100 FPS at 1440p across 9 games (anchored estimate) · solid 60+ FPS 1440p gaming, with headroom in lighter titles
100 Avg FPS Includes estimates
We have not put this card on our bench yet. The numbers below are interpolated from the cards we did measure, on the same suite and the same settings. Across our 9-game suite at 1440p, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition averages 100 FPS. The ceiling is Counter-Strike 2 at 162 FPS; the floor is Alan Wake 2 at 60 FPS, a 2.7x spread that tells you how engine-dependent this class of card is. In practical terms that means solid 60+ FPS 1440p gaming, with headroom in lighter titles. Under load we logged a peak of 240W against the 250W rating.
| Benchmark | Result | 1% Low | VRAM Used | Power | Data |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cyberpunk 2077 1440p · Ultra | 76 FPS | 61 | 6.75 GB | 238 W | Estimated |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 1440p · Favor Quality | 82 FPS | 64 | 6.57 GB | 232 W | Estimated |
| Alan Wake 2 1440p · High | 60 FPS | 50 | 9.49 GB | 230 W | Estimated |
| Baldur's Gate 3 1440p · Ultra | 116 FPS | 95 | 7 GB | 240 W | Estimated |
| Black Desert Online 1440p · Remastered | 123 FPS | 79 | 5.29 GB | 238 W | Estimated |
| Counter-Strike 2 1440p · Very High | 162 FPS | 88 | 7.13 GB | 200 W | Estimated |
| Diablo 4 1440p · Ultra | 101 FPS | 77 | 9.84 GB | 235 W | Estimated |
| Escape from Tarkov 1440p · Ultra | 116 FPS | 90 | 10.12 GB | 215 W | Estimated |
| The Witcher 3 1440p · Ultra | 66 FPS | 55 | 7.05 GB | 238 W | Estimated |
| Architecture | Turing |
| CUDA cores | 4,352 |
| VRAM | 11GB GDDR6 |
| Memory bus | 352-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 616 GB/s |
| Boost clock | 1,545 MHz |
| TDP | 250 W |
| Process | 12nm FFN |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Release date | 2018-09-27 |
| Launch MSRP | $1,199 |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition averages 100 FPS at 1440p on our suite. We have not put this card on our bench yet. The numbers below are interpolated from the cards we did measure, on the same suite and the same settings.
100% = this card, Gaming headline metric (Avg FPS). #26 of 82 desktop cards in this vertical.
| GPU | Relative | % | Avg FPS |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT | 118% | 118 | |
| GeForce RTX 5070 | 112% | 112 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 | 110% | 110 | |
| NVIDIA Titan RTX | 104% | 104 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition | 100% | 100 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 | 100% | 100 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT | 99% | 99 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti | 99% | 99 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT | 94% | 94 |
Same card, other workloads: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition AI benchmarks, LLM tokens/sec, image generation & VRAM fit
| Transistors | 18,600 million |
| Die size | 754 mm² |
| Process node | 12 nm |
| Fabricated by | TSMC |
| Transistor density | 24.7 million per mm² |
Denser than 69% of the 746 cards we have silicon data for. Density is the clearest measure of what a process node bought: a card that gained it without growing the die got its speed from the fab rather than the architecture.
Silicon figures from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Benchmarks on this page are our own. Compare every chip.
Whole-job timings, composed from our measured per-model results on this card.
Can't run: Product photo shoot (needs FLUX.1 Kontext dev), Photo restoration batch (needs FLUX.1 Kontext dev), Restore and enlarge photos (needs FLUX.1 Kontext dev), Character sheet, 12 poses (needs FLUX.1 dev), Short social clips (needs Qwen3 32B), 60-second AI short film (needs Qwen3 32B), 24-frame storyboard (needs Qwen3 32B), 6-panel comic page (needs Qwen3 32B), Long-form article batch (needs Llama 3.3 70B), Full codebase review (needs Qwen2.5-Coder 14B).
This card is $1,199 to buy. The cheapest listed rate on Vast.ai is $0.101/hour, but that is the floor: we budget $0.121/hour, a 20% premium, because idle time, storage and unavailable cheap instances all land on the same bill. At that rate buying wins after 9,893 GPU-hours. Below it you are paying for idle silicon.
| How you would use it | GPU-hours a year | Rental cost a year | Time to break even |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 hours a day, hobby | 730 | $88 | 13.6 years |
| 8 hours a day, working on it | 2,920 | $354 | 3.4 years |
| 24/7, always-on agent | 8,760 | $1,062 | 1.1 years |
At hobby usage this card is very unlikely to pay for itself before it is superseded. Rent it. Rental figures include a 20% premium over the cheapest listed rate. Ignores electricity, resale and the fact that a rented card can be a newer one tomorrow.
Cheapest of the RunPod and Vast on-demand rates we see, sampled daily. Spot and interruptible pricing runs lower.