MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Duke Review + Benchmarks

Setting Levels and Use: The 2080 Ti and RT X 2080 Juke

The 1080 TI and 2080 RT X Juke are two graphics cards that have been pitted against each other to see how they perform. As can be seen from the tests, both cards are fairly ahead of their predecessors in terms of performance. In these tests, both the 1080 TI and 2080 RT X Juke were able to deliver impressive performance gains over their lower tier counterparts.

Average Performance Improvements

The average performance improvements with the 2080 RT X Juke applied at 1080p were a 5.9% improvement, while at 1440p they rose up to 6.7%. At 4k, the average increase in performance was a significant 8.2%. These results show that even at lower resolutions, the 2080 RT X Juke is able to deliver impressive performance gains.

Fan Performance and Temperature

In terms of fan performance, the 2080 RT X Juke was not significantly different from the non-overclocked version of the card. However, when the fans were measured in more detail, it became clear that they did make a small difference. The average and peak fan speeds were relatively low, even under stress testing conditions.

Temperature Measurements

The temperature measurements taken using the Heaven benchmark showed that the 2080 RT X Juke was able to run silently for most of the time. However, the backplate was slightly warmer than expected, with temperatures ranging from around mid-60s to high-80s Celsius. This may be due to the fact that the card is already overclocked, and therefore has a higher operating temperature.

Performance Improvements Compared to 1080 Ti

In comparison to the 1080 TI, the 2080 RT X Juke was able to deliver slightly better performance in some games. However, the difference was not dramatic, and in many cases it was not noticeable.

Overclocking the 2080 Ti

The author of the review did manage to overclock the 1080 TI, but unfortunately this was only possible for a short period of time before they were unable to achieve stable speeds. This meant that they were unable to fully take advantage of the potential performance gains offered by the 2080 RT X Juke.

Testing the 20 Series Technologies

Unfortunately, the author of the review did not have access to games that utilized some of the new technologies promised by NVIDIA's 20 series, such as ray tracing and DLSS. This meant that they were unable to test these features in action, which may have provided a more comprehensive understanding of the 2080 RT X Juke's capabilities.

Pricing

The price of the 2080 RT X Juke was listed at $830 USD on YouGee, although it is currently out of stock. In Australia, the card was listed for $1,450 AUD on PC Case Gear, although this price may not be accurate at present. The author notes that prices can fluctuate over time, and encourages readers to check the links in the description for the latest prices.

Conclusion

Overall, while the 2080 RT X Juke is a powerful graphics card, its performance gains are not dramatic enough to justify its high price point compared to some of NVIDIA's other offerings. However, if you're looking to future-proof your system and take advantage of the new technologies offered by NVIDIA's 20 series, then the 2080 RT X Juke may be worth considering.

In conclusion, this review has provided a comprehensive analysis of the MSI RT X 2080 Juke, including its performance gains over the 1080 TI, fan performance and temperature measurements, and pricing. While the card is certainly powerful, it's not without its drawbacks, and readers should carefully consider their options before making a purchase.

System Power Draw

The system power draw of the 2080 RT X Juke was relatively high, especially when compared to some other graphics cards on the market. However, this may be due in part to the author's use of a cheap tool to measure width, which may not be entirely accurate.

