Thursday, November 29th 2018
UL Benchmarks Unveils 3DMark "Port Royal" Ray-tracing Benchmark
Port Royal is the name of the latest component of UL Benchmarks 3DMark. Designed to take advantage of the DirectX Raytracing (DXR) API, this benchmark features an extreme poly-count test-scene with real-time ray-traced elements. Screengrabs of the benchmark depict spacecraft entering and leaving mirrored spheres suspended within a planet's atmosphere, which appear to be docks. It's also a shout out to of a number of space-sims such as "Star Citizen," which could up their production in the future by introducing ray-tracing. The benchmark will debut at the GALAX GOC Grand Final on December 8, where the first public run will be powered by a GALAX GeForce RTX 2080 Ti HOF graphics card. It will start selling in January 2019.
44 Comments on UL Benchmarks Unveils 3DMark "Port Royal" Ray-tracing Benchmark
It's just with the 2080 line it's more than the usual you'd expect.
Enough so they had to revise how it was made right down to different colored boxes so folks would know which ones were revised and what wasn't a revised version.
That's just fact not fiction unless someone is pulling our legs over it.
Maybe they've got it figured and we won't see this happen..... Then again you never know.
All I can say from here on is let's watch and see. :D
Nobody has any idea of the failure rates. What we have seen it mentioned by those down this rabbit hole (GNexuss) are that failure rates aren't higher than usual.
Also, try googling any GPU and fire and you will get a hit. I wasn't joking.
We really have no idea yet these statements I see repeatedly over the net like 'its more than usual'... or attributing the RAM swap as confirmation to the problem. We do not know. We can make a logical leap, I get that, but, nothing was proven on the % failure rate (everyone SAYS and THINKS its high and starts going off) or that the vRAM brand has anything to do with it.
...watch and see is right.
Oh, wrong thread...sorry.
Anyway why is this a subject here ?
The same thing happened with the hardware itself around the same time. There were clear changes, not just speed increases, made from one generation to another, actual new features like new AA modes, better filtering techniques etc, and that stopped too, around the same time. All we get now are minor Direct-X spec bumps, which are still not being used today, even in hardware if your nGreedia.
Nobody said they were fake. Just that there isnt a 'disporportinate' amount of failures. GN stated AIBs (which most cards use reference bits), have an extremely low failure rate. FEs were normal (according to GN).
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I don't hate having a good ray tracing benchmark, but a "CPU accelerated" option could be nice, to have a reference.
I hope they implement Vulkan RT too.
Good thinking though!! :toast:
You've got the GPU for free - congrats, but that doesn't mean you have the right to ass around and shill the product, you didn't purchase it out of your own money therefore you will not see how poor value for money the GPU is - it's obviously not designed to be the best value GPU anyway but it's one of the worst nvidia launches yet.
Have you ever played the game Lemmings? At times in forums I feel like I am watching that game live...hehe!
I'm not bothered by people's annoyance at the price of the cards. I agree with that sentiment. Its torch and pitchfork attitude over the other BS that gets utterly annoying at forums. You just see people filing in line not really having a clue on the truth. It is an Intel/AMD/NVIDIA agnostic thing. Just that the lines are longer at some forums than others. Here, it feels like I need to take a number. LOLOL!
Irony? Yep
Content? Nope.
'HGH'... Speaking of utterly annoying, guess what, its you right now. But its fine, there aren't any repercussions here, right :)