Here's how a VR enthusiast should think about this news. Make an estimate for when 90Hz 1440P VR can be supported by the average laptop. I think that would be a good benchmark for the time a year before the widespread adoption of VR/AR by the general public.
Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing
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Re: Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing
#12Hmm, 24%-42% performance increase (14/16TFlops vs 11.3TFlops) for 70-90% price increase... And prices were already inflated by crypto that is now collapsing. Not sure who is the target market for this tech honestly. Still only 11GB RAM, even if 50% faster, making it a nonsense purchase for Deep Learning enthusiasts (state-of-art models are already larger).
Unless somebody invented RTX-based coin of course, then this is the minimal price...
Re: Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing
#13The prices are obscene. The '70 tier has usually been my tier of choice, but they're sliding that up from the $400 range to the $600 range. I actually just scored a 1080 in the realm of $400, presumably because crypto demand dived, and they had a lot of stock coming into the new generation announcement. I'm glad I got it, because it's going to be a while before I touch cards at these price points. Presumably when the…
I think I spent $300 for a 970 and I've been keeping an eye out for something that has 2x the performance at the same price. I guess the replacement will be the 2050?
Re: Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing
#14Title is clickbait, 6 x performance gain is for ray tracing only, which is normal, Pascal cards didn't have the ray tracing muscle of the new cards.
Re: Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing
#15Hmm, 24%-42% performance increase (14/16TFlops vs 11.3TFlops) for 70-90% price increase... And prices were already inflated by crypto that is now collapsing. Not sure who is the target market for this tech honestly. Still only 11GB RAM, even if 50% faster, making it a nonsense purchase for Deep Learning enthusiasts (state-of-art models are already larger). Unless somebody invented RTX-based coin of course, then this…
Turing and Volta can do concurrent Integer and FP operations wich will give them a huge boost in traditional graphics as well.
How much will be the real question here.
Re: Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing
#16Does anyone know how they are offering better raytracing performance? Are there new api’s or something?
Re: Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing
#17Can someone point me towards the deep learning tech they reference for improving ray tracing performance?
They're using deep learning as fancy Anti-Aliasing mechanism, to fill gaps which GPU didn't have time to properly raytrace or to upscale parts of images. As I understood from what I seen ML there mostly for AA.
You mean denoising? In RT raytracing you're generally short on samples and need to interpolate between them / smooth over the shot noise.
Re: Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing
#18Hmm, 24%-42% performance increase (14/16TFlops vs 11.3TFlops) for 70-90% price increase... And prices were already inflated by crypto that is now collapsing. Not sure who is the target market for this tech honestly. Still only 11GB RAM, even if 50% faster, making it a nonsense purchase for Deep Learning enthusiasts (state-of-art models are already larger). Unless somebody invented RTX-based coin of course, then this…
Where are you getting a 70-90% price increase?
1080s are ~$450, will now be $799. 1070s are ~$400, will now be $599.
(I'm going off the top hits on Newegg)
Re: Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing
#19The prices are obscene. The '70 tier has usually been my tier of choice, but they're sliding that up from the $400 range to the $600 range. I actually just scored a 1080 in the realm of $400, presumably because crypto demand dived, and they had a lot of stock coming into the new generation announcement. I'm glad I got it, because it's going to be a while before I touch cards at these price points. Presumably when the…
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Re: Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing
#20Hmm, 24%-42% performance increase (14/16TFlops vs 11.3TFlops) for 70-90% price increase... And prices were already inflated by crypto that is now collapsing. Not sure who is the target market for this tech honestly. Still only 11GB RAM, even if 50% faster, making it a nonsense purchase for Deep Learning enthusiasts (state-of-art models are already larger). Unless somebody invented RTX-based coin of course, then this…
Where are you getting a 70-90% price increase? 1080s are ~$450, will now be $799. 1070s are ~$400, will now be $599. (I'm going off the top hits on Newegg)
These are also Founders Edition prices. Still the 2080ti is pretty expensive even at non-FE pricing:
RTX 2070 cards will start at $499, with RTX 2080 at $699, and the RTX 2080 Ti starting at $999.