CAT-THE-FIFTH (21-09-2018)
CAT-THE-FIFTH (21-09-2018)
I've been waiting to see what reviews of the RTX 2080 were like. Must say that I'm a bit "underwhelmed" and that's before considering the price of a decent RTX 2080. So have decided to give this generation a skip.
So I've just ordered an MSI 1080 TI gaming (around £600). That should do me for a couple of years at 1440p. Not cheap hobby by any means, PC gaming, but hell.... no pockets in a shroud.
Live long and prosper.
Irony does not travel well on forums,especially when he was talking about £800 cards and it certainly isn't lower end unless you are the Sultan of Brunei!
Plus,oi,its all utter elite level to me!!
I have never spent over £200 on any graphics card even when adjusted for inflation(although at current exchange rates it would be £300!!!) and that was for Crysis!!
Last edited by CAT-THE-FIFTH; 21-09-2018 at 10:41 PM.
No...
Quite simply it's too expensive even though I can see a use (once my programs catch up) for utilising the ray tracing side of it.
It's basically the 'skip it generation' due to basically being no faster than previous gen and trying to introduce new proprietary tech (AMD will likely have their own implementation)and we'll need to wait 1 to 2 generations before it's fully standardised in all likelihood.
Well it appears Nvidia might be targeting commercial raytracing first before gaming:
https://www.nasdaq.com/article/what-...care-cm1013070
I feel this is more Nvidia trying to enter a new commerical market first,which explains why the top Turing bins are for commercial cards,and the lower focus on traditional FP32 performance which most games have and the shoehorning of tensor cores,and RT "cores" into gaming scenarios,but with software support being patchy for such an important feature.The really interesting use for ray tracing is show business, though. NVIDIA says the visual effects industry generates $250 billion a year. However, those familiar with visual effects know that ray tracing has been a part of the process for a while already.
There was another model in the morning but its gone,so only this one:
https://www.ebuyer.com/807456-inno3d...108t-1sdn-q6mn
These ones cost £620:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/gigab...gx-000-au.html
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/msi-g...gx-34f-ms.html
First is arriving next Monday onwards with 200~300 in stock.
Scan has the Gigabyte in stock already with a free copy of Destiny 2:
https://www.scan.co.uk/products/giga...hz-gpu-1683mhz
What is a shame is that Nvidia pushing up the price of the RTX2080 means minimal GTX1080TI discounts! It might be worth waiting longer to see if the GTX2080 eventually drops in price,but we will see.
Jeeeeesus.
I REALLY hope that none of the financial analysts read this forum. Basically Hexus posted the hype, posted the review and then directly asked the target audience if they'd buy.
And one said "maybe".
I'm spending the money on a better telescope. One that raytraces. And has intact legs.
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God, NO !
I'll buy nvidia again when they start supporting freesync.
Will stick with my RX580, I might even get second one cheap on ebay. The price is just too much for me to even consider it (£300 max on a GPU for me).
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