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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29a - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - link
The quality of this website has hit rock bottom under the helm of Cutress. I waited all day for this review but by the time it was posted word had spread of how underwhelming these cards are and I had no interest in reading it. This is the second major hardware release in a year in which Anandtech has totally screwed up the review, the other being Ryzen. Please Mr Cutress step down so someone else can run the site and hopefully return it to it's former glory.MadManMark - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - link
You posted to tell us you were "underwhelmed" by an article that you admit you didn't' even read?29a - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - link
No, I said it was widely known that the cards' performance was underwhelming by the time the article was posted. If you reread what I said the main point of my post is that Mr Cutress should resign because of the poor quality of how the website has been run since he took over.29a - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - link
After reading my original post again how in the hell did you come to the conclusion that I was underwhelmed by the article? It's very clear that I was talking about the performance of the card.Ryan Smith - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - link
"The quality of this website has hit rock bottom under the helm of Cutress"That would be rather amazing, seeing as how I run it, not Ian.
Anyhow, if you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to drop me a line (my email address is listed on the site). I always appreciate the feedback.
29a - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - link
Then take my comments and replace Cutress with Smith. I've been an avid follower of this website since 1998 including having it as my homepage for several years and the quality has declined. The Ryzen review and this review are prime examples of that declineRyan Smith - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - link
I'm still not sure you follow. Ian had nothing to do with this review. This was put together by Nate Oh (with some help by me).29a - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - link
I follow what you're saying. I thought the website was run by Ian, my mistake. I'm saying you need to take my original comment and replace the name Cutress with the name Smith. Here I'll do it for you."The quality of this website has hit rock bottom under the helm of Smith. I waited all day for this review but by the time it was posted word had spread of how underwhelming these cards are and I had no interest in reading it. This is the second major hardware release in a year in which Anandtech has totally screwed up the review, the other being Ryzen. Please Mr Smith step down so someone else can run the site and hopefully return it to it's former glory."
Now do you understand? I'm trying to say the site needs new leadership. The articles for the two biggest releases of the past year have been totally screwed up, 2080 cards and Ryzen refresh. Ryzen took over a month to complete.
Holliday75 - Friday, September 21, 2018 - link
I am really confused by your logic. Are you saying the article was bad because it was not released when you expected it to be released?29a - Saturday, September 22, 2018 - link
I'm not saying the article was bad because it was released 11 hours later than everyone else, I'm sure it was fine. I'm saying that the management of this website has went to hell because they screwed up the two biggest releases of the last year. It took 5 weeks to finish the Ryzen article.