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Just got an email from Newegg regarding the 208x series graphics card being available next month.
Fantastic, this means a 1070 or 1080/Ti should continue the downward price trend so I can actually build a damn sim rig again soon.
Not by much. the 2xxx cards are very pricey. 880 for a 2080 annd 12xx for the 2080ti. those are manufacturer prices soo expect resellers to add another 3-400 bucks on top of that.
Yeah, a friend of mine already preordered a 2080. I'll wait until i see % increase vs the older cards. The 1080 was only like 15 - 20% better than the 980ti.
So far i'm still happy with my old 980. Doing well with 1080p @ 144hz.
I dont think the 20xx cards are going to have much of a performance improvement over the last gen. The ray tracing stuff is cool, and Im glad theyre working on it, but I doubt its going to get used much. I plan on waiting until RTX 22xx or so, then Im sure we will have some pretty wild ray tracing graphics with good framerates.
I dont think the 20xx cards are going to have much of a performance improvement over the last gen. The ray tracing stuff is cool, and Im glad theyre working on it, but I doubt its going to get used much. I plan on waiting until RTX 22xx or so, then Im sure we will have some pretty wild ray tracing graphics with good framerates.
based on the initial stats about 50% with up to 100% improvement with the DLSS on.
From how I understand it its a new way nvidia came up with only adding special effects to the things that are important.. aka up front.. stuff thats in the background doesnt need to be rendered to the highest quality so they can leave it at a lower frame rate or something.
I honestly don't think we will see a major performance improvement. Ray tracing may be important for future games, but unless you have to build a new right next month, there is no reason to replace 1070/1080 just yet. Old engines will not be rewritten to support ray tracing and it will take a while before new engines are utilizing it. Furthermore, we may find that just like with some other features built into chips in the past, they will either have a detrimental effect on FPS or cause other issues and will get disabled in engines that support it in theory.
I honestly don't think we will see a major performance improvement. Ray tracing may be important for future games, but unless you have to build a new right next month, there is no reason to replace 1070/1080 just yet. Old engines will not be rewritten to support ray tracing and it will take a while before new engines are utilizing it. Furthermore, we may find that just like with some other features built into chips in the past, they will either have a detrimental effect on FPS or cause other issues and will get disabled in engines that support it in theory.
This ^
Either way you should wait for the NDA to expire and look at real 3rd party benchmarks and comparisons before buying. Preordering an RTX card right now is means dropping a lot of money without any information on the product being available currently.
Personally I will likely sit this gen out unless they somehow worked wonders and have at least 60% performance increase from 10xx series because of the price increase. Raytracing seems like a meme right now. 2019 will be a much more interesting time with 7nm cards likely coming from both GPU companies and Intel joining in 2020.
All my same thoughts have already been said above. It seems cool, but I like my FPS. One thing I do see happening is the bitcoin game 2.0 happening if there's a way to make use of the new GPU in that sense.
But yea, I'm on the bandwagon of the 1080ti price going down so I can actually get my hands on one reasonably.
The new nvidia 2080's seem to interesting in so much as they have dropped the price of second hand 1080's drastically. I plan to get a 1080 with how cheap they seem to be now.
My specs are
Intel 6600k
16gb DDR 4 2400mhz ram
Be Quiet Dark Rock 3 Cooler
EVGA GTX 970
and my monitor is a Dell U3415W.
I originally bought the 970 as a stop gap so that I could at least run the monitor. I didn't want to shell out big money on a 980ti at the time. It does ok ish at 3440x1440 but most settings are on medium.
I picked up my 980ti Classy last year for about $400. I wont upgrade for a few years probably... I have three screens running 5760x1080 but I usually run "intensive" games on the main at 1920x1080... I rarely see under 100fps in games. i7 6800k (true i7 none of that integrated video garbage) and 32gb of ram (with 4 empty ram slots). I always build with maximum upgrade potential in mind. I will either pick up another 980ti (or two) years later or some other used card cheap as possible. If need be I'll OC the cpu later as well. My last computer lasted me 10 years (with four different sets of video cards, a cpu upgrade and eventually maxing the motherboards memory capacity).
Point is, its usually not worth buying cutting edge looking at it from a cost/performance point of view. If the last gen cards smoothly play the current games on max settings all you are doing by spending more is "fluffing" your FPS or future proofing a bit. /2¢
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