We are a few days away from the official reveal of the Nvidia RTX 2080 GPU lineup. Before that happens, we now have images of Nvidia Geforce RTX 2080Ti, thanks to videocardz. Moreover, MSI GeForce RTX 2080Ti comes in two variants; Gaming X Trio and Duke Edition.
Specification-wise, the new RTX lineup of GPUs will feature the upcoming GDDR6 memory technology, thanks to collaboration from Samsung. MSI RTX 2080Ti will come with 11GB GDDR6 while the RTX 2080 variant will have 8GB GDDR6 memory. MSI Geforce RTX 2080Ti Gaming X Trio will have 8-pin power connectors.
The custom graphics card from MSI comes with a triple-fan design and RGB lighting. The back side of the graphics card is covered with a silver plate. Check out more in the images below.
MSI Geforce RTX 2080Ti Duke Edition will also have 11GB GDDR6 memory. Just like the Gaming X Trio edition, the Duke edition will also have an 8-pin power connector. The graphics card will have a triple fan and on top of it will be a LED bar, as opposed to LED Lighting. On the backside, it will have a black backplate.
Nvidia has dropped SLI for the Geforce RTX 2080 graphics card series. Both of the MSI variants, Gaming X Trio and Duke Edition will feature NVLINK.
No launch date or MSRP price is revealed as of yet for both of MSI Geforce RTX 2080Ti variants. However, we suspect the price will not be less than $1000.
In other news, Intel has teased its own graphics card for 2020. Intel has been out of the graphics card competition for the last 20 years. Intel has achieved heights of advancement in chipset technology, maybe it’s time Intel returns to the GPU business. Check out here to know more on the news.
Let us know how much better the upcoming RTX 2080 and RTX 2080Ti will perform than the current generation Pascal-based graphics cards.