NVIDIA Readies TU104-based GeForce RTX 2070 Ti

[lexluthermiester]

What happens when games & 3D rendering programs only uses ray tracing as their go-to rendering choice? Your Pascal or Volta card may just be a relic of a silicon.

We're looking at a minimum of 6 or 7 years before that starts happening. RTRT is just way too new. Exciting and a game changer, yes, just too new.

 

[Th3pwn3r]

I bet a lot of people thought anti aliasing was a gimmick too back in the day before we had internet. Ray tracing seems like one of those things you didn't know you needed or wanted until you actually seen it first-hand. Still the prices need to get a lot better.

 

[deu]

getting a "fresh" Pascal GPU right now isn't going to do justice when developers starts implementing ray tracing to their games. Just no. What happens when games & 3D rendering programs only uses ray tracing as their go-to rendering choice? Your Pascal or Volta card may just be a relic of a silicon. As much as I hated how Nvidia does for their new product lineup, one thing I'll be certain is that next year Pascal cards will flood the used GPU market coz everyone wanted to ride the ray-tracing bandwagon. So it's either you future-proof now or regret later.

Ye lets get a card supporting a technology it in practice cant run! Its like getting a 1030T for gaming since it supports 4K 2000-series is by no mean futureproof. Its a mix between traditonal shadering and RT. Trust me; no studio will say: well; new technology is out!; lets drop all earlier supported technology resulting in 1/10 of sale due to no users being able to play their games. In the next two years, you will see studios begin to support RT. In 5-10 years you might see a straight up transition to pure RT. To the people believing nvidias marketing machine might be the shizzle but to the rest of us proper baked lighting and "trickery" manages to deliver the backbone of "good" lighting. RT right now is in a weird 'uncanny valley' It works, but in practice it looks gimmickey at best. I am 100% sure RT is the future of lighting in 3D enviroments, but in gaming, this is a few years ahead. Running a game on 2080Ti=1080p@30-60fpsRT vs 1080Ti=1440p@+80fps and ultra settings i know what im going for

EDIT: Techpowerup have an article about RT here:

https://www.techpowerup.com/248649/...nvidia-rtx-ray-tracing-effects-in-performance

 

[Vayra86]

We're looking at a minimum of 6 or 7 years before that starts happening. RTRT is just way too new. Exciting and a game changer, yes, just too new.

Amen to this. I think that is a very realistic estimate.

As for buying Turing - if you need to replace something older than Maxwell top end, yes. Anyone else: probably not a good idea.

 

[lexluthermiester]

As for buying Turing - if you need to replace something older than Maxwell top end, yes. Anyone else: probably not a good idea.

I have. My 2080 came a few days ago and easily outperforms my 1080 by leaps and bounds. Was it worth the price? Ultimately yeah. I sold my 1080 to a client who's been wanting an upgrade which made the price much more agreeable.