Feeling less embarrassed/alone in being taken in now.
https://hardforum.com/threads/rtx-2080-ti-vs-gtx-1080-ti-benchmark.1968026/
It also made it into a thread at guru3d. We were all expecting reviews, and it's
Russia's nVidia's fault.
lol, either I'm not the only one taken in, or the videos are based on real numbers. On that older video the robot lady voice did make a disclaimer that the numbers were taken from what nVidia had published. I just was put off by the video giving the impression it was based on real time measurement. So
maybe they got hold of leaked numbers, and made these videos. I'd still be put off by giving the impression that they were captures. That is not reassuring. Though if the numbers are real I'll be grateful. Meh, I'm retired, and waiting on
any news. I pre-ordered a MSI 2080 Trio (it's a beast/heavy enough that I'm concerned about sag) that had been very briefly available, I got a notification that it had come back in stock, and on sale for 800 dollars, at Amazon (plus 5% back with Prime, but I have to pay tax). The cancellation window is narrow.
I'm not a fan of pre-ordering, but I still remember being pissed that I didn't jump on the AMD HD 5850 card when it first came out as prices soon soared. On the other hand, I made out like a bandit by waiting on the GTX 970s as by doing so I ended up getting an EVGA SSC that was a revised version that had the cooling fixed, came with a free backplate (I had to put it on), had been marked down a lot, and came with an excellent free game (The Witcher 3?). After some pleading Newegg even gave me the other free game that later became available. It was that messed up Batman game, and to make up for that Warner gave us all the entire series for free. Quite the deal! Edit: And I got that less than 4 GB of full speed memory fiasco rebate check from nVidia for the 970. Sweet card. It's now sitting in the case of the lady who worked with me on a political campaign. I'm on a GTX 1070 FE. I almost felt guilty for applying for that rebate, I didn't want to wait on Newegg getting around to handling it, but that became a non-issue when I paid full price for the 1070 FE, lol.