The green giant made a very important change with the arrival of the Turing architecture, and as many of our readers know, abandoned the GTX nomenclature in favor of RTX, quite a statement of intent since “R” stands for ray tracinga technology that NVIDIA bet heavily on when it introduced RT cores in Turing, specialized hardware that provides ray-tracing acceleration.

With the NVIDIA move too facilitated differentiation graphics cards that have dedicated hardware to accelerate ray tracing, as well as DLSS, from those that don’t. Personally, it worked because it establishes a very simple and understandable resolution, GeForce GTX graphics cards lack both features and GeForce RTX has them.

Interestingly, the CEO of NVIDIA himself joked about the possible announcement of the GeForce GTX 1180, a generation of graphics cards that ultimately did not make it to market, but this joke was half-true, as we were able to confirm that the ones in green have come to manufacture GeForce GTX units 20, specifically the GeForce GTX 2080. Interesting, right? You definitely want to know how this graphics card differs from the GeForce RTX 2080, and the answer might surprise you: only in the name and in the small nuances of the design.

GeForce GTX 2080 is GeForce RTX 2080, nothing more. The only differences are in the change of nomenclature “GTX” in favor of “RTX”, in the absence of the logo in the central part, although this is something normal, since the only units that exist are technical samples that were not intended to reach the general consumer market and in the side LED lighting located in the “GeForce GTX” logo, which is not green but white.

The specifications of this GeForce GTX 2080 are the same as the GeForce RTX 2080:

• Graphics core TU104.
• 2,944 shaders.
• GPU at 1515 MHz-1710 MHz, normal and turbo mode.
• 184 texturing units.
• 64 raster units.
• 256-bit bus.
• 8 GB of GDDR6 memory at an effective frequency of 14 GHz.
• 368 tensor kernels.
• 46 RT cores.

This graphics card was purchased on eBay for around $360 and at this point it appears to have only been used for cryptocurrency mining, a shame as this is a true collector’s item, not for nothing. the only GeForce GTX capable of accelerating ray tracing and DLSS movement.