RTX

[Chalenge]

The new graphics cards and prices are now listed on the Nvidia site. You can bet the usual Amazon crowd are doing all they can to grab and re-price them.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/20-series/?nvid=nv-int-gcxxpn-56591

[AAIK]

The new graphics cards and prices are now listed on the Nvidia site. You can bet the usual Amazon crowd are doing all they can to grab and re-price them.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/20-series/?nvid=nv-int-gcxxpn-56591

But doesnt it say "Limit 2 per customer."?

[Chalenge]

Yeah, that won't slow too many down.

I can't wait to see how it handles AH3's environment.

[BoilerDown]

The prices look to be insane to start with.  I'm going to give them some time to stabilize.  But I do intend to get a 2080 eventually, assuming the reviews show a significant performance benefit.  I definitely will not be pre-ordering.

[Drano]

Yeah at about a grand that's not making me think about ditching my 1060 anytime soon.

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[Chalenge]

The real-time ray-tracing is the primary reason to buy one of these, and that is still not a mainstream capability. The cards are also supposed to boost artificial intelligence in games to better counteract with human opponents. I would love to see how that works with Sniper Elite 5 when it is released, but that's off in the 2020 season MAYBE. What this means for AH3 still remains to be seen.

[Drano]

I don't know what it COULD do for AH3 given the graphics engine. The graphics it uses are what it uses. Other games, that I don't have time for, yeah prolly helps a ton! These cards are focused on the latest and greatest and mostest, supporting the newest engines and all their features that we just don't have. You can turn all that stuff on you want but if the game can't make use of it what's the point other than to say you have a 20 series card? My moderately overclocked 1060 runs everything max'd out except environmental where I have that slider at one notch. If my fr dips I'm not noticing it. Last night in FSO I flew thru some fairly large bomber formations with flak around and had no problems at all. Now I'm also only running 1080p and no VR. If I were to bump up either of those then yessir!  That's a horse of a different color!

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[Spikes]

Yeah, that won't slow too many down.

I can't wait to see how it handles AH3's environment.

Probably fine, just like a 6 year old card would.

[Chalenge]

That's funny. The technical specs indicate the performance will be better. For anyone that missed the 10 series as an upgrade this is a smart buy, but only after the initial release. Just like electric cars you don't want to be the first one to buy into it.

[Denniss]

Prices are insane even for the bogus claim of 50% performance increase over previous gen gfx cards

[Spikes]

That's funny. The technical specs indicate the performance will be better. For anyone that missed the 10 series as an upgrade this is a smart buy, but only after the initial release. Just like electric cars you don't want to be the first one to buy into it.

I figured on picking up a 1080ti when the 2080s come out, people will be selling them like hotcakes.

[Chalenge]

Yeah, there just isn't enough information to go on as to which of the new cards would be a good deal, but I suspect that the pricing scheme will keep them out of the 'ideal' category for a long time. The reviews will be out in another month and they will be worth waiting for. What I find interesting is the way that the CUDA cores, memory addressing scheme, bandwidth, and NVLink have been re-ordered to a different configuration than we have seen previously. The 2070 will not support NVlink. Both the 2080 Ti and the 2080 support it.

"The GeForce RTX NVLink bridge connects two NVLink SLI-ready graphics cards with 50X the transfer bandwidth of previous technologies. This means you can count on super-smooth gameplay at maximum resolutions with ultimate visual fidelity in GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and 2080 graphics cards."

Fifty times? That tells me that the 'slight' improvement that SLI gave 4k resolutions previously will be improved, but how much is anyone's guess. So, I will buy two of the 2080 Ti's, but only after the reviews come out and the drivers are optimized. I just hope the process of switching from NVlink to independent cards is smoother than it was for SLI, as I use three monitors for gaming but five for content creation. Content creation is more important for obvious reasons and NVlink will not help with that, but the second card is a must in order to have enough connectors.

I play many games, but there are only two I really care about right now. One is AH3, and the other will be getting an update in 2020 about the time that the new Nvidia cards (3080's?) will be released. Waiting that long for an upgrade is going to mean the risk of a few cards I am running currently may fail (hardware predictive failure rate being warranty dependent).The RTX promise of real-time ray-tracing probably will not be realized for at least six months, and maybe a year or more, so I'm not worried about that. In fact, I have no problems with waiting for the Quadro versions, or Titan versions for even more power. BUT, I want more power already, so it's going to happen.

[zack1234]

My 1060 runs everything on my 144hrz monitor

I will get one of these exspensive cards in 4 years time

Or I will pull a miserable face and my Mrs will buy me one to keep me out of her way. When she is watching true movies 

[BoilerDown]

The prices look to be insane to start with.  I'm going to give them some time to stabilize.  But I do intend to get a 2080 eventually, assuming the reviews show a significant performance benefit.  I definitely will not be pre-ordering.

1199 Error: Significant performance benefit not found. Will not buy.

[Skuzzy]

I think the price/performance ratio is simply not there.  I have been waiting to replace my aging video card, but I think I am skipping this generation.  Not enough bang for the buck.