GeForce RTX 2080
Nvidia graphics card · GeForce RTX 20 series · launched September 2018
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Launch price in today's dollars
The GeForce RTX 2080 launched at $699 in 2018. Adjusted with the U.S. Consumer Price Index, that is about $921 in 2026 dollars (7-month average), a 32% rise over 8 years. At its launch price that is 320 Blender points per $100.
Method: launch price × (CPI 2026 average ÷ CPI 2018 average), calendar-year averages of BLS series CPIAUCSL. 2026 covers 7 months so far.
Blender rendering score
Median score 2,236 (middle half of runs 2,122–2,297) across 173 community runs on Blender 4.x with the OPTIX backend. That is #41 of 103 graphics cards in our dataset with a score, and #5 of 8 in the GeForce RTX 20 series.
This is a rendering benchmark (samples per minute over the monster, junkshop and classroom scenes), not a gaming benchmark. It says how fast the part renders in Blender's Cycles engine and nothing about frame rates. Source: Blender Open Data, CC0, snapshot 2026-09-06.
Specifications
| Vendor | Nvidia |
|---|---|
| Series | GeForce RTX 20 series |
| Launched | September 2018 |
| Launch price | $699 |
| Architecture | Turing |
| Chip | TU104-400A-A1 |
| Memory | 8 GB |
| Memory type | GDDR6 |
| Memory bus | 256-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 448 GB/s |
| Core clock | 1,515 MHz (boost 1,710 MHz) |
| FP32 compute | 10.07 TFLOPS |
| Rated power | 215 W (TDP) |
| Transistors | 13.6 billion |
| Die size | 545 mm² |
| Tier | 80-class |
The Nvidia 80-class over time
Nvidia graphics cards in the same tier around this one, oldest first, re-releases left out. Prices in launch dollars and in 2026 dollars; scores are Blender 4.x medians where they exist.
| Part | Year | Launch price | In 2026 $ | Blender |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GeForce GTX 580 | 2010 | $499 | $757 | — |
| GeForce GTX 680 | 2012 | $499 | $719 | — |
| GeForce GTX 780 | 2013 | $649 | $922 | — |
| GeForce GTX 780 Ti | 2013 | $699 | $993 | — |
| GeForce GTX 980 | 2014 | $549 | $767 | 296 |
| GeForce GTX 980 Ti | 2015 | $649 | $906 | 505 |
| GeForce GTX 1080 | 2016 | $599 | $826 | 577 |
| GeForce GTX 1080 Ti | 2017 | $699 | $944 | 828 |
| GeForce RTX 2080 | 2018 | $699 | $921 | 2,236 |
| GeForce RTX 2080 Ti | 2018 | $999 | $1,316 | 2,835 |
| GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER | 2019 | $699 | $905 | 2,321 |
| GeForce RTX 3080 | 2020 | $699 | $893 | 4,516 |
| GeForce RTX 3080 Ti | 2021 | $1,199 | $1,464 | 5,317 |
| GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB | 2022 | $799 | $904 | — |
| GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20 GB | 2022 | $1,199 | $1,356 | — |
| GeForce RTX 4080 | 2022 | $1,199 | $1,356 | 8,408 |
Compare with
- GeForce RTX 2070 · 2018 · $499 · 2,111
- GeForce RTX 2080 Ti · 2018 · $999 · 2,835
- GeForce GTX 1080 Ti · 2017 · $699 · 828
- GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER · 2019 · $399 · 2,096
- GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER · 2019 · $499 · 2,251
- GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER · 2019 · $699 · 2,321
- Nvidia Titan V · 2017 · $2,999 · 1,819
- Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid · 2017 · $699
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