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Legend said:
We can evaluate it now lol. There's no reason they would call a gaming card RTX. Absolutely none, and it would genuinely confuse things. Every reason it will be GTX, I'd stake money on it.
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Not sure where I read it but they suggested the 2070 and 2080 would be called RTX and have some cut down form of the ray tracing tech but the 2060 and below would be gtx and be without it. It seems unlikely to me to split the range like that but .. who the hell knows
 
JediFragger said:
Mind if I ask which model this is? I'm really pondering going big screen gaming, might hold on to see if nVidia support VRR first. Thanks.
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Yeah it's the higher end samsungs from 2018 with freesync. Cheapest is the nu8000 which is now around £1000 and with vrr enabled is 6.3ms input lag at 1080p 120hz or at 1440p 120hz is 9.7ms and 4k is higher because only 60hz but still good at 15ms.

Link to review of nu8000
https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/samsung/nu8000

All of the 2018 qleds have similar figures and freesync. But make sure it is a 2018 qled as the 2017 have similar names but don't have freesync. The 2018 models have fn in the models number and in the picture have 2018 qled.

Personally I want the qe55q7fn but waiting for price to drop right now it's still near launch price.

Review here for the q7fn.
https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/samsung/q7fn-q7f-q7-2018

Also avoid 49" samsung models as they are only 60hz. Not the same screen as the 55 and above.
 
Simon Belmont said:
True, but it's something I think Nvidia will try to pull:D We'll find out on Monday either way.
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Well, if you war game this out, I just don't see how RTX makes any sense to anyone, least of all Nvidia, as it dilutes the Quadro branding and recognition that has. UNLESS, and this is EXTREMELY unlikely, the 2080 will indeed be Turing. But I don't see that being the case... they simply don't need to release something so powerful. Volta will provide the requisite 10% bump over Pascal, so they'll keep Turing in their back pockets until such time they need to put it out there. Remember, Nvidia have no competitionl. AMD clearly aren't going to trouble them for a while.

Not to mention, the cost of a Turing gaming GPU would be insane... four figures most likely. The Quadro RTX is a $10K card... people think they're going to put out a similar gaming version for £700+? HA! :D Even if it were double that price, who would buy it? That's a niche card if ever there was one... and where would that put the Quadro? They can't start approaching that kind of performance otherwise they'd eat in to its sales. So with all that in mind, it just wouldn't make sense for them to name a Volta card RTX.

But yeah, we don't know anything for sure, I'm just applying some good old fashioned logic and business sense. We'll find out soon enough.
 
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Legend said:
I'm not sure it makes a great deal of sense to split a GPU range to take advantage of tech that no games are taking advantage of yet lol. :D
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Well if 2060 and lower can't handle ray tracing than it makes sense to call them something else cos otherwise they'll be accused of misleading customers by naming them RTX :)
 
bayo000 said:
Well if 2060 and lower can't handle ray tracing than it makes sense to call them something else cos otherwise they'll be accused of misleading customers by naming them RTX :)
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True... so yes, if the upper cards do indeed support Ray Tracing then RTX would make more sense in that case. I may very well be wrong if that is the case. I hope I am, as obviously I want these cards to be as powerful as possible... providing they don't cost the earth.
 
bayo000 said:
Well if 2060 and lower can't handle ray tracing than it makes sense to call them something else cos otherwise they'll be accused of misleading customers by naming them RTX :)
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Even if Ray Tracing makes its way into games I don't think there will be any cards from NVidia that can run it without mGPU.

When NVidia demoed it they used a 4 way Tesla GV100 GPU setup and even then the framerate tanked.

If $40,000 worth of GPUs struggle then I don't think any gaming card will cope in the next couple of years.
 
Kaapstad said:
Even if Ray Tracing makes its way into games I don't think there will be any cards from NVidia that can run it without mGPU.

When NVidia demoed it they used a 4 way Tesla GV100 GPU setup and even then the framerate tanked.

If $40,000 worth of GPUs struggle then I don't think any gaming card will cope in the next couple of years.
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Well this is the key takeaway point from the Quadro RTX event... those demos they showed, impressive though they were, are YEARS away from being what we experience in games. And even then, it's a $10K card! If the new gaming GPUs are named RTX and feature that tech, what exactly is the benefit... other than to Nvidia's bank balance given the exorbitant price they are bound to charge (and get) for it.
 
Where do I sign up to pre-order a Ti?

I’m still hoping it’s out in less than 6 months but I’m probably a tad optimistic.
 
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