▷ Nvidia rtx 2080 review in Spanish (full analysis)

The NDA has finally been lifted and we can offer you our analysis of the new Nvidia RTX 2080 graphics card, the second most powerful model of the new generation with the Turing architecture that promises to revolutionize the graphics of PC games thanks to the use of raytracing in real time.

Will it be able to meet the expectations of the most demanding users? Will it be worth the change if I have an Nvidia GTX 1080 or GTX 1080 Ti? All this and much more in this review!

As always, we are grateful to Nvidia for the trust placed in transferring the product to us for analysis.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 technical features

Unboxing and design

Nvidia has sent us its Nvidia RTX 2080 graphics card inside a cardboard box that protects it perfectly, the box has a colorful design based on black and green, the company's corporate colors. The box shows us the most notable features, such as the company's new two-fan heatsink design, something that brings it closer to custom models, and that will help reduce its operating temperature by a few degrees compared to the old design. with a turbine.

We open the box and find the card perfectly accommodated in a foam block and covered by an anti-static bag, next to the card we find:

• Nvidia RTX 2080 8GB GDDR6 Documentation Quick Guide One Displayport to DVI Cable

A close-up of the new Nvidia RTX 2080 in its Founders Edition model, the card looks really spectacular and shows a design in which all the details have been taken care of.

The first thing that strikes us is the new heatsink, with a double fan system that will be much more efficient when it comes to cooling. The cover of this heatsink is made of aluminum, which will help to improve heat transfer to the outside.

We turn the card over and see the gray aluminum backplate. This piece helps protect the delicate components of this part of the PCB, as well as increasing rigidity to prevent the card from bending under its own weight.

Nvidia informed us at the Cologne event that its backplate is protected against scratches. A perfect aim, before a rebellious screwdriver?

As for the video outputs, we find DisplayPort, HDMI and USB Type-C, a configuration that is up to date and ensures great compatibility with all monitors and televisions on the market.

As for the power, Nvidia has placed an 8-pin connector and a 6-pin connector, this card will consume a lot of energy, something that can already be intuited by its TDP of 225W. As we will see later, the Turing architecture offers quite a few new features compared to Pascal, these new features being responsible for this high power consumption compared to the GeForce GTX 1080, which has a TDP of 180W.

Although we have not removed the heatsink, its interior looks really attractive with its black color. Nvidia has used the best quality components to manufacture this Nvidia RTX 2080 Founders Edition, something that will help improve its durability and performance by achieving greater stability in its operation.

The manufacturer has assembled a robust 8-phase power VRM, thanks to which there will be no lack of power even under the most demanding overclock. On top of this VRM thermal pads have been placed to improve heat dissipation, a great detail.

We now turn to see the memory of this Nvidia RTX 2080 card. We found the GDDR6 memory chips, the most advanced on the market to help the Turing architecture offer its best performance. These chips operate at a speed of 14 Gbps with a 256-bit interface, which translates to a high bandwidth of 448.00 GB / s to perform at the highest resolutions.

As for the graphics core, it is the RTX 2080 chip manufactured by TSMC using its advanced 12nm node FinFET, the same process that Nvidia has used with Volta. This nucleus reaches a total of 2944 CUDA Cores, 184 TMUs, and 64 ROPs. To this we must add no less than 64 RT cores and 368 Tensor Core, these special cores are in charge of making the new Nvidia RTX ray tracing technology work. Nvidia RTX 2080 offers a performance of 10.07 TFLOPS and 8 8 Giga Rays / s. Its base and turbo operating frequency is 1710 MHz / 1800 MHz respectively.

Nvidia's Turing architecture offers enough optimizations against Pascal, especially in the cache memory to reduce the need to access the main memory of the card. All the improvements introduced help this architecture to yield 50% more per core compared to Pascal, something that we will buy in our tests.

Connection detail for the NVLink bridge that replaces the NVIDIA SLI bridge.

