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Re: So much for Overpriced RTX's
Sunday, March 17, 2019 10:09 AM
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Yes and I think Crytek is showing that you can have ray tracing without dedicated RTX video cards if you manage the development correctly.
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Re: So much for Overpriced RTX's
Sunday, March 17, 2019 12:59 AM
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The question is, would the rtx cards be able to perform on a higher level than a non rtx card, as it still has the tensor cores to utilize?
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Re: So much for Overpriced RTX's
Sunday, March 17, 2019 1:12 PM
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I believe so, I think another article on the same subject hightled that. But as the article says this is still a little ways away and only for the crytec engine. Now it does make my decision to hold off on upgrading my pascal video card little better.
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Re: So much for Overpriced RTX's
Sunday, March 17, 2019 1:35 PM
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I didn't buy an RTX card because did not have a need and were beyond my budget, but "hardware accelerated" always beats software emulation.... usually by orders of magnitude.
But for most, the software emulation is going to be a good tradeoff regardless.
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Re: So much for Overpriced RTX's
Sunday, March 17, 2019 1:42 PM
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I am fine with my so called 'overpriced' RTX card. No one twisted my arm to buy it...
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Re: So much for Overpriced RTX's
Sunday, March 17, 2019 2:09 PM
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I told you what they do. With NVIDIA for now only keep me performance difference. But that is lost because their price and with this situation can't get my money in future. I'm super happy because GTX1080Ti but I didn't bought new and AMD Radeon 7 need only 15-20% more performance for same money and that would be reason to jump on Radeon. Reviews present Radeon 7 as not worthy because no "extra power". With topics like So close and yet so far from RTX2080. Because no extra features... No such power as RTX2080. With him owners of expensive 1000$-1500$ worth monitors only need to downscale resolution and enjoy in 1920x1080 with NVIDIA Super Power RT. RTX2080, one chip seriously limited with not enough power to give you full experience of RT and limited with video memory on longer distance. RTX2080Ti is nothing special but performance improvement is there, difference is obvious, only there is a one problem. Price should be as RTX2080, not a even dollar more for that chip again not capable to give you RT experience on 4K. Small numbers of buyers waited NVIDIA 2000 Series with 1080p monitors... Their main wish was far better performance on 4K than Pascal. Improvement similar to generations launched before who bring 50-80% more power. But they get 30% and possibility to enjoy in some features on 55-60fps on 1080p, for 80% higher price than Radeon 7. If someone launch 20-30% better hardware than previous he no reason to ask visible increase in price. Imagine to Samsung ask 50% higher price for 970 EVO PLUS because it's 40+% better write speed. No naturally newer, better for similar price. That's natural, you can ask something more if you shock people with performance improvement. But NVIDIA is far from shocking improvements.
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Re: So much for Overpriced RTX's
Sunday, March 17, 2019 3:54 PM
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transdogmifier I am fine with my so called 'overpriced' RTX card. No one twisted my arm to buy it...
Not saying we did I bet your RTX 2080 Ti is running amazing and some people are happy paying double what they use too for the next generation video cards. But my opinion is they are overpriced and yes they are faster than the pascal but are they worth the premium there aksing for with using the same naming scheme they have been using? I dunno, but in my opinion no and now we already have some showing of software Ray tracing without the hardware. Its the whole G-sync vs freesync but with video cards.
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Re: So much for Overpriced RTX's
Sunday, March 17, 2019 4:37 PM
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Value is in the eye of the person doing the purchasing Over Priced ? Um, not really. I paid about the same price my Nvidia Titan X Pascal cost & My EVGA 2080 Ti have More Power 20 series are on a much larger chip, FAB cost rose due to yield issues. Assembly lines need to be reworked because of the Chip size One can hope future production improvements = lower prices
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Re: So much for Overpriced RTX's
Sunday, March 17, 2019 4:55 PM
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asmodyus https://www.techspot.com/...-time-ray-tracing.html Well figure somebody would figure ray tracing with out the overpriced Nvidia RTX
Thank you for posting. This is what i have been saying. Ray Tracing is a gimmick that can be implemented software wise.
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Re: So much for Overpriced RTX's
Sunday, March 17, 2019 5:13 PM
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Cool GTX Value is in the eye of the person doing the purchasing Over Priced ? Um, not really.
