Maybe NVIDIA left optimal features off the 2080TI for a forthcoming Titan model that will launch in 2019…for $2000.
The 2080ti is the titan. And the 2080 is the 1080ti’s successor.
It’s true. Raytracing wasn’t ready. They needed to beef up the RT core at least twice as much as it is now. Yes, that would increase the core size, but that’s the price you pay.
They should have stuck to their guns when they said new cards weren’t coming anytime soon and release raytracing when it was ready.
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The 1080Ti successor with worst performances?
Hey man,
I can’t get into nvidia’s mindset. I guess they figured raytracing and DLSS would make up for the deficit.
They are trying to distinguish their GPUs from the competition (AMD and Intel). This will also allow for games to look more like the CGI in movies.
The main benefit of ray-tracing will be to animators and certain other application specific stuff. The issue isn’t that ray tracing “isn’t ready”, the issue is that it wasn’t ready for consumers. They should have started out with RT in the Quadro cards and let some proper RT implementations be developed before transitioning to their mainstream cards.
RT probably should have been pushed to the next series (after 20xx) so they could properly take advantage of it. They advertise real-time RT but don’t actually give you enough RT cores to accomplish it. At this stage they need to make tradeoffs between RT cores and rasterization cores (aka the ones all current games use). They needed to have a 20-30% jump in GPU performance in current games to justify releasing a new generation, so they ended up gimping the RT aspect of the core in favor of rasterization.
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I’ll post videos of this in 8 months;)
Once I got over the “holy shit that looks incredible” part of ray tracing, it’s the tensor cores that excite me about the new RTX cards. They should be awesome for cranking out more fps for DLSS and other AI upscaling magic. And non-graphics stuff powered by AI (speech recognition, computer vision, NPC characters with proper AI behind them, etc).
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I really want to see sound tracing.