BTR received a RTX 2080 Ti and a RTX 2080 from NVIDIA last week, and we have been testing them using 36 games versus the TITAN Xp, the GTX 1080 Ti, the GTX 1080, and also versus AMD’s flagship, the liquid-cooled Vega 64. In addition to bringing revolutionary new features including ray tracing to significantly improve visuals, NVIDIA promises that Turing will bring large performance increases over Pascal.

Since we got the drivers for the new cards on Friday night, this review has to focus on performance as well as consider whether the new RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition at $1199 ($999 for entry-level AIBs) or the RTX 2080 Founders Edition at $799 ($699 from AIBs) represents good value as an upgrade from Pascal.