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so I'm pretty stoked about that additionally the RT X prefix on both these cards as most of us know by now indicates real time ray tracing capabilities which is going to give us more realistic images in regards to how light behaves shadows reflections that sort of thing NVIDIA has already shown us a bunch of impressive demo so far and of course there's other questions to consider about this launch like what kind of performance cost will be incurred from enabling RT X or what about the actual raw performance of these cards is that going to be is RT X alone gonna be enough to justify the sort of hefty price tags associated with this launch so we'll discuss that a little bit more later on but for now let's just take a look at the cards starting with the RT X 2080 I'm gonna leave this bad boy the ti for later we'll save that one for last nice little packaging very very familiar from the 10 series launch botta bing botta boom here we go o money shot Hey look at that alright okay cool very simple elegant packaging we've got a little little tag on here this serial number I'm not sure whatever this is new I don't like it out rip headphone users not the kind of plastic feel that we want here so here she is RTX 2080 in the flesh and it's it's quite heavy this feels a little bit heavier actually than the on the predecessor GTX 1080 you've got the sort of dual fan design here totally ditching that blower style enclosed shroud I should also mention that the spatters Edition card all the founders Edition cards as far as we know our factory overclocked by Nvidia so they're actually operating outside of the reference spec for the first time I believe the basin boost clock here is fifteen hundred and fifteen megahertz and 1800 megahertz respectively we've also got twenty nine hundred and forty four CUDA cores the card features eight gigs of gdb are six memory on a 256 bit bus that's at 14 gigabits per second giving us a total of four hundred and forty eight gigabytes per second of memory bandwidth TDP is 225 watts you can also see that we've got a six pin and an eight pin power connector right there so definitely a little bit more than the GTX 1080 with its single 8 pin plug this is obviously the side of the GPU that most people will see once installing it in their systems and you've got your geforce r-tx branding there that's gonna be illuminated in green once it's powered on it also got like black coated heat sinks I don't know if it's powder coated or whatnot but the the actual Finn stack is nice and black kind of gives it a cool stealthy vibe as opposed to your traditional silvery unfinished aluminum and you've also got again these these fans I believe they're I don't know let's measure these fans really quick 90 millimeters okay I think that's what I suspected 90 millimeter fans and you've got this sort of large gap in the middle with the RT X 2080 branding there as well on the back you've got your RT X 2080 branded backplate which is nice and silver kind of I believe this is aluminum as well we also have sort of a unibody design like the the backplate almost looks like it seamlessly connects to the front of the shroud it's definitely a nice refreshing change from the previous founders edition cards those those were getting a little bit repetitive so Nvidia really did shake things up for this launch when I first saw this card I was like where the heck is the SLI finger it's actually under a captain there's a sort of cap that's integrated to be part of the design of the card that you just pull out like so tool list and stuff and there's your redesigned env link SLI bridge so you can do up to two a SLI with these cards I don't have the new bridge on me right now to show you guys but I'll throw up a picture or something take a look at the rear i/o here we have some pretty nice connectivity options with three DisplayPort 1.4 meaning we can now do 8k at 60 Hertz not sure how many people are going to utilize that I'm sure someone will but more importantly or I think more relevant to to us right now as gamers is 4k at 120 Hertz finally we're able to hit that that bandwidth with with 1.4 so that's really nice we also have hdmi 2.0 be just one of those and then a USB type-c that's actually going to be our virtual link connector for next generation of HMDs or virtual reality headsets that way you can basically link up your entire headset with just a single USB type-c cable and it doesn't eat up one of your video ports as well so that'll be pretty cool to try out in the future that's pretty much the card guys let's should we move on to the r-tx 20 atti yes we should I answered my own question I wasn't really asking you it's rhetorical coming from the r-tx 2080 probably won't see a whole lot different on this card a lot of the same here oh that never gets old though there it is hey hey this one gets plastic wrap on it what look at that showing