Nvidia RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti Review

So at 1440P the 2080 Ti is a 10-20FPS gain over a 1080 Ti, About what I expected to be honest, Definitely not worth 1100 quid though.
 
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Dicehunter said:
So at 1440P the 2080 Ti is a 10-20FPS gain over a 1080 Ti, About what I expected to be honest, Definitely not worth 1100 quid though.
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Yep. I'm confident I'm going to skip this generation and wait for the next. Quite happy with the 1080 Ti's performance. Besides G-Sync kinda makes those ekstra 20 fps irrelevant anyway
 
tolagarf said:
Yep. I'm confident I'm going to skip this generation and wait for the next. Quite happy with the 1080 Ti's performance. Besides G-Sync kinda makes those ekstra 20 fps irrelevant anyway
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Not if you're also running a 144Hz monitor, I guess. But still pretty interesting numbers.

Seems like the 1080Ti becomes very attractive now if its price drops rapidly and by a huge amount, if you don't wanna jump on the Raytracing hypetrain and need an upgrade for your 1080p144hz monitor :P
 
I look at this and find it heart breaking that Nvidia could not just make a RT card for every one other than 20 series owners. IE, instead of being greedy and expecting us all to upgrade (which most of us won't for various reasons) they have left us out completely.

Even if the cards were twice as fast as their predecessors I could not justify that price. Mostly because the predecessors are more than good enough for everything other than RT.

So Nvidia want me to pay £1200 for RT. That's stupid. It's like me having a car and the engine blows and I am expected to buy a whole new car instead of just swapping out the engine.

A part of me hopes that people can have the restraint, and show Nvidia what a bad decision this is. Sadly I doubt it, which is part of the reason why I game mostly on a console now.

Thanks for the review and all of your hard work Tom & co.
 
Peace Ð said:
Not if you're also running a 144Hz monitor, I guess. But still pretty interesting numbers.

Seems like the 1080Ti becomes very attractive now if its price drops rapidly and by a huge amount, if you don't wanna jump on the Raytracing hypetrain and need an upgrade for your 1080p144hz monitor :P
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Doesn't matter if you're running 100-165 Hz when using G-Sync, you still won't feel much of a difference, if any at all. It's at the lower fps between 45 and 60 G-Sync really shines, but anything above 60 is really not going to do much, unless you're a GS:GO player and just wants massive fps. But then again they probably wouldn't be using G-Sync anyway, as it's pointless for those people since they have Fast sync now

Edit: Fast sync which is available with most 10xx series nvidia cards (maybe 900 series as well?), removes tearing just as v-sync does, but without the added input lag. It's not perfect, but it works *really* well with a 60 Hz screen.
 
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AlienALX said:
I look at this and find it heart breaking that Nvidia could not just make a RT card for every one other than 20 series owners. IE, instead of being greedy and expecting us all to upgrade (which most of us won't for various reasons) they have left us out completely.

Even if the cards were twice as fast as their predecessors I could not justify that price. Mostly because the predecessors are more than good enough for everything other than RT.

So Nvidia want me to pay £1200 for RT. That's stupid. It's like me having a car and the engine blows and I am expected to buy a whole new car instead of just swapping out the engine.

A part of me hopes that people can have the restraint, and show Nvidia what a bad decision this is. Sadly I doubt it, which is part of the reason why I game mostly on a console now.

Thanks for the review and all of your hard work Tom & co.
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Sadly we all know certain people in the PC community who buy 2, 3 even 4 of each GPU that Nvidia releases no matter how much of a bad decision it is.
 
Dicehunter said:
Sadly we all know certain people in the PC community who buy 2, 3 even 4 of each GPU that Nvidia releases no matter how much of a bad decision it is.
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We do, but there are far too few of those people to keep Nvidia in business. It's still a majority derp.
 
Oh well I think I will just carry on with my old card, at least it runs the latest games @2160p better than the 2080 Ti can lol.
 
Dicehunter said:
Yeah and while DLSS can give more performance it has to be specifically implemented by devs into games, I'm not liking where Nvidia are going with these prices.
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Nvidia are basically selling engineering samples. Seriously, it's not even a complete product yet.

I would have to seriously kick my own ass if I paid £1200 to watch that Star Wars video that ironically I can watch on my PC now (via Youtube or what not).

Edit. Reviewers (Linus, Jay, Hairy Bloke) have all said the same (hallelujah !) that it is not worth buying. If all of the tech press unite? then it will be a lose for Nvidia. Just like how they united in singing Ryzen's praises... It didn't do Intel any favours.

That is the most critical part right now, that reviewers stand up and be honest. That is what will hurt Nvidia.
 
Warchild said:
Or one card and keep swapping them out for a different Ti version each time they are released ;)
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Difference is I have never all out paid for a GPU for quite a few years, I sell older tech for newer tech but I wouldn't touch this new stuff with a barge pole as Nvidia have now definitely earned the nickname Ngreedia.
 
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