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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Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation (DX12)
A veteran from both our 2016 and 2017 game lists, Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation remains the DirectX 12 trailblazer, with developer Oxide Games tailoring and designing the Nitrous Engine around such low-level APIs. The game makes the most of DX12's key features, from asynchronous compute to multi-threaded work submission and high batch counts. And with full Vulkan support, Ashes provides a good common ground between the forward-looking APIs of today. Its built-in benchmark tool is still one of the most versatile ways of measuring in-game workloads in terms of output data, automation, and analysis; by offering such a tool publicly and as part-and-parcel of the game, it's an example that other developers should take note of.
Settings and methodology remain identical from its usage in the 2016 GPU suite. To note, we are utilizing the original Ashes Extreme graphical preset, which compares to the current one with MSAA dialed down from x4 to x2, as well as adjusting Texture Rank (MipsToRemove in settings.ini).
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For Ashes, the 20 series fare a little worse in their gains over the 10 series, with an advantage at 4K around 14 to 22%. Here, the Founders Edition power and clock tweaks are essential in avoiding the 2080 FE outright losing to the 1080 Ti, though our results are putting the Founders Editions essentially neck-and-neck.
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PopinFRESH007 - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link
news flash: 2080 Ti is an enthusiast product.tamalero - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - link
news flash.. 2080TI is just part of a large part of a system. Unlike a flagship phone.. You cant game with only a 2080TI or a 2080. You need other parts.Your argument is retarded.
Be honest, you got cash in nvidia's stock? your family works for Nvidia?
PopinFRESH007 - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - link
what argument is that? no I don't have any nVidia stock and none of my family work for them. You sound envious of people who can afford to be early adopters.tamalero - Friday, September 21, 2018 - link
You're defending the almost 50% price hike with a "is an enthusiast product".Now that is a dumb excuse.
Nothing to do with being envious. A fool and his money are soon departed. So if you want to buy it.
Go ahead!.
For the majority of us its not worth to buy something which its "flagship" features arent even working or available for probably months to come, has only 30% average performance increase, for almost double the price..
cmdrdredd - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link
I don't know anyone who has every paid for their phone outright. Everyone is on a lease/upgrade/Iphone forever plan.bji - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link
So you think that means they haven't paid full price for their phone? Or are you saying you don't understand how to buy a video card on a similar payment plan (hint -- it's called a credit card)?People have absolutely no sense of logic or really intelligence at all when it comes to evaluating technology prices. NONE. This forum, and pretty much every internet forum where predominantly inexperienced kids who have no clue how actual money works post (which is apparently all of them), is all the proof you need of that.
PopinFRESH007 - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link
^^ This, 100% this. People who think that changing the structure of payment somehow magically changes the price of something (other than increasing it due to TVM) are amazingly ignorant.Nagorak - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - link
It doesn't change the price, however it certainly hides the price. A lot of people would not buy their expensive phone if it meant coughing up $800 all at once.Nagorak - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - link
Not a good example. A credit card probably has 20% per year interest rate. A phone contact usually bundles in the monthly payment on the phone at low or no interest rate.Qasar - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - link
the carriers here ( canada ) have been considering dropping the " subsidized phone " thing for a few years now.. IF they do.. i wonder how many people would NOT get a new phone every year.... specifically those get " have to " get the new iphone every year... i dont know any one that would pay that much for a phone each year, if they had to buy it outright from their own pocket....