Will RTX 2080 founders edition bottleneck

[rhoma_galloway]

Hello,

So I currently have a gtx 1070 and have an intel i7 8700 (no K). I was looking to upgrade to the newly released rtx 2080 founders edition (not Ti). I wanted to know with the specs released for the 2080 would my 8700 bottleneck the performance of the 2080. I was also wondering if the 2080 would be so significant of a performance increase to actually be worth the $800 price tag or am I just paying all that money for games that only support the RTX feature?

I appreciate any and all feedback!
Thank you very much for the help!

 

[engineer5261]

A lot of your questions can not be answered unless people start receiving the cards and benchmarking them. On tasks other than ray tracing, I'd guess that the 2080 will be around 20% faster than the 1080ti judging just by past trends and some raw figures.

I think you should wait for meaningful benchmarks and aftermarket cards, that way you can make a proper informed decision with all the facts and figures and save some money / better address your requirements.

 

[Snipergod87]

depends on the game and when we know how the GPU will perform, ask again when they come out.

 

[rhoma_galloway]

Thank you for the quick responses! Do you guys think I’ll still be able to get my hands on one upon release? I’m afraid that if I wait the prices will become outrageous due to low supply and high resell value.

 

[Valstorm]

Based on how people are still hitting great framerates on liquid cooled 4th Generation Intel CPUs, no, I doubt your 8700 will need an upgrade. If you have a stock cooler on it though, perhaps consider at least a heatsink, like the Hyper212 EVO. It's cheap ($20) and you'll get some pretty good heat dissipation.

 

[rjterpstra19]

It depends largely on the game you're playing and some other things. I focus on a racing simulator and use an Oculus CV1. The simulator is 10 years old and not the most optimized for current generation hardware. Single core CPU clock speed is my bottleneck. Unless the RTX somehow takes tasks from my CPU the new card won't help me.

 

[pwninsarge]

There is no way that your 8700 will bottleneck a 2080 thats a 6 core 12 thread cpu, you're 100% fine. Also the new nvidia RTX cards have tensor cores as well as cuda cores. They supposedly increased performance per core by about 50%, but we'll have to wait and see for that. Also, the tensor cores will be able to use DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) and that will use the tensor cores to render anti aliasing which will take a massive load off the cuda cores and increase performance. DLSS however will be game dependent, it is up to the developers if they want to support DLSS in their games which I think could possibly become a pretty popular feature.