GeForce RTX 2080 Engineering Sample: specs and benchmarks

Summary

This is a desktop graphics card based on a Turing architecture and made with 12 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 8 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 1.75 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 448.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. One 6-pin and one 8-pin connectors are required, and power consumption is at 215 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce RTX 2080 Engineering Sample: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code name	TU104
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	no data

Detailed specifications

GeForce RTX 2080 Engineering Sample's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce RTX 2080 Engineering Sample's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	3072	of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed	1515 MHz	of 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU)
Boost clock speed	1710 MHz	of 3599 MHz (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	13,600 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	of 4 nm (H100 PCIe)
Power consumption (TDP)	215 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	328.3	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power	10.51 TFLOPS	of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs	64	of 192 (GA100)
TMUs	192	of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Tensor Cores	384	of 1216 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Ray Tracing Cores	48	of 170 (GeForce RTX 5090)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce RTX 2080 Engineering Sample and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm
Width	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce RTX 2080 Engineering Sample: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	448.0 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce RTX 2080 Engineering Sample. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI	+

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce RTX 2080 Engineering Sample, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	6.7
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	3.0
Vulkan	1.3
CUDA	7.5

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce RTX 2080 Engineering Sample. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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