NVIDIA announced its new Turing video cards for gaming today, including the RTX 2080 Ti, RTX 2080, and RTX 2070. The cards move forward with an upgraded-but-familiar Volta architecture, with some changes to the SMs and memory. The new RTX 2080 and 2080 Ti ship with reference cards first, and partner cards about 1-3 months after that, depending on which partner it is. The board partners did not receive pricing or even card naming until around the same time as media, so expect delays in custom solutions.
A major upgrade, and pricing – starting at $599 for the 2070 – is entirely reasonable for a new generation. Might finally be time to upgrade my 1070 once EK Waterblocks releases waterblocks for these new cards.
Is this sarcasm?
Nvidia just lost the plot with the pricing of this generation. Customers should not reward monopolistic behavior like this.
Probable cash grab before intel and amd competing products get on to the market.
This is what happens when competition wanes in the market place.
I agree, minus the raytracing stuff that’ll eventually make its way into games in a year or more, there really isn’t anything jawdropping here or better in value. You are getting 1080ti performance in the 2080 for 1080ti pricing and the power draw isn’t improved. Same thing can be said for the 2070 to the 1080.
But I get it they still want to clear out 10 series excess inventory so now they can slash pricing on the old cards by enough to make them attractive and still get the sales from the enthusiasts.
Is the raytracing something that can only be triggered by NVIDIA software? If it is, we might be seeing the same nonsense as G-Sync vs Freesync and more software incompatibility
It’s definitely their proprietary blend since it’s dependent on their new RT core and probably uses Tensor cores to a certain extent as well. AMD is gonna have to come up with their own implementation, but I doubt they will. This is cool technology in the aesthetic sense, but it’s not worth the extra money at the moment. Maybe in a couple years time when it’s standard and you aren’t paying an early adopters fee. CUDA core for CUDA core these new cards and cranking out any more frames in conventional games. But you are paying a premium for the fancy extra hardware packed onto these larger GPU dies.
Sounds a lot like the tessellation hardware in Fermi only less useful. Nvidia will make sure that their RTX technology will get used in benchmarks and a few games so that their cards always look much better than the competition. But consoles won’t use it and $200 graphicscards won’t use it so it will be another PhysX; doomed to die when Nvidia starts using another marketing gimmick.
Raytracing is nice from an academic point of view, and in some cases gives some unique visuals;
But putting a raytraced scene next to a rastered scene doesn’t really blow my mind enough to warrant it being a game-changer of a feature.
The collection of, lets face it, hacks, that come together to produce a modern rastered scene look pretty good.
Whist the engine is technically more complicated with so may layered special case rules, it’s justified in the saving in processing power.
What do we really gain from switching to raytracing, other than a few better visuals in special cases, the need to buy a new GPU, higher processing requirements, and the knowledge that “it’s really tracing out the light rays man!” ?
Some stats are fortunately out there already about their mining speeds:
https://yt3.ggpht.com/3KytjFfYuXi7kSqIGgRF-fHtmS_R1O8KaScBXukay6I5zI…
If you calculate this with the price they offer (probably will cost more in Europe) it for you could buy 2x Ati RX580s which can do 60Mh/s without bios mod.
I doubt that mining software will be able to take advantage of the new ray tracing capability, the speed is going up because the card has more ram, higher core clocks and more bandwidth between the gpu<>gddr.
It never worth for anybody to buy the latest and greatest, fans are still doing it.
The mining market is rapidly turning into a good way to make a small fortune by starting with a large one.
Bitcoin has been more volatile than nitroglycerin lately.
Every article about these seems to have commenters complaining about the prices.
They’re just jealous. In the past they could have the best cards for $300. Now they can’t. Other people can spend $1,200 IF THEY WANT TO and have the greatest thing.
No one is making them upgrade. Complainers can go get an older 970 card or an AMD 580.
If you don’t think it’s worth the price, then don’t buy one. The endless complaints about it are a waste of time. My time, for having to read them.