Overall, while the 2080 RT X Juke is a powerful graphics card, its performance gains are not dramatic enough to justify its high price point compared to some of NVIDIA's other offerings.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enin video recently launched the new GeForce r-tx series of graphics cards and first up for review I've got MSI as 2080 Juke so let's see how well it performs I'll be testing gaming at 4k 1440p and 1080p as well as overclocking cooling and more to show you what it can do let's start by taking a look at the card there's three fans on the front with the silver plastic cover on the tip it's just plain plastic and nothing in particular going on underneath up on the top there's some MSI and GeForce r-tx branding as well as the envy link connector and six and eight pin power connectors the MSI Duke logo in the center has RGB lighting and this can be controlled through MSI's lights and software or turned off if you prefer this lets you sync it to the rest of your build and there are around 15 different effects available on the back there's a metal backplate with some more MSI logos overall I think the design of the card looks pretty nice but of course that's going to be subjective the lighting is an overkill and the great color scheme should make it easy to match with other components on the rear of the card we've got three DisplayPort one plate four outputs an HDMI 2.0 B output and USB type-c port in total you can run up to 4 monitors off the card at once the dimensions of the card are 314 millimeters by 120 millimeters by 46 millimeters and it weighs just under 1.1 kilos so it's fairly big although not quite as large as MSI is gaming extra air card it still comes with an optional support bracket which you can mount underneath the car tell prevent sagging although I didn't have too much issue with it in my reinforced PCIe slot without the bracket here are the specs of this 2080 as an overclocked card it comes with higher boost clock speeds in the reference specs straight out of the box and the 20 series also starts using GDD are six memory I've used MSI Afterburner to manually overclock the card and I was able to boost the core by 85 megahertz and 800 megahertz on the memory if I went any higher I started getting weird artifacting issues the system that I'm testing with has an Intel i7 8700 K overclocked to 5.1 gigahertz in order to attempt to CPU bottlenecks as much as possible and the 16 gig of ddr4 2666 memory running in dual channel I've tested the games at 1080p 1440p and 4k and I'm only testing using the maximum setting preset of each game here as these high-end cards should be able to take it I've also included fresh results with my EVGA 1080 for the win - and a 1080 TIR board from a pre-built system for comparison yes you could probably get slightly better results with a better card but I don't just have spare 1080 T eyes laying around anyway this should be enough to give you an idea of how the 2080 stacks up for tonight was tested using the replay feature at 1080p at max settings we're seeing very high frame rates with a 7% improvement to average FPS on the 2080 once overclocked moving up to 1440 PE the results are still quite nice and this time with the 2080 overclocked it's performing 10% better than its stock speeds at 4k the results drop back quite a lot although still around 60 FPS averages even in stock speeds with a nine point five percent improvement with a 28-year overclocked irvil which was tested in the training area in order to easily replicate the same test run and again really good results at 1080p with the overclocked 2080 performing 9% better than its stock going up to 1440p the performance is still excellent with all cards and the 2080 is again performing 9% better with the overclocked applied at 4k the frame rates basically dropping half although it still played nice and smoothly with all cards and we're now seeing 10% of a boost once the 20/80 has been overclocked pub G was tested using the replay feature so the same replay was used for each test at 1080p we're seeing pretty nice frame rates for this unoptimized game with just under a 5% boost to the 2080 while overclocked at 1440 PE the frame rates are still quite good all there are much better results from the 1080 Ti or above with the ever clocked 20 80 around 8% ahead of the 2088 stock at 4k the results aren't great I definitely want to play this game at much lower settings but in any case there's a 7.5 percent improvement once the 2080 is being overclocked shadow of the Tomb Raider was tested with the built-in benchmark unfortunately the game came out a couple of days after I had and the 1080 TI back so I haven't been able to test this game on it at 1080p you the frame rates are quite high with a five percent improvement the twenty eighty when overclocked at 1440p this increase to the gofer clock to twenty eighty increases to eight percent over stock speeds although still above 60 fps even with the 1080 at 4k there was also an APIs and improvement to the you ever clocked twenty eighty compared to stock speeds although the frame rates with Max settings aren't too high here but a fair bit better than the 1080 assassin's creed origins was also tested with the built-in bench mark and at 1080p were getting really nice performance but just a small three percent increase on the twenty eighty once overclocked stepping up to 1440 PE the frame rates dropped back a little but still fairly nice results the ever clocked twenty eighty moves up slightly to just six percent better