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PowerPC wroteHow did they test Battlefield 5? even the beta isn't available yet..
2nd Closed Alpha
Tech Guru wroteRT is a true generational leap in the gaming industry (AMD will follow sure in their upcoming Navi cards ) , some think its a mere reflections here and there that adds on the graphical fidelity of the image. It is a lot of rendering computational power , that Hollywood movies usually use rendering farms to do it. Now its is available to the end gamer , which is good.

Say you have a scene in your game with 1000 objects in it, no problem at all for a modern GPU. It takes each object, one after the other, and first finds out what area of the screen the object is visible in. For each of those pixels it executes a shader, which calculates the color of that pixel based on the object's material, textures, lights and the lights in the scene. Relatively speaking that's a very small amount of data that you need to do the calculations.

GPUs do this super quickly because the color of the pixel doesn't depend on anything except that one object's data and the lights in the scene, so you can calculate thousands of pixels at the same time using thousands of tiny processors. Modern engines then do all kinds of post processing steps, where they take the finished image and combine it with other data to do lots of neat effects like SSAO or bloom.

Ray tracing works completely different. In ray tracing you're shooting a ray into a scene and you have no idea before hand what it will hit. So every ray needs to have access to all the objects in the scene, their materials and so on, at the same time. Even if you knew which object a ray would hit what happens when that object has some reflective properties? Or say you put a bright red object next to a white one, some of the red color will reflect onto the white one. So each time you hit something you need to shoot even more rays from there, hitting other objects, and then you need to combine the results of all those to get the color of the pixel.
https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/459nz3/eli5_why_isnt_realtime_ray_tracing_used_in_video/czw9686/
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Prices are competitive ~ 80 USD on current 2080ti and 2080 official Nvidia FE listings , and PC and Parts expect prices to normalize and reduce after the official market lunch.

~ 1000 - 1100 USD for the RTX 2080ti strix is a good investment to me.
If you got a good price on the 1080 ti (and it seems you did) sure go for it. Obviously you're an avid 4k gamer. To be honest if I find myself buying a new VGA from scratch I'd probably get it (and use the opportunity to get 4k displays) If nothing else it should be future proof for me for the next 10 years lol
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The benchmarks are out, based on price per performance it seems that the GTX2080 is a bad buy when it has a slight better performance compared to the GTX1080Ti with less VRAM and for 100$ to 150$ more!
anayman_k7 wroteThe benchmarks are out, based on price per performance it seems that the GTX2080 is a bad buy when it has a slight better performance compared to the GTX1080Ti with less VRAM and for 100$ to 150$ more!
When the drivers are mature are more enough and DLSS role out , 1080 will not have a chance. 1080ti need to be compared with the 2080ti and 2080 with the 1080 .

the 1080ti is screwed deep but people who paid a hefty amounts for their 1080tis are trying to "self convince themselves"that upgrading to turing is not worthy , to deep inside they know a gen to gen architectural changes , increase in cuda core , new memory ,new optimizations , new features is always a win situation. Truth about evolving tech were " self convincing" to stick themselves with old gen.
After watching most of the reviews the thing that I was afraid off happened, RTX is still non existent and when it exists it will be so limited and we still have to see actual performance numbers about, same for DLSS, GTX 2080 is not even worth buying, a GTX 2080 Ti will let you play 4k 60fps Ultra or have a consistent 1440p 144Hz experience but for a very hefty price tag.
Tech Guru wrote
anayman_k7 wroteThe benchmarks are out, based on price per performance it seems that the GTX2080 is a bad buy when it has a slight better performance compared to the GTX1080Ti with less VRAM and for 100$ to 150$ more!
When the drivers are mature are more enough and DLSS role out , 1080 will not have a chance. 1080ti need to be compared with the 2080ti and 2080 with the 1080 .

the 1080ti is screwed deep but people who paid a hefty amounts for their 1080tis are trying to "self convince themselves"that upgrading to turing is not worthy , to deep inside they new a gen to gen architectural changes , increase in cuda core , new meomey ,new optimizations , new features is always a win situation. Truth about evolving tech were " self convincing" to stick themselves with old gen.
I disagree, you compare the GTX2080 with the GTX1080Ti for now, because later on we will compare the GTX2070 with the GTX1080Ti, you compare 'What you pay/What you get' not what is that number equal that number (generation by generation), unless these cards are provided for free.

