MSI reveals their RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti Sea Hawk EK X graphics cards
MSI reveals their RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti Sea Hawk EK X graphics cards
These SEA HAWK EK X series graphics cards will not be using the same PCB design as MSI’s AIO cooled Sea Hawk series graphics cards, replacing Nvidia’s reference PCB design with the custom PCK used in their Gaming X Trio series graphics cards. This makes the Geforce RTX SEA HAWK EK X significantly larger than reference water cooled RTX series graphics cards, while also offering users the same out of the box overclock as the RTX Gaming X Trio series.Â
When looking at MSI’s RTX 2080 Sea Hawk EK X, we can see that it offers a boost clock speed advantage of 60MHz and 150MHz when compared to the Nvidia Founders Edition and Reference models respectively, while the RTX 2080 Ti Sea Hawk EK X offers a higher factory overclock that is 120MHz above Nvidia Founders Edition model and 210MHz above Nvidia’s reference design.Â
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 | MSI RTX 2080 Ti SEA HAWK EK X | MSI RTX 2080 Ti Gaming X Trio | Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti (FE) | Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti (Ref) | MSIRTX 2080 SEA HAWK EK X | MSI RTX 2080 Gaming X Trio | Nvidia RTX 2080 (FE) | Nvidia RTX 2080 (Ref) |
Architecture | Turing | Turing | Turing | Turing | Turing | Turing | Turing | Turing |
CUDA Cores | 4,352 | 4,352 | 4,352 | 4,352 | 2,944 | 2,944 | 2,944 | 2,944 |
Ray Tracing Performance | 10 Gigarays | 10 Gigarays | 10 Gigarays | 10 Gigarays | 8 Gigarays | 8 Gigarays | 8 Gigarays | 8 Gigarays |
Base Clock |
1350MHz | 1350MHz | 1350MHz | 1350MHz | 1515MHz | 1515MHz | 1515MHz | 1515MHz |
Boost Clock | 1755MHz | 1755MHz | 1635MHz | 1545MHz | 1860MHz | 1860MHz | 1800MHz | 1710MHz |
Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 | GDDR6 | GDDR6 | GDDR6 | GDDR6 | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
Memory Capacity | 11GB | 11GB | 11GB | 11GB | 8GB | 8GB | 8GB | 8GB |
Memory Speed | 14Gbps | 14Gbps | 14Gbps | 14Gbps | 14Gbps | 14Gbps | 14Gbps | 14Gbps |
Memory Bandwidth | 616GB/s | 616GB/s | 616GB/s | 616GB/s | 448GB/s | 448GB/s | 448GB/s | 448GB/s |
Memory Bus Size | 352-bit | 352-bit | 352-bit | 352-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit |
SLI | NVLINK | NVLINK | NVLink | NVLink | NVLINK | NVLINK | NVLink | NVLink |
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Like other MSI RTX 2080 and 2080 Ti series graphics cards, the Sea Hawk EK X offers users three DisplayPort 1.4 outputs, a single HDMI 2.0b connection and a single virtual-link connection. At this time we do not have MSRP pricing for EK’s RTX SEA HAWK EK X series graphics cards.Â
You can read our review of MSI’s RTX RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti Gaming X Trio graphics cards here.Â
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