GeForce RTX 2080 Founders review
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D3M1G0D
Nice review. Good to finally see some real numbers, after weeks of speculation. The 2080 Ti seems to provide a nice jump over the 1080 Ti in most cases (although nowhere close to justifying the price) but the 2080 is a disappointment.
This basically confirms what I've been thinking since Turing was announced: you should be buying the 20-series cards for the new technology (RTX), not for traditional rendering. DLSS should be decent tech for those titles that support it, and ray-tracing should be interesting for those who care about lighting. Overall though, not very exciting products.
I'm a 4K gamer, but I'm in no rush to buy a 2080 Ti. The performance simply doesn't justify the price.
vbetts
Moderator
So no rtx on memes....
sverek
Valken
BReal85
-Tj-
kings
The problem is the lack of alternatives and Nvidia know this. No one can buy an imaginary AMD card.
A person who wants something better than a GTX 1080/Vega 64 (for whatever the reason), there's nothing besides Nvidia.
BReal85
buhehe
This series would be alright if it wasn't for the insane pricing.
If you consider a 2080 over a 1080ti:
Costs some 100-150 USD more
Performs about the same or slightly better
Supports DLSS which is nice, but how widely will it be adopted?
Supports DRX but how bad will performance be?
Loses 3GB VRAM
After 1.5 years this is just not enough... not at these insane prices.
Hard pass on this series for me; I'll stay on my 290 and see if AMD wakes up (or prices are severely cut)
wavetrex
Sorry but all I can comment right now is...
HAAAHAHAHAHHHAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....
Edit:
Now that I stopped laughing, the reason for the laugh:
The only card that does make a bit of sense in this release is the 2080 Ti, for the low introductory price of ... both of your kidneys.
Seriously, whoever priced these things at Nvidia must have smoked something really, really strong. 25-35% extra performance for almost DOUBLE the price compared to 1080 Ti ?
Oh, and when you overclock both cards to near 2Ghz, the difference gets even smaller.
The 2080 without the Ti and 2070 make no sense whatsoever.
Srsly nV dudes, stop smokin' that sh*et!
Netherwind
XenthorX
Wow, Hilbert you got the RTX Star Wars demo?! i shall receive my 2080-ti next week, any chance the demo will be downloadable by then ? 😀
Dragam1337
Hilbert Hagedoorn
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shymi
As always - great in depth review.
I have to soon upgrade my system, but will skip this gen. US MSRPs are too high(in Europe they'll be even worse) and in my view are not justified by the performance increase(especially after 1.5 - 2 year wait for 20xx series).
kings
LuckyNumber8
Well there are some games like wolfenstein 2 with REALLY impressive results, but in majority of these games results are underwhelming if you consider insane 1200$ price. But I have to say these DLSS results looks really amazing, much better performance (especially in infiltrator) and IMO stellar picture quality unlike TAA. Even on YT highly compressed video Hilbert uploaded I can tell a very clear difference in sharpness. If DLSS will be supported in every big game I would buy turing for that feature alone.
And here's some DLAA vs TAA screenshots comparison
https://pclab.pl/art78828-21.html
TAA looks very blurry compared to DLSS in that finall fantasy demo.
Also RTX performance is very surprising, I thought that star wars tech demo will run at 24fps and 1080p at best, so 30+ at 4K sounds much better than I was expecting. Just imagine new gen consoles with 30fps games and graphics quality like that.
BTW- I'm guessing new shading features will be supported only in future games, so one year from now I'm expecting another 20% performance increase.
D3M1G0D
schmidtbag
Am I the only one here who doesn't find this disappointing, underwhelming, funny, etc? Sure, it's severely overpriced and I currently have no interest in raytracing (I'm sure eventually I'll care), but the 2080 Ti is a distinctly very good for 4K gaming. Also, performance-per-watt is pretty appealing.
Also, I think there's some optimization issues for the 2080. Sometimes it seems to be right behind the 2080 Ti while at other times it barely seems to be keeping up with the 1080. It still performs well no matter what, but clearly there needs to be some driver optimizations.
Evildead666