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
Battlefield 1 (DX11)
Battlefield 1 returns from the 2017 benchmark suite, the 2017 benchmark suite with a bang as DICE brought gamers the long-awaited AAA World War 1 shooter a little over a year ago. With detailed maps, environmental effects, and pacy combat, Battlefield 1 provides a generally well-optimized yet demanding graphics workload. The next Battlefield game from DICE, Battlefield V, completes the nostalgia circuit with a return to World War 2, but more importantly for us, is one of the flagship titles for GeForce RTX real time ray tracing, although at this time it isn't ready.
We use the Ultra preset is used with no alterations. As these benchmarks are from single player mode, our rule of thumb with multiplayer performance still applies: multiplayer framerates generally dip to half our single player framerates. Battlefield 1 also supports HDR (HDR10, Dolby Vision).
| Battlefield 1 | 1920x1080 | 2560x1440 | 3840x2160 |
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At this point, the RTX 2080 Ti is fast enough to touch the CPU bottleneck at 1080p, but it keeps its substantial lead at 4K. Nowadays, Battlefield 1 runs rather well on a gamut of cards and settings, and in optimized high-profile games like these, the 2080 in particular will need to make sure that the veteran 1080 Ti doesn't edge too close. So we see the Founders Edition specs are enough to firmly plant the 2080 Founders Edition faster than the 1080 Ti Founders Edition.
The outlying low 99th percentile reading for the 2080 Ti occurred on repeated testing, and we're looking into it further.
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PopinFRESH007 - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - link
You are simply ignoring the facts. When Bluray players launched they didn't play Blurays because there were none, because there was no standard. It took 3 years before there was a standard and 7 movies were released. Before then they were just high-end DVD players.These RTX cards also work out of the box. Its crazy I know, they actually can play current games and all with the highest settings and fastest frame rates. Similar to what happened with bluray, they will also support those new fangled DXR and DLSS options in games as they come out.
imaheadcase - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - link
First Blu-ray movies would be released on June 20, coinciding with the release of the first Blu-ray DVD player from Samsung, and a Sony VAIO Blu-ray PC.Jun 13, 2006The first batch distributed by Sony was on June 20th, 2006:
The Fifth Element
50 First Dates
Hitch
House of Flying Daggers
The Terminator
Underworld: Evolution
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What was that again about facts?
V900 - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - link
Working out of the box? You mean like the RTX 2080/ti/2070 cards?You’re willfully ignoring facts and pretend that it’s totally up in the air whether games will support RTX, and that they won’t be available for a long time...
Which is entirely false.
There are games that support RTX out right now. Like Tomb Raider
More are coming this year: One of the biggest titles this year: Battlefield 5 supports it.
And dozens of titles supporting RTX, many of them big AAA titles, are coming out in H1 2019.
So no: Nobody is buying a card they “can’t even test.” If you buy an RTX card, it’ll work out of the box with RTX technology enabled.
And it’s of course also the fastest card on the market for all the old titles that don’t support RTX.
sonny73n - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - link
@V900If you can’t compare performance per dollar of this gen and the previous, why even bother praising the new tech when currently none of the tech sites have any mean to test them?
After reading your first comment, I couldn’t help but think that you’re a paid shill for Nvidia.
imaheadcase - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - link
You just ignored the facts and even proved yourself wrong in own statement. lolLet me sell you a car with the fastest engine, but i'm not going to let you use all the Horsepower..but i promise i'll enable it when i get the right parts for it. Don't worry about the $100k price tag on the car, its going to be awesome i swear..
Do you get paid for every post by nvidia, or just a lump sum?
mscsniperx - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link
You are comparing apples to oranges. There isn't even a raytracing game to compare to.. And when the truth comes out that even with RTX, there is a massive FPS hit.. well, it's game over.DigitalFreak - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link
First you complain that there aren't any raytracing games to get benchmarks from, then you state there will be a massive performance hit. If there are no games available to test with, you can't have any idea what their performance will be like.tamalero - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link
The slides/demos of Nvidia and the Beta of Battlefield brother..They show performance that could be potentially be "above" what users would expect.
imaheadcase - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link
Hello Hairworks would like a word with you..CoachAub - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link
Laser discs were a big hit! ;)