Palit RTX 2080 Super JetStream Graphics Card Review

Overclocking, Noise, Heat and Power

As I’ve said a few times now, this card is overclocked right out of the box. However, it had a few tricks left to give us. For one, the card never seemed like it was having a hard time hitting big performance at 4K. The fans never ramped up too hard, and the temperatures sat at a peak of 69c. This card makes 4K gaming look easy, while older 10-series cards always felt like they were on the ragged edge at extreme resolutions.

I managed to get a respectable 155 MHz increase on the core clock. Furthermore, we found the card handed a 750 MHz increase to the memory clock. I actually got up to 175 MHz on the core and 1000 MHz on the memory, but the card didn’t like doing both at the same time. At stock clocks, the Palit Super JetStream managed a very respectable 21950/27883, however that boosted to 23595/28300 once overclocked.

3DMark Firestrike

Acoustic Performance

This card barely makes a sound and there’s very little wind turbulence from those fans too. Its sound is identical to that of the PNY GTX 1070, which is mightly impressive. Overclocking saw no increase in the sound levels what so ever, despite the card running 2c warmer.

Stock

Overclocked

Thermal Performance

Temperatures are very modest here, and I’m sure the RTX 2080 chipset has more to give. I’d love to get some water blocks on this and push the voltages up, and see what it takes to trip this thing up.

Stock

Overclocked

Power Consumption

The card did use more power than the 1080 Ti, but I would like to disregard both of these figures for the now. There have been reports of the card idling higher than Pascal chipsets and it appears to be a driver issue. We will revist the RTX card testing in the coming weeks as drivers mature; these things happy pre-launch, it’s to be expected. To be honest, if this is the only hickup so far, then Nvidia has gotten off pretty easy.

Stock

Overclocked