NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti 3DMark Score Allegedly Leaks, 35% Faster vs 1080 Ti

[Kirby Wurm]

Still, I'm holding firm with my advice. Real-time ray tracing is phenomenal technology, but we won't see wide adoption until the second or even third generation of Nvidia's RTX cards. Looking at the price/performance argument, a GTX 1080 Ti is an outstanding purchase right now."

And this perception plays right into Nvidia's hands as it will help sell more of that overstock of 10x0 cards. Many initially thought the 1080Ti was rather expensive but now it looks a bargain.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

As far as I'm concerned, raytracing is on a par with hairworks until proven otherwise. If Nvidia had shown 30fps/1080p clips of Geralts hair bobbing about with the Griffin's head bouncing on his horse, it wouldn't have had me pre ordering a 980ti for £1100 ... And a 980ti had an actual conventional performance increase over the 780ti!

I've got 150 games in my Steam library and there's not a Gigaray among them, so what does the 2080ti provide that my 1080ti can't, 35%? For £1100?

Am I really expected to pre order a card at double the price for a technology that is unproven and can only be experienced by buying another heap of AAA titles?

I suspect that Nvidia have hit a performance ceiling with the 1080ti and are now inventing gimmicks to keep the sales going. If they hadn't been so insanely greedy about the price point, they might just have gotten away with it.

 

[aoaaron]

As far as I'm concerned, raytracing is on a par with hairworks until proven otherwise. If Nvidia had shown 30fps/1080p clips of Geralts hair bobbing about with the Griffin's head bouncing on his horse, it wouldn't have had me pre ordering a 980ti for £1100 ... And a 980ti had an actual conventional performance increase over the 780ti!

I've got 150 games in my Steam library and there's not a Gigaray among them, so what does the 2080ti provide that my 1080ti can't, 35%? For £1100?

Am I really expected to pre order a card at double the price for a technology that is unproven and can only be experienced by buying another heap of AAA titles?

I suspect that Nvidia have hit a performance ceiling with the 1080ti and are now inventing gimmicks to keep the sales going. If they hadn't been so insanely greedy about the price point, they might just have gotten away with it.

No doubt, if you have a 1080TI you shouldn't even be thinking about upgrading.
By the time >10-20 worthwhile games come out requiring ray tracing, a better faster ray tracing card will be available.
The best game for RT seems to be Battlefield, which is a game you want maximum FPS for... so its all a bit contradictory in all honesty.


The 1080ti vs 2080 seems to be where its at given the 1080ti price isn't falling as we'd expect. If the difference between the two is negligible in VR performance, I can't see a point in buying the 2080.

The 2080ti just seems WAY out of the question.

The only thing I'd say going for the 2080/ti is the marginal performance upgrade is enough to get comfortably over 60fps/4k in high demanding games... which is a bit of a selling point.

 

[jjgreenwood]

Why are the 1080ti still £700, who is buying them for that when you can order a 2080 for £50 more and get it on release? If they are pumping a load more of them into the supply chain why are they not cheaper?

 

[Flake87]

Why are the 1080ti still £700, who is buying them for that when you can order a 2080 for £50 more and get it on release? If they are pumping a load more of them into the supply chain why are they not cheaper?

Nvidia have a thing about preserving their price point, and they also have overstock. The only high level card you can buy and have in your hands same day is the 1080Ti, so they aren't going to start offering any discounts until the 2080's start being shipped, and probably not until they have satisfied all the demand and they are in the warehouse as unsold stock.

 

[Rofflay]

If everyone was like Silent Scone the cards would be a lot more honestly thats a lot of posting has he got a dog in the race for overly priced cards? This is bad for everyone but a select few people who take all the increased profits. And sure we may be entitled in mindset but i remember the time i had half life on my p3 933mhz overclocked and before and whats going on now seems a big micky take.

Justify the leaps of around £108 EVERY generation? Every two years you replace your flagship with normally inflation in sync. This is really far from reality and unless at least 50% improvements vesus 1080 and inflation tacked on its a big laughing point for many people. There will be no growth i have not upgraded in ages and will put it further back so if i represent the average joe this should happen.

Improvement is welcome, it is also less of a leap than what the GTX 1080 Ti managed compared to the GTX 980 Ti. In the same test the 1080 Ti showed a 79% improvement over its predecessor.

 

[andybird123]

Why are the 1080ti still £700, who is buying them for that when you can order a 2080 for £50 more and get it on release? If they are pumping a load more of them into the supply chain why are they not cheaper?

The thing is, the overstock on 10 series cards is rumoured to be around a million cards. Nvidia sell north of 12 million cards per year so on average a million cards is less than a months worth - this is probably why prices are not dropping, within 1-2 months all the 10 series stock will be gone anyway.

 

[melmac]

As far as I'm concerned, raytracing is on a par with hairworks until proven otherwise. If Nvidia had shown 30fps/1080p clips of Geralts hair bobbing about with the Griffin's head bouncing on his horse, it wouldn't have had me pre ordering a 980ti for £1100 ... And a 980ti had an actual conventional performance increase over the 780ti!

I've got 150 games in my Steam library and there's not a Gigaray among them, so what does the 2080ti provide that my 1080ti can't, 35%? For £1100?

Am I really expected to pre order a card at double the price for a technology that is unproven and can only be experienced by buying another heap of AAA titles?

I suspect that Nvidia have hit a performance ceiling with the 1080ti and are now inventing gimmicks to keep the sales going. If they hadn't been so insanely greedy about the price point, they might just have gotten away with it.

Well if it's any consolation you wouldn't have to spend too much money on buying another heap of AAA titles as there is only a handful of games coming out using the new Technology

The price increase is a joke. And Nvidia are going to get away with it, just like they always do.