NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and RTX 2080 Benchmark Review

By Nathan Kirsch

3DMark Time Spy – DX12

3DMark Time Spy just recently came out and it is the latest and greatest DirectX 12 benchmark test for gaming PCs running Windows 10. This DirectX 12 Feature Level 11_0 benchmark utilizes a pure DirectX 12 game engine that supports features like asynchronous compute, explicit multi-adapter, and multi-threading! The developers opted to use DirectX 12 Feature Level 11_0 to ensuring wide compatibility with DirectX 11 hardware through DirectX 12 drivers.

3DMark Time Spy

With DirectX 12 on Windows 10, game developers can significantly improve the multi-thread scaling and hardware utilization of their titles to draw more objects, textures and effects for your viewing enjoyment. 3DMark Fire Strike is a great high-end DirectX 11 benchmark test, but doesn’t really show off what new graphics cards can do on a DirectX 12 game title that will have much more going on while you are playing.

3DMark Time Spy Settings

We ran 3DMark Time Spy with the standard settings and got the following results:

3DMark Time Spy Benchmark

In this DX12 benchmark found the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti scored 11,824 points and the GeForce GTX 2080 came in with a score of 10,051 points. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 from four years ago scored 4,413 points and the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 finished at 7,258 points, so we are seeing some massive scaling over these three card generations. There was a 64% performance gain from the GTX 980 to GTX 1080 and then a 38% increase in performance from the GTX 1080 to RTX 2080.