10-09-2018, 10:40 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-09-2018, 10:43 PM by SteelCrysis.)
https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/27845...h-a-turing
Be sure to read the whole article, it really says it all about Turing.
Be sure to read the whole article, it really says it all about Turing.
Quote:If the RTX 2080 had come in at GeForce 1080 pricing and the RTX 2080 Ti had slapped $100 – $150 on the GTX 1080 Ti, I still wouldn’t be telling anyone to buy these cards expecting to dance the ray-traced mamba across the proverbial dance floor for the next decade. But there would at least be a weak argument for some real-world performance gains at improved performance-per-dollar ratios and a little next-gen cherry on top. With Nvidia’s price increases factored into the equation, I can’t recommend spending top dollar to buy silicon that will almost certainly be replaced by better-performing cards at lower prices and lower power consumption within the next 12-18 months. Turing is the weakest generation-on-generation upgrade that Nvidia has ever shipped once price increases are taken into account. The historical record offers no evidence to believe anything below the RTX 2080 Ti will be a credible performer in ray-traced workloads over the long term.
ExtremeTech, therefore, does not recommend purchasing either the RTX 2080 or RTX 2080 Ti for their hoped-for performance in future games. Ray tracing may be the future of gaming, but that future isn’t here yet. Mainstream support for these features will not arrive on 12nm GPUs and will not be adopted widely in the mass market before the next generation of cards. And again — every dollar you drop on $700 and $1,200 GPUs is a dollar that tells Nvidia it ought to be charging you more for your next graphics card.
The RTX 2080 and 2080 Ti are the beginning of a new approach to rendering. Long-term, the technological approach they champion may be successful. But that doesn’t make either of them a good buy today, while the historical record suggests no ground-breaking GPU is a particularly good buy its first time out of the gate. Ironically, that’s entirely Nvidia’s fault. If the company was less-good at immediately overtaking its own previous GPU architectures will new hardware that offers dramatically better performance and price/performance ratios, I’d have less of a reason to take the stance I’m taking. But between the price increases and Nvidia’s own historical performance, the smart move here is to wait. Whether you’re waiting for sane pricing, 7nm, or just happy with your current GPU — that’s up to you.