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GeForce RTX 2080 Ti bottleneck & FPS

Ranked 44 of 126 desktop graphics cards in our database (65th percentile). Paired with a Core i5-8400 it lands near 69 fps at 1080p and 12 fps at 4K in a typical AAA title at high settings.

SpecificationsTuring · 2018
ArchitectureTuring
Shading units4,352
Boost clock1,545 MHz
Memory11 GB
Memory bandwidth616 GB/s
Board power250 W
Released2018
Frame rate by resolutionwith Core i5-8400, high
ResolutionEst. FPSGPU loadLimited by
1920 x 1080 69 99% Balanced
2560 x 1440 40 99% Graphics card
3440 x 1440 31 99% Graphics card
3840 x 2160 12 99% Graphics card
Best matched processors1080p, high

Ranked by how little performance the pairing wastes, not by which processor is fastest. The fastest chip pairs well with everything, which makes it a useless recommendation.

ProcessorEst. FPSUnused
Core i5-8400 69 0.1%
Ryzen 3 3100 69 0.5%
Core i3-10100 69 0.6%
Core i3-10100F 69 0.6%
Core i3-9350K 68 1.4%
Core i3-9350KF 68 1.4%
Estimated FPS by game1440p, high, Core i5-8400
GameEst. FPSVRAM
Cyberpunk 2077 26 11.5 GB needed
Fortnite 56 OK
Counter-Strike 2 111 OK
Baldur's Gate 3 40 OK
Red Dead Redemption 2 31 OK
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 34 OK

Who a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is actually for

This sits in the range where most enthusiast builds land, and it is the range where pairing matters most. Fast enough that a budget processor will hold it back at 1080p; not so fast that it stops caring about resolution. Get the pairing right and very little is wasted.

The sweet spot is 1440p. At that resolution the card is doing enough work to stay busy without the processor needing to be exceptional.

Is 11 GB enough?

11 GB is adequate for most of what we model, but falls short in 1 of 16 titles at 1440p and high settings. Running out of video memory does not degrade gracefully — frame times spike rather than the average simply dropping, so it feels considerably worse than a small average loss would suggest. Dropping texture quality one step almost always recovers it.

A note on age

Released in 2018, this card is 8 years old. Beyond raw speed, older hardware misses features newer engines increasingly assume — mesh shaders, hardware ray tracing, and the newest upscalers. A modern title may run worse than these numbers suggest, or refuse to launch, for reasons the model cannot see.

Where it sits

Ranked 44 of 126 desktop cards we model. Nearest faster: Radeon RX 6750 GRE 12GB, Radeon RX 6700 XT. Just below: Radeon RX 7600 XT, Radeon RX 7650 GRE. Full method on the methodology page.