nvidia 1080 ti - against 2080 ti. Advice

[ikonia]

I've got an nvidia 1080 ti which has been a really powerful card for me for a long time - not stressed, zero problem. However some of the nvidia optimise suggestions for games are now lowering the settings so in the past a game would have had settings of "max, max, max" they are now suggestion settings of "max, good, average"

The devil in me suggests this is a marketing trick to get you to buy a new card as I just can't accept that some games have made such a big jump to stress this card, and to be honest playing most games on max:max:max type settings is zero issue

I guess multiple questions come from this

a.) are the optimised settings really as "marketing" driven as I'm suggesting ?

b.) what is the current best real world method of testing your cards load while using these max:max:max type settings to see if it's struggling (overall the machine is not)
c.) the nvidia's compare tool on their website is utter crap, what sort of benifit would I see real world from 2080ti against my current 1080ti ?

thanks

[philehidiot]

I can answer C.

From real world user submitted numbers:
Benchmark increase +34% (average)
Benchmark increase O/C + 44% (peak)
Average FPS increase +16%

Sample size: 1080Ti 299,653, 2080Ti 25,070

Histogram analysis shows some interesting issues with the 2080Ti and there's a big cluster which might represent previous or ongoing driver issues.

My impression - +16% real world improvement for the price is not worth it. Consider other causes for the issues including drivers. A reversion to a previous version might sort the problem.

[ikonia]

good response to C, thank you

[blueball]

Depends on what res you are gaming at, not much difference @1080p but around 25% improvement @4K

https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/...080-ti-3536639