Thats just plain XXXXXXXX STUPID! I dearly hope this money grabbing companies fail and end up with millions of these cards rotting on their shelves.
Are Nvidia having a Laugh??
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Thats just plain XXXXXXXX STUPID! I dearly hope this money grabbing companies fail and end up with millions of these cards rotting on their shelves.
I think that's stretching things a bit, but I have been keeping an eye on the 1080 ti, and the price has been creeping down to the "tempting" range of $700 USD. I think my current 980 (not ti) will last me a little bit longer, though.
I am quite astounded by the raytracing. I'm of an age where real-time raytracing seemed the stuff of science fiction. But I'm also interested in the other stuff as well. I didn't watch the whole unveiling but didn't I hear mention of foveated rendering? And if I'm going to buy another VR headset, one of those fancy new VR-specific sockets might come in handy.
I'm not saying I'm actually going to buy one, but I am really really tempted.
Yeah I agree the 2d demos they've show look amazing. But unless it also works in VR I couldn't give a monkeys about real time raytracing. I just don't play non VR games that would benefit from it anymore. I'm far more interested in hearing about the VR capabilities and features of this new gen of cards. That in the end is what's going to convince me to buy one and frankly at the listed prices it'll need to be seriously impressive improvements in VR rendering to be worth it.
I'm definitely gonna need to get an upgrade soon. My 1060 just doesn't cut it for VR. I was looking at a 1080, but it seems the new generation 2070 is vastly superior and is said to come with a price tag of 600 dollars. (probably gonna be more expensive where i live but what ever) What do you guys think? maybe the 1080 will drop considerably in price?
As a shareholder, I approve.
That "realtime raytracing" thing has been a short-lived fad pretty much every time some compute technology like MMX, SSE, programmable GPU pipelines, or Larrabee 2008 had to be marketed, but so far straight out "cheating" rendering has always won with ever better tricks. I don't expect this particular instance to become much more than the usual vendor lock-in stunts like PhysX, CUDA, TressFX, or HairWorks; with any luck it manages to become something like Metal evolving into Vulkan and see niche adoption in a generalised form.
That "realtime raytracing" thing has been a short-lived fad pretty much every time some compute technology like MMX, SSE, programmable GPU pipelines, or Larrabee 2008 had to be marketed, but so far straight out "cheating" rendering has always won with ever better tricks. I don't expect this particular instance to become much more than the usual vendor lock-in stunts like PhysX, CUDA, TressFX, or HairWorks; with any luck it manages to become something like Metal evolving into Vulkan and see niche adoption in a generalised form.
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unless i missed it VR was completely ignored... it was all about the rays!. (honestly is it just me who thinks a MP fast action twitch shooter is like a terrible game to decide to make a poster child? anything PvE I get it, tombraider a good choice as will presumably have some exploration and you will actually take time to see this stuff.
but not BFV!. imo.
(hint to FD, Elite D would be a great game to support it, just think of the space Pr0n!.
back to VR... IF it can run and still keep the framerate up (which for the record the rumours i have heard the 2080ti CANT) but IF it could, real time RT could be a huge boon for VR... baked in lighting cheats which work somewhat on a monitor fail in VR.
but either way i I think it will probably only be viable next generation.
That is not my price range. I recently got my new gaming PC, fitted with a Nvidia 1070 ti. With slightly over 500 € I would have got a 1080 also, but my one is power efficient and quiet. There is still room for further graphics improvements in Elite Dangerous I think. No need to waste more money for GPU power atm.
I'm going to wait for a bit longer. Depending on supply it looks like there might not be enough price differential yet to justify a 10XX purchase yet. Either the prices on the 10 series are going to have to go on a fire sale pricing level or it'll be better to go with even just a 2070.
I'm going to let it settle out a bit first.
I also want to see some analysis of power consumption and noise levels before deciding.
Does T.J. work for Apple ????
Same here.
Although RTX does make realistc looking shadows and refections, (and they do look extremley good), I do not see any advantage with current game play, to justiffy getting one at this time. I willl stay with 1080 Ti for the time being.
More like the bar part of "Genius Bar"
I'm seeing pre orders prices for the 2080 at minimum $100 more than I paid for my pre-mining craze 1080ti, and the 2080ti at minimum for $13-$1500.
And no.
It probably won't run the Pimax 8k any better unless games are using ray-tracing.
In fact chances are anything they would barely be a few percentages better than the 1080-1080ti for regular games.
So should I spend $1500 for a singel GPU? that really won't be that much better than what I got already for games that wont be around for another 4-5 years.
Since they would have to be developed for it from scratch.
I'm thinking no.
This is a generation to skip.
Wait for RAM prices to drop, wait for Intel to actually give them some competition (fingers crossed) and vote with your money, buy something more sensibly priced.
Anyhoo, that's my thinking on this.
It's more than likely a 2070 for me and all. But I'm going to do what GJ51 suggests... wait for the dust to settle a bit... wait for some reviews