What is the thinking and opinions about whether the 5k+ will benefit greatly or minimally from the new card? So far most of the discussion has been around the 8k benefiting mostly form the card. Not much has been said about speculation for the 5k+
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I did some ballpark math in a previous thread about the new cards. Comparing 1080 Ti to 2080 Ti, you should be able to get about 25% more work out of the CUDA cores. Once the AI anti-aliasing shows up games, you might get a few more fps by shifting AA work to the tensor cores (but VR uses SSAA so not sure if that’ll actually help in the end). Ray tracing looks super exciting, but the demos are rendering at 1080P for a single panel, not 1440P (not including SS) and two panels (though 2x panels doesn’t require 2x the GPU work through Nvidia’s clever VR tools).
I think you should consider a couple options:
- Money isn’t an issue, you want the best and are willing to spend and deal with early adopter issues (you’re here after all). Buy the 2080 Ti (after Nvidia lifts review embargo and prices drop a bit).
- You currently using a 970 to 1060 GPU. Consider buying the 2080 Ti, but after the embargo and after taking a hard look at 1080 Ti prices (they made literal boatloads to keep up with demand and have a huge surplus… deals will abound).
- You currently have a 1080 or 1080 Ti. Look at the reviews of the new cards. Shake head at outrageous prices. Wait for next generation so you can have the GPU power to properly drive all the shiny Ray tracing stuff at 1440P 90fps and when the ray tracing games actually exist.