Watched the whole conference live... The lack of performance comparisons has me worried, it seems like ray tracing added a premium to manufacturing which in turn may have fudged up the price to performance we are use to getting over past generations i.e. the Mid tier card outperforming the last gen Ti like the 1070 did with the 980 Ti and the 970 did with the 780 Ti but costing less than the last generation 980/780 tier card.
We might be looking at :
- RTX 2070 = 1080 OC level of performance at 1080 launch prices BUT supports ray tracing
- RTX 2080 = 1080 ti OC level of performance at 1080 ti launch prices BUT supports ray tracing
- RTX 2080 Ti = Titan Volta level of performance at Titan Pascal launch prices BUT supports ray tracing
The 2080 Ti might be THE only card in terms of price and performance that actually makes sense other wise they wouldn't have released it now and with a drastic price increase over the last generation Ti's.
I am a little suspicious as to why there where no benchmarks... If it was good they surely would boast about it?
The Cuda cores and memory bandwidth alone make me question the performance over these cards and the current generation.
The elephant in the room is what impact on performance is ray tracing going to have on these cards and how many games will support it let alone how many games will nativelly support it to the point where it visually justifies the performance impact?... Too many questions and not enough answers to justify a pre-order of the most expensive series I have seen yet.
They could have atleast show FarCry 5 running at 4K Ultra compared to 1080 Ti to show the performance difference.
I am disappointed in both the lack of performance information and price and in ray tracing... Honestly didn't look that impressive at all, not worth the hype one bit so far.
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