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Upgrade path from 980ti sli

Amraam said:
But you can't say that a card that is 3x the price should deliver +200% performance, otherwise no one would even entertain the idea of SLI. SLI costs x2 but almost never yields +100% performance over a single card. It would be nice to think that 3x the price = 3x the performance but it doesn't work like that. But yes, I'm still shocked to see in benchmarks the £900+ card giving typically 50% performance over the 5700XT. That must be a bang for buck gem.
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I can say that :) but yes I take the point that in reality price/perf is not linear. With the 2080Ti though... shocking isn’t it and why aren’t the press holding jacket mans feet to the fire? Most review sites simply say Cons : Expensive its not expensive its a rip-off.
 
BigBANGtheory said:
I can say that :) but yes I take the point that in reality price/perf is not linear. With the 2080Ti though... shocking isn’t it and why aren’t the press holding jacket mans feet to the fire? Most review sites simply say Cons : Expensive its not expensive its a rip-off.
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I guess they won't if the consumers are buying them. NVidia are saying ray tracing has been a huge success and is the future, yet with RT on you can expect a huge performance loss for little image gain. Hardly a huge success in my eyes...
 
Amraam said:
I guess they won't if the consumers are buying them. NVidia are saying ray tracing has been a huge success and is the future, yet with RT on you can expect a huge performance loss for little image gain. Hardly a huge success in my eyes...
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People are buying them but in small numbers and then paying a huge premium. Personally I don't subscribe to the "only idiots buy a 2080Ti" everyone has a choice, I would say they got fleeced however and should have received a ton more perf for their $$$. It maybe that Nvidia has supply issues for such a large die on 12nm but that's a production problem and not my concern as a consumer they could easily fix that if they wanted to. Instead Nvidia seem quite happy to pursue lower volume sales at higher margins for the time being.

I think also what plays into this is Nvidia knows once they supply a 4k@60 or 4k@144 ultra product their room to grow at the high end starts to loose traction and demand. As someone that uses a 4k screen myself I have no intention of going higher than that for many many years so once I can drive it at a decent refresh with RT it could be a long time before I need a GPU refresh. Nvidia aren't stupid they will have figured that out too hence the looong drawn out perf upgrades above the 1080Ti baseline imho.
 
Amraam said:
A 2080Ti is hugely faster than cards at 1/3 it's cost. I'm not sure what benchmarks you're looking at but a 2080Ti will slaughter anything in the £350 bracket.

However, I wouldn't personally spent £1100 on a flagship model now. 2070Super or wait if you really want to see what the 30xx series has in store
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Where do people come up with these sensational claims???
 
BigBANGtheory said:
People are buying them but in small numbers and then paying a huge premium. Personally I don't subscribe to the "only idiots buy a 2080Ti" everyone has a choice, I would say they got fleeced however and should have received a ton more perf for their $$$. It maybe that Nvidia has supply issues for such a large die on 12nm but that's a production problem and not my concern as a consumer they could easily fix that if they wanted to. Instead Nvidia seem quite happy to pursue lower volume sales at higher margins for the time being.

I think also what plays into this is Nvidia knows once they supply a 4k@60 or 4k@144 ultra product their room to grow at the high end starts to loose traction and demand. As someone that uses a 4k screen myself I have no intention of going higher than that for many many years so once I can drive it at a decent refresh with RT it could be a long time before I need a GPU refresh. Nvidia aren't stupid they will have figured that out too hence the looong drawn out perf upgrades above the 1080Ti baseline imho.
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You sound quite resentful about how other people spend their money?
 
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