Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2080 GAMING OC 8G review - Product Showcase

Product Showcase

We start off this review with our in-house photo-shoot. A few pages that show the ins and outs with photos, to get you a better idea to grasp what we are talking about in today's article (and we just know you like pretty pictures). So yeah, the new design slightly resembles the Aorus series that Gigabyte delivers, I have to say though, that the previous Aorus Windforce card looked better?  Gigabyte completely overhauled the card nothing = reference design as they merely use an official Turing 104 GPU.

And here she is, the little sister of the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, the RTX 2080. It is making use of the same architecture, but don't let that fool you as it does use another GPU, the Turing TU104 graphics processor is tied to 8GB GDDR6 of graphics memory managing an effective data-rate of 14 Gbps. Gigabyte offers some nice perks like a four-year warranty on this product. Targeted at you guys, the PC Gaming DIY community. You do need to register the product to be eligible for that though. You'll spot a nice design, with a fast graphics processor harbored in a nice matte black PCB, two power headers (6 and 8-pin) for a little more overclocking headroom. Obviously, it's got some RGB as well. Once this card powers up, the top side will light up. 

The card has one HDMI 2.0b port and three DisplayPort connectors as well as that VirtualLink connector for VR purposes (power for the VR headset can pass through here). 

Founders card:

• Boost: 1800 MHz / Base: 1515 MHz
• Memory 14.0 Gbps GDDR6 (effective data-rate)

• Boost: 1815 MHz / Base: 1515 MHz
• Memory 14.0 Gbps GDDR6 (effective data-rate)

 
The GeForce RTX series has DisplayPort 1.4a ready connectors, enabling support for 8K displays at 60Hz. Lacking and sorely missed is the dual-link DVI connector.