NVIDIA announces an official price drop for the GeForce GTX 1080 GPU.
The first benchmark figures for NVIDIA's mobile GPU, the GeForce RTX 2070 (Max-Q) have been leaked, once again courtesy of well-known source, APISAK.
This is misleading as the benchmark used (ffvx) is highly inconsistent. I'd expect performance closer to a desktop 1070 ti.
Still waiting for the RTX 2080 to drop to a normal price. 800$ for something that can't perform what it's intended to do is not worth the asking price.
" we have an expensive $869.99 video card just being able to play 1080p resolution with NVIDIA Ray Tracing enabled. Doesn’t quite sound right to spend that much money just to play a game at 1080p with just playable performance does it?" HardOCP sums this review up nicely. https://www.hardocp.com/art...
Ever since NVIDIA launched their new RTX 20-series graphics cards, their only competition was the older GTX-10 series, especially the GTX 1080 Ti which performs almost identical to the RTX 2080 that too at a lower price.
Some of us refuse to have anything to do with RTX in its current situation (way overpriced for the modest bump in performance, and overpriced in any case). People jumped on the 1070s and 1080s when it became clear Nvidia was out to gouge them with the new generation. If that was Nvidia's strategy, it's very ill-advised, because a significant number of former fans are now on the warpath against them. I hereby vow to skip the 20 series of cards entirely.
definitely better off waiting until at least the 2100 series anyways since this is their first foray into the whole ray-tracing stuff. Let them work the kinks out and deliver a more solid product for version 2
You guys are no better than peasants if you got anything less than a 2080. They’re not overpriced. It’s inflation. The 2080 is priced correctly and the TI is actually the Titan because the TI usually doesn’t come out the same time as the vanilla.
It’s not about ray tracing, it’s still more about raw power because you need the 2080ti to max out games and play at 4K at the same time.
I have a 1080ti mikeslemonade. And I paid $800 Canadian for it a year and a half ago. The same card is now priced at $1300. You think that's inflation or price gouging? My 1080ti is MORE than enough. Besides, I play on a 1440p monitor and get 100+ fps on my 165Hz monitor. Believe me, I am fine.
@ mikeslemonade,
Peasants? Or maybe we don't just foolishly throw money at a company that can't come up with anything better to say about it than "It just works". Or how about ray tracing? That only works in ONE game, and a game that is tanking as we speak anyway. If I am a peasant, but I am smart enough to not fall for that kind of nonsense, what does that make you?
Also the RTX 2080Ti is NOT the Titan and if you knew anything about this situation you would know that there is an actual RTX Titan out now, though admittedly it barely performs better than the 2080Ti.
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
But either way, a fool and his money are soon parted as they say.
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It’s not the same card as a 1080ti which I had and sold.
And it’s not about ray tracing it’s still about raw performance. Yea your a peasant if your system is basically as strong as a Xbox X. Yes it’s basically the titan because they don’t bring out the Ti or Titan the same time as the vanilla on same day release.
@mikeslemonade - for me personally it's all about smart gains. I am not going to spend $1700+ Canadian for gains that I can't utilize. As I said, I play @ 1440p. My 1080ti can push well over 100+ fps at that resolution on Ultra. So my gains are marginal at best. Besides, I am not paying those prices, they are an aboslute rip off. If I am paying double what I paid for my 1080ti, then shouldn't I expect double the performance? I am getting what an extra 15-20% max?
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But they haven’t been exactly price to performance for half a decade now. Before they use to be. 1080ti would be an exception since the 900 series was longer and there was a pretty lengthy gap between the 980 and 1080ti.
So it’s not really fair to say the 2080ti is not worthwhile. It’s better if you sell your 1080ti and get the 2080ti because your 1080ti will depreciate even more by the time the 2180ti will come out.
It’s probably gonna be like only worth $200. While I sold my 1080ti to my friend for $500.