than running it at stock at 4k we're almost able to average 60fps with the twenty eighty overclocked which is pretty good for this test and this time the improvement while overclocked rises up to 9% over the twenty eighty eight stock far cry 5 was once again tested using the built-in benchmark at 1080p the frame rates are quite high for this test and just a small three percent boost to the average frame rates once the twenty eighty is overclocked although the one percent load dropped a little at 1440p the difference between each test increases further apart the year for clocks twenty eighty is now around six percent better than the twenty eighty running at stock speed 4k frame rates drop by almost half although the one percent lows aren't too far behind the averages here so less dips in performance with the twenty eighty overclocked the performance improvement has just raised slightly to seven percent better than its stock csgo was tested with the illogical benchmark and as expected 1080p was seeing very high frame rates interestingly the 1080 TI outperforms the twenty eighty in this test even while overclocked and there's just a four percent improvement with you have a clock on the twenty eighty compared to its stock at 1440p there's a similar four percent improvement with the 28-year overclocked and at this resolution it's now coming out ahead of the 1080 TI at 4k this difference changes to six percent and at this resolution there's not really too much difference between the top three results Rainbow six siege was tested with the built-in benchmark and was also getting really good frame rates this game saw one of the largest increases in before compared to the older ten series and at 1080p there was an APIs and improvement with the 20 80 overclocked compared to stock speed at 1440p the performance improvement with the overclocked 20 80 was just four percent above the twenty eighty running in stock speeds and both were a fair step up over the ten atti at 4k this worse to a nine percent boost while overclocked over the twenty eighty eight stock and the frame rates overall is still fairly decent considering the high resolution guy streak on was also tested with the built-in bench mark and at 1080p the results are pretty good for this demanding game with the twenty eighty overclock there was an 8 percent improvement over the twenty eighty at stock at 1440p the frame rates are still quite good here considering these and max settings and again there's around an eight percent boost to the twenty eighty with the overclocked in place at 4k were not able to average 60fps with any of these cards but that would be possible at lower settings but again there was an 8 percent improvement to the twenty eighty once overclocked watchdog's to is still a fairly demanding game and all cards are performing well here with the six percent improvement to the twenty eighty once overclocked compared to running at stock speeds at 1440p there was only a 1% difference between the two though so much less and very close to the 1080 TI as well at 4k there was also very minimal differences between the top three tests with just under a four percent improvement once the twenty eighty has been overclocked shadow of war was tested using the built-in bench mark and at 1080p there was only a four percent improvement with a twenty eighty overclocked compared to stock at 1440p this rises to a seven percent boost with the overclocked applied but realistically decent frame rates for this game with all cards at 4k the difference rose again with the overclocked 20/80 performing 10% above stock speeds with the overclocked early just able to give us about 60 FPS in this test as we've seen the 2080 is quite close to my 1080 TI at stock speeds i've got a separate video showing tests with all setting levels and use if you're interested in seeing more on how these compare and i'm currently working on a more in-depth 1080 verse 2080 video so make sure to subscribe for that in these tests both the 1080 TI and 2080 or a fair bit ahead of the 1080 there and while you could also overclock the 1080 Ti I wasn't able to test that as my time with it was very limited and ideally that would have been better to test with the higher tier card these are the average performance improvements in the games tested with the 2080 manually overclocked at 1080p just a 5.9 percent improvement with you ever clock applied at 1440 PE the year for all average rises up to 6.7% so just a little better than at 1080p at 4k the year for all averages of these games rise to an eight point two percent improvement over all games tested of course the amount of improvement varies based on game but in general the performance improvements are higher at high resolutions which is expected as there's less chance of a cpu bottleneck so we're seeing some pretty nice performance but how hot does it get these are the temperatures I measured with the heav'n benchmark using hardware infer with an ambient room temperature of 18 degrees Celsius I wasn't really seeing much difference with my overclocked applied probably because it wasn't that big of a boost given the card is already overclocked up from reference speeds I also wasn't able to manually adjust the fans in MSI Afterburner but even under stress tests and while gaming the temperatures didn't get that high so that was fine just for fun here's how the backplate looked after 30 minutes of stress test running some of the heatsink was a little warmer than the core while most of the backplate was around the mid 60 