The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti & RTX 2080 Founders Edition Review: Foundations For A Ray Traced Future
by Nate Oh on September 19, 2018 5:15 PM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
- Raytrace
- GeForce
- NVIDIA
- DirectX Raytracing
- Turing
- GeForce RTX
Middle-earth: Shadow of War (DX11)
Next up is Middle-earth: Shadow of War, the sequel to Shadow of Mordor. Developed by Monolith, whose last hit was arguably F.E.A.R., Shadow of Mordor returned them to the spotlight with an innovative NPC rival generation and interaction system called the Nemesis System, along with a storyline based on J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium, and making it work on a highly modified engine that originally powered F.E.A.R. in 2005.
Using the new LithTech Firebird engine, Shadow of War improves on the detail and complexity, and with free add-on high resolution texture packs, offers itself as a good example of getting the most graphics out of a non state-of-the-art engine. Shadow of War also supports HDR (HDR10).
| Shadow of War | 1920x1080 | 2560x1440 | 3840x2160 |
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Shadow of War is one of the more favorable games in terms of the 20 series' performance gains over Pascal, and overall the RTX 2080 is neatly faster than the 1080 Ti, though with a 12 to 17% edge at 4K, not a huge one. The 2080 Ti is comfortably beyond that, though actually its advantage over the 2080 is on the lower end compared to other games with a roughly 25% uplift at 4K.
Regardless, at 1080p we start to see the flagships reach the CPU bottleneck.
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tamalero - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link
Unlike a video card, DVD were a STANDARD. set to replace the DVD. This wasn't a war between BETAMAX and VHS again. It was an evolution.And as you said it, they had a few titles coming on.
Nvidia currently is offering ZERO options for what they charge insanely.
Even those 4k TVs you mentioned.. had demos and downlodable content.
It was the future.
Nvidia's game in some of these RTX features are solely of Nvidia, not a global standard.
tamalero - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link
Errata: set to replace the "CDS" not DVDs.. They do really need an edit button here.Writer's Block - Monday, October 1, 2018 - link
Not a great comparrison.Mainly because: games making use of RTX and othe new features is: Zero.
OlED and 4k/DVD/Blue: pretty much zero/extremely small/dozen or so - not of the aforementioned is as low as zero, so the consumer could see what they were getting.
boozed - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link
Early adopters have always paid over the odds for an immature experience. That's the decision they make. You pays your money and you takes your chances...Gastec - Thursday, September 27, 2018 - link
Yes, drug addicts would also agreeianmills - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link
RTX - Radeon technology cross off the list. Nvidia is free to price as they please XDNikosD - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link
1080 Ti vs 980 Ti ~ 70% for 50$ more MSRP1080 vs 980 ~ 60% for 50$ more MSRP
2080 Ti vs 1080 Ti ~ 30% for 300$ more MSRP (actual price difference is a lot more)
Please, let's boycott Turing cards.
nVidia must learn its lesson.
Skip it.
V900 - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link
If you look at AMDs Vega and compare it with the previous AMD flagship: Fury, you see a similar 30-40% increase in performance.In other words: This isn’t Nvidia wanting to rip gamers off, it’s just a consequence of GPU makers pushing up against the end of Moore’s law.
formulaLS - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link
It IS nVidia wanting to rip off gamers. Their prices are absolutely a huge rip off for what you get.DigitalFreak - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link
Blame AMD for not competing. Nvidia would never be able to do this if AMD had a competitive offering.