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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Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (Vulkan)
id Software is popularly known for a few games involving shooting stuff until it dies, just with different 'stuff' for each one: Nazis, demons, or other players while scorning the laws of physics. Wolfenstein II is the latest of the first, the sequel of a modern reboot series developed by MachineGames and built on id Tech 6. While the tone is significantly less pulpy nowadays, the game is still a frenetic FPS at heart, succeeding DOOM as a modern Vulkan flagship title and arriving as a pure Vullkan implementation rather than the originally OpenGL DOOM.
Featuring a Nazi-occupied America of 1961, Wolfenstein II is lushly designed yet not oppressively intensive on the hardware, something that goes well with its pace of action that emerge suddenly from a level design flush with alternate historical details.
The highest quality preset, "Mein leben!", was used. Wolfenstein II also features Vega-centric GPU Culling and Rapid Packed Math, as well as Radeon-centric Deferred Rendering; in accordance with the preset, neither GPU Culling nor Deferred Rendering was enabled.
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I am actually impressed with Wolfenstein II and its Vulkan implementation more than the absurd 250+ framerates, if only because many other games hold back the GPU because of the occurring CPU bottleneck. In DOOM, there was a hard 200fps cap because of engine/implementation limitations, a bit of a corner case, but manufacturers make 240Hz monitors nowadays, too. On a GPU performance profiling side, of course, reducing the CPU bottleneck makes comparing powerful GPUs much easier at 1080p, and with a better signal-to-noise than at 4K.
This is combined with the fact that at 4K, the 20 series are looking a huge 60 to 68% lead over the 10 series, and we'll be cross-referencing these performance deltas with other sections of the game. Even in the case of a 'flat-track bully' scenario where the 2080 Ti is running up the score, the 2080 Ti's speed compared to the 2080 is somewhat less than expected at 24 to 27%. It's a somewhat intriguing result for an optimized Vulkan game, as the game runs and scales generally well across the board; It's also not unnoticed that both the RX Vega cards and GeForce Turing cards outperform their expected positions, though without the graphics workload details it's hard to speculate with substance. With framerates like these, the 4K HDR dream at 144 Hz is a real possibility, and it would be interesting to compare with Titan V and Titan Xp results.
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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....