Nvidia’s Unreleased GTX 2080 Ti Prototype – A More Powerful Turing Flagship That Never Launched
Background: The RTX 2080 Ti and Turing’s Debut Nvidia launched the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti in September 2018 as the flagship of its then-new Turing architecture. Priced around $1,199 at launch, the RTX 2080 Ti was the first consumer GPU to introduce real-time ray tracing and AI DLSS features, marking a major technological leap in graphics. According to Tom’s Hardware, it “was the flagship offering at that moment, bringing ray tracing to the masses for the first time” tomshardware.com. The card featured 11 GB of GDDR6 VRAM and delivered the highest gaming performance of its generation, well ahead of any
