It’s true; some AIB Geforce RTX 2080 GPUs will be slower than Nvidia’s Founders Edition
It’s true; some AIB Geforce RTX 2080 GPUs will be slower than Nvidia’s Founders Edition
This change places Nvidia’s Founders Edition offerings above the company’s reference specifications for the first time, allowing AIB manufacturers to release custom RTX series graphics cards with lower clock speeds than Nvidia’s home-grown models. For the first time, custom Nvidia graphics cards could offer less performance than Nvidia’s Founders Edition variants.Â
Zotac has officially confirmed the specifications of their Gaming RTX 2080 Blower graphics card, adhering to Nvidia’s reference specifications with a boost clock speed of 1710MHz while using a blower-style cooler. By sticking to Nvidia’s reference design, Zotac has created an RTX 2080 that offers a boost clock speed that is 90MHz lower than Nvidia’s Founders Edition, which in conjunction with it’s blower-style cooler will supply decreased performance, higher thermals under load and will likely run a lot louder than Nvidia’s RTX 2080 Founders Edition.Â
|  | Geforce RTX 2080 (FE) | Zotac Gaming RTX 2080 Blower | Geforce RTX 2080 (Ref) |
| Architecture | Turing | Turing | Turing |
| CUDA Cores | 2,944 | 2,944 | 2,944 |
| Ray Tracing Performance | 8 Gigarays | 8 Gigarays | 8 Gigarays |
| Base Clock |
1515MHz | – | 1515MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1800MHz | 1710MHz | 1710MHz |
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Capacity | 8GB | 8GB | 8GB |
| Memory Speed | 14Gbps | 14Gbps | 14Gbps |
| Memory Bandwidth | 448GB/s | 448GB/s | 448GB/s |
| Memory Bus Size | 256-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit |
| SLI | Via NVLink | Via NVLink | Via NVLink |
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Many aspects of Zotac’s Gaming RTX 2080 Blower remains consistent with Nvidia’s Founders Edition model, from its 8+6-pin power configuration to its included display outputs. The graphics card also appears to be using Nvidia’s reference PCB design, which is common to almost all blower-style graphics cards.Â
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