Edit: And I don't think a sane person will buy a thing that could prove itself later on (if we could), go check Reddit 99% of users canceled their 2080 orders for the 1080Ti
anayman_k7 wrote
Tech Guru wrote
anayman_k7 wroteThe benchmarks are out, based on price per performance it seems that the GTX2080 is a bad buy when it has a slight better performance compared to the GTX1080Ti with less VRAM and for 100$ to 150$ more!
When the drivers are mature are more enough and DLSS role out , 1080 will not have a chance. 1080ti need to be compared with the 2080ti and 2080 with the 1080 .

the 1080ti is screwed deep but people who paid a hefty amounts for their 1080tis are trying to "self convince themselves"that upgrading to turing is not worthy , to deep inside they new a gen to gen architectural changes , increase in cuda core , new meomey ,new optimizations , new features is always a win situation. Truth about evolving tech were " self convincing" to stick themselves with old gen.
I disagree, you compare the GTX2080 with the GTX1080Ti for now, because later on we will compare the GTX2070 with the GTX1080Ti, you compare 'What you pay/What you get' not what is that number equal that number (generation by generation), unless these cards are provided for free.

Edit: And I don't think a sane person will buy a thing that could prove itself later on (if we could), go check Reddit 99% of users canceled their 2080 orders for the 1080Ti
You are wrong with that logic

2080 replaces the 1080
2080ti replaces 1080ti
2070 replaces the 1070

Also ,

The new cards are not made to give you 300 fps on 4k. It is made to make ray tracing possible on a 800$ card, instead of 68,000$.

Still DLSS is not tested ,DLSS + RT 》》》 Old Gen 1080ti ,remember in some titles the 2080 in some titles pulled ahead of the 1080ti. Still reviews start to roll out wait couple of weeks / months ahead and the gap will be widen of 1080 vs 2080 and 2080ti vs 1080ti.


Hardware Unbox was the 1st to confess that they are wrong with their pereception about new gen:

"Geforce RTX 2080 & 2080Ti Review , I was Wrong"
https://youtu.be/dLjQR0UFUd0
Tech Guru wrote
anayman_k7 wrote
Tech Guru wrote
When the drivers are mature are more enough and DLSS role out , 1080 will not have a chance. 1080ti need to be compared with the 2080ti and 2080 with the 1080 .

the 1080ti is screwed deep but people who paid a hefty amounts for their 1080tis are trying to "self convince themselves"that upgrading to turing is not worthy , to deep inside they new a gen to gen architectural changes , increase in cuda core , new meomey ,new optimizations , new features is always a win situation. Truth about evolving tech were " self convincing" to stick themselves with old gen.
I disagree, you compare the GTX2080 with the GTX1080Ti for now, because later on we will compare the GTX2070 with the GTX1080Ti, you compare 'What you pay/What you get' not what is that number equal that number (generation by generation), unless these cards are provided for free.

Edit: And I don't think a sane person will buy a thing that could prove itself later on (if we could), go check Reddit 99% of users canceled their 2080 orders for the 1080Ti
You are wrong with that logic

2080 replaces the 1080
2080ti replaces 1080ti
2070 replaces the 1070

Also ,

The new cards are not made to give you 300 fps on 4k. It is made to make ray tracing possible on a 800$ card, instead of 68,000$.

Still DLSS is not tested ,DLSS + RT 》》》 Old Gen 1080ti ,remember in some titles the 2080 in some titles pulled ahead of the 1080ti. Still reviews start to roll out wait couple of weeks / months ahead and the gap will be widen of 1080 vs 2080 and 2080ti vs 1080ti.


Hardware Unbox was the 1st to confess that they are wrong with their pereception about new gen:

"Geforce RTX 2080 & 2080Ti Review , I was Wrong"
https://youtu.be/dLjQR0UFUd0
You need to watch the whole video and not only the first few seconds, I find it weird you are still insisting about the DLSS/RTX things being something real, while for now there is no RTX games and the planned ones are very few, and even that the planned DLSS games are more than the RTX (still not enough games that fits different tastes) the result of the shown example with grass/details inside a car was underwhelming with blurriness. Sorry when I say that even that 100%, yes 100% of reviewers/comments did say that the GTX 2080 is not worth to buy for current price markets and current status of games and yet you still insist otherwise, I call that fanboy-ism to anything Nvidia launches.
anayman_k7 wrote
Tech Guru wrote
anayman_k7 wrote
I disagree, you compare the GTX2080 with the GTX1080Ti for now, because later on we will compare the GTX2070 with the GTX1080Ti, you compare 'What you pay/What you get' not what is that number equal that number (generation by generation), unless these cards are provided for free.

