Nvidia and GamesCom MEGATHREAD.RTX 2080/Ti (FIRST BENCHMARKS COMING OUT) NDA lifted.

[LZoltowski]

Made this thread so that we can all discuss the Nvidia announcements and anything else juicy being revealed at GamesCom 2018

EDIT 5

GeForce RTX 2080 3DMark Time Spy Benchmark Leak Approaches Titan Xp Performance

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-rtx-2080-3dmark-timespy-score-leaked-clocked-at-2ghz-and-beats-a... https://hothardware.com/news/geforce-rtx-2080-3dmark-timespy-benchmark-leak-titan-xp-performance


EDIT 4
Nvidia 2080 first benchmarks:

Nvidia Shares RTX 2080 Test Results: 35 - 125% Faster Than GTX 1080

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-rtx-2080-gaming-benchmarks-rasterized,37679.html

Under certain conditions, 50%< most likely across the board without the use of AI-powered anti-aliasing.

We’re not expecting to average 50%-higher frame rates across our benchmark suite. However, enthusiasts who previously speculated that Turing wouldn’t be much faster than Pascal due to its relatively lower CUDA core count weren’t taking underlying architecture into account. There’s more going on under the hood than the specification sheet suggests.

This is what I mentioned earlier. Now the 2080 Ti has almost 50% more Turing CUDA cores than the 2080, holy shit, that thing is going to be a beast.


EDIT 3
Here is how to watch:

• UK: 5PM BST
• Central Europe: 6PM CEST
• East Coast US: 12PM EDT
• West Coast US: 9AM PDT
• Japan: 3AM JST Tuesday 21 August

You can watch the event Live here:

https://www.twitch.tv/nvidia?tt_content=text_link&tt_medium=live_embed


EDIT 2
RTX 2080 at the Cologne event is pretty much confirmed in 2 more days!

Nvidia has posted a trailer/teaser that has some interesting clues about the next gen cards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7ElMOiAOBI

EDIT 1
Nvidia announces QUATRO workstation cards based on Turing Technology and RTX (Real-Time Raytracing)
Interesting tidbit from Nvidia press release on new Quadros:

• New RT Cores to enable real-time ray tracing of objects and environments with physically accurate shadows, reflections, refractions and global illumination.

• Hardware support for USB Type-C™ and VirtualLink™(1), a new open industry standard being developed to meet the power, display and bandwidth demands of next-generation VR headsets through a single USB-C™ connector.
• New and enhanced technologies to improve the performance of VR applications, including Variable Rate Shading, Multi-View Rendering and VRWorks Audio.

Press release: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-unveils-quadro-rtx-worlds-first-ray-tracing-gpu?linkId=100000003236181

[LZoltowski]

RuneSR2 said:

Shadow of the Tomb Raider with ray-tracing:

https://youtu.be/k12cf15VvV4

Maybe it's just me, but I'm not really impressed. If I ask my wife what's new in the video I'll bet she can't come up with anything 😉

 Yeah, and in here lies the problem, show a non-audiophile 128kbps MP3 and then a lossless AAC ... they will say "I can't hear much difference, or I'm not that impressed" ... going to be the same here, I am heavily into rendering, lighting, shadows etc as I work in CGI and for me, this is night and day, incredible that its being done real-time, with no fake shadow maps or any of the old tricks. 

[Techy111]

Just watched that.......also saw this, fully explains ray-tracing =

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VrPjVSPmKw

[nrosko]

RuneSR2 said:

Shadow of the Tomb Raider with ray-tracing:

https://youtu.be/k12cf15VvV4

Maybe it's just me, but I'm not really impressed. If I ask my wife what's new in the video I'll bet she can't come up with anything 😉

I think the tech is really amazing but fake shadows are maybe not something you immediately go 'ergh that looks wrong' same with reflections you probably don't notice a lot that is wrong. Animation imo is a bigger immersion breaker we seem stuck the early 2010s.  
Also It's worth noting that when photography & then film became commercial, painting didn't become obsolete. When we play a computer game do we actually want realism? I think that ray tracing is certainly the future but I hope artists use it as a tool rather than necessarily recreating reality. 

[RuneSR2]

LZoltowski said:

 Yeah, and in here lies the problem, show a non-audiophile 128kbps MP3 and then a lossless AAC ... they will say "I can't hear much difference, or I'm not that impressed" ... going to be the same here, I am heavily into rendering, lighting, shadows etc as I work in CGI and for me, this is night and day, incredible that its being done real-time, with no fake shadow maps or any of the old tricks. 

My concern is more the frame rate; persons wanting to play in 4K or in VR using RTX cards may have great problems activating ray-tracing and maintaining 60 or 90 fps respectively - at least judging from current demos and games. Unless Nvidia can perform some real magic I'm worried that the cost of ray-tracing even with 2080 Ti is way too high - again, I'd love to be wrong. 

[Syrellaris]

RuneSR2 said:

nrosko said:

I'm not so concerned with noise i just want the coolest so i can OC more, what is the best card?

I'm not sure - Asus, MSI etc are still working on optimal base clocks and mem speeds for factory oc'ed cards, so info is not yet available. Guess you have to wait until after the NDA is lifted. And then there's the silicon lottery 😉 

Both Asus and MSI already have their Factory OC'd cards ready, they will be released at the same time as the non Overclocked version. As for the coolest, that would be MSI. Not only are their Twin/Tri Frozr coolers silent, they also keep the cards really cool. Unless thats not the OC cards you meant ofcourse.

[nrosko]

Syrellaris said:

RuneSR2 said:

nrosko said:

I'm not so concerned with noise i just want the coolest so i can OC more, what is the best card?

I'm not sure - Asus, MSI etc are still working on optimal base clocks and mem speeds for factory oc'ed cards, so info is not yet available. Guess you have to wait until after the NDA is lifted. And then there's the silicon lottery 😉 

Both Asus and MSI already have their Factory OC'd cards ready, they will be released at the same time as the non Overclocked version. As for the coolest, that would be MSI. Not only are their Twin/Tri Frozr coolers silent, they also keep the cards really cool. Unless thats not the OC cards you meant ofcourse.

I though zetech normally have the fastest cards? I would of though they would do the best cooling?

[Anonymous]

Any benchmarks available yet?

[bigmike20vt]

Techy111 said:

Interesting post = https://www.techkomando.com/the-nvidia-rtx-2080-is-officially-twice-as-powerful-as-the-nvidia-gtx-1080/

Nvidia’s built-in screenshot tool will also take advantage of Turing’s Tensor Cores with Ansel AI Up-Res being able to turn any old 1080p Full HD image into an 8K masterpiece..

Bullshot generator then!

[PhoenixSpyder]

RuneSR2 said:

Shadow of the Tomb Raider with ray-tracing:

https://youtu.be/k12cf15VvV4

Maybe it's just me, but I'm not really impressed. If I ask my wife what's new in the video I'll bet she can't come up with anything 😉

My girlfriend (not a gamer) watched the Tomb Raider, Metro and the Star wars demo's with RTX all in 4k on a large screen with me and she literally said 'wow, they've come a long way with realism'. If she watched it in regular 1080p she probably would have said the same thing your wife said.

If you haven't seen it in 4k, you definitely should. I can't wait till we all can get our hands on 4k HMD's....  I'm also glad to know she's totally on board about me getting a 2080ti, but I told her I'm waiting to see just how much of a beast it will be before buying...and the fact that it's not available here in Canada yet anyway.

[danybonin]

a 2080 ti coming to me at the end of september 🙂