@SweViver what’s the chance of getting a benchmark video like this where you instead tweak the setting, like shadows and such, to where the resolution and picture look great compared to the full ultra settings you had with this current video? That would be great to know fully if these games are “worth” the RTX2080ti where they weren’t before being ultra settings.
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Sounds like an idea, thanks! But it will most likely be about a few selected games only. There will be many benchmarks coming, cheers man!
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Thanks SweViver, if Carlsberg did reviewers then…
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AMD really have a chance this time, nvidia could hardly be more complacent. If amd deliver on their promise of 7nm gpus this year they could really kill it. Even if its just 2080ti performance at a much lower cost
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Do you think Pimax will try and get smoothing to work or will they keep trying to develop their own solution.
Keep in mind Nvidia is apparently one of the first to receive Amd GPU cards. I think we will see something in 2019 perhaps at ces 2019
Sweviver maybe create a Closed Topic with the graphs that the user made of your tests.
My guess is it will be attempted to be a part of BW as they have describe it as being a variety or things.
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@SweViver war dust has just been released on early access ,looks really interesting 32 vs 32 battlefield style ,would be great to get a review how it plays with the pimax if you got time ,all the best G
@SweViver yea i hope this works on the pimax.I was an alpha tester off wardust and its a lot of fun!!
Like to know how it feels with a big field off view!
One thing ive seen that looks like it may get tricky maybe you know how it works ?
so you can be running around and then flying a plane ?
i can only imagine having a chair handy somwhere in the corner of your play area
Here’s a non-VR specific roundup of multiple 1080 Vs 2080 benchmarks, which is pretty good
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I think for me, going from regular 1080 to a 2080 Ti, will be a major upgrade.
Some benchmarks even suggest a doubling of performance.
I’ll order one in november.
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Likewise, even with the information at hand, I’ll be going 1080 > 2080ti
It’s still a good jump, even if expensive
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Great analysis. It is the reason I went for a 2080 TI too.
20 to 30% are not massive at all but they can mean the world in VR.
Having 80 FPS = reprojection - 90 = butterly smooth.
Is it worth it? Yes if you can be crazy enough to pay the stupid price they ask for it.
I would never ever advise anyone to buy a 2080 TI for a non VR gaming PC at this point though.
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I certainly am crazy enough. Aren’t we all a bit VR crazy? 
Also, there’s the added bonus of having worked crazy hours of overtime in october… so far 70 hours overtime in october alone. So, yeah with that I’ll afford the 2080 Ti easily.
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Like you, I see these expenses in “overtime” as a unit of measurement.
2080ti is 4 more OT shifts! I’d better get started
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Yes, but I expect that you can get that 30% gain also by lowering details/resolution a bit (for 1080Ti). So the difference is not so much “not playable → playable” but more like playable with a bit better graphics detail.
There might be few cases where lowering down would be impossible and/or make it to suddenly look unacceptable but those should be exceptions.
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Well said . … … … … … …
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In Thoemse’s example perhaps, yes, but that’s more a good–>amazing example rather than an unplayable–>playable example. You are mixing up categories there 
So in that case if you need to drop graphics you’re no longer in the “amazing” category anyway. Whatever way you you look at it either reprojection or inferior quality means no longer amazing. So 2080Ti can deliver the amazing (IE both with no compromises) whereas 1080Ti can’t: it has to sacrifice one of them. The improvement is thus valid and meaningful.
Unplayable–>playable however is a completely different example. These games are already running at barely acceptable graphics anyway almost by definition, so there’s no further acceptable reduction really in quality to make them playable.
The situation you’re talking about though does exist and I list that as 10% of the games SweViver tested (eg basically Onward) where yeah there’s improvement in FPS or quality (whatever you prefer) but it doesn’t make a quantum jump from one category to another. It’s akin to what you may see in pancake experiences. There will of course be other games like this but Thoemse’s point (by saying he’d only recommend it for VR) and my point is thus basically that VR is probably the rare example where requirements are so high that every last FPS and every last bit of quality counts such that even the mere 20-30% increase actually makes a material difference in practice. By the very nature of it being the cutting edge and being on the limit of current capability, the Pimax benefits from the slight advantage of the 2080Ti more than probably any other application. A positive example of the “straw that breaks the camel’s back” 
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