The RTX 2080 realtime ray tracing hype

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@junfanbl

Interestingly enough, the RTX 2080 does not seem all that superior to a GTX 1080 Ti in terms of hardware specs. So unless it’s core architecture is different I’m not sure how much of an improvement we will see in when using it outside the realm of Ray Tracing. So it seems like we would be paying for a GPU expressely for the purpose of Ray Tracing. Other than that, I don’t see a reason to buy this new card.

IDK, maybe I’m wrong but that’s the way it seems. I’d rather keep my 1080 and put the 1200 toward my game development.

As an aside, I can’t wait for the new Tomb Raider!

You are not wrong at all. To me these era-changing cards are meant for developers, like “Okay here, we (nvidia or amd later) finally present you a card that can really do real-time ray tracing. Can you keep up?” Maybe in 4-5 years. So until then, for gamers, they can stick with 1080 Ti for now, haha. But for developers, this is recommended to buy, I think.

Just my assumption, but I think the best indicator to purely shift to ray tracing is when gaming consoles can finally introduce their new machine with RT cores, where developers just want to optimize their game for those machines. Then when they port they’d just say minimum requirements of RTX 2070 or RTX 2060, if any.