RTX 20xx is up to 6 times more powerful than Pascal?

fordongreeman

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Nvidia claims that the new RTX 2080 is "up to six times" more powerful than the Pascal cards.

This is a 500% performance increase, which is unprecedented.
 

fordongreeman

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If I can get the same, or even slightly more performance with a single RTX 2080 compared to my twin GTX 1080's, then I'll definitely buy the new card and sell my current graphics cards.

This would make my computer much less energy hungry, and free up PCIe slots for other things.

Fewer games are supporting SLI and run better on a single card.
 


Of course, that's always what happens when a new card comes out with new architecture.
Less power, more powerful.

So what PCIe things do you need? I think thats a moot point.

No more or no less games are supporting SLI - it's always been a constant. Since this is more Driver than game. Triple/Quad is not supported anymore.
 

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I doubt it'll be 6 times on everything, nVidia group RTX 2000 series as a new way to achieve more photo-realistic view on AAA games with less wattage, so they must've working together with big game developers such as ubisoft and EA. And it does look more alive https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/campaigns/metro-exodus/ . I do know it'll be huge boost for augmented reality.
 

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Yeah, I would be surprised as well. Based on the comparison specs for the 2070 vs. the 1080 (https://www.anandtech.com/show/13249/nvidia-announces-geforce-rtx-20-series-rtx-2080-ti-2080-2070) -- not the 1080Ti, bu the base 1080 -- if there's no ray-tracing involved, it trades off faster VRAM for lower GFLOPs, & only saves maybe 3% on power usage. Ray-tracing capability aside, it's almost certainly going to be like prior generations, where the 2070 == 1080 in performance.

EDIT: Per Techspot, with the initial ray-tracing support, apparently the RTX 2080TI couldn't maintain 60FPS @ 1080p. So much for "6 times the performance". Sounds like HairWorks all over again...
 

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I read that Nvidia are aiming for 60fps in Battlefield V with Ray Tracing.

What are people going to chose then? 60fps with RTX. Or a more stable image at 144fps without RTX.

To me, one thing that RTX has done is slow down gaming. Yet we are being charged extra for that.
 


You haven't got to use it, if they don't seed the market then developers won't develop for it and in 5 years we won't have better image quality.
 

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With the Battlefield V patch and driver updates today we supposedly going to see 60+fps in WQHD with RTX high with RTX 2080Ti, 60+fps in WQHD with RTX medium with RTX 2080, and 60+fps in FullHD with RTX medium with RTX 2070. That is starting to make sense now. I just think that a fast multiplayer is by far the stupidest choice for presenting ray tracing to a wide audience. In those games high fps are important and game play is too fast to even enjoy nice subtle graphic effects. Experimental RTX would have been much better in some kind of slower paced single player game (what the heck happened to SotTR RTX???).