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Geforce GTX1180/2080 Speculation thread

Well this is a result of the "Haha AMD you're crap" brigade. A monopoly so ingrained now that 2080ti on ocuk is £1,339. For that cash you could buy an amazing high end freesync monitor AND a graphics card to play it on. Yet the sheeple will flock to Nvidia and fuel the endless price increases.

Stop buying Nvidia and get a new freesync monitor and a graphics card to go with it.
 
RBImGuy said:
someone just shot you while you looked at the fire.
Thats gaming not walking around looking at the world in a fps game
You can introduce things that look wrong and people wont see it due to them are shooting people.
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Lol? So it's ok for effects to be wrong because it's an FPS?

What if it's not an FPS? Maybe it's an adventure game, something where there is no time/death pressure - is it ok to be "wrong" then?
 
silvagti said:
Maybe I'll be more impressed when i see some benchmarks or they announce more features. Right now this is feeling a whole lot less exciting than when they announced the 1080 card in 2016 though.

Feels like Nvidia simply chucking out an iterative upgrade to milk existing tech, with a big PR push behind it to make it seem new and shiny, whilst AMD isn't in a position to offer any competition?
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For the price of a 2080ti you could get a vega64 AND a high end freesync monitor to go with it. You'd barely notice a difference from that setup and a 2080ti.

Anyone who bleats about a lack of competition then goes and buys Nvidia, have a good look at yourself! You're the problem.

Not you specifically @silv
 
One good thing is that even if AMD can't rival their graphics cards in around 18 months we'll have a new Xbox and Playstation which will certainly give Nvidia reason to wonder if they can charge double their cost for a video card alone.

Might hopefully bring some sanity back to the GPU market.
 
The ray tracing stuff may be impressive/good in a lot of games that are not flat out FPS games but personally I wouldn't buy an RTX just for it. Also needs to have the raw performance to back up those prices. We shall see when reviews hit. :)
 
Looking forward to the benchmark results :)
Somehow I feel like they could have better named it 2070 / 2080 / Titan RTX or something. That Ti price is just a no no.
 
Armageus said:
Lol? So it's ok for effects to be wrong because it's an FPS?

What if it's not an FPS? Maybe it's an adventure game, something where there is no time/death pressure - is it ok to be "wrong" then?
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indeed..... Dont get me wrong, the prices are appalling and despite the fact i have waited with my gtx 980 for around 6 months for these cards, i am going to either wait some more or (most likely) pick up a 2nd hand gtx 1080ti.

but i disagree with that argument as well. real time raytracing in games is a great feature and one i have been hoping for for some time... and as for those saying about decrease in performance.... maybe i am wrong but wont it be the opposite? the cards have dedicated hardware JUST for that feature... which presumably do nothing when ray tracing is not supported... Assuming this is the case then, i would think that, given thecurrent high detail shadows and lighting is actually quite expensive in terms of gpu work, that offloading that to the RT cores would then mean that that workload is removed from the normal cuda cores meaning increase in performance when raytracing compared to normal high detail lighting and soft shadows.

i could have course be wrong...... we nee to benchmarks to be sure.

as for looking at the pretty lights whilst getting shot... this is why I personally dislike online MP games because i enjoy soaking up the environment, which i can do at my own pace in single player or MP PvE games.

contrary to other posters here... i thought the whole presentation was interesting, and the games shown were great.

It reminded me of my old university lectures - the ones with the GOOD speakers.

The only think i hated was the price.... had that come it at a more palatable "starting at $399 and ending at $749" (for the founders Ti - $649 for the normal Ti) I would be singing NV praises and saying they knocked it out of the park as it were.
 
Nvidia wouldn't be the first company that needed to make a price correction soon after a lacklustre launch...the 3DS was initially overpriced, sold poorly, and within months Nintendo dropped that cost to recover. There's always hope this is just a mistake. Regardless I'm just going to keep an eye on Nvidia share prices to see how well this launch is received.
 
x-st said:
Nvidia wouldn't be the first company that needed to make a price correction soon after a lacklustre launch...the 3DS was initially overpriced, sold poorly, and within months Nintendo dropped that cost to recover. There's always hope this is just a mistake. Regardless I'm just going to keep an eye on Nvidia share prices to see how well this launch is received.
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indeed.. Microsoft did too with the (real) Xbox 1
 
I already own both a 1080 and a 1080ti and as I almost exclusively play in VR, can see how I would benefit from paying £1200 on a new card. We definitely need to see some bench marks.
 
Rossi~ said:
BFV I think is terrible example. A game that should be a gritty, dirty, dark war shown as all clean and shiny.... lol
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Agreed - shiny for the sake of shiny came to mind.

I'll wait to see the benchmarks with interest but, given the price, I'll most likely head down the used 1070/80 route.
 
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