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It's faster than a GTX 1080 Ti, but not by much.

Read more about the RTX 2080's alleged 3DMARK Time Spy benchmark data.

Read more about the RTX 2080's alleged 3DMARK Time Spy benchmark data.
Makes sense given the CUDA cores. I'm more inclined to believe this now that we see some initial specs. Although, it still seems like the GPU clock speeds are an undefined grey area.
The clocks are believable for a 2080, large 12nm chips can still reach high clockspeeds.
Here is one of mine, with an air cooled card.
https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/23981974?
Graphics Score 14 598
Before people mock and write off the card. Remember that while fps doesnt increase. You would be gaining DLSS and realtime RT.
Yes its overpriced but, new tech is new tech.
Ok, so the industry has been pushing people to buy 4k or high refresh rate monitors for a while, a lot of marketing material talks about 4k performance. Now it's looking like 4k with ray tracing is pretty much unreachable, so do people now have to just down scale resolution just to use RT tech?! The 20XX range is looking more and more like an expensive 1080p GPU for RT, with the 1080ti still looking like the best affordable option for high resolution gaming. Am I missing something?
What matters most here is that the 2080s now does offer the ray tracing technology. Maybe that's worth investing.
Yeah, totally worth it![]()
But that's a 2080 compared to a 1080ti - compare apple to apple please
The 2080 is also physically a larger chip than the 1080Ti by 529mm to 471mm squared. The RTX 1080 is NOT a midrange chip from the way I see it. It is a large die, it has many of the advanced features of the flagship GPUs, and costs more than or around the same as the previous flagship. It also has a high TDP.
From the way I see it, Nvidia don't intend on reducing prices. The 'only' thing they've done is, swap the 1080Ti with the RTX 2080 and added Tensor cores and RT abilities. The clock speeds are similar, the prices are the same, the die size is similar, the TDP isn't far off. In other words, Pascal performance per dollar is going to stick around. It's not like previous architectures where you get more performance for less money (970 was as fast as a 780Ti but for less money, 770 was the same chip as the 680 but cheaper, etc). Now, what Nvidia have done is, keep the same performance per dollar, thus shifting everything up a notch, and added features you won't benefit from for a few years. The 2080 quite literally replaces the 1080Ti. Performance per dollar doesn't change. It's almost like Turing doesn't exist. It's just adding another layer of sugary fat to the cake that was already there. It's not a new cake that's better than the previous one. They've just added another layer of flavour.