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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080/2080 Ti Review: A New GPU King is Born - MMORPG.com
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080/2080 Ti Review: A New GPU King is Born - MMORPG.com
The day has finally arrived: NVIDIA GeForce RTX is here and we’re able to tell you all about it. We’ve spent the last week with both the GeForce 2080 and 2080 Ti and feel like we’ve only scratched the surface. There’s a lot going on with these cards and they’re poised to change the face of game rendering as we know it. This is our review of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 and 2080 Ti.
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OK, that's the scary part. What aren't they telling us?
If your monitor is closer than 6 ft from your eyes, you won't see much benefit from 4k either. So a 1080 is about as much as you need for the foreseeable future.
The upcoming 2060's and 2050's won't be able to do any ray tracing without a severe degradation of FPS. You can probably include the 2070 in that too.
Take advantage of the low prices on the 10xx series, best bargain for a long time. 20xx prices are as expected ridiculous!
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For example, on the 1440p chart for GTA V at average, the 1080 gives 170 fps and the 2080 177 fps. That's only 7 fps more, yet the bar for the 2080 is more than double the length of the bar for 1080. Surely, you guys know that a valid chart uses equal units of measurement across an axis. I guess that's why you didn't lay out any units of measurement across the X axis.
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There has been a pretty lengthy discussion about Turing in the Hardware section.
Are these cards more powerful - absolutely. Do they deliver "useful" extra performance though? Obviously it will vary by what game you are playing and at what resolution but posters suspected probably not - especially at simple HD resolutions. Which seems to be the case. Against which you have to set the extra cost.
In the future? Yes. Things will get better. Better drivers and more games using new features. However:
In the future there will also be new cards manufactured on 7nm proceesses. Apple's A12 is the first 7nm chip but there are new 7nm offerings coming from both AMD (Navi?) and NVidia. Dates are a little uncertain but we may see AMD's as early as Q12019 and whatever NVidia have sent to tape around mid-2019. (AMD's Vega20 could be this year.) And these will - almost certainly - be more powerful.
Now sometimes there has been little reason to put off getting something new. Sure there is always something better coming but why wait? Sometimes however there are good reasons to wait a little - to see what the future holds. This is probably one of those times.
When you actually look into this, it's nowhere near as bad as it sounds. There's a lot of fear mongering going on for what's essentially standard legalese in the NDA. We weren't required to sign anything, for the record.
Perhaps, but it's super popular and a metric that will have meaning to lots of users. It's also planned for Ray Tracing, so cross-referencing at that time will be important.
I can absolutely without a doubt confirm that 4k is a HUGE increase in visual quality over 1080p from distances as close as 3ft from your face. I have been using 40-55" tv's for years on my PC desk, with me sitting 3ft from the screen. For the longest time I used 1080p tv's, but about 1.5 years ago I decided to upgrade to 4k. It is totally an enormous difference. Games don't always run the best in 4k however, so I change back to 1080p sometimes. The framerate is buttery smooth (at 120hz) then, but the lower res is a drastic difference.
I wish people would truly test things out for themselves before believing everything they read on the internet.
I see your point because I opted for an embedded bar graph. As a means of cleanly showing the FPS between the two, it works fine. Our CMS requires images be sized down, so making it easily readable is an important factor until we get a redesign that allows for larger images. To interpret the graphs, you should *not* be thinking that the orange bars are running underneath the blue ones. Each side is sized independently. The GTA V example, those bars are almost exactly the same size.
You think? My concern is that *any* ray tracing is going to effect FPS.
i remember when people said you couldn't tell the difference between 30-60-120 fps lol same shit different day xD
True, but the 1080 Ti is going to show its age whereas the 2080 will only do better as features roll out in games that take advantage of Turing.
Something like Fortnite = little difference
Something like Prepar3d = World of difference
On a different note:
My 1080ti performs more than good enough. I'm more interested in multi-monitor performance. For a couple of my applications I want to run up to 5 monitors to create a 220deg field of view, with another 3 for instruments. Right now that requires at least 3 computers and 5 gpus for acceptable performance. If that can be cut down to 2 computers and two gpus I'd be a happy camper.
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