Finally we look at the details of the heatsink, one of the great improvements of this generation. This heatsink is made up of a large aluminum radiator, which is crossed by several copper heatpipes. These heatpipes are responsible for absorbing the heat generated by the GPU and distributing it over the radiator surface. The high density of aluminum fins of the heatsink offers a large heat exchange surface, a larger surface area means more cooling capacity.

We believe that this aesthetic change is great news, and what they told us at Gamescom is curious. That this change of heatsink (compared to the classic blower), was last minute and that it has been a total success to lower temperatures. Good work from Nvidia!

Test bench and performance tests

TESTING BENCH
Processor:	Intel Core i7-8700K
Base plate:	Asus Maximus X Hero
Memory:	Corsair Vengeance PRO RGB 16 GB @ 3600 MHz
Heatsink	Corsair H100i V2
HDD	Kingston UV400
Graphic card	Nvidia RTX 2080
Power supply	Corsair RM1000X

For benchmarks we will use the following titles:

• 3DMark Fire Strike normal.3DMark Fire Strike 4K version.Time Spy.Heaven Superposition.VRMARK.

All tests have been passed with the filters to the maximum unless we indicate otherwise. In order to have adequate performance, we have carried out three types of tests: the first is the most common at Full HD 1920 x 1080, the second resolution is making the leap to 2K or 1440P (2560 x 1440P) gamers and the most enthusiastic with 4K (3840 x 2160). The operating system we have used has been Windows 10 Pro 64 bit and the latest drivers available from the Nvidia website.

What are we looking for in the tests?

First, the best possible image quality. The most important value for us is the average FPS (Frames per second), the higher the number of FPS the more fluid the game will go. To differentiate the quality a bit, we leave you a table to assess the quality in FPS, but we will also have the minimum Fps in the tests that were thus possible:

FRAMES BY SECONDS
Frames for Seconds. (FPS)	Gameplay
Less than 30 FPS	Limited
30 ~ 40 FPS	Playable
40 ~ 60 FPS	Good
Greater than 60 FPS	Fairly Good or Excellent

Synthetic benchmarks

This time, we've narrowed it down to five tests as we consider them to be more than enough as synthetic performance tests.

Game Testing

As we have commented in the review of the Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti, we have renewed the old Tomb Raider 2016 for the new Tomb Raider this year. The rest of the tests in games remain the same. Let's hope you like the results!

As we can see the performance competition between the GTX 1080 Ti and the RTX 2080 is maximum, having both (in the same conditions) a very similar benefit. Although we believe that the RTX 2080 is a better purchase for the future: drivers, new games and technologies will be better optimized.

Overclocking

Note: Remember that overclocking or manipulation carries a risk, always do it at your own risk.

We recommend that you install the EVGA Precision application, since it allows us to apply advanced overclock without much difficulty. To monitor if we recommend MSI Afterburner: FPS, temperatures, processor and almost any value you want.

As we can see in the previous images we have a rise of + 50 MHz in the core and 700 MHz in the memories. The results are not for firing rockets, but the improvements are already palpable. We leave you a comparative table with 3DMARK Fire Strike with and without OC:

3DMARK FIRE STRIKE	GRAPHICS SCORE SCORE	GLOBAL SCORE
NVIDIA RTX 2080 STOCK	27273	22700
NVIDIA RTX 2080 OVERCLOCK	28794	23652

As you can see the difference with a slight overclock it is quite productive at the synthetic level. Although in gaming, we have also wanted to try a game that requires a lot of resources such as DEUS EX: Mankid in 4K and all the filters to the maximum.

DEUS EX MANKIND 4K	MINIMUM (FPS)	AVERAGE (FPS)	MAXIMUMS (FPS)
NVIDIA RTX 2080 STOCK	31.3	40	46.1
NVIDIA RTX 2080 OVERCLOCK	31.3	41	fifty

The differences are so minimal, that as we said in the review of the RTX 2080 Ti, it is not worth overclocking the graphics card. We will see a little later (with debugged drivers and custom models) if we can really scratch any more FPS?

