Tuesday, August 21st 2018
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Captured in Its Sleek, Green, Metal Glory
In the aftermath of NVIDIA's RTX 20-series announcement, we returned to NVIDIA's Palladium venue to see if there were any new "faces" to spy. And sure enough, there were. Lo and behold, a non-rendered RTX 2080 Ti, which was left to reporters' guises and cameras, where we can look at the dual fan solution and NVIDIA's industrial design - which still looks great, perhaps even better, in this latest iteration.
It has to be said that the new generation of graphics cards sports internal changes as well as on the shroud: there's a revised vapor-chamber solution to keep the increased power consumption in check - and keeping that low noise profile. You'll also note the added USB Type-C connector to the back of the card, aiding in the new data transfer protocol (VirtuaLink) for VR headsets.
It has to be said that the new generation of graphics cards sports internal changes as well as on the shroud: there's a revised vapor-chamber solution to keep the increased power consumption in check - and keeping that low noise profile. You'll also note the added USB Type-C connector to the back of the card, aiding in the new data transfer protocol (VirtuaLink) for VR headsets.
52 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Captured in Its Sleek, Green, Metal Glory
I believe it was mentioned by one of the tech sites that Turing is doing the same. Dumping FP64 units to make room for RT cores.
Turing is Volta (exchanged FP64 units for RT cores)
www.hardocp.com/article/2018/03/20/nvidia_titan_v_video_card_gaming_review/18
"Following similar trends from Pascal, NVIDIA’s TITAN V based on the Volta architecture seems to be very power efficient. It has the same TDP of 250W as the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FE video card. In our system full peak gaming Wattage hit 406W in Kingdom Come: Deliverance. This is less than the peak of 414W for the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FE video card. Less power, yet 30-40% more performance! "
Older Silverado/Sierra is more like this HSF:
A box...on wheels. No graceful lines whatsoever. And where the paint fell off that old pickup, that's the plastic bits on the new HSF. Considering you're paying $200 premium for that HSF, one would think they would get a lot more value back for it. You know, like water cooled or something. But no, that's the "Founders Edition" tax. Feed NGREEDIA lest it starve. What a shame that would be.
Nvidia cards in the last 4 generations or so have been very well regulated when it comes to TDP. There is a pretty hard and well-working limit on the power consumption exactly where the TDP is.
But sleek? No way. The previous founders edition cards were sleek. Ford's right. It's a box with some details. It looks like the ass end of a rocker ship, sure. But that doesn't make it sleek.
Estimating performance across generations based on FPU performance is dangerous, just look at the past:
On Max Boost clocks they do 4.1 and 5.1 TFLOPS.
Also, Maxwells had more ROPs which had become a problem for larger Keplers.
But hey, continue to read what you want and ignore the point. :toast:
RPS: Metro Exodus targeting 60fps 1080p for new Nvidia RTX features