Not Sure What to Make of the New GeForce 2080 Ti
It's been a while now since I've been planning on building a new rig for myself. And wanting nothing but the most lavish components for future-proofing purposes, a couple factors have put me off executing said plan until now. Primarily though, was the graphics card. A cool new 1080 Ti sounded awesome about 3 months back, but after hearing about the next upcoming generational line-up from Nvidia approaching soon, I decided to wait. Fast forward to today and we now have the 20xx series thrown into the mix. I was looking at the RTX 2080 Ti as that is the highest tier of the new series in terms of spec. However...
...The product launch of these brand spanking new card didn't pan out as expected. First off, the price point. Given the 20xx's release last month, the now older 10xx cards took an obligatory dump in price. Meaning that you can easily pick up, let's say, a 1080 Ti for around half the cost of an RTX 2080 Ti. But the thing is the 1080's are still going for a respectable £650 for a decent one. So yeah, an RTX 2080 Ti is around the £1,300 price mark! Astonishing, but true! So what do you get for all this extra money spilling out of your pockets and into Nvidia's?
Well, you get additional cores to the main unit, faster memory speeds (although the original 11GB of RAM on the 1080 Ti stays the same here) and increased L2 cache. Spec wise, it turned out to be quite impressive with benchmarks against the 1080 Ti drew just over a 30 % increase in performance. Titles like Witcher 3, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Call of Duty - Black Ops 4 and PUBG were all used to test with. But does a 30% hike in performance justify paying double for the card itself?
Being the fastest GPU at the moment, the RTX 2080 Ti is an awesome card, churning out 60 FPS 4K fluid gameplay with ease. Also employing new graphics rendering techniques like "Ray Tracing" and DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) promise that next-gen features will be catered for when more games start using it. The only problem being there are no real world statistics to go by at this time. Just Nvidia's word that we'll be "needing it" some time in the future. In addition, these are very early implementations of these techniques affixed to the card and may very well be vastly improved upon in about a year from now.
At this point, I'm way more inclined to go for the 1080 Ti as it is seems to cover all bases currently, but for a fraction of the cost. For the first time, I feel GeForce may just have bitten off a little more than they could chew.
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