Geforce GTX1180/2080 Speculation thread

EastCoastHandle · 14 Aug 2018 at 21:28

Kaapstad said:
I don't think Volta or Turing for that matter were designed to do Ray Tracing in particular, it is just something the hardware can do along with the professional work these cards are for.

I agree with you. I've not seen any live RT gaming at Siggrah 2018. Just pre-rendered demo(s). It would have been nice to see Nvidia's Garden do something though.
But I have to wonder what 2080 is suppose to do to bring RT in gaming. Is this going to be like GW with certain effects here and there? Because that's what it seems to me.

Also, if the die size is as big as being claimed I wonder if 2080 will have some sort of Tensor functionality? It doesn't seem possible though.

Panos said:
Doesn't supporting it..... Only the now dead Volta and Turing onwards...

So why did they say it's faster then Pascal? That's odd.

Panos · 14 Aug 2018 at 21:45

EastCoastHandle said:
So why did they say it's faster then Pascal? That's odd.

Nvidia said always RT only Volta onwards, no Pascal

Legend · 14 Aug 2018 at 21:56

EastCoastHandle said:
So why did they say it's faster then Pascal? That's odd.

More to the point, why didn't they say it's faster than Volta... which it clearly is. As I've mentioned before, I think this is because the gaming GPU's announced next week will be Volta based. And if that is the case, Nvidia would look daft if they came out saying how groundbreaking their Volta gaming GPU's were if just a week previously they'd exclaimed how Turing crushed it lol!! To my mind, there really is no other reason why they'd completely omit Volta from Siggraph as they did. It's not as though a comparison would have made Turing any less impressive, arguably it would have made it more so.

JediFragger · 14 Aug 2018 at 21:58

Volta can **** right off imo, it already feels old. Slow now too thanks to Turing!!

AMDPower · 14 Aug 2018 at 22:05

JediFragger said:
Volta can **** right off imo, it already feels old. Slow now too thanks to Turing!!

Yeah i have had enough to be fair, I will just buy the $10,000 quadro card and just be done with it. Lifes too short to wait

JediFragger · 14 Aug 2018 at 22:08

AMDPower said:
Lifes too short to wait

Word

Muhammad.Abdelhameed · 14 Aug 2018 at 22:33

Legend said:
I think this is because the gaming GPU's announced next week will be Volta based.

NO.
In the NVIDIA teaser they clearly state Alan Turing, So it's Geforce Turing, not to mention the RTX branding. Which clearly means RT Cores are present.

Muhammad.Abdelhameed · 14 Aug 2018 at 22:34

Kaapstad said:
I don't think we will see gaming cards until Q4 at the earliest either.

Nope, The launch is imminent next week.

LePhuronn · 14 Aug 2018 at 22:36

Muhammad.Abdelhameed said:
NO.
In the NVIDIA teaser they clearly state Alan Turing, So it's Geforce Turing, not to mention the RTX branding. Which clearly means RT Cores are present.

NO. Just wait, teasers mean nothing.

Muhammad.Abdelhameed said:
Nope, The launch is imminent next week.

Do you know what a paper launch is?

Muhammad.Abdelhameed · 14 Aug 2018 at 22:37

LePhuronn said:
NO. Just wait, teasers mean nothing.

LOL! They mean everything when coming from the source company.

LePhuronn said:
Do you know what a paper launch is?

Do you know when the channel is ready for weeks for this launch?

Quartz · 14 Aug 2018 at 22:38

A paper launch is actually good. It signifies commitment. It locks things down.

Calo · 14 Aug 2018 at 22:39

Boy, I sure hope nVidia bring back the GPP to help me understand which brand I'm buying, cos right now I gots me RX 580 and me RTX 2080 and I haven't a fugging clue what is what...

EastCoastHandle · 15 Aug 2018 at 00:58

Panos said:
Nvidia said always RT only Volta onwards, no Pascal

Could you take a look at this. Tell me what you think

https://youtu.be/cBf9Akj4HGQ?t=1h35m22s
From 1:35:21 to 1:37:18

Panos · 15 Aug 2018 at 01:13

EastCoastHandle said:
Could you take a look at this. Tell me what you think

https://youtu.be/cBf9Akj4HGQ?t=1h35m22s
From 1:35:21 to 1:37:18

Nvidia said MANY TIMES hardware RayTracing only Volta and newer.
He runs a comparison to software ray tracing with hardware one. And all this news is about hardware accelarated ray tracing at big numbers.
Even an ancient computer from 1979 can do software ray tracing let alone Pascal. But not hardware one.

EastCoastHandle · 15 Aug 2018 at 03:57

Panos said:
Nvidia said MANY TIMES hardware RayTracing only Volta and newer.
He runs a comparison to software ray tracing with hardware one. And all this news is about hardware accelarated ray tracing at big numbers.
Even an ancient computer from 1979 can do software ray tracing let alone Pascal. But not hardware one.

So that's where the 6X performance boost comes from? Even the host mentioned that it was off.

JessieD · 15 Aug 2018 at 09:21

LePhuronn said:
Do you know what a paper launch is?

It is where you chuck your paper plane across the room. Right before the teacher chucks a board duster at your head

Paladine · 15 Aug 2018 at 09:46

Been away on business for two days.... so next week RTX 2080 launch right?

scubes · 15 Aug 2018 at 09:49

6x faster wot a sales pitch lol.

Panos · 15 Aug 2018 at 10:44

scubes said:
6x faster wot a sales pitch lol.

The small print is 6x faster on ray tracing.....

@EastCoastHandle those quadros have dedicated cores for ray tracing. Pascal has none. That is the difference why is faster.

beany_bot · 15 Aug 2018 at 10:46

Noticed there wasn't a dedicated thread. Just odds and sods. Maybe a mod can merge the "1180" thread in here? Keep it all clean.

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-rtx-2080-alleged-specs-surface-say-hello-to-the-new-gaming-king/

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-rtx-2080-benchmarks/

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-rtx-graphics-card-turing-launch/

https://videocardz.com/press-release/samsungs-16gb-gddr6-memory-powers-nvidia-quadro-rtx-series

https://videocardz.com/77289/nvidia-teases-geforce-rtx-2080