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

Someone said that with Deep Learning-supersampling, -upscaling, -frame interpolation etc. it is quite conceivable to see 8k/140+ fps on mainstream hardware because the high pixel load is easier to get than if one would simply calculate it. Tere are tricks in rasterizing too but they also reach their limits at some point.

I can't judge that but I think deep learning etc. will have a great future in gaming. Besides rytracing, that could be a big deal.

 

From real world gaming perspective rather than 3D/API benchmark related utilities.
I am going with 40% generally (I think some games will be surprising either side of that though) due to changes to the SM/Cache/graphics pipeline-stages/compiler for traditional modern games not utilising the forward looking features.
But the figure is going to be influenced by resolution and some games with their game-rendering engines implementation, API and whether also testing fudged DX12 games or just those that implemented it well as an example.

What will be interesting is seeing Vulkan extensions coming shortly down the road specific for Turing onwards, but considering not many games support Vulkan more of an interest rather than a game changer.

 

Some actual gameplay with it turned on:

 

Kind of. Without anything else going on other than the player walking around.

 

So apparently HOCP and NVIDIA are talking again, Kyle asked NV for card access and they offered him an NDA to sign to access the cards. Kyle is hesitant to accept though.

https://www.hardocp.com/news/2018/08/21/nvidia_offers_hardocp_2080_launch_access/

 

Jackfrags posted a video (with no new custom footage, because the gamescom playable stuff he was doing is under an embargo), but he said it feels like an extremely early version. For instance, a lot of materials were reflecting light even though they shouldn't in reality, like dry bricks and leaves.



So my guess is that the footage is curated for now because of visual bugs in the implementation.

 

I have no doubt there are issues and that it's very early in implementation. The public won't see it for quite awhile I imagine. From what I've read and listened to so far, most devs only had hardware for a few weeks at most before the event.

It's also a worry to me that there will be no RT implementations in games available for reviewers because of this.

 

Nothing new here folks except personal opinions. Reviews can't get here soon enough and hopefully comparisons will be made with competitive products, if any!

 

Good. I want graphics and associated hardware to keep pushing forward and becoming more demanding.

 

It really is an amazing time to be alive and discussing the merits of $1000 toys. Bleeding edge hardware and days old software and yet we scoff at 1080p 60fps. Oh how far we have come

 

But can it run crysis?

 

You do realize devs had only 2 weeks to work on the implementation, don't you?

 

Someone needs to port Crysis to Vulkan and implement RT lighting. Then the answer is once again no

 

Just Buy It: Why Nvidia RTX GPUs Are Worth the Money: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-rtx-gpus-worth-the-money,37689.html




EDIT:

Why You Shouldn’t Buy Nvidia’s RTX 20-Series Graphics Cards (Yet): https://www.tomshardware.com/news/wait-to-buy-nvidia-geforce-rtx-gpus,37673.html

 

This launch is pretty funny

 

Yeah some YouTuber in India has to return his PC donated by Nvidia because he didn't defend pre-ordering on his podcast. It's all going crazy.

 

Hilarious launch so far, and we're still a bit away from launch.