Value of Hardware Unboxed benchmarking *spawn

[pjbliverpool]

I haven’t watched the video but isn’t this kind of the point Tim is making?

My issue with the 20 series was it was before mainstream RT titles came out so there wasn’t really anything ‘period appropriate’ for it to run, but particularly the lower end cards aren’t all that useful for modern RT.

Like yes, I expect a 6 year old budget card to perform rather poorly these days, but almost all the relevant RT titles came out way after this card was considered ‘modern’, so that’s my gripe.

I think the point the video was trying to make is that the RT capabilities of the 2060 were essentially meaningless/offered nothing over a comparable GPU with no RT capability because they simply weren't usable.

And that's just not true. They were entirely usable - if you accepted various compromises that one should probably expect to experience with a GPU of that tier trying to run the most advanced graphical features available. i.e. you might have to live with sub-60fps and less than stellar image quality along with other lowered graphical settings. But you can still engage some RT features with the GPU and have a perfectly viable gaming experience. Whether you choose to becomes a matter of preference rather than capability.

If you look at the final summary from the video they show that all the games tested bar 2 are playable with at least 30fps at 1080p DLSS Quality on the GPU when lowering other graphical settings. And of the two that weren't, one was Cyberpunk where they only tested at RT Ultra settings as opposed to say the far more moderate console level RT settings that the same offers on PC.

 

[DegustatoR]

A slower RTX GPU will still end up offering a better image.

This means nothing. You have to look at prices to compare and last time I've checked any GPU which would produce even just comparable image would still cost you more (in sum with other PC parts) than a console. Which has always been a reason why someone would buy it over a PC.