ti is the most powerful -- it's effectively a 20-series Titan card -- it features 18.6 Billion transistors, 4352 CUDA Cores alongside its RT and Tensor cores. 11 GB of GDDR6, and will debut with a clock speed of 1635 MHz when factory overclocked. However, Nvidia claims that the main GPU core can be overclocked further to as much as 2GHz in ideal scenarios.
