NVIDIA announces RTX 2070, 2080 & 2080 Ti graphics cards

[Arthur]

The 2080 Ti is quite pricey!

 

www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/20-series/ (Live Stream: www.twitch.tv/nvidia)

 

 

 

^ UK founders edition prices are £1,099, £749 and £569 respectively.

 

 

 

Edited August 20, 2018 by Arthur

[caffrey]

No, https://www.overclockers.co.uk/pc-components/graphics-cards/nvidia/geforce-rtx-2080ti

 

Think I'll stick with what I have for now

[Arthur]

Scan links...

 

2080 Ti: www.scan.co.uk/shop/computer-hardware/gpu-nvidia/nvidia-geforce-rtx-2080-ti-graphics-cards

2080: www.scan.co.uk/shop/computer-hardware/gpu-nvidia/nvidia-geforce-rtx-2080-graphics-cards

[Domo]

I'm interested in seeing benchmarks as they are boasting 6x speed over the previous generation. sounds too good to be true.

[DalekSec]

Brain: You have 2x 1080s you do not need a RTX 2080ti

Also my brain: I NEED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Edit: Just seen the two 8 pin power connectors.... this is gonna be a beast

[flyinghaggis]

Be interesting to see how the benchmarks pan out. I'm guessing that "6 times the performance" is only in a specially crafted ray tracing application set up by the Nvidia development team. It's actually quite suspicious we haven't seen any general gaming benchmarks yet

 

It's kind of academic for me though as there's absolutely no way I'd pay £600+ for the "low end" 2070 nevermind any of the pricier models

Edited August 21, 2018 by flyinghaggis

[flyinghaggis]

Here's a screenshot showing the difference before and after enabling Nvidia Ray-Tracing technology using their new 2000 series cards

 

Edited August 21, 2018 by flyinghaggis

[Tefters]

If anyone is stupid enough to upgrade from a 1080ti then I’ll buy their old card for £500 [emoji106]

[Domo]

I've just finished paying off my 1070, i'll consider upgrading if they're the 6 times faster they say they are!

if not meh.

[Tefters]

If their 6 times faster WITHOUT Ray then I’m a monkeys uncle

[ICTDirect_Dave]

There are some benchmarks out there for Ashes of the Singularity that look very impressive for sure!

 

But I'm not sure I want to upgrade my 1080FE just yet...

[Arthur]

Benchmarks...

 

www.anandtech.com/show/13346/the-nvidia-geforce-rtx-2080-ti-and-2080-founders-edition-review

 

By the numbers, then, in out-of-the-box game performance the reference RTX 2080 Ti is around 32% faster than the GTX 1080 Ti at 4K gaming. With Founders Edition specifications (a 10W higher TDP and 90MHz boost clock increase) the lead grows to 37%, which doesn't fundamentally change the matchup but isn't a meaningless increase.

 

Moving on to the RTX 2080, what we see in our numbers is a 35% performance improvement over the GTX 1080 at 4K, moving up to 40% with Founders Edition specifications. In absolute terms, this actually puts it on very similar footing to the GTX 1080 Ti, with the RTX 2080 pulling ahead, but only by 8% or so. So the two cards aren't equals in performance, but by video card standrads they're incredibly close, especially as that level of difference is where factory overclocked cards can equal their silicon superiors. It's also around the level where we expect that cards might 'trade blows', and in fact this does happen in Ashes of the Singularity and GTA V. As a point of comparison, we saw the GTX 1080 Ti at launch come in around 32% faster than the GTX 1080 at 4K.

 

Meaning that, in other words, the RTX 2080 has GTX 1080 Ti tier conventional performance, mildly faster by single % in our games at 4K. Naturally, under workloads that take advantage of RT Cores or Tensor Cores, the lead would increase, though right now there’s no way of translating that into a robust real world measurement.

 

So generationally-speaking, the GeForce RTX 2080 represents a much smaller performance gain than the GTX 1080's 71% performance uplift over the GTX 980. In fact, it's in area of about half that, with the RTX 2080 Founders Edition bringing 40% more performance and reference with 35% more performance over the GTX 1080. Looking further back, the GTX 980's uplift over previous generations can be divvied up in a few ways, but compared to the GTX 680 it brought a similar 75% gain.

 

 

 

Edited September 20, 2018 by Arthur

[Bagpuss66]

I'm happy with my Geforce Gtx 1060, I really cant see the reason for spending £1k on a graphics card! It is the future of graphic cards but it's just a bit too early to jump on the Ray-tracing route.

[Arthur]

If their 6 times faster WITHOUT Ray then I’m a monkeys uncle

The RTX 2080 is 32.5 times faster than a Vega 64!!!

 

[Tefters]

Lol, Awww Nvidia... They released a card with new tech in it that no-one wanted yet and charged a premium for it... This 20 series is going to hurt their sales a lot!

 

Should of kept this card/tech R&D for another good year or two and just pushed a more meaty 10 series.

[3s-gtech]

I disagree to an extent - both manufacturers have been accused of holding back technology and therefore development. This has had an impact on VR and 4k uptake, and much of it was because mining was selling plenty of cards. It's about time the boundaries were pushed - the 2080Ti genuinely appears to be the first 4k60 card and that is fantastic. To do so with a slightly dated manufacturing process, and in acceptable power and thermal limits, is excellent.

 

It's just a crying shame that high-end PC gaming has moved so far back out of the affordability that crept in during the era of the 2000s. I won't spend more than £150 on a card - the consoles are so affordable it's just not feasible to do otherwise on a 'normal' wage.

[googlemad]

I bought a mint condition 1080 on eBay for £340 the other week which will keep me going a good few years, I'm so busy I have a huge backlog of games pre 2018 to get through anyway!

[Arthur]