degree mark I've got the average in P clock speeds while running these tests here and with the overclock applied we were able to average above 2000 megahertz without issue the fans don't even start spinning until the temperature rises above 60 degrees Celsius so it will run silent until you actually start using it these are the average and peak fan speeds measured with hard wearing fur under the same stress tests as the temperatures just shine and don't let you hear how the system sounded to be honest this test isn't really too useful my case has seven fans already running so we only see a very small increase with the card actually under load it wasn't contributing too much by itself there was a little coil wine present but it wasn't that noticeable especially if you've got case fans going here's what the total system power drawer look black in the same heaven benchmark keep in mind a fair chunk will be from my 8700 K at 5.1 gigahertz but as I've mentioned in the past I suspect the cheap tool I'm using to measure width may not be too accurate as for the pricing I suggest checking the links in the description for the latest prices at the time of recording however it's listed at eight hundred and thirty US dollars on you egg although it's also not in stock at this particular time right after launch so I'm not sure if that will change again refer to the links in the description in Australia or was on PC case gear briefly for fourteen hundred and fifty Australian dollars but it's not currently listed so again I'm not sure how accurate that is but I'll update the links in the description once I know it would have been great to be able to test the new technologies that the twenty series has been boasting such as ray tracing or DL SS but the fact is that on launch no games are available that actually make use of these so there's nothing I can really test at the moment as I've got to send the card back to MSI I probably won't get a chance to test these speeches out with this specific card so all I've got to work on is the information provided already and based on that the 2080 in general not specifically the Juke seems difficult to justify at the moment especially when you can pick up a 1080 TR that will perform similarly in most games for cheaper a hundred to two hundred dollars less should be possible if you're looking to make the gamble today though and Bank on the future features RT X claims to offer then MSI is 2080 juke otherwise seems to be a pretty good option but overall the twenty series currently seems to be a bit expensive in terms of priced performance at least compared to NVIDIA zone ten series cards so what did you guys think of MSI's RT X 2080 Juke be sure to let me know your thoughts down in the comments and leave the lack on the video if you found it useful thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe for future tech videos like this onein video recently launched the new GeForce r-tx series of graphics cards and first up for review I've got MSI as 2080 Juke so let's see how well it performs I'll be testing gaming at 4k 1440p and 1080p as well as overclocking cooling and more to show you what it can do let's start by taking a look at the card there's three fans on the front with the silver plastic cover on the tip it's just plain plastic and nothing in particular going on underneath up on the top there's some MSI and GeForce r-tx branding as well as the envy link connector and six and eight pin power connectors the MSI Duke logo in the center has RGB lighting and this can be controlled through MSI's lights and software or turned off if you prefer this lets you sync it to the rest of your build and there are around 15 different effects available on the back there's a metal backplate with some more MSI logos overall I think the design of the card looks pretty nice but of course that's going to be subjective the lighting is an overkill and the great color scheme should make it easy to match with other components on the rear of the card we've got three DisplayPort one plate four outputs an HDMI 2.0 B output and USB type-c port in total you can run up to 4 monitors off the card at once the dimensions of the card are 314 millimeters by 120 millimeters by 46 millimeters and it weighs just under 1.1 kilos so it's fairly big although not quite as large as MSI is gaming extra air card it still comes with an optional support bracket which you can mount underneath the car tell prevent sagging although I didn't have too much issue with it in my reinforced PCIe slot without the bracket here are the specs of this 2080 as an overclocked card it comes with higher boost clock speeds in the reference specs straight out of the box and the 20 series also starts using GDD are six memory I've used MSI Afterburner to manually overclock the card and I was able to boost the core by 85 megahertz and 800 megahertz on the memory if I went any higher I started getting weird artifacting issues the system that I'm testing with has an Intel i7 8700 K overclocked to 5.1 gigahertz in order to attempt to CPU bottlenecks as much as possible and the 16 gig of ddr4 2666 memory running in dual channel I've tested the games at 1080p 1440p and 4k and I'm only testing using the maximum setting preset of each game here as these high-end cards should be able to take it I've also included fresh results with my EVGA 1080 for the win - and a 1080 TIR board from a pre-built system for comparison yes you could probably get slightly better results with a better card but I don't just have spare 1080 T eyes