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Which of these overclocked RTX 2080 cards (<£800)?

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A stock RTX 2080 GPU Clock / Boost Clock / Memory Clock runs at:
  • 1515 MHz / 1710 MHz / 1750 MHz
The cheapest overclocked models that are up to £800 are:
  • Gigabyte Gaming OC (£790)
    1515 MHz / 1830 MHz / 1750 MHz
    4-year warranty

  • Palit RTX 2080 GamingPro OC (£760)
    1515 MHz / 1815 MHz / 1750 MHz
    2-year warranty

  • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition (£750)
    1515 MHz / 1800 MHz / 1750 MHz
    3-year warranty

  • Gigabyte RTX 2080 WindForce OC (£760)
    1515 MHz / 1785 MHz / 1750 MHz
    Presumably 2-year warranty

  • Palit RTX 2080 GamingPro (£780)
    1515 MHz / 1740 MHz / 1750 MHz
    2-year warranty
Does anyone have any thought on any of these?

NVIDIA's Founders Edition is the cheapest and offers a 3-year warranty. Should that be the one to go for?
 
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I hate to say it, but you can get the same performance from a 1080ti, but at a lower price, so none of these make any sense. At the moment, the 2080 does not look good. That may change when DLSS becomes integrated into more games, but not at the moment.
 
ChocoViennese said:
I hate to say it, but you can get the same performance from a 1080ti, but at a lower price, so none of these make any sense. At the moment, the 2080 does not look good. That may change when DLSS becomes integrated into more games, but not at the moment.
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I already have a GTX 1080 so it's not worth me grabbing a 1080 Ti this late in the game.

The RTX 2080, while expensive, is faster than my GTX 1080 and offers a lot more features down the line (ray tracing, DLSS etc.).
 
My Gigabyte Gaming OC arrived this morning...sat in work so cant install yet but i did open it up and it comes with a 4 year extended warranty.
 
King Mustard said:
I already have a GTX 1080 so it's not worth me grabbing a 1080 Ti this late in the game.

The RTX 2080, while expensive, is faster than my GTX 1080 and offers a lot more features down the line (ray tracing, DLSS etc.).
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Short of a strange resurgence of gpu crypto mining or the pound dropping hard the 2000 series cards aren't going to get more expensive.... The 2080`s haven't sold out shortly after launch which is also a potential hint as to the long term viability of their current price point....

Nothings guaranteed but is suspect that a lot of people paying launch prices for 2080`s may fairly quickly have a dose of buyers regret.
 
A better question...is there any particular games you are spending lots of time playing at the moment that your 1080 cannot deliver the frame rate you want at the resolution you are gaming at?
 
King Mustard said:
I already have a GTX 1080 so it's not worth me grabbing a 1080 Ti this late in the game.

The RTX 2080, while expensive, is faster than my GTX 1080 and offers a lot more features down the line (ray tracing, DLSS etc.).
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by the time these features are a thing your 2080 will be behind the newer cards...just sayin :p
 
Marine-RX179 said:
A better question...is there any particular games you are spending lots of time playing at the moment that your 1080 cannot deliver the frame rate you want at the resolution you are gaming at?
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This is the real test, I have a 1080 as well, but the games I play all run wonderfully at 1440 and look great. I cant see the new features (RT and learning anti-aliasing) becoming the norm for a very long time, so my opinion is the 2080s are extremely expensive for a slight performance increase. The new features are great, but at the moment, no games make any use of them, and we have no idea of the performance of those games that will.
 
ChocoViennese said:
This is the real test, I have a 1080 as well, but the games I play all run wonderfully at 1440 and look great. I cant see the new features (RT and learning anti-aliasing) becoming the norm for a very long time, so my opinion is the 2080s are extremely expensive for a slight performance increase. The new features are great, but at the moment, no games make any use of them, and we have no idea of the performance of those games that will.
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This should always be the question... I'm obviously easy to please, because I think everything looks really good at 1440 using my 1070, though I will admit that I haven't bought a new game for at least 6 months.
 
Jeps said:
If its not worth you getting a 1080ti then its not worth you getting a 2080 as they are basically identical.
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Not quite, but there is certainly an element of cross your fingers and hope that the RTX features become useful in good time. There's no way the 1080Ti is getting better than it already is... but every chance the 2080 will leap ahead significantly in future games. The only question is how long you'll have to wait for that, and at what price the 20xx cards will be by then... and if NEW cards could even be on the horizon at that point! It's a bit of a leap in to the dark.
 
Legend said:
Not quite, but there is certainly an element of cross your fingers and hope that the RTX features become useful in good time. There's no way the 1080Ti is getting better than it already is... but every chance the 2080 will leap ahead significantly in future games. The only question is how long you'll have to wait for that, and at what price the 20xx cards will be by then... and if NEW cards could even be on the horizon at that point! It's a bit of a leap in to the dark.
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True but I would never buy a product based on promised features or potential future performance as we simply do not know if or when those promised features will become available in more then a handful of games. If you are buying today then all you can look at is what the cards can do in the present and make the choice based on that.
 
Jeps said:
True but I would never buy a product based on promised features or potential future performance as we simply do not know if or when those promised features will become available in more then a handful of games. If you are buying today then all you can look at is what the cards can do in the present and make the choice based on that.
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No exactly, it's a risk for sure. We simply don't know.
 
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