GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti was NVIDIA's flagship Turing graphics card at launch in September 2018, succeeding the GTX 1080 Ti. It sat at the very top of the consumer GPU market and carried a $999 MSRP — a price point that attracted significant criticism given the performance gap over the RTX 2080.

The RTX 2080 Ti features 11GB of GDDR6 memory, the highest capacity in the Turing consumer lineup, along with 1st-generation RT cores and Tensor cores. It offered the most headroom of any RTX 2000-series card for hardware-accelerated ray tracing and DLSS 1 — though DLSS at this generation required per-game training and delivered inconsistent results compared to later iterations. Its TDP of around 260W makes it one of the more power-hungry cards of its era.

The RTX 2080 Ti was built for 4K gaming at high to ultra settings and remained competitive at that resolution for several years after launch. It targets enthusiasts and professionals who wanted the absolute best single-GPU performance available in 2018–2019, accepting the premium cost that came with it.