laying around anyway this should be enough to give you an idea of how the 2080 stacks up for tonight was tested using the replay feature at 1080p at max settings we're seeing very high frame rates with a 7% improvement to average FPS on the 2080 once overclocked moving up to 1440 PE the results are still quite nice and this time with the 2080 overclocked it's performing 10% better than its stock speeds at 4k the results drop back quite a lot although still around 60 FPS averages even in stock speeds with a nine point five percent improvement with a 28-year overclocked irvil which was tested in the training area in order to easily replicate the same test run and again really good results at 1080p with the overclocked 2080 performing 9% better than its stock going up to 1440p the performance is still excellent with all cards and the 2080 is again performing 9% better with the overclocked applied at 4k the frame rates basically dropping half although it still played nice and smoothly with all cards and we're now seeing 10% of a boost once the 20/80 has been overclocked pub G was tested using the replay feature so the same replay was used for each test at 1080p we're seeing pretty nice frame rates for this unoptimized game with just under a 5% boost to the 2080 while overclocked at 1440 PE the frame rates are still quite good all there are much better results from the 1080 Ti or above with the ever clocked 20 80 around 8% ahead of the 2088 stock at 4k the results aren't great I definitely want to play this game at much lower settings but in any case there's a 7.5 percent improvement once the 2080 is being overclocked shadow of the Tomb Raider was tested with the built-in benchmark unfortunately the game came out a couple of days after I had and the 1080 TI back so I haven't been able to test this game on it at 1080p you the frame rates are quite high with a five percent improvement the twenty eighty when overclocked at 1440p this increase to the gofer clock to twenty eighty increases to eight percent over stock speeds although still above 60 fps even with the 1080 at 4k there was also an APIs and improvement to the you ever clocked twenty eighty compared to stock speeds although the frame rates with Max settings aren't too high here but a fair bit better than the 1080 assassin's creed origins was also tested with the built-in bench mark and at 1080p were getting really nice performance but just a small three percent increase on the twenty eighty once overclocked stepping up to 1440 PE the frame rates dropped back a little but still fairly nice results the ever clocked twenty eighty moves up slightly to just six percent better than running it at stock at 4k we're almost able to average 60fps with the twenty eighty overclocked which is pretty good for this test and this time the improvement while overclocked rises up to 9% over the twenty eighty eight stock far cry 5 was once again tested using the built-in benchmark at 1080p the frame rates are quite high for this test and just a small three percent boost to the average frame rates once the twenty eighty is overclocked although the one percent load dropped a little at 1440p the difference between each test increases further apart the year for clocks twenty eighty is now around six percent better than the twenty eighty running at stock speed 4k frame rates drop by almost half although the one percent lows aren't too far behind the averages here so less dips in performance with the twenty eighty overclocked the performance improvement has just raised slightly to seven percent better than its stock csgo was tested with the illogical benchmark and as expected 1080p was seeing very high frame rates interestingly the 1080 TI outperforms the twenty eighty in this test even while overclocked and there's just a four percent improvement with you have a clock on the twenty eighty compared to its stock at 1440p there's a similar four percent improvement with the 28-year overclocked and at this resolution it's now coming out ahead of the 1080 TI at 4k this difference changes to six percent and at this resolution there's not really too much difference between the top three results Rainbow six siege was tested with the built-in benchmark and was also getting really good frame rates this game saw one of the largest increases in before compared to the older ten series and at 1080p there was an APIs and improvement with the 20 80 overclocked compared to stock speed at 1440p the performance improvement with the overclocked 20 80 was just four percent above the twenty eighty running in stock speeds and both were a fair step up over the ten atti at 4k this worse to a nine percent boost while overclocked over the twenty eighty eight stock and the frame rates overall is still fairly decent considering the high resolution guy streak on was also tested with the built-in bench mark and at 1080p the results are pretty good for this demanding game with the twenty eighty overclock there was an 8 percent improvement over the twenty eighty at stock at 1440p the frame rates are still quite good here considering these and max settings and again there's around an eight percent boost to the twenty eighty with the overclocked in place at 4k were not able to average 60fps with any of these cards but that would be possible at lower settings but again there was an 8 percent improvement to the twenty eighty once overclocked watchdog's to is still a fairly demanding game and all cards are performing well here with the six percent improvement to the twenty eighty once