Nvidia RTX series review thread

[Mister]

Yea loads of them seem to be dying.

Sadly people only look at FPS benchmarks and not how the hardware is constructed. I've suspected for a while that Nvidia are building cards on the cheap, using components which are barely good enough. By comparison AMD tend to use much better quality memory (HBM2 these days), VRMs, etc which can handle the heat and voltage a lot better.

When you work in IT running large networks you pick up on the things that don't last and Nvidia cards are in that list, along with Dell PSUs and Seagate HDDs. The 20 series is clearly not well constructed and it's frankly shocking for the amount of money they are asking for them.

[Andy00900]

I thought the problem was mainly with the Nvidia 2080ti Founders that there dying, is it all of them?

[j.o.s.h.1408]

i bought the pailet 2080ti last fri and so far so good. hitting max 71c clocked at around 1850

[ajmeel]

It could be a possibility. Maybe because the last version was a bust.

[outwar6010]

https://www.techpowerup.com/249557/b...ormance-halved

[Corky34]

Half the performance for something that makes you go 'is that it?'

[Hoonigan]

Half the performance for something that makes you go 'is that it?'

Have you played on Battlefield 5 with RTX enabled? I thought it was bleeding awesome.

[Corky34]

I haven't, that comment was based on the few videos I've watched of multiplayer posted on YT today with it enabled.

Maybe they don't do it justice but they've certainly left me questioning if I'd pay £1k odd for it, not that i have a spare £1k knocking around.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

So far my gpu is running fine touch wood with about 10hours in total of video gaming on it with no mans sky and star citizen.

Also using it for LR editing too

[outwar6010]

[Hoonigan]

Hardware Unboxed's video certainly shows some massive drops in performance, but this is the very first implementation, within a beta, of a game that is already one of the best graphical showcases.

I've been playing at 1440p with a 2080Ti, overclocked to the limit, and with G-Sync I'm finding it to be more than playable in the story. Obviously, it's likely that I'll turn off the RTX features when I play online to achieve the 120-140FPS region of performance but it certainly looks fantastic in certain scenarios.


A screenshot I grabbed last night using NVIDIA Ansel

[Wasted Decay]

I Totally agree, instead of blazing through a level, I am actually stopping to look at objects I'd never think twice about looking at before. Personally I think it's very impressive.

[Corky34]

GN did a comparison of the BFV tech demo with what ended up in the game, it's worth a watch even if it's just for outtake at the start.

[andeh83]

GN did a comparison of the BFV tech demo with what ended up in the game, it's worth a watch even if it's just for outtake at the start.

Useful watch, thank you