Geforce GTX1180/2080 Speculation thread

[dreigns]

Like me, if you remember I ruined my Aorus 1080ti buy messing up the waterblock install, so I've been stuck on my GTX 970 this past year.
I bought an MSI Sea Hawk EK X on ebay the other day and it's due to arrive tomorrow. Only paid £425 for it! So Bargains are out there to be had!

Did u do the bloke thing and not look at the instructions never messed up a waterblock install my self done 10+ on cards now. =)

Did knock a cap off my ati 4870x2 pulling my soudcard out was very tight case thou.

Did get it fixed someone just put a new one on for me and I used it for another year after that

 

[fastboy]

I've ruined the screws mounting the block, every single one is rounded off so it's stuck. cards works at idle just any 3d load sends it to 84C then black screen.

you need to dremmel a slot in the top of the screw to use a flat blade screwdriver,its very easy to do.

if the screws are going into metal and have threadlock on them you can hold a soldering iron on the end of the screw head for 30 seconds or so to loosen the threadlock.​

 

[dangel]

Each card needed to keep all the textures in memory so if you were using, say, 980's in SLI you'd still only have 4GB addressable video memory, not 8GB. AFAIK the memory bandwidth didn't increase either as each card was still making it's own memory calls although my memory is very hazy! This is the benefit of NVLink in that it uses both memory blocks and combines them. Having said that I can't see any game out yet needing anywhere close to 22GB VRAM.

NVlink is still slow compared to direct VRAM access though - so the remote memory pool has to squeeze through a small pipe from one card to the other (if this is how it works)./

 

[dangel]

you need to dremmel a slot in the top of the screw to use a flat blade screwdriver,its very easy to do.

if the screws are going into metal and have threadlock on them you can hold a soldering iron on the end of the screw head for 30 seconds or so to loosen the threadlock.​

If you're going to attempt something like this give a great deal of thought to where all those tiny tiny metal shavings will go..

 

[fastboy]

well your stripping the card down so you can just brush any off or blow away with an air duster/can,it tends to be a fine dust anyways using a dremmel cutting disk but you can always wrap the card in kitchen roll and some masking tape to limit the dust intrusion,its a simple enough job.

 

[LeMson]

Just use a big clamp and compress the card and block together, use cardboard if theres no backplate

 

[Kaapstad]

What's RTW? I genuinely do not know.

Rome Total War.

 

[TonyTurbo78]

Rome Total War.

Ray Tracing's *#!@

 

[TNA]

Well ThirtyIR had Project Cars ran at 8K 130+ FPS maxed out SMAA at Ultra used 4 Titan Xp cards in SLi so a single Titan Xp would ran 8K at playable 30 FPS so 2080 Ti will definitely be much faster than Titan Xp on Project Cars at 8K.

Will be very interesting to see how a dual 2080 Ti with NVLink will run Project Cars at 10K, 12K and 16K resolution.

Ooohh... 8K

Would probably not need AA much at all at that resolution. But this time I am not going to rush to that resolution. With 4K I rushed and got it in 2014 as I was bored of having no progress being stuck on 2560x1600 for ages. Additionally graphics card prices are on the up and we are slowly running out of space to shrink manufacturing processes. After 5nm it will get extremely hard to go further from what I understand. So things will slow down and get more expensive. Also my guess is the next 2 console cycles will likely be targeting 4K, so it is a nice place to be.

 

[Silent_Scone]

I'm still not conviced we need 4K. I'm still fine with 1440p.

 

[Rroff]

I'm still not conviced we need 4K. I'm still fine with 1440p.

Horses for courses and all but I'm not a huge fan of it for general gaming - I've a 4K setup for racing games and movies but after a lot of trying various options sticking with 2560x1440 for my main gaming monitor.

 

[TNA]

I'm still not conviced we need 4K. I'm still fine with 1440p.

I have been convinced since I saw it and tried to go back but could not. I love my IQ and 4K gives me that

 

[bakes0310]

I have been convinced since I saw it and tried to go back but could not. I love my IQ and 4K gives me that

Superwide monitors are the sweets pot for gaming, RPG and RTS games get so much benefits from a bigger screen.

 

[TNA]

Superwide monitors are the sweets pot for gaming, RPG and RTS games get so much benefits from a bigger screen.

As mentioned above, horses for courses. I prefer the extra IQ over it personally so I cannot go back to a resolution I had 10+ years ago just to have it a bit wider. Maybe some day I will give it another go when we get 4K ultra wide

 

[beany_bot]

I'm still not conviced we need 4K. I'm still fine with 1440p.

Nah, I've tried 4k. It's lush. But I couldnt run it acceptably on my 1080. I'm looking forward to it in the future though. I really like it, it's just so pretty.

as for 8K and above, we definately don't need that. Most desks are only suitable for ~32/34" monitor max. At which anything above 4K is not noticeable.

 

[Shocky-FM]

AAA games running at 60fps/2160p is a pipe dream, we can't do it now and we won't with RTX2080Ti.

 

[Boot_Loop]

Nah, I've tried 4k. It's lush. But I couldnt run it acceptably on my 1080. I'm looking forward to it in the future though. I really like it, it's just so pretty.

as for 8K and above, we definately don't need that. Most desks are only suitable for ~32/34" monitor max. At which anything above 4K is not noticeable.

4K 60fps would be the sweet spot for me in the future. I'm fine on 1440p right now (I hardly play games these days anyway, I'm past that stage of waking up looking forward to the next game. You slowly realise they're a massive waste of your life time. Fun, but still. Now I use my computer to render more for work. Life story over.) But the graphics card makers, especially Nvidia with their gsync, will keep trying to convince us we need 4K 144fps, which I regularly hear from 'gamers' as a need now. I find this absurd, anything over 60fps is lost on me and not worth the huge extra computational power.

 

[ubersonic]

As mentioned above, horses for courses. I prefer the extra IQ over it personally so I cannot go back to a resolution I had 10+ years ago just to have it a bit wider. Maybe some day I will give it another go when we get 4K ultra wide

Ultrawide versions of 4K have been in the prototype stage for a while and should be hitting the market as soon as GPUs and cables that can handle the res become commonplace

NB: Some manufacturers are calling them ultrawide 5K (as the 4K name is based off the resolution width not height), should really be ultrawide 2160 IMO in keeping with the current ultrawide 0180/1440 lineu, but me.

This is LG's first one: https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-34WK95U-W-ultrawide-monitor

 

[Vega]

AAA games running at 60fps/2160p is a pipe dream, we can't do it now and we won't with RTX2080Ti.

Uh, no AAA game I have at maxed settings drops below 60 FPS on my OC'd Titan V.

 

[HazardO]

4K 60fps would be the sweet spot for me in the future. I'm fine on 1440p right now (I hardly play games these days anyway, I'm past that stage of waking up looking forward to the next game. You slowly realise they're a massive waste of your life time. Fun, but still. Now I use my computer to render more for work. Life story over.) But the graphics card makers, especially Nvidia with their gsync, will keep trying to convince us we need 4K 144fps, which I regularly hear from 'gamers' as a need now. I find this absurd, anything over 60fps is lost on me and not worth the huge extra computational power.

FPS and driving games benefit hugely from high frame rates. I would rather high frame rates than higher resolutions if I have to choose.