Nvidia Volta Megathread

[King Dranzer]

NVIDIA officially claims RTX 2070 to perform better than TITAN Xp. Then the pricing is meaningful even if it costs $600 because it is giving you 75%+(probably 80-90% will have to wait for benchmark results) more performance than GTX 1070 for $120 extra(launch price) which is crazy.

 

[manleysteele]

NVIDIA officially claims RTX 2070 to perform better than TITAN Xp. Then the pricing is meaningful even if it costs $600 because it is giving you 75%+(probably 80-90% will have to wait for benchmark results) more performance than GTX 1070 for $120 extra(launch price) which is crazy.

But, is that with ray-tracing turned on in the new titles or ray tracing turned off in the old titles? Am interesting conundrum.

Or even with ray-tracing turned off in the new titles. Because the "can't get there from here" quality for the old tech is substantial.

 

[King Dranzer]

NVIDIA officially claims RTX 2070 to perform better than TITAN Xp. Then the pricing is meaningful even if it costs $600 because it is giving you 75%+(probably 80-90% will have to wait for benchmark results) more performance than GTX 1070 for $120 extra(launch price) which is crazy.

But, is that with ray-tracing turned on in the new titles or ray tracing turned off in the old titles? Am interesting conundrum.

Or even with ray-tracing turned off in the new titles. Because the "can't get there from here" quality for the old tech is substantial.

That is one thing we have to wait and see. But if they claim it to be performance improvement I consider it to similarly with both Ray Tracing ON and OFF as the cores working for Ray Tracing are dedicated to that work so it can possibly be a non impacting layer of compute over already processed frame.

 

[-Fran-]

I always distrust nVidia in their schemes for you to buy their new stuff, so I can't say that Ray Tracing is enough to warrant an upgrade from current gen at those price points.

Yes it looks great, but I'm pretty damn sure the demos weren't being run on average hardware nor it will run like that on the mid-range stuff we all care about.

Plus, they did not do their usual comparison on performance over previous gen when they touted the new "metrics" (giga rays? WTF?). That is always a warning flag to me.

EDIT: https://twitter.com/RyanSmithAT/status/1031623897521709056
That's a good discussion. Ryan is of the same opinion as me it seems.

Cheers!

 

[renz496]

then wait until 2020. at that time we should get more affordable "ray tracing" GPU and the competition will be much more fierce as well with intel entering the fray. frankly speaking my 970 from 2015 still doing quite well in new tittles at 1080p. rather than GPU it is probably more critical for me to upgrade my aging 2500K first. still interested how well GTX2060 going to be though.

 

[-Fran-]

It's not about being "affordable" or not. I'm talking about the whole product. Particularly, they're touting "Ray Tracing" as a "you must buy it for this feature" type of thing. I completely disagree. I was expecting way more information than what was given to be completely honest and it came short of a disappointment if it were not because Ray Tracing in real time looks friggin' good and I won't deny that.

Additionally, it's interesting to see the jump in specs and how they'll fare to the current 1080 and 1080ti siblings in regular games. Comparisons at same power consumption will be SO interesting this time around.

Cheers!

 

[TechyInAZ]

Dang, looks like the RT cores will just sit idle and be useless when ray tracing is not in a game or disabled according to Nvidia:
[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D_dmvTH4iE"]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D_dmvTH4iE[/video]

 

[TMTOWTSAC]

If that's the case, it would make them the most expensive on-die heatsinks in the history of computing.

 

[renz496]

Same case with tessellation? Even with DX11 games not all of them use tessellation. Most often only triple A have them. Personally i'm interested to see the dig dive on the architecture when anandtech release their review.

 

[TechyInAZ]

Hey guys, I've gone ahead and created a new megathread for BOTH Volta and Turing (yes they are in the same megathread) here: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-3771988/nvidia-turing-volta-megathread.html

As of now this megathread will be closed. So please bring your discussions over to the new thread. Thank you!!