Nvidia RTX 2080 vs GTX 1080 Ti – which should you buy?

Nvidia RTX 2080 or GTX 1080 Ti... if you were looking to buy a brand new graphics card today, which of these GeForce offerings should you choose? It’s an interesting conundrum because, at the moment, the best card of the last generation is pretty much going toe-to-toe with the inaugural Nvidia Turing GPU. Though stock of the GTX 1080 Ti is quickly vanishing as manufacturing ceases and real-time ray tracing has finally arrived. A bit. Normally this wouldn’t be such a close battle - even if the performance delta between the top GeForce GPU of the last generation and the second-tier card of the next was this close, the newer card would traditionally have arrived at a lower price point. That’s how it was with the GTX 980 Ti - where it remained more expensive than the newer reference GTX 1080 at launch... though I am ignoring the Founders Edition pricing of the time. But there the GTX 1080 was around 30% than the Ti of the previous generation, and that makes a big difference. But thanks to a lack of competition, the sheer scale of the massive Nvidia Turing GPUs, and the cost of the new GDDR6 video memory, those different pricing tiers are now almost exactly matching up.