your your TI privilege right now mister card there it is now I already looked at the spec sheet and stuff so I kind of already know this going in but I just want to verify in person now that I've got the cards here they are in fact the exact same dimensions in every way length width and height I guess you won't run into any clearance issues with one if you can avoid them with the other so good to know same set of i/o the i/o is is referenced here so that's not going to change unless we see an ad board partner fiddle with it I mean physically the card is exactly the same as the r-tx 2080 with just a couple minor exceptions of course you've got the branding difference with the TI there and also the power delivery requirements we've got 2 8 pins compared - again an eight pin and a six pin on the r-tx 2080s so that also makes sense because the r-tx 28 ET i does have a slightly higher TDP of 260 watts i guess i should also run down some of the basic specs here since i did it for the RT x 2080 we have 40 352 cuda cores a bass and boost clock of thirteen hundred and fifty and sixteen hundred and thirty five megahertz respectively again this is factory overclocked by nvidia and we also have eleven gigabytes of gddr5 it's per second on a three hundred and fifty two-bit bus compared to the r-tx 2080s 256 bit bus and that gives us a total of six hundred and sixteen gigabytes per second of effective memory bandwidth okay alright so I think we've googled over these cards long enough here they are very pretty I'll give them that but let's briefly talk about this launch wrap in this video up here let's talk about this launch and what makes it so different than other launches we've seen from Nvidia in the past for starters if I'm talking about myself personally if I'm dropping a few hundred dollars on the high end graphics card I usually care way more about performance about raw FPS Loven performance than I do about you know something like rate racing technology and better image quality and things like that and I feel like a lot of gamers feel the same way based on all the social media posts and the forum post that I've read over the last few weeks I think we're all kind of on the same page in that regard not all of us but I think the majority of us and so if that's the case then let's look at the facts the GTX 980 launched at an MSRP of five hundred and forty nine dollars and then the GTX 1080 its successor launched at the same price of five hundred and forty nine dollars but it completely annihilated the GTX 980 in terms of performance thirty to forty percent ish on average was the sort of uplift that you saw from that 10 series card it was it was phenomenal and now we have the RT X 2080 replacing the GTX 1080 which is not the same price it is a hundred and fifty dollars more expensive starting at $6.99 so the RT X 2080 has a lot to prove right now it has to annihilate the GTX 1080 and then annihilate it again when we're talking about raw performance and I don't think for most gamers that any amount of ray-tracing capability is going to make up for that nvidia also recently confirmed that both pascal and Turing would coexist for the rest of this year which is also a unique trait to this launch in particular it's kind of interesting because pascal if you look at the gtx 980ti pricing right now it's ranging from 650 to 750 dollars there abouts which is right in line with the starting price of the r-tx 2080 so if this card launches at 699 it's going to compete in price with the gtx 1080i and if one is faster than the other then people will just buy the faster card so two things could either happen there either the gtx 1080 TI pricing will drop or it won't drop and you won't be able to find the r-tx 2084 it's starting price of $6.99 which would really really suck and then everything kind of goes double for the r-tx 2080 ti here starting at $1000 it's just it's an unbelievable price that is gonna require unbelievable performance this thing will have to absolutely blow us away in terms of its raw frame killing abilities in order for gamers to really pull out their wallets otherwise I think we got no dice there so those are my thoughts you guys let me know if your thoughts line up at all with what I'm saying here if I'm totally off-base feel free to leave your feedback in the comments below apart from that guys stay tuned for my full review on both of these cards coming very very soon I get subscribe so you don't miss it click the notification bell while you're at it and tell us like on this video did I already say that very same toast like on the video I don't know awesome that's 2 likes I know it's impossible but you can try you can also check us out on floatplane for 3 bucks a month if you'd like to watch our videos a whole week early without ads I'll put a link for that in the video description til next time guys thank you for watching have a good one and I'll see you all in the next video