Hardware & Technical Nvidia RTX performance is shocking!

[[VR] optimal_909]

The pricing in itself, although shocking, isn't the real point for me, though. It's the fact that they justified the pricing by a feature that as it turned out, is useless.
Because 1) it can't run on current hardware and more importantly (and I think many hyped people are not realizing this) 2) It's just reflections! Yes, it's a new tech, yes it's exciting, but to think that it will somehow revolutionize game graphics is... silly.

It's something I've said in my thread about this. They should have waited until their cards can actually run RTX properly.

Well, the AI upscaling is certainly a great feature, and I'd say there should be more interesting game concepts to explore ray tracing (more cartoon-like stuff perhaps?) than a WW2 shooter. But again, I agree it was a premature launch.

 

[Chris Simon]

Rumours are no ray tracing on the 2060 for that very reason.

https://hothardware.com/news/budget-nvidia-geforce-rtx-cards-wont-support-ray-tracing-rumor

If it runs like treacle on an 2080Ti what would be the point on a 2060 ?? Unless you want to game at 320 x 200 i suppose.

That is right. I remember seeing an official roadmap slide, somewhere and the 2060 and below are designated GTX, ot RTX. At least they have THAT much sense in them. Even 2070 shouldn't be called RTX, really. Yes, it has tensor cores, so technically.. well anyway.

Another thing that we're not seeing is more games. I think we all can agree that BF5 ISN'T a good way to introduce RT. It's a competitive shooter so sacrificing 60% of your FPS is a terrible idea.
Maybe once we have games that are built around graphics and immersion, it will get better. I imagine atmospheric game types (like Vanishing of Ethan Carter for example) could benefit from this, because there it really doesn't matter if it runs 50 or 140 FPS.

But anyway. This was a major blunder in my eyes and it will take one or two generations of cards for me to even start considering a new nVidia card.

Well, the AI upscaling is certainly a great feature, and I'd say there should be more interesting game concepts to explore ray tracing (more cartoon-like stuff perhaps?) than a WW2 shooter. But again, I agree it was a premature launch.

Ah, I didn't see your reply.
Yes, exactly. I don't doubt there WILL be games that will look and run good with RTX.

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

Can't seem to tell the difference between RTX on/off. Lol

 

[Sweet&Dandy]

I’m currently sitting on a 1080 with the Samsung Odyssey and it’s holding it’s own. Am waiting on a pimax though and a 2080ti might be the only decent option. Will hold off though as long as I can to see what develops...