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
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- Raytrace
- GeForce
- NVIDIA
- DirectX Raytracing
- Turing
- GeForce RTX
Total War: Warhammer II (DX11)
Last in our 2018 game suite is Total War: Warhammer II, built on the same engine of Total War: Warhammer. While there is a more recent Total War title, Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia, that game was built on the 32-bit version of the engine. The first TW: Warhammer was a DX11 game was to some extent developed with DX12 in mind, with preview builds showcasing DX12 performance. In Warhammer II, the matter, however, appears to have been dropped, with DX12 mode still marked as beta, but also featuring performance regression for both vendors.
It's unfortunate because Creative Assembly themselves have acknowledged the CPU-bound nature of their games, and with re-use of game engines as spin-offs, DX12 optimization would have continued to provide benefits, especially if the future of graphics in RTS-type games will lean towards low-level APIs.
There are now three benchmarks with varying graphics and processor loads; we've opted for the Battle benchmark, which appears to be the most graphics-bound.
| Total War Warhammer II |
1920x1080 | 2560x1440 | 3840x2160 |
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At 1080p, the cards quickly run into the CPU bottleneck, which is to be expected with top-tier video cards and the CPU intensive nature of RTS'es. The Founders Edition power and clock tweaks prove less useful here at 4K, but the models are otherwise in keeping with the expected 1-2-3 linup of 2080 Ti, 2080, and 1080 Ti, with the latter two roughly on par and the 2080 Ti pushing further.
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Qasar - Friday, September 21, 2018 - link
burntmybacon just like popinfresh, i guess you will never understand the concept of " no competition, we can charge what ever we want, and people will STILL buy it cause it is the only option if you want the best or fastest " it has NOTHING to do with knowing cost info or what a companies profit margins are... but i guess you will never understand this as welleva02langley - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - link
Once again, not AMD fault if Nvidia is trying to corner AMD with new hardware gimmicks like physix, and charging the customers.You never intended in buying an AMD card anyway, you just want a more affordable Nvidia solution. Guess what, pay for it or leave it.
Even by earning 100K a year, I refuse to pay the gimmick tax. I will buy Navi at release. Screw Nvidia.
V900 - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link
What a cool piece of technology!Raytracing would be amazing to have in games, and it really is the future of gaming. Its crazy to think there will be games with it already next year. (And some later this year!)
Is it too expensive? Meh, we are talking about TWENTY BILLION transistors squeezed into the area of a postage stamp.
People pay 600-1000$ for a phone, and some have no problem paying 1000$ for a CPU or a designer chair.
7-1200$ isn’t an unreasonable price for a cutting edge GPU that’s capable of raytracing and will be fast enough for the newest games for years to come.
imaheadcase - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link
Did that nvidia check cash they sent you to promote the items yet?shabby - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link
Definitely a shill, its too obvious.tamalero - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - link
Theres way too many here defending nvidia just because "its a huge chip".That means nothing for the consumer. We're not buying SIZE, we're buying PERFORMANCE AND FEATURES.
mapesdhs - Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - link
Some of the pro-RTX posts sound more like basic trolling though, just to stir things up. If they're getting paid to post +ve stuff, they're doing a pretty rotten job of it. :DformulaLS - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link
Your comments sounds like a paid ad. There is no decency excuse for the prices they are charging.DigitalFreak - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link
He has a point. People are willing to pay $1000 for a phone, $1000 for a CPU, but $1000 for a high end graphics card is outrageous? I wish the pricing was cheaper, but I'm not having a fit over it. If people don't want to pay the price, they won't. If Nvidia doesn't sell the numbers they want, they'll probably cut the price somewhat.Fritzkier - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link
The $1000 phone actually had more technological advancement... And it's an SoC not individual parts...About a $1000 CPU, it's normal because it's enthusiast product (e.g. Threadripper or i9). There's no $1000 i7 or Ryzen 7...
Nvidia shouldn't have made 2080 Ti. They should've made Titan Turing or something...