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Techy111
Honored Contributor
December 23, 2018
The HD5970 got me gently into VR with my dk2 but upgraded to a 980 OC quite quickly after peeps here telling me i needed more oompf.
A PC with lots of gadgets inside and a thing to see in 3D that you put on your head.
PhoenixSpyderAuthor
Up and Coming
December 23, 2018
Still have all my old cards from the past (except all my 3DFX cards)...including boxes. Here is a shot of my old 7800 GT from that era.




RuneSR2
RuneSR2
Honored Contributor
December 23, 2018


Still have all my old cards from the past (except all my 3DFX cards)...including boxes. Here is a shot of my old 7800 GT from that era.







Awesome - I still got my Gainward 7800GS+ card, it's a 7900GT in disguise - probably still the fastest AGP card on the planet  :D  



I still have a PC with 2 x Voodoo 2 in SLI - real Glide still works in dos (combined with Matrox Mill 2 AGP) + 200 Mhz Pentium + 64 MB ram + Creative Labs AWE32 sound card. I think I have a 3dfx Voodoo Graphics card in a box somewhere too. But I rarely use that machine - the 21" Trinitron monitor still works too. I have the original dos glide Tomb Raider + Doom 1-2 (dos) + Descent 2 (dos glide) + System Shock (CDrom-version) + Bioforge + Day of the Tentacle and much more still working like they were made originally (21" is a bit large for 320x200 though). 

Suddenly I got the feeling I lost my focus in this thread  :( - but fun to think back, how it all began ;)
Oculus Rift CV1, Valve Index & PSVR2, Asus Strix OC RTX™ 3090, i9-10900K (5.3Ghz), 32GB 3200MHz, 16TB SSD "Ask not what VR can do for you, but what you can do for VR"
PhoenixSpyderAuthor
Up and Coming
December 23, 2018

RuneSR2 said:



Still have all my old cards from the past (except all my 3DFX cards)...including boxes. Here is a shot of my old 7800 GT from that era.







Awesome - I still got my Gainward 7800GS+ card, it's a 7900GT in disguise - probably still the fastest AGP card on the planet  :D  



I still have a PC with 2 x Voodoo 2 in SLI - real Glide still works in dos (combined with Matrox Mill 2 AGP) + 200 Mhz Pentium + 64 MB ram + Creative Labs AWE32 sound card. I think I have a 3dfx Voodoo Graphics card in a box somewhere too. But I rarely use that machine - the 21" Trinitron monitor still works too. I have the original dos glide Tomb Raider + Doom 1-2 (dos) + Descent 2 (dos glide) + System Shock (CDrom-version) + Bioforge + Day of the Tentacle and much more still working like they were made originally (21" is a bit large for 320x200 though). 

Suddenly I got the feeling I lost my focus in this thread  :( - but fun to think back, how it all began ;)



Nice!!! I would have still had all my stuff from the 3DFX era...including games with boxes, but went through a divorce at the time and everything disappeared... Still have a couple of old monitors as well though, plus a huge amount of old hard drives, cdrom's, floppy's, etc.... Those were the days...

Yes, I guess we should back on focus to the thread.... o:)


Fazz
Honored Contributor
December 23, 2018
It doesn't say what Graphics card the Geforce 11 would be equivalent to regarding performance? Are we talking a performance of a Geforce 2080Ti? Or will this sit somewhere between a Geforce 1080 Ti & a Geforce 2080 Ti when it comes to performance? If it does do either of these two then the Geforce 11 GTX is a bit pointless, isn't it?
PhoenixSpyderAuthor
Up and Coming
December 23, 2018
As it is we don't know, but all bets are that it'll be in the area of a GTX 1070...so it doesn't intrude on the RTX series.
Fazz
Honored Contributor
December 23, 2018


As it is we don't know, but all bets are that it'll be in the area of a GTX 1070...so it doesn't intrude on the RTX series.



But what's the point then if it was just like having a Geforce 1070? Why not just get a Geforce 1070? I'm not sure I understand the point of bringing out a Geforce 11 GTX card? Why not just make a Geforce card with the performance of a Geforce 2080 Ti, but without RTX attached to it? 
PhoenixSpyderAuthor
Up and Coming
December 24, 2018
I agree, but AMD has nothing presently to compete with RTX (and prob won't for some time). Nvidia will stop making the GTX 10 series, but will want to still compete with AMD in the entry/mid market with the GTX 11 series.
Anonymous
December 24, 2018

RedRizla said:

It doesn't say what Graphics card the Geforce 11 would be equivalent to regarding performance? Are we talking a performance of a Geforce 2080Ti? Or will this sit somewhere between a Geforce 1080 Ti & a Geforce 2080 Ti when it comes to performance? If it does do either of these two then the Geforce 11 GTX is a bit pointless, isn't it?


I'd make a guess that the chipset and performance will be roughly similar to the 2080 series, minus the the RTX bits so at a bit lower price point.  2080=1180 and so on.
Fazz
Honored Contributor
December 24, 2018

TwoHedWlf said:


RedRizla said:

It doesn't say what Graphics card the Geforce 11 would be equivalent to regarding performance? Are we talking a performance of a Geforce 2080Ti? Or will this sit somewhere between a Geforce 1080 Ti & a Geforce 2080 Ti when it comes to performance? If it does do either of these two then the Geforce 11 GTX is a bit pointless, isn't it?


I'd make a guess that the chipset and performance will be roughly similar to the 2080 series, minus the the RTX bits so at a bit lower price point.  2080=1180 and so on.



That would make sense because there's a lot of people in need of an upgrade, but who are now stuck between a rock and a hard place right now. I would say £1000 for many PC gamers is a stretch to far. I'm guessing lots of collage students who prefer PC gaming will find it difficult if not impossible trying to find £1000 plus. I work and even I find it impossible to come up with that amount of cash tbh. Even parents wanting to buy their kids these cards as a present for Christmas will no doubt be put of by the price.

So were does all that leave PC gaming for some people and more so where does it leave PC-VR? I just hope the next Oculus VR headset doesn't require a beefy card, because I'm not going to pay the same price for a 2 year old Geforce 1080 Ti, and I can't afford £1000 plus for a Geforce 2080 Ti, to get the performance that everyone looks to get from a Graphics Card when they are upgrading..

What I find more worrying is that the old cards like the Geforce 1080 Ti, they are roughly the same price today as they were 2 years ago now. If this Geforce 11 is on a par with a Geforce 2080 Ti without RTX, I wouldn't mind paying around £650 tops for it..
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