Tuesday, September 25th 2018
NVIDIA Announces Availability of GeForce RTX 2070 Graphics Card - Cheapest Raytracing on October 17th
NVIDIA today announced official availability dates for what will forever be engraved in history as "the cheapest Turing" option - which contrary to what that might lead you to expect, isn't cheap at all. NVIDIA's RTX 2070 graphics card will be available starting October 17th, bringing the benefits of raytracing acceleration to a much lower price-point than the already-launched RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti graphics cards.
That said, the RTX 2070 will still retail for $499 - a full $120 higher than NVIDIA's last-gen GTX 1070, and that's not counting what's being less-than-amicably called the "NVIDIA tax", which brings Founders' Editions pricing of the graphics cards up to $599, and allows AIB to increase pricing of their own designs up to that level - or higher. It's not a cheap option - especially considering how the RTX 2070 is now being built in the TU106 silicon, a smaller counterpart to the full-fledged TU104, and in contrast to the previous GTX 1070, which was built from the same chip as the GTX 1080).
Sources:
NVIDIA Twitter, via Videocardz
That said, the RTX 2070 will still retail for $499 - a full $120 higher than NVIDIA's last-gen GTX 1070, and that's not counting what's being less-than-amicably called the "NVIDIA tax", which brings Founders' Editions pricing of the graphics cards up to $599, and allows AIB to increase pricing of their own designs up to that level - or higher. It's not a cheap option - especially considering how the RTX 2070 is now being built in the TU106 silicon, a smaller counterpart to the full-fledged TU104, and in contrast to the previous GTX 1070, which was built from the same chip as the GTX 1080).
63 Comments on NVIDIA Announces Availability of GeForce RTX 2070 Graphics Card - Cheapest Raytracing on October 17th
Better to keep your enemy closer and in good cheer instead of increasing hatred, especially when that enemy is going to be much bigger, much more powerful, and 3x your population size. That day is coming, I would have rather had them as my friend then my enemy. Good luck getting computer parts at all when they develop their own middle class and no longer even need America's economy. :D
Pointless card. Not even the 2080Ti can do high resolution, high frame rate gaming with RTX enabled, so what exactly is the point in buying this card? Buy a 1080ti instead, and leave the RTX until nVidia make it fast and affordable, and more importantly, mainstream.
Good luck.Right. $499, and not a cent more.
If you missed it, $499 is how we call $599 these days.1080Ti is on par with 2080:
2070 will be significantly slower in normal games, one would need to switch on RTX gimmick to slow down 1080Ti for it to be beaten by 2070. The problem with the plan, however, is that even 2080Ti was struggling at 1080p with in hybrid RT mode.
Sad really...