Temperature and consumption

The new heatsink is one of the best decisions Nvidia has made in this new generation of Turing graphics cards. Its 33ºC at rest and 71ºC at maximum temperature, are fantastic temperatures to be a reference heatsink. Very good temperatures should take the custom models (the price would also be a factor to take into account) to rethink ourselves to acquire a more expensive model.

Very important fact: The consumption is of the entire team as a whole (only the tower). That is, from the wall socket ^ _ ^

Although its consumption is not "lighter", we ran into about 58 W at rest and 368 W at maximum power. The difference is 40 W at maximum performance compared to the 1080 Ti, but we remind you that it is a new architecture, with a renewed chip and that surely with the new versions, they will be outlining.

Final words and conclusion about Nvidia RTX 2080

The Nvidia RTX 2080 hits the market without as much BOOM as its sister RTX 2080 Ti, but with very competitive features. We believe it is the natural replacement for the GTX 1080 Ti. We refresh a little what we have said in the review: the incorporation of the new chip and the reinvention of the graphic chip with three key areas is a success: CUDA CORE, Ray Tracing and Tensor Cores make it the ideal option to start in 4K or play comfortably in 2K at 120/144 Hz. It has a nice heatsink, 8 power phases (VRM) and two connectors: 8 + 6 to power.

At the performance level we have been able to verify that the main games in our test bench move them in 4K at +40 FPS and that their performance is very similar to the GTX 1080 Ti. When we do some overclocking, we improve slightly and we can scratch the occasional FPS.

Aesthetically it seems to us a brutal success on the part of Nvidia the change of heatsink and that confirmed that it was a last minute change. Very good temperatures and consumption.

Many of you may be wondering: If I have a GTX 1080 Ti, is it worth switching to the RTX 2080? We believe that the natural leap would be to the RTX 2080 Ti, but if you want to have Ray Tracing and DLSS technologies, it can be an interesting change if you do not have to put a lot of money in the change. In the case of a GTX 1080 or GTX 980 Ti, we have it quite clear: it is worth the upgrade.

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Now, we don't see much sense in buying a new Nvidia GTX 1080 or GTX 1080 Ti with the RTX. We would only see sense buying a Pascal if it is a GTX 1060 or lower for Full HD resolution. And it is that from the beginning we have with Ray Tracing 21 games and with DLSS 25 games. They do not seem like many, but almost all are games that we can enjoy to the fullest.

It would also be great to expect the performance that NVLink will offer with two RTX 2080 cards. And so to assess, whether it is really worth two 2080 graphics cards or a 2080 Ti, although we always prefer a powerful MONOGPU than two cards (double consumption, temperatures, scaling it is not 100%…). At the event in Germany, they told us that we would get some surprises, so we did not rule out a surprising escalation. We can only wait?

Currently we find it in the official Nvidia store for 849 euros, it seems to us a good price (although somewhat high) since the GTX 1080 Ti is seen for at least 760 euros (and we have seen some flash offer for less than 700). Although those 89 euros more compensates for new technologies and driver updates. We have also seen that we can find the RTX 2080 Custom for 860 euros forward. Having the Founders Edition at this price, is it very clear to us?

What do you think of the Nvidia RTX 2080? Do you think it's worth it? Will you change your current graphics for RTX? We are waiting your comments.

ADVANTAGE	DISADVANTAGES
+ IMPROVED DESIGN AND WITH VERY GOOD REFRIGERATION	- IF YOU HAVE A 1080 Ti THE CHANGE IS NOT AS TEMPERING AS CHANGING TO A RTX 2080 Ti
+ GOOD 4K PERFORMANCE	- THE PRICE COULD BE LOWER
+ BACKPLATE ANTI-SCRATCHES
+ COMPATIBLE DLSS AND RAY TRACING TECHNOLOGIES
+ ALLOWS TO MAKE OVERCLOCK AND WE GAIN EXTRA PERFORMANCE

The professional review team awards you the gold medal and recommended product.

Nvidia RTX 2080

COMPONENT QUALITY - 92%

DISSIPATION - 90%

GAMING EXPERIENCE - 85%

SOUNDNESS - 95%

PRICE - 89%

90%