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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

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Post by bearjaws »

gabcoh wrote: post #16

Does anyone know how they are offering better raytracing performance? Are there new api’s or something?

This is exactly what im wondering, with the next gen consoles confirmed for AMD CPU/GPU I doubt there will be much Ray Tracing tech in the next generation, which means we're looking at 3-5 years before this tech can be mainstream.

These GPUs will be antiquated by the time Ray Tracing can gain any real traction...

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Post by bitL »

nabla9 wrote: post #23

Any idea of how these GeForce RTX's perform in deep learning applications compared to Quadro RTX? (price/performance ratio) I assume that they might have decent inference speed, but how about learning? $800 card would be nice for initial testing and developing in personal desktop machine. Or are they somehow crippled??

I am curious as well. So far IMO RTX 5000 seems to be the card to get from this generation due to 16GB RAM and a bit slower performance.

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Post by xxs »

old-gregg wrote: post #24

Putting AI/ML aside, I have a question for graphics experts or/and gamers: what is the practical [1] ceiling of the current champion, the 1080ti? I was under impression that that card already was much more than most people needed. In other words, is the new generation only useful for 4K gaming? [1] By "practical" I mean on 1440p@144Hz monitors.

1080 ti can't do even 60fps on 4k on high settings for quite a lot of games.

I doubt 2080 ti would be able either.

Re: Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing

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Post by smacktoward »

bayesian_horse wrote: post #4
flyinfungi wrote: post #2

Any clue on how this thing will compare to a 1080 TI?

In terms of real time raytracing the RTX will blow the GTXs out of the water... For anything else? Remains to be seen.

This is my big question too. It's pretty standard marketing: if your new product isn't impressively better than the old one on commonly used benchmarks, you invent a new benchmark where your new product is impressively better. I wonder how much of the "look how much better these cards are at ray-tracing!" actually reflects real-world improvements users will see, and how much is there to create a benchmark that shows a big improvement over existing GPUs.

Re: Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing

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Post by andrepd »

nabla9 wrote: post #23

Any idea of how these GeForce RTX's perform in deep learning applications compared to Quadro RTX? (price/performance ratio) I assume that they might have decent inference speed, but how about learning? $800 card would be nice for initial testing and developing in personal desktop machine. Or are they somehow crippled??

Wait for benchmarks. Until then it's anyone's guess.

Re: Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing

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Post by pmichalina »

bitL wrote: post #12

Hmm, 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…

Collapsing? Nocoiners lol

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Post by visionscaper »

Is anything known about the number of tensor cores in the new 2080 Ti? What about the float16 performance using the Tensor cores? I couldn't find this on the spec page [1].

[1] https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/rtx-2080...

Re: Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing

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Post by etiam »

Since the post with the product page got merged here:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/rtx-2080...

Most of it is dramatically lit renderings of fans and vacuous marketing-speak of course, but there's a tidbit near the bottom of the page about NVLink I find interesting.

  "GeForce RTX™ NVLINK™ Bridge

  The GeForce RTX™ NVLink™ bridge connects two NVLink SLI-ready graphics cards with 50X the transfer bandwidth of previous technologies."
I guess NVLink is finally becoming relevant as a consumer technology then? Do you think this will be the GPU generation when consumer motherboards capable of pushing things to the GPU by NVLink will appear as well?

Re: Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing

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Post by gambiting »

The prices are absolutely insane. I was prepared to pay £599 for the 2080, but £749 for a non-Ti card is a joke. It feels to me like Nvidia knows there's no competition from AMD so they can ask for literally any price and people will pay it.

Re: Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing

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Post by kevindqc »

pmichalina wrote: post #36
bitL wrote: post #12

Hmm, 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…

Collapsing? Nocoiners lol

Wow you have really compelling arguments as to why crypto isn't collapsing! Thanks you for you insight
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