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Thread: Who's buying a GeForce RTX then?

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    Who's buying a GeForce RTX then?

    I've got two 970's in SLI. That gives me somewhere around 1080 performance, sometimes better, sometimes not. I intended to get a 2070 and continue with my usual trend. Get another when the next gen are released and put it into SLI. That is, when they cost £250 a card. £500 for a x70 card? Hahaha, no, not today buddy.

    What about you?

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    Re: Who's buying a GeForce RTX then?

    I'm still on a 970.

    I would love to upgrade, but honestly, my card still does enough for me. If I could get an upgrade for <£200 I would consider it, but I'd be amazed if I could get anything worthwhile for less than £350, so that will be a no.

    I guess in theory I could pick up a second hand 1080 / 1080 Ti but my guess is that the prices will still be very high. Probably the only thing that will see me upgrade is a crypto-crash.

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    Re: Who's buying a GeForce RTX then?

    Silly to dive in when we've no non-RTX perf numbers yet - which is where the majority of GPU power will be going.

    As a side note: I suspect my 980Ti will last me until the 4xxx series or equivalent.
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    Re: Who's buying a GeForce RTX then?

    Poll so far is quite telling.

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    Re: Who's buying a GeForce RTX then?

    Quote Originally Posted by Terbinator View Post
    Silly to dive in when we've no non-RTX perf numbers yet
    I was wondering about this, and I'm not sure it's as significant as it might seem at first. We can safely assume there is at least a 10% increase in performance from the previous generation - as that's fairly normal. But what if there is more? Does a £600 card, compared to the current generation actually show incredible value for money? If it's a 100% in performance, that's probably good value.

    But good value is only part of the purchasing decision. I'm sure a super computer is great value, but not many people have the income to spend on one of those. And the same comes to these cards, even if they are fantastic, how many gamers can afford to spend £600 on the GPU alone? I do have that sort of cash, but that doesn't erode the simple point of how much I'm willing to spend on playing games - and it's not going to be £600!

    I'd buy a 2070 for under £300, but I can't see that ever happening unless there massive cuts next year and something crazy happens with the exchange rate.

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    Re: Who's buying a GeForce RTX then?

    Imho this ray tracing stuff seems to be gameswork on acid. Its will be a feature that only works well on the rtx cards and terrible on even the 1000 series cards.
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    Re: Who's buying a GeForce RTX then?

    BTW, shouldn't this poll read "Are you interested in an RTX"?

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    Re: Who's buying a GeForce RTX then?

    Quote Originally Posted by Dashers View Post
    I was wondering about this, and I'm not sure it's as significant as it might seem at first. We can safely assume there is at least a 10% increase in performance from the previous generation - as that's fairly normal. But what if there is more?...
    The thing is Ti card like for like is £400 difference. Realistically the perf difference is likely to be around 20-50%. You could compare the 1080Ti to a 2080/70 but then you're losing 3GB of VRAM and losing shading power at the same time.

    Reviews are needed.

    Quote Originally Posted by outwar6010 View Post
    Imho this ray tracing stuff seems to be gameswork on acid. Its will be a feature that only works well on the rtx cards and terrible on even the 1000 series cards.
    Well ray-tracing is a completely different approach to rendering, so not quite the same. And of course it will be pants on the Pascal cards - the whole point of RTX is it has dedicated hardware for the RT stuff.
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    Re: Who's buying a GeForce RTX then?

    I was thinking about upgrading my gfx card for the last year as getting too fed up with the usual crossfire limitations but the crypto miners pushed the prices up too much and now this! Will have to keep the R9 295X2 a little big longer.

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    Re: Who's buying a GeForce RTX then?

    I'll get whatever comes my way as and when it comes.
    This whole gaming lark is so ridiculously expensive anyway, I really don't care. At my level, it's no different to people debating which conglomerates they ought to buy this week.

    I know people (yes, plural) who bought four Titan XP Pascal Ti Whateverthemostexpensiveonewas cards and strung them together just for the fun of it... and then sold the spare three off at a profit!

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    Re: Who's buying a GeForce RTX then?

    Ah, hahahahahaha....

    No
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    Re: Who's buying a GeForce RTX then?

    I have no requirement for one.
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    Re: Who's buying a GeForce RTX then?

    Recently upgraded to a 970, so no gpu is low on my current list for upgrade.

    I'm finding this new system interesting, think back to the 8000 series, they moved away from separate shader&geometry pipelines to the single more flexible cuda cores and now they seem to be going back to dedicated hardware functions.

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    Re: Who's buying a GeForce RTX then?

    Isn't this question better asked after the reviews are out? Who knows they might be just about the same price/performance as Pascal in the end!

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    Re: Who's buying a GeForce RTX then?

    Yes, all the hype before any actual reviews is very crazy.
    Apple levels of crazy actually.
    A simple multiplication of shaders * clocks shoes very little performance gain unless there are some architectural improvement but after Maxwell and then Pascal I doubt Nvidia have any more hanging fruit left.
    It's entirely possible that the 2080 is slower than the 1080ti with the 2080ti around 20% to 30% quicker than the 1080ti. In other words, perf/£ has stayed the same.

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    Re: Who's buying a GeForce RTX then?

    Quote Originally Posted by kompukare View Post
    Yes, all the hype before any actual reviews is very crazy.
    Apple levels of crazy actually.
    A simple multiplication of shaders * clocks shoes very little performance gain unless there are some architectural improvement but after Maxwell and then Pascal I doubt Nvidia have any more hanging fruit left.
    It's entirely possible that the 2080 is slower than the 1080ti with the 2080ti around 20% to 30% quicker than the 1080ti. In other words, perf/£ has stayed the same.
    Even if the RTX2080TI was 50% faster in normal games without RTX on when compared to the GTX1080TI,it will roughly Pascal level price/performance anyway. I am even scared to see how much the GTX2060 will cost now.

    The fact is this is past Apple levels of crazy - Apple actually sold less iPhone X phones when they put up the price. I wouldn't be surprised one bit if Nvidia ends up with more sales.

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