The hype is out, what about some numbers?

[punkncat]

Forgive if this is already answered somewhere.

I have seen the 'ads' hyping up the new card series and it's 'Ray Tracing'. The "word on the street" (from NVIDIA actually) is that this new card is around 6-7 times faster than it's predecessor, and supposedly even the 2070 series is better than the 1080 ti? The paper numbers back that up, I guess.

I am curious though. The only benchmarks I have seen are for two games with the ray tracing thing enabled. Has anyone put out any tests on 'regular' (I guess you would say) games yet?


I find myself curious what kind of FPS it's putting down, at what level of heat with the new power requirements.

 

[little_me]

Numbers don't exist. Only one FPS shown game was onscreen at the release, the insurgent or somesuch, with which the GPU in use (2070, 80 or 80ti) was not mentioned but speculation is 80Ti)
said thing did it maxed out at 60 (due to v-sync, supposedly capable of 70) with all details maxed out and realtime raytracing on at 4k)
supposedly 1080Ti caps out at around 30 to 32.

That is all from the release though, no one really has cards to publish hard numbers yet and since release is 20th sep, it might take a few weeks until hard numbers are out.

power/heat is... also unknown but since it'd supposedly run half as quiet as current 1080Ti with fans on 100% the design either runs cool or they have super fancy fan tech involved.

As far as I know, few demo cards are out at few game devs but past that, it doesn't exist.

 

[Eximo]

I don't think the 2070 is going to outdo the 1080Ti, the numbers just don't add up. Even if you assume a 20% boost in architecture performance that would put it only above the 1080.

We'll have to wait. But if you assume Pascal levels of oomph:
GTX 1070 - 1920 cores 8GB of GDDR5 @ 8000/9000 = 75%
RTX 2070 - 2304 cores 8GB of GDDR6 @ 14000 = 90%
GTX 1080 - 2560 cores 8GB of GDDR5X @ 10,000/11,000 = 100%
RTX 2080 - 2944 cores 8GB of GDDR6 @ 14000 = 115%
GTX 1080Ti - 3584 cores 11GB of GDDR5X @ 11400 = 140% (About 130% in practice, so it doesn't scale perfectly)
RTX 2080Ti - 4352 cores 11GB of GDDR6 @ @ 14000 = 170%

But I agree, the ray tracing stuff is an unknown quantity. I think it won't matter at all to games made more than a year or two ago. New games might see enormous gains as Nvidia touts.

 

[jankerson]

Best to wait for the actual reviews and benchmarks before even thinking about the new generation cards.

 

[punkncat]

Best to wait for the actual reviews and benchmarks before even thinking about the new generation cards.

Personally, I am enjoying the price breaks on the 10xx high end. I have a heat issue in office/game room anyway. To even consider a card hotter than what I already use would bake in summer, lol. I even stick with "65W" proc to help with the issue. Picking up a card that will slay anything at 1080P for $200 less than it was last month is nice. I honestly wish I had waited a moment before picking up the one I did in July.

 

[jankerson]

Best to wait for the actual reviews and benchmarks before even thinking about the new generation cards.

Personally, I am enjoying the price breaks on the 10xx high end. I have a heat issue in office/game room anyway. To even consider a card hotter than what I already use would bake in summer, lol. I even stick with "65W" proc to help with the issue. Picking up a card that will slay anything at 1080P for $200 less than it was last month is nice. I honestly wish I had waited a moment before picking up the one I did in July.

Same here, just got a EVGA 1080Ti FTW3, should be here soon. 😀

 

[EpIckFa1LJoN]

Unless you're playing at 5k, 4k over 60Hz, or 200Hz 1440p, a 1080 Ti is plenty for gaming for the time being.

So the incredible price tags on the 2080 and 2080 Ti are not justified at all.

That's really all I need to know. I have a 3440x1440 100Hz monitor and there are almost no games my 1080 Ti can't play on the highest settings.

 

[Eximo]

I'm tempted to replace my 1080 so that I can take full advantage of my PG279Q. Otherwise it is going to be quite a while before the next logical upgrade. Though I won't try for one at launch. It was a chore stalking all the websites to get my 1080. I think I managed to place 3 or 4 orders only to have an out of stock notification sent my way.

And I will wait for water block announcements as well, since the 2080Ti is going to need some decent cooling to overclock it properly.

 

[renz496]

No hard numbers yet. The best we have was that infoltrator demo that running 30+ fps on 1080ti while the FPS is almost double. Probably the best case with 2080ti. Other than that was techradar reports talking about several triple A games using ultra setting running over 100fps at 4k though they can't exactly mention what games that triple A are due to NDA.