Nvidia Turing Product Reviews and Previews: (Super, TI, 2080, 2070, 2060, 1660, etc)

Don’t think it’s Vulkan. Turing’s advantage over Pascal in Doom is similar to other titles ~30%. It leaps ahead in Wolf 2 by over 60%.

Would be good to confirm if it’s really using AMD specific extensions or core Vulkan APIs for FP16.

 

This is interesting, surprising gains with rendering over 1080 TI in Blender:

https://www.hardwareluxx.de/index.p...x-2080-founders-edition-im-test.html?start=14

 

It's basically matching Volta, how is that surprising?

 

True, I just wasn’t aware that the Volta/Turing architecture lend itself so well to 3d rendering tasks. First evidence I have seen, but then I haven’t followed Volta at all. I think that there is no change that the Blender developers have spend time to optimize for Volta.

 

Great Thank You!

 

Performance/price analysis on Linux: Dead heat between 2080 Ti and Vega 64 with most games tested.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia-2080ti-linux&num=7

 

Linux: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 To RTX 2080 Ti Graphics/Compute Performance
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia-gtx680-rtx2080ti&num=1

 

I think 2080 (non-TI) is really lost right now. 2080 TI(tan) at least lives in the "ultra performance at ultra price tier" that, while limited, is at least fairly well understood. 2080, on the other hand, with its 5-12% performance/power lead over 1080 TI is in purgatory at the current prirce. If the market was still in grips of crypto frenzy with 1080 TIs sold at or above MSRP then it would be a no-brainier, but with new mid-grade 1080 TIs dipping into sub-$650 range, the $150 premium is an extremely tough pill to swallow. Alternatively, if there were 2 or even 1 top-tier titles available alongside it that fully took advantage of raytracing capability and really showcased technological advances Turing brings, the situation would be different, but those are still months away. Thus, what we are left with a card with advanced tech but no opportunity to showcase it to the gamers, and singe-digit performance and efficiency increase not commiserative with the asking price premium over existing products. The card is in desperate, immediate need of a $100 price cut, which would actually make it into an exciting product worth recommending, because IMO right now its just threading water .

 

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Shows Very Strong Compute Performance Potential

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia-rtx2080ti-compute&num=1

 

https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/3366-nvlink-benchmark-rtx-2080-ti-pcie-bandwidth-x16-vs-x8

 

Ethereum Crypto Mining Performance Benchmarks On The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=rtx2080ti-crypto-mining&num=2

 

You can mine ETH with ASICs now, so it doesn't make much sense at the price. They should look at Cryptonight.

 

Because of those ETH ASIC's the current Nvidia GPU ETH miners jumped ship to Cryptonight (Monero) and caused a 200 MH/s increase in Monero resulting in the difficulty to jump from 55G to 70G.

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/monero-difficulty.html#3m

And of course the reduction from 3 to 2 ETH for block rewards also caused the mass exodus from ETH to XMR.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/ethe...difficulty-bomb-reduce-block-rewards-to-2-eth

 

Neaah. ETH mining performance is a datapoint, as good as any. Obviously more algos tested would be nicer but these are general purpose sites so they prolly can;t justify it.

As to ASICs fo ETH, it's not so straighforward. They are just cheaper and and just a tinny bit more power efficient. Due to that, many AMD cards may have migrated in time to XMR from ETH, because of the slightly higher profits. Not all..

As for, nvidia cards even today ETH is more profitable than XMR. Hence I doubt that there was a massive transition. We cannot prove either way, of course

Also for ETH block reward is now 3, not 2. It will change to 2 on next fork only.

 

Didn't ETHlargementPill bump 1080TI hash rates into mid-50s a while ago?

 

New overclocking system that got introduced as part of turing launch is great. Tried it with my 1080ti through evga precision x1 software. After the scanning process was done the end result was good. Probably there is little bit more to be gained by hand tuning but for such an easy way to overclock this should just happen by default when you first install gpu.

In essence you get optimized voltage for every clock speed instead of having to use conservative factory defaults.

Another nice thing is that the tool obeys power/temperature limits user sets. So in essence if you like you could also underclock and find optimal voltages -> more silent operation.

 

Will this work on my 970? It still runs most things fine but sometimes I could use a little more.

 

I have no idea if it would work for 970.

 

I was surprised it worked on Pascal. I assumed it involved new power management and sensors on Turing.

 

What version of Evga precision x1? I thought beta was only for RTX and later GTX.