Nvidia’s new RTX 2080, 2080 Ti video cards ship on Sept 20, starting at $799

[Radegast74]

Nvidia announces the next generation of their video cards:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/08/nvidia-announces-new-raytracing-focused-rtx-2080-2080-ti-graphics-cards/?comments=1

EDIT: omg, they even have a Twitch stream going with the details.
Meh...I'll sit this generation out, anyway, that was always my plan.

EDIT2: @StdDev , great point -->Prices:
2070 - $499
2080 - $799
2080Ti - $1199

 

[Montoya]

To anybody throwing away that useless 1080, Ill give it a good home! :D

 

[Blind Owl]

I wonder what technology they'll have available when SC is going into beta/approaching release?

 

[StdDev]

They said RTX 2070 (low end) starts at $499

 

[Radegast74]

They said RTX 2070 (low end) starts at $499

I added the MSRP prices to my post above. I imagine, this will change as initial supplies run low and the usual scalpers try to make a big profit.

Hopefully, by late Fall, supplies will build up, and we don't have to put up with the ass-hattery of inflated prices.

 

[Montoya]

 

[Bruce]

less than two hours from the post of Radegast74 and 2080ti couldn't be ordered in September any more ... only in October .. good job TESTies )

 

[Ganji]

Still want to see some benchmarks compared to other cards, but the numbers they were calling out were crazy.
Fucking AI inside your graphics card? Skynet much :D What can go wrong.

 

[SullyQuindarius]

Yeah, I'll be looking at one of those sweet MSi Gaming X Trio 2080 Ti cards in December or so.

RIP my 1080.

 

[Radegast74]

Still want to see some benchmarks compared to other cards, but the numbers they were calling out were crazy.
Fucking AI inside your graphics card? Skynet much :smile: What can go wrong.

Wasn't "The Smoking Man" one of the guys who **could** tell us everything that could go wrong? :D

 

[CosmicTrader]

Gosh, only $1200 -- I better get 2 then.

To anybody throwing away that useless 1080, Ill give it a good home! :smile:

Sorry, my 1080 will last a long time yet...... It is AWESOME.

 

[Thalstan]

I have a 1080. I will probably sit this gen out. That said, I planned to sit the 1080 gen out as well, until my older GPU decided to die. I am glad I got it early though, as I still paid a lot less than what people were paying in the mining hayday.

Also they tried this pricing scheme before. It backfired on them then and unless the crypto-currency fad comes back, I suspect the next gen will be a lot cheaper.

 

[Printimus]

MUST HAVE 2080 TI

 

[DirectorGunner]

Never buy or pre-order founder cards guys, you're screwing yourselves out of extra value that companies like EVGA will later provide with their editions.

Also, if you have a 1080TI

"And while it has the same 11GB of RAM and 352-bit memory bus as the GTX 1080 TI"
It's worth to wait another generation imo unless SC utilizes this live ray tracing somehow.

 

[hardroc77]

Well since I'm thinking of upgrading, I have 970, I might take a look see.

 

[Michael]

Well since I'm thinking of upgrading, I have 970, I might take a look see.

Dito maybe upgrade from 970 -> 2070
Also i definitly want to see some benchmarks.

What i read so far raytracing might become a thing in SC it seems to be "easy" to implent. Maybe not now but when Nvidia is integrating it into Vulkan.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Vulkan-Ray-Tracing-NVIDIA

 

[marcsand2]

They won’t come cheap. The Nvidia-manufactured Founders Edition versions will cost:
$599 for the RTX 2070,
$799 for the RTX 2080 and
$1,199 for the RTX 2080 Ti.
The latter two cards are expected to ship “on or around” Sept. 20, while there is no estimated release date for the RTX 2070. Pre-orders are currently available for the RTX 2080 and 2080 Ti.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced different “starting at” prices during the keynote presentation. Huang’s presentation said
the RTX 2070 will start at $499,
the RTX 2080 at $699 and
the RTX 2080 Ti at $999.
Asked for clarification, an Nvidia representative told Polygon that these amounts reflect retail prices for third-party manufacturers’ cards.

https://www.polygon.com/2018/8/20/17760038/nvidia-geforce-rtx-2080-ti-2070-specs-release-date-price-turing

 

[FZD]

Naming their new lineup after that terrible rock band, a ballsy move.

 

[SullyQuindarius]

There's this video of the 2080 Ti playing Shadow of the Tomb Raider with ray tracing enabled.

30-60fps.

At 1080p.

I'm praying that it's just bad early optimization on the tech or the game or both.

 

[Bruce]

@SullyQuindarius even 30 fps with "real" real time ray tracing is something out of sci-fi ... I would believe that some quite simplified versions will be incorporated in engines quite fast and even those simplified versions will help a lot ( reflections, etc. )