Edit: And I don't think a sane person will buy a thing that could prove itself later on (if we could), go check Reddit 99% of users canceled their 2080 orders for the 1080Ti
You are wrong with that logic

2080 replaces the 1080
2080ti replaces 1080ti
2070 replaces the 1070

Also ,

The new cards are not made to give you 300 fps on 4k. It is made to make ray tracing possible on a 800$ card, instead of 68,000$.

Still DLSS is not tested ,DLSS + RT 》》》 Old Gen 1080ti ,remember in some titles the 2080 in some titles pulled ahead of the 1080ti. Still reviews start to roll out wait couple of weeks / months ahead and the gap will be widen of 1080 vs 2080 and 2080ti vs 1080ti.


Hardware Unbox was the 1st to confess that they are wrong with their pereception about new gen:

"Geforce RTX 2080 & 2080Ti Review , I was Wrong"
https://youtu.be/dLjQR0UFUd0
You need to watch the whole video and not only the first few seconds, I find it weird you are still insisting about the DLSS/RTX things being something real, while for now there is no RTX games and the planned ones are very few, and even that the planned DLSS games are more than the RTX (still not enough games that fits different tastes) the result of the shown example with grass/details inside a car was underwhelming with blurriness. Sorry when I say that even that 100%, yes 100% of reviewers/comments did say that the GTX 2080 is not worth to buy for current price markets and current status of games and yet you still insist otherwise, I call that fanboy-ism to anything Nvidia launches.

I salute Nvidia by taking risks and moving technology forwad or any company that do so in the tech world.

You do not seem to fully understands how RT s done and the computational power needed to drive real time RT and the difference between regular rasterization rendering and real time RT.

Digital Foundry : Metro Exodus RT Analysis:
https://youtu.be/lRO_BbrHFkQ

I will definitely drop the RTX 2080ti , it is a real to provide real 60 fps @ 2160p with out any compromises that my old 1080ti heavily OC'd failed in my titles @ 2160p with frequent drops under 60fps. The 2080ti even is suited for above 60fps @ 2160p ultra settings on monitors like the PG 27uq and Predator X27 , 2160p / 144hz. It will a nice upgrade to me since I will dropping the PG 35vq when it will be released ( 3440 × 1444p) @ 200hz. I am talking here about raw rasterization rendering.

Still DLSS using tensor cores , AI and nural networks is not tested more titles are added that will suppprt that (24 titles till now).
Tech Guru wrote
anayman_k7 wrote
Tech Guru wrote
You are wrong with that logic

2080 replaces the 1080
2080ti replaces 1080ti
2070 replaces the 1070

Also ,

The new cards are not made to give you 300 fps on 4k. It is made to make ray tracing possible on a 800$ card, instead of 68,000$.

Still DLSS is not tested ,DLSS + RT 》》》 Old Gen 1080ti ,remember in some titles the 2080 in some titles pulled ahead of the 1080ti. Still reviews start to roll out wait couple of weeks / months ahead and the gap will be widen of 1080 vs 2080 and 2080ti vs 1080ti.


Hardware Unbox was the 1st to confess that they are wrong with their pereception about new gen:

"Geforce RTX 2080 & 2080Ti Review , I was Wrong"
https://youtu.be/dLjQR0UFUd0
You need to watch the whole video and not only the first few seconds, I find it weird you are still insisting about the DLSS/RTX things being something real, while for now there is no RTX games and the planned ones are very few, and even that the planned DLSS games are more than the RTX (still not enough games that fits different tastes) the result of the shown example with grass/details inside a car was underwhelming with blurriness. Sorry when I say that even that 100%, yes 100% of reviewers/comments did say that the GTX 2080 is not worth to buy for current price markets and current status of games and yet you still insist otherwise, I call that fanboy-ism to anything Nvidia launches.

I salute Nvidia by taking risks for moving technology forward or any company that do so in the tech world.

You do not seem to fully understands how RT sis done and the computational power needed to drive real time RT and the difference between regular rasterization rendering and real time RT.