I paid about the same price my Nvidia Titan X Pascal cost & My EVGA 2080 Ti have More Power  20 series are on a much larger chip, FAB cost rose due to yield issues. Assembly lines need to be reworked because of the Chip size
One can hope future production improvements = lower prices
Okay overpriced is relative you are correct and since you paid the same amount for more power. But they decided to use the same naming schemes as the other previous generations and your paying almost double how ever you want to look at it. For example if you wanted to stay in the titan family You would be dropping 2500 vs 1200 from previous generations. So yeah overpriced is relative but your are paying almost double the previous generations models names.
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Re: So much for Overpriced RTX's
Sunday, March 17, 2019 5:24 PM
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RTX cards will give you the best ray tracing results, but CRYTEK has shown that ray tracing can work with other GPUs even the lowly AMD Vega 56.
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Re: So much for Overpriced RTX's
Sunday, March 17, 2019 5:58 PM
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Confirming what AMD said. What remains to be seen is how much better dedicated raytracing cores (I chose "raytracing core" instead of "tensor core" since tensor core is a name subject to change) perform versus use of general GPU compute cores. They both are hardware solutions, so I don't think it is fair to call it a hardware solution versus a software solution. The obvious difference is that utilizing dedicated raytracing cores should offer overall better performance since it doesn't detract from the number of cores available to perform other graphics intensive tasks versus general GPU computing raytracing which would use a compute core which would have otherwise been used for graphics intensive tasks.
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Re: So much for Overpriced RTX's
Sunday, March 17, 2019 7:12 PM
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In other news Folding and Crypto mining doesn't need a GPU you can just use the CPU to do it! Just expect it to be way slower. We are talking about them doing 4K at 30FPS. That isn't playable. My guess is if you had a 2080Ti you would be talking about over double the performance.
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Re: So much for Overpriced RTX's
Sunday, March 17, 2019 7:13 PM
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Cool GTX Value is in the eye of the person doing the purchasing Over Priced ? Um, not really.
I paid about the same price my Nvidia Titan X Pascal cost & My EVGA 2080 Ti have More Power  20 series are on a much larger chip, FAB cost rose due to yield issues. Assembly lines need to be reworked because of the Chip size
One can hope future production improvements = lower prices
Agreed 100%. People just don't see what you're actually getting for the money, but looking at the card's name only. Like you said you got better performance along with RTX and DLSS features for the same price of the previous gen $1,200 video card.
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Re: So much for Overpriced RTX's
Sunday, March 17, 2019 9:06 PM
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RTX cards will still give you the best rtx experience.
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Re: So much for Overpriced RTX's
Sunday, March 17, 2019 9:38 PM
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ty_ger07 Confirming what AMD said. What remains to be seen is how much better dedicated raytracing cores (I chose "raytracing core" instead of "tensor core" since tensor core is a name subject to change) perform versus use of general GPU compute cores. They both are hardware solutions, so I don't think it is fair to call it a hardware solution versus a software solution. The obvious difference is that utilizing dedicated raytracing cores should offer overall better performance since it doesn't detract from the number of cores available to perform other graphics intensive tasks versus general GPU computing raytracing which would use a compute core which would have otherwise been used for graphics intensive tasks.
+1 I'd love to see benchmarks when the time comes but by than, the RTX GPU's will be considered old tech.
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Re: So much for Overpriced RTX's
Sunday, March 17, 2019 11:36 PM
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RT was just another reason for Nvidia to markup their RTX gpus 50% after the whole Coin crap, Nvidia just didnt want to let go their easy profit gain from last year....
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Re: So much for Overpriced RTX's
Monday, March 18, 2019 10:44 AM
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Ray tracing...
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Re: So much for Overpriced RTX's
Monday, March 18, 2019 1:17 PM
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Cool GTX Value is in the eye of the person doing the purchasing
......WHAT???
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Re: So much for Overpriced RTX's
Monday, March 18, 2019 1:23 PM
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Cool GTX Value is in the eye of the person doing the purchasing
......WHAT???
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Re: So much for Overpriced RTX's
Monday, March 18, 2019 1:41 PM
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You guys are complaining about the price of the RTX cards? Man, its so cheap compared to my Titan V .... 
