The RTX 2080 realtime ray tracing hype

[NilsonLima]

@Frenetic_Pony

That’s Nvidia for you. You notice no one’s actually allowed to post benchmarks but them yes?

Nvidia’s been straining at the legal requirements of truthful marketing for years, the benchmarks artificially inflate the performance numbers by using some improved neural net upscaling to make you think the 2080 is actually running at that resolution, but it’s not (NN upscaling is cool and all, but anyone can do it on any card). I’m more than glad to see the internet start to mock a lot of Nvidia’s claims, the “TDP is important for desktop users!” was bad enough, higher watt power supplies cost like $5 more, and the electricity over a year used could be measure in dimes, but they convinced people it was important anyway.

And they claim thats the price of technology “now”… I can’t understand that… what if they have spent 10 years (as they claim) and the whole research has brought nothing else but Pascal? Will they charge more suddenly for the same? I think if something is good enough, the amount of sales will pay for the research faster. This seems an attempt to grab your money fast because AMD is right there in the corner… (lets pray Navi is the answer).