EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 XC Ultra Graphics Card Review

By Nathan Kirsch

LuxMark & SiSoftware Sandra

LuxMark v3.1 Benchmark

luxmark screen capture

LuxMark is a OpenCL cross-platform benchmark tool that has been around since 2009. It was intended as a promotional tool for LuxCoreRender and remains a popular benchmark for those interested in OpenCL performance. LuxMark is now based on LuxCore, the LuxRender v2.x API available under Apache Licence 2.0 and freely usable in open source and commercial applications.

Benchmark Results: The EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 XC and the GeForce RTX 2080 both scored around 30,000 on the Ball scene, but on the microphone and hotel scenes we see the RTX 2080 start to pull away. The NVIDIA Titan XP was able to best the RTX 2070 in just the hotel scene, so raw OpenCL performance is most impressive on Turing.

SiSoftware Sandra GPGPU Testing

We fired up SiSoftware Sandra Titanium 2018 SP2b (version 28.31) to look at GPGPU performance on the new NVIDIA Turing GPU performs. This benchmark isn’t really aimed at gamers, but some will likely find the results interesting.

We ran the Sandra General-Purpose (GPGPU) Processing test on our group of test cards and the EVGA RTX 2080 XC Ultra had a touch more shading horse power than the 2080 FE thanks to the slightly higher clock speeds of the card.