PNY GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11GB GDDR6

The PNY RTX 2080 Ti Blower is a hot, loud relic with a PassMark score of 21440. It's fine for 1080p gaming if you find one cheap, but thermal performance in the 15th percentile and weak ray tracing make it a hard pass for most people.

The raw numbers tell a mixed story. 8.87 FP32 TFLOPS and 320 GB/s of memory bandwidth keep it relevant for 1080p and some 1440p gaming, but our scoring puts gaming at 49.4 and 46 out of 100 respectively. That's below average. The blower design is the real problem here. Thermal performance sits at the 15th percentile, which means this thing gets toasty and loud under load. Ray tracing exists but lands at the 39th percentile, so don't expect much from RTX features on a first-gen Turing card.

Stacked against the current crop, the 2080 Ti gets embarrassed. The ASUS PRIME RTX 5080 and Gigabyte AORUS 5080 are in a completely different universe. Even the MSI Ventus RTX 5070 Ti and ZOTAC APOCALYPSE 5080 make this card look like a museum piece. The Sapphire NITRO+ is an AMD option that also runs circles around it. The only reason to consider the PNY is if you need a blower card for a cramped case and find one dirt cheap.

Pricing is all over the place. You'll find listings around $799 USD, 884-894 EUR, and 1,199 CAD. For that money, you're competing with used RTX 3080s and even some 4070s that absolutely crush this card in every metric. The affordability score of 41 out of 100 says it all. Unless you find one for a steal, this is not a smart buy in 2025.

The PNY RTX 2080 Ti Blower is a card from a different era, and it shows. 11GB of GDDR6, 4352 CUDA cores, and a 1545MHz boost clock were top shelf back in 2018. Today, it's a used market gamble with a blower cooler that runs hot and loud. The PassMark score of 21440 puts it solidly in the middle of our database, which is fine for older games but not exactly exciting in 2025.

Skip this if you care about noise, thermals, or modern features. The blower cooler is loud, ray tracing is weak, and connectivity is nearly nonexistent at the 5th percentile. If you want ray tracing that actually works or plan to game at 1440p or higher, look at a used RTX 3080 or newer instead.

This is a card for budget builders who find a used one at a serious discount and don't care about noise or heat. If you're playing older titles at 1080p and have a small case, the blower design actually helps. Everyone else should keep scrolling. The thermal issues, weak ray tracing, and dated connectivity make it a tough sell against newer mid-range options.