Digital Foundry : Metro Exodus RT Analysis:
https://youtu.be/lRO_BbrHFkQ

I will definitely drop the RTX 2080ti , it is a real to provide real 60 fps @ 2160p with out any compromises that my old 1080ti heavily OC'd failed in my titles @ 2160p with frequent drops under 60fps. The 2080ti even is suited for above 60fps @ 2160p ultra settings on monitors like the PG 27uq and Predator X27 , 2160p / 144hz. It will a nice upgrade to me since I will dropping the PG 35vq when it will be released ( 3440 × 1444p) @ 200hz. I am talking here about raw rasterization rendering.

Still DLSS using tensor cores , AI and nural networks is not tested more titles are added that will suppprt that (24 titles till now).
Techguru you are 100% right with your points about the tech and everyone else are on point with their disappointment. The 2080 should have smoked the 1080ti under all conditions just like the 1080 smokes the 980ti

Guys it's simple new tech costs money and since the 1080ti is still better than any offering from a competitor, nvidia made the 2080ti super expensive because it has the NEW Technology if you find it expensive and you don't need the tech simply you buy 1080ti since there is no competition so it's a win win for nvidia because there is no point for any company in the world to release a product that competes with its own products and pushes their price down thats why they slapped a premium price to the new tech so they don't push 10 series price down
from a user perspective i am disappointed but from a business perspective I salut nvidia for their great business move and market placement for their cards...
DNA wroteTechguru you are 100% right with your points about the tech and everyone else are on point with their disappointment. The 2080 should have smoked the 1080ti under all conditions just like the 1080 smokes the 980ti

Guys it's simple new tech costs money and since the 1080ti is still better than any offering from a competitor, nvidia made the 2080ti super expensive because it has the NEW Technology if you find it expensive and you don't need the tech simply you buy 1080ti since there is no competition so it's a win win for nvidia because there is no point for any company in the world to release a product that competes with its own products and pushes their price down thats why they slapped a premium price to the new tech so they don't push 10 series price down
from a user perspective i am disappointed but from a business perspective I salut nvidia for their great business move and market placement for their cards...
That's a very good and mature interpretation. Hopefully it turns the debate more positive.
25-31% performance increase from 1080ti to 2080ti, with a price increase of 70%?

No thanks, i'l get me a 1080ti whenever i find a good deal.
AVOlio wrote25-31% performance increase from 1080ti to 2080ti, with a price increase of 70%?

No thanks, i'l get me a 1080ti whenever i find a good deal.
Based on some opinions you might regret not riding the technology/hype train, leaving yourself behind in the dust with an OLD gen, not getting the benefit of the (non existent yet) few games with Ray Tracing that you might play 1 of them at 1080p 60fps with a 1200$ card, and missing the ability to play a DLSS game (which is also not yet existent) on a 4k monitor but with a lower up-scaled resolution (half 4k resolution upscaled to 4k with image enhancement based on will be provided through the drivers for EACH GAME from Nvidia).

Ok enough sarcasm, when RTX/DLSS matures we will have a newer generation from Nvidia, thanks for the donors who paid for the 2000 series to make that possible.

* GTX 2080 Ti = 1200$ = ~30% faster than GTX 1080 Ti (700$) = Run 4k Games 60fps+ On Ultra = Run RTX Games at 1080p 60Hz = Run A Smart Upscaled 4k DLSS
* GTX 2080 = 800$ = Same Performance as GTX 1080 Ti (700$) = Less 3GB VRAM = No info on RTX Performance yet

The GTX 2070 is rumored not have RTX, the MSRP is 500$ but it is expected to cost more for sure (around 600$), it will struggle to find its place, the GTX 1080 Ti might make absolute just like the GTX 2080
I do not know how you got the average increases:

In traditional rasterisation the RTX 2080ti on average is faster than the GTX 1080ti by 37 % on 2160p Ultra, more is expected on the long run with additional releases of AAA titles and as more drivers will be tweaked after initial lunch . It kills the GTX 1080ti on 2160p Ultra without compromises at above 60fps performance. That is a great leap indeed in modern AAA titles that the GTX 1080ti failed to have a constant 60fps experience with a lot of dips. To me it is a definite upgrade.

Here comes DLSS that greatly widen the gap with above 50 % gains on supported DLSS titles ( 29 Till now)

Anandtech:

"and the RTX 2080 Ti would be offering 37%"


Concerning the price , it is a lunch price and prices will normalize after lunch. Remember , new technology always costs especially with high prices of current V-Ram/Ram models, the TU 102 in the RTX 2080ti contains 18.9 billion transistors in 752 mm2 die size and that includes three discrete processors: the Turing SM, the RT Core, and the Tensor Core compared to GP 102 in the 1080ti that contains 14 billion transistor with a die size of 471 mm2.

