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
Grand Theft Auto V (DX11)
Now a truly venerable title, GTA V is a veteran of past game suites that is still graphically demanding as they come. As an older DX11 title, it provides a glimpse into the graphically intensive games of yesteryear that don't incorporate the latest features. Originally released for consoles in 2013, the PC port came with a slew of graphical enhancements and options. Just as importantly, GTA V includes a rather intensive and informative built-in benchmark, somewhat uncommon in open-world games.
The settings are identical to its previous appearances, which are custom as GTA V does not have presets. To recap, a "Very High" quality is used, where all primary graphics settings turned up to their highest setting, except grass, which is at its own very high setting. Meanwhile 4x MSAA is enabled for direct views and reflections. This setting also involves turning on some of the advanced rendering features - the game's long shadows, high resolution shadows, and high definition flight streaming - but not increasing the view distance any further.
| GTA V | 1920x1080 | 2560x1440 | 3840x2160 |
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There was an interesting issue during testing that affected the RTX cards at 4K; running the benchmark would result in a blank screen for the entirety of the run. The image would appear with Alt+Enter to put it in windowed mode, but disappear again back in fullscreen. An external overlay resolved the issue, but performance results were identical either way. We really didn't have time to investigate thoroughly, but GTA V, especially with Social Club, can be quite finicky and I hesitate to call it a driver bug without digging into it more.
It's a testament to both GTA V and the nature of graphics optimization work that a GeForce card can only now average 60fps. Even still, it's restricted to the RTX 2080 Ti performance tier, which is roughly where the Titan V stands as well. Regardless, the results represent the performance scenario that NVIDIA is ultimately hoping to avoid: the 1080 Ti exceeding the 2080 in performance even with the Founders Edition tweaks. At this point, the 1080 Ti is a mature card and the offerings will skew towards tried-and-true halo custom cards, factory overclocked and well-cooled. Plain performance regression in reference settings is not something the RTX 2080 can easily afford with the higher price - Founders Edition or otherwise.
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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.