Turing · 2018
NVIDIA's mobile RTX 2080 topped the first-generation Turing laptop lineup in 2018, with 2944 cores, 8GB of GDDR6 on a 256-bit bus and enough performance for high-refresh 1080p or solid 1440p gaming in a well-cooled chassis.
Running at a typical 150W, it's another chip where NVIDIA's configurable TGP matters a lot: the same "RTX 2080" name could show up at meaningfully different power levels across laptop models, with real performance to match.
Like the rest of the Turing lineup, this chip supports DLSS 2 - AI-trained Super Resolution upscaling, DLAA, and Ray Reconstruction for its ray-traced lighting, all without the Frame Generation that showed up starting with the RTX 40-series. Hardware ray tracing itself was still new territory when this card launched, and it remains one of the more capable first-generation RT implementations in a laptop.
Laptop manufacturers configure this GPU's power limit (TGP) per model. The 150W figure above is a typical point within the chip's published TGP range - actual power limits, and real-world performance, can vary significantly between laptops using the same GPU name.
Comfortable 1080p gaming and everyday creative tasks.
8 GB GDDR6 memory.
Push performance beyond base clock.
Soldered (Mobile)
Real-world specs can differ by laptop model - see the note above.
The NVIDIA RTX 2080 is a mid-range dedicated GPU with 8GB of GDDR6 memory, suited to mainstream gaming and everyday graphics tasks.