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    Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition Review: Faster, More Expensive Than GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

    jimmysmitty (sorry, can't quote properly, forums are fubar), yes but we don't know that there will be any vetter value there with the AIB cards, and there's a different binning process now. I also notice that the oc'd results are not that impressive anyway, doesn't really boost things that much...
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    Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition Review: Faster, More Expensive Than GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

    Wait, are you comparing to a 1080 Ti FE here? But who has that? Most people would have AIB versions of the 1080 Ti, in which case the margin between it and the 2080 FE will be smaller, and in more cases the 2080 FE will be slower. The charts really should include at least one typically decent...
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    Battlefield V Creators: We Toned Down Ray Tracing for Performance, Realism

    "We cannot wait to see gaming realism stepped up significantly by the application of real-time ray tracing." The quest for visual realism in games above all else is becoming an obsession devoid of rational direction. I have a simple question about the glorious-looking water you saw in the demo...
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    Just Buy It: Why Nvidia RTX GPUs Are Worth the Money

    As an aside, how the heck does one edit comments these days? I want to correct a typo in my post and add a nod to GN for pinching their excellent YT ref, but I can't seem to logon to the UK site anymore (which looks weird now), while the US comments layout has no editing buttons.
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    Just Buy It: Why Nvidia RTX GPUs Are Worth the Money

    The end of the article has a disclaimer that it's just an opinion piece. Problem is, the article is riddled with sophistry, word salad and meaningless appeals to peer pressure as a reason for buying something. There are no actual arguments in the article based on facts, reason and evidence...