overclocked compared to running at stock speeds at 1440p there was only a 1% difference between the two though so much less and very close to the 1080 TI as well at 4k there was also very minimal differences between the top three tests with just under a four percent improvement once the twenty eighty has been overclocked shadow of war was tested using the built-in bench mark and at 1080p there was only a four percent improvement with a twenty eighty overclocked compared to stock at 1440p this rises to a seven percent boost with the overclocked applied but realistically decent frame rates for this game with all cards at 4k the difference rose again with the overclocked 20/80 performing 10% above stock speeds with the overclocked early just able to give us about 60 FPS in this test as we've seen the 2080 is quite close to my 1080 TI at stock speeds i've got a separate video showing tests with all setting levels and use if you're interested in seeing more on how these compare and i'm currently working on a more in-depth 1080 verse 2080 video so make sure to subscribe for that in these tests both the 1080 TI and 2080 or a fair bit ahead of the 1080 there and while you could also overclock the 1080 Ti I wasn't able to test that as my time with it was very limited and ideally that would have been better to test with the higher tier card these are the average performance improvements in the games tested with the 2080 manually overclocked at 1080p just a 5.9 percent improvement with you ever clock applied at 1440 PE the year for all average rises up to 6.7% so just a little better than at 1080p at 4k the year for all averages of these games rise to an eight point two percent improvement over all games tested of course the amount of improvement varies based on game but in general the performance improvements are higher at high resolutions which is expected as there's less chance of a cpu bottleneck so we're seeing some pretty nice performance but how hot does it get these are the temperatures I measured with the heav'n benchmark using hardware infer with an ambient room temperature of 18 degrees Celsius I wasn't really seeing much difference with my overclocked applied probably because it wasn't that big of a boost given the card is already overclocked up from reference speeds I also wasn't able to manually adjust the fans in MSI Afterburner but even under stress tests and while gaming the temperatures didn't get that high so that was fine just for fun here's how the backplate looked after 30 minutes of stress test running some of the heatsink was a little warmer than the core while most of the backplate was around the mid 60 degree mark I've got the average in P clock speeds while running these tests here and with the overclock applied we were able to average above 2000 megahertz without issue the fans don't even start spinning until the temperature rises above 60 degrees Celsius so it will run silent until you actually start using it these are the average and peak fan speeds measured with hard wearing fur under the same stress tests as the temperatures just shine and don't let you hear how the system sounded to be honest this test isn't really too useful my case has seven fans already running so we only see a very small increase with the card actually under load it wasn't contributing too much by itself there was a little coil wine present but it wasn't that noticeable especially if you've got case fans going here's what the total system power drawer look black in the same heaven benchmark keep in mind a fair chunk will be from my 8700 K at 5.1 gigahertz but as I've mentioned in the past I suspect the cheap tool I'm using to measure width may not be too accurate as for the pricing I suggest checking the links in the description for the latest prices at the time of recording however it's listed at eight hundred and thirty US dollars on you egg although it's also not in stock at this particular time right after launch so I'm not sure if that will change again refer to the links in the description in Australia or was on PC case gear briefly for fourteen hundred and fifty Australian dollars but it's not currently listed so again I'm not sure how accurate that is but I'll update the links in the description once I know it would have been great to be able to test the new technologies that the twenty series has been boasting such as ray tracing or DL SS but the fact is that on launch no games are available that actually make use of these so there's nothing I can really test at the moment as I've got to send the card back to MSI I probably won't get a chance to test these speeches out with this specific card so all I've got to work on is the information provided already and based on that the 2080 in general not specifically the Juke seems difficult to justify at the moment especially when you can pick up a 1080 TR that will perform similarly in most games for cheaper a hundred to two hundred dollars less should be possible if you're looking to make the gamble today though and Bank on the future features RT X claims to offer then MSI is 2080 juke otherwise seems to be a pretty good option but overall the twenty series currently seems to be a bit expensive in terms of priced performance at least compared to NVIDIA zone ten series cards so what did you guys think of MSI's RT X 2080 Juke be sure to let me know your thoughts down in the comments and leave the lack on the video if you found it useful thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe for future tech videos like this one\n"