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Re: So much for Overpriced RTX's
Monday, March 18, 2019 2:32 PM
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In my particular case it's "business as usual". I started buying GPUs to fold with exaclty a year ago (yep, at the height of the whole mining thing) so paying what I pay for the 2080ti is pretty much the norm for me. Would I prefer them cheaper? Who the <radio edit> wouldn't?
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Re: So much for Overpriced RTX's
Monday, March 18, 2019 2:39 PM
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Shaders for every possible graphics idea have been developed. They are sometimes slow but for off-line rendering of film a swarm of machines can be used to get the work done. On a page I did long ago I use ambient occlusion as an example of the cost of computation using various video cards as examples. Ray tracing is old, back with DOS there were many ray tracing programs published. POVray is the most popular and its even open source. POVray is now available for Windows.
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Re: So much for Overpriced RTX's
Monday, March 18, 2019 3:18 PM
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DLSS is quite terrible to be very honest, it decreases image quality by quite a fair margin, Image quality is better when RTX is off, Crytek's solution sems to be an even better choice in the end. It looks much better, image quality wise than NV's so called hardware Ray Tracing "RTX On "solution, even being NV's Ray Tracing method is not even full ray tracing either, it's partial, what Crytek managed is lots more, even it runs fine on a AMD Radeon RX Vega 56, all thanks to CryEngine 5.5 :) And thanks to this, there no need to waste on RTX Gimmick tech that ruins your image quality, yet the RTX boards are greatly overpriced, for a feature that barely does 50 fps at 1080p, 1440p/1600p & 2160p/2400p is not even plausible, even NV did do false marketing that you can get 60fps @ 4K reso's the lies rofl  UDF Tech explains and and proves it, and I know there will always be that lot won't agree with it, that's fine, they just make themselves look funny, just by denying the facts that professional reviewers have proved. JayzTwoCents: Gaming Nexus: I prefer actual facts over marketing and propaganda nonsense, that always wins in the end  UDF tech isn't the only one that proved it Gaming Nexus & JayzTwoCents did as well as many others. Also Ray Tracing even worked fine with the Amiga 500, it's nothing new, just old tech being reused for marketing, yet the three games that do support RTX, don't look great due to sheer image quality loss due to DLSS, just disable it for the better picture I'd be like. NV could just of released the GTX 1180 / GTX 1180 Ti without the RTX nonsense and then these overrated prices would of been far better as well, most people I know game with RTX off simply due to the image quality loss DLSS gives. Crytek's solution won't have to suffer from that major image quality loss issue NV's DLSS is camping with either, so all in all, Crytek has the answer everyone has been waiting for
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Re: So much for Overpriced RTX's
Monday, March 18, 2019 4:32 PM
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I didn't get it for ray tracing, but ..ok?
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Re: So much for Overpriced RTX's
Monday, March 18, 2019 4:39 PM
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transdogmifier I didn't get it for ray tracing, but ..ok?
But you paid for ray tracing.
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Re: So much for Overpriced RTX's
Monday, March 18, 2019 4:40 PM
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transdogmifier I didn't get it for ray tracing, but ..ok?
But you paid for ray tracing.
He paid for the card. Ray tracing was included.
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Re: So much for Overpriced RTX's
Monday, March 18, 2019 5:33 PM
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Holdolin He paid for the card. Ray tracing was included.
Ray tracing comes as part of the package and inflates the cost. If he didn't buy the card for ray tracing as he claims, he still paid for ray tracing. When you purchase a car with a new technology you pay for the design and implementation of that technology. If you were to purchase a car with automatic seats despite having no interest in this function, simply because you wanted this particular car given its 50 Hp advantage over the competing brand in the same class, you still pay for the automatic seats since they are included in the package.
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Re: So much for Overpriced RTX's
Monday, March 18, 2019 5:56 PM
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Holdolin He paid for the card. Ray tracing was included.
Ray tracing comes as part of the package and inflates the cost. If he didn't buy the card for ray tracing as he claims, he still paid for ray tracing. When you purchase a car with a new technology you pay for the design and implementation of that technology. If you were to purchase a car with automatic seats despite having no interest in this function, simply because you wanted this particular car given its 50 Hp advantage over the competing brand in the same class, you still pay for the automatic seats since they are included in the package.
You forgot to tell him he paid for the box it came in too, since that also inflated the price
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