So after a year and a half we’re getting GTX 1080 Ti-like performance for GTX 1080 Ti money. But then, that’s not even true. We’re getting GTX 1080 Ti-like performance for a 20% price hike and the hope that Ray Tracing won’t be a complete bust for this generation. So after a year and a half of gaming with the GTX 1080 Ti, color me rather unimpressed.
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So after a year and a half we’re getting GTX 1080 Ti-like performance for GTX 1080 Ti money. But then, that’s not even true. We’re getting GTX 1080 Ti-like performance for a 20% price hike and the hope that Ray Tracing won’t be a complete bust for this generation. So after a year and a half of gaming with the GTX 1080 Ti, color me rather unimpressed.
It doesn't reach the heights of the RTX 2080 Ti, but Nvidia’s high-end Turing RTX GPU comes damn close to achieving 4K 60fps gaming for a mildly steep price.
The Nvidia RTX 2080 represents a new dawn in graphics architecture, but without its headline-grabbing ray tracing and AI-based features it’s a very expensive traditional GPU which struggles to justify its high price. Though we may not have to wait too long for that to change...
NVIDIA’s RTX 2080 is a huge leap over the GTX 1080 in terms of raw performance. And, while we’re intrigued by NVIDIA’s ray tracing and AI rendering technology, it’s too early to tell how useful they’ll be.
Nvidia has created the hardware solution, and now it's up to the software to catch up. But in the here and now, the RTX 2080 carries a high price and lacks the raw performance to back it up. It's not a revolution, at least not yet, but for those that believe in a ray traced future, go ahead and bump the score up by 10 points.
For example, we saw significant performance improvements from the GTX 980 Ti to the GTX 1080 Ti (to the tune of 30% or more) with the price going up a mere $50. In this case, we see overall performance gains (without RT or DLSS) sit in the 20% range. However, the price has increased $300 or almost 40% without the performance metrics in ALL TITLES to back it up.
That brings us on to the RTX 2080. Understanding that it's around 25 per cent dearer than the GTX 1080 Ti - £750 vs. £600 - and, on average, only a few per cent faster at 4K in most of the games we tested, puts it in a sticky situation if you only think about present-day games. A more elegant design cannot mask that observation, and considered from a rasterisation point of view, RTX 2080 has about the same horsepower as the GTX 1080 Ti.
Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition is a bit faster than the existing GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, but at a $100-higher price. As the Turing architecture’s RT and Tensor cores are utilized by game developers, the RTX 2080 is expected to perform even better. For now, though, gamers with high-end graphics in their existing PCs will find this more of a side-grade than an upgrade.
The GeForce RTX 2080's performance, whether considering the NVIDIA-built Founder's Edition or customized EVGA and MSI cards we also featured, is a little more difficult to summarize. The GeForce RTX 2080 clearly outpaces the GeForce GTX 1080 by a wide...
NVIDIA Turing architecture overview NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 and 2080 TiIn this article, we'll take a deep dive into the technology and specifications that is the GeForce RTX series graphics cards and Turin GPUs. This is an architectural deep dive into...
Our Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 review illustrates that this card's future potential is a double-edged sword. The RTX 2080 will play any game at 4K or on VR headsets today. Benchmarks and future features do promise better performance down the road. We're...
We reviewed a bunch of GeForce RTX 20-series graphics cards last week, which left us with plenty of cards to test SLI performance. Since its introduction some 14 years ago, NVIDIA SLI (Scalable Link Interface) has become arguably the most popular...
After getting some concrete numbers to work with, I must admit that I'm pretty impressed with NVIDIA's new Turing architecture and GeForce RTX cards. I was also left wanting more for the simple reason that no actual games that support all the new...