EVGA's GeForce RTX 2080 Black Edition graphics card hits the fabled $ 999 price point

When Nvidia announced the GeForce RTX 2080 at Gamescom, it said that starting at $ 999 would be available. Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition's hefty $ 1,200 price point. Asus announced the $ 999 RTX 2080 Ti Turbo with a blower-style fan, but we've never seen it again despite being listed on Newegg. A new EVGA offering promises to be big below Turing below $ 1,000.

As first noticed by Hot Hardware, EVGA has listed the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Black Edition on its website at the fabled $ 999 price point. Now for the news: It's not enough to buy just yet but you can sign up for an automatic notification when it's available.

The Black Edition appears to sport the same impressive dual-slot custom cooler as the EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 XC that we tested (and loved). EVGA redesigned the cooler for the new generation of GPUs, and its big-bladed dual fans and increased heat sink dissipation area managed to keep the RTX 2070 at a chilly 66 degrees Celsius or less at all times. The RTX 2080 is a much larger and more powerful-hungry chip, so the cold might not be quite as good as this GPU, but the Black Edition seems likely to run at least Nvidia's $ 1,200 Founders Edition.

The Founders Edition comes factory overclocked though. The EVGA RTX 2080 Ti Black Edition ships with stock specifications, meaning it contains 4,352 CUDA cores humming along with up to 1,545MHz clock speeds. That's nothing to worry about though. The new Nvidia Scanner auto-overclocking tool makes it dead easy to squeeze more performance out of RTX graphics cards, and EVGA's superb precision X1 software bakes it in. Just click a button, go for something for 20 minutes, and when you return your graphics card should run faster than before.

Of course, as an "RTX" graphics card the Black Edition supports real-time ray tracing, Deep Learning Super Sampling, and all other cutting-edge goodies enabled by Nvidia's radical Turing GPU. If you're willing to spend a lot on a powerful graphics card that pushes 4K gaming roaring past 60fps, but not quite willing to spend four figures on those capabilities, head over to EVGA's website and sign up to be notified when the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Black Edition ships.