Turing offers Real time ray tracing to the end customer which needs a lot of computational power and established a new foundation of rendering away from regular rasterization rendering. That is not possible before at all and require 3 V100 Graphic cards working to render real time ray tracing.

Giving a generalization / or assumption on alpha/beta testing of RT is objective, MS will role their Windows 10 RT Direct 12 API in October along with Nvidia mature drivers and patches of RT in released games that support it ( Shadow Tomb Raider now). ‘Tomb Raider’ devs respond to RTX 2080 Ti, ray tracing performance concerns / https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/tomb-raider-dev-responds-to-rtx-2080-ti-performance-concerns/ - People like to bash a lot about new tech since in expensive in already expensive environment. To me I do not care about money in evolving tech to assure my max game-play needs / satisfaction on AAA titles and online demanding titles - 2160p Ultra with no compromises and multiplayer - 100hz locked on 3440 *1440p and 200hz locked on 3440*1440p @ 200hz at the upcoming PG 35VQ which I will drop and replace my current PG 348Q.
DLSS Power in Turing will Smoke Pascal Deep:

Source EuroGamer (Digital Foundry on YouTube) :

"But obviously the RTX 2080 Ti is equipped with the same technology, and up against the GTX 1080 Ti it's 39 per cent faster with the like-for-like TAA enabled, rising to an impressive 95 per cent boost once DLSS is factored into the equation. In our general gameplay testing, we found that the RTX 2080 Ti is a phenomenal 4K performer just relying on standard rasterisation performance - but DLSS takes things into a whole different category. "

"At the most fundamental level, a lower resolution image is generated, and then a deep learning algorithm programmatically upscale the image based on 'learnt behaviour' sourced by Nvidia's 'Saturn V' super-computer, studying extreme resolution game imagery, finding patterns in their composition and building it all into a reconstruction algorithm just a few megabytes in size".

"But the idea of a super-computer being able to give instructions to a consumer level GPU to 'magic up' missing detail sounded rather implausible when it was first presented at Gamescom. However, based on the results I've seen so far, I'm happy to eat my words. We'll be talking more about image quality in due course, but suffice to say that we're getting a look here that exceeds the quality of checkerboarding and can even improve a native presentation."

"RTX 2080 and it's likely to get plenty of tempting deals in the short term. The RTX 2080 is almost 12 per cent faster over 1080ti, but as the other benchmarks shall reveal, it's not always such a clear-cut lead. However, with DLSS active, that 12 per cent lead rises to 58 per cent."

Source: Forbes

"However, DLSS appeared to have advantages elsewhere. Below you can see the same frame, but in a different spot above the car looking at the trees. There was much more detail on show with DLSS than there was with TAA". https://www.forbes.com/sites/antonyleather/2018/09/19/nvidia-rtx-2080-and-2080-ti-versus-gtx-1080-and-1080-ti-ultimate-upgrades-or-fantastic-flops/#11170c5059fe https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2018-9-19-geforce-rtx-2080-2080-ti-review
Tech Guru wrote
anayman_k7 wroteThe benchmarks are out, based on price per performance it seems that the GTX2080 is a bad buy when it has a slight better performance compared to the GTX1080Ti with less VRAM and for 100$ to 150$ more!
When the drivers are mature are more enough and DLSS role out , 1080 will not have a chance. 1080ti need to be compared with the 2080ti and 2080 with the 1080 .

the 1080ti is screwed deep but people who paid a hefty amounts for their 1080tis are trying to "self convince themselves"that upgrading to turing is not worthy , to deep inside they know a gen to gen architectural changes , increase in cuda core , new memory ,new optimizations , new features is always a win situation. Truth about evolving tech were " self convincing" to stick themselves with old gen.
So people with ti's are just "self convincing themselves" that upgrading is not worthy? Nothing to do with the multitude of reviewers claiming this generation of cards is poor value as it stands right now?

if you want to be on the bleeding edge, money no cost, then by all means enjoy your 2080ti. But the majority like to consider the value they're getting for their investment. AS IT STANDS NOW (i.e with little to no data on RTX and DLSS in actual games) the 20 series offers very poor FPS per dollar compared to Pascal.
People being hesitant is totally understandable. Things might change in the future with drivers and more games being released, but few want to pay money for promises, they'd rather see the results first.