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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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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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! ;)