The new MSI RTX 2080 Ti gets 16Gbps memory and a shot at Nvidia’s Titan RTX

But will it run Crysis Remastered?

Nvidia’s RTX 2080 Ti remains the most powerful graphics card in the GeForce lineup, and with that hallowed ground comes an equally harrowing Founders Edition price tag of US$1,199. Yet that hasn’t halted efforts to build bigger, better, and even more expensive graphics cards. In the true spirit of one-upmanship, MSI is now set to be the first to shove 16Gbps memory into its enthusiastgrade RTX 2080 Ti Gaming Z Trio.

According to MSI’s news post, the memory switch counts for a 5% performance increase over the otherwise identical 14Gbps RTX 2080 Ti Gaming X Trio. Both feature the same GPU boost clock of 1,755MHz, and the cooling solution remains the same beefy, slightly screwy, design. However, the tweaked memory on the Gaming Z Trio tips it over the line a little ahead of the 14Gbps Gaming

X Trio.

That 5% could be enough to see the Gaming Z Trio outperform even Nvidia’s super-smart Titan RTX. The inference card built for AI and deep learning is more or less an RTX 2080 Ti with all the extras: the full TU102’s 4,608 CUDA Cores, 1,770MHz boost clock, and 24GB of 14Gbps GDDR6 memory.