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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- Turing
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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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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.