I bought this card to replace a Radeon 5700 XT that I'd purchased last summer; after constantly fighting with drivers and compatibility issues in various games over the months I got fed up and went back to Nvidia.
On the AMD card I had problems with nearly every game I played at some point, whether it was crashing or issues after a patch. My sound over HDMI through my receiver skipped and popped ever since I upgraded from my old 1070, and no software update ever addressed it. My BIOS screens were impossible to manage on the 40" 4K TV I use for a monitor; I had to plug in another old monitor just to see my BIOS screens, and I'd get nothing at all on screen after a reboot until Windows had booted to the login screen. I'd get occasional green screens out of nowhere and have to power down, sometimes in the middle of a game, and sometimes I'd get a green screen coming out of sleep mode and have to power down.
Every single problem I had with the AMD card disappeared with the install of this 2080 Super. Every game has worked perfectly, I have more features to mess with like the RTX implementation, the card is quieter (much, much quieter), drivers are easy and painless to install and manage, my sound has worked perfectly, my BIOS and boot screens are accessible like they should be without plugging in another screen, and I haven't had a video-related crash since I installed it.
Performance is fantastic, I play everything in 4k and most games I don't have to tweak anything performance-wise unless I want to. It was a significant improvement over the 5700 XT even in general performance, which is why I went with this card rather than a 2070 Super (even for all the problems, spending that much on a performance sidegrade seemed hard to justify). The card might not be the best bang for your buck, since you're spending a premium for the 2080S, but I'd say it's worth the extra money over a 2070S if you're planning on playing in 4k resolutions. I really don't have any complaints other than the price, although if I were shopping now rather than the few months ago when I bought mine I'd likely wait to see about the 3000 series coming later in 2020.
| Memory Speed | 15500 MHz |
|---|---|
| Graphics Coprocessor | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 |
| Chipset Brand | NVIDIA |
| Card Description | NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 2080 |
| Graphics Card Ram Size | 8 GB |