PS I’m speaking in terms of USD
@mikeslemonade - at the prices they are at, you aren't getting enough of a boost as an existing 1080ti owner. Why would I spend $1700 for an extra 15%? What.. 5fps? To me that is just throwing away my money. I will wait for the next series when the gains will be more significant. I could easily get a new GPU every year if I wanted to, I just don't feel the need to have the latest GPU. My 8700K + 1080ti gives me more than enough performance. And in a year or two I will look at upgrading it.
Well you're not wrong, but the sad part is that a lot of people have already bought the RTX cards. No consumer GPU, even the Tis should be priced above a $1000
I am happy with my zotac rtx 2070 amp extreme that i got for 550 euro because of a mistake of a major retailer who listet it wrong ^^
I've never been more interested to see what AMD does next. It would also be nice to see Intel step up their GPU game, if they would be so inclined.
Intel are actually set to release desktop GPUs. It'll be interesting to see how they turn out.
If AMD can get me a card on par with a 1080 TI for a good price it will be adios Nvidia
Same, I am very much looking forward to seeing just how well AMD's next GPU's perform. I tell you now, if the rumours are true, and they do release as cheap as the rumours suggest, then I think I will be making the move to AMD, and this is coming from someone who has only been an Intel and Nvidia guy.
It's in stock if you want to pay this price lol https://www.newegg.com/Prod...
Same exact one I have, but bought mine as an open box return at Micro Center in 2017 and it was $459.99 at the time.
I’m sticking to my gtx 970 and 1080p until prices become realistic to the average consumer.
The first non-official benchmark for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 has been leaked. In the benchmark, the GeForce RTX 2080 is 35% faster than the GTX 1080 and marginally faster than the 1080 Ti
marginally faster.. not worth the $1000 price tag here in Canada for marginally faster.. I think I will wait for 2nd gen of these new cards since they will have gotten more familiar with this ray tracing stuff.
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Yeah, and I thought they said these cards were becoming affordable again...what a crock of sh#t.
Not overly impressed with these cards. Seems like a lot of effort was put into a feature that I'm honestly just going to disable in order to maintain a 100 FPS average. It's obviously too soon to judge, but I think it's really telling how Nvidia stated in their battlefield Ray tracing demo "This is rock solid 60 @ 1080P"... 1080? Really?... Anyone who buys this card isn't going to be playing on a junk 1080 monitor. They'll have 1440p, 1440 Ultrawide, or 4k... If they could've made that claim with a higher resolution monitor, they would have, but they didn't... which probably means ray tracing is far too demanding and will be disabled by many.
Yep. It's something in it's early stages at the moment and I don't think many will choose Ray Tracing over FPS, I won't be that's for sure.
I just hope this brings down the prices of 1080's and 1080ti's. I would love either one of those, especially the ti, but it's out of my price range at the moment.
That's what I currently have (1080 ti),,, It's honestly one of the best purchases I've made in terms of graphics cards. I feel like I've been at the top of the stack for forever compared to other generations, and now I'm looking at the new RTX stuff and I feel like I'll be able to skip this gen entirely..
Historically, the first cards that boast a new technology are never that great for the technology later down the line. Look at the first cards to offer Tessellation. Yes, they can do it, but by the time a game actually comes around to utilize those new features, the card is under-powered for the task. If I were you, I'd scoop a used 10 series on the cheap, but that's just me!
I wouldn't even take a benchmark as a true indicator,a variety of games will show where the average increase occurs.
Things to consider:
1. Drivers are not updated for the next gen cards.
2. This test likely (definitely) doesn't utilize the card's gigarays.
3. It could be the 2070.
Still, if this is true, and performance doesn't increase significantly, then it will be an easy pass for most people. I've got my order in for a 2080ti, so my decision has already been made. :-)
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Picking up a second FTW
1080 is nice, but the gtx 1080 ti is one sexy piece of tech, 4k at 60fps all day