Before you posted a link to your 1080 ti results that showed a clock speed of 1987 MHz when compared ot mine:
https://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/20010235/fs/20878622# The comparison you posted showed the 1080 ti at a much lower clock speed of 1886 MHz with the 2080 at 1995 MHz. Also the memory clock was at 1377 MHz vs the previous results showing 1477 MHz.
https://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/20915547/fs/20915472I understand they both were at stock clocks. I understand the policy, but who buys a FTW3 Hybrid card to run it at stock clocks?
I still feel that my replacement GPU is slower than the one I had previously, but there is nothing I can do about it because of the policy. It seems that the policy is out of touch with the end user who buys the higher tiered products with better cooling for the intention of overclocking. The few game benchmarks that I have from the 1080 ti are still higher FPS at the same settings than the 2080 at its maximum stable overclock. However the newest 1080 ti results that I have are from spring and summer of 2019, so they are all from at least a few months before I received the 2080. Its just hard to believe that scores in benchmarks and FPS in games can change 10% or more in a few months. I have tried two Corsaid fans meant for watercoolign radiators in a push pull configuration on the radiator of my 2080 to make it run cooler and that still can't give me the same results as my 1080 ti did. I put the 2080 in a new Ryzen 3800X system where the CPU water cooled and over clocked and still can't obtain the same graphics benchmark scores I received with my 1080 ti. I'll do a fresh Windows 10 install on my old 6700K system to see if I can get the 2080 to give any better results and to compare the drivers from last summer vs now to see if there is any difference.
Basically, I feel that the policy is the same as if Intel replaced an i7-3770K with an i7-3700 under warranty because they both give the same benchmark results when run at stock speeds. Yes I know old CPUs in the example, but that was back when the K series CPUs and the non K CPUs had the same base and boost clocks.