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NVIDIA RTX 20 Series Reviews
- Thread starter Mecha Meister
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The FTC thinks that warranty void stickers are illegal:
https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/11/ftc-warranty-warning/
A 2080 is still a pretty boss card. Just hold onto it and that extra $400 you saved and the forthcoming 3080ti won't sting quite so badly.
ha, was just doing the scan after reading about it being recommended on TechSpot.
in fact, it just finished. Not sure what to put my memory offset at since it's not a FE card, but we'll see!
It did, but I didn't read it. I thought it was just a random UPC sticker.
I thought warranty void stickers were outlawed?
Update: Nothing can make Nier Automata's open world area smooth when panning. Unless it's CPU-bound beyond the capabilities of my OC'd 6700K or the 2080Ti is simply not enough, I guess.
gg development on that one.
I admit being disappointed about this, but it's hard to brute force performance past poor porting.
gg development on that one.
I admit being disappointed about this, but it's hard to brute force performance past poor porting.
This almost happened to me last night. I was pulling the plastic wrap off and it started to catch the warranty decal.
Mine came off with the plastic film. I was able to reattach it, but I've heard EVGA is pretty lenient about this kinda stuff. I would probably contact them and ask about it. They might tell you to keep the bits of the sticker you still have to send in if you need an RMA.
I did a quick Google search and saw some people saying it only applies to Asian territories. Regardless, I still have all the sticker, every single piece, and I put it back together on the cards box along with the serial number sticker I had to take off the card cause they actually put it sideways across the PCI connector...
I'm basically wanting to take part in the step up program cause I instantly regretted buying a 2080 instead of spending another $300-$400 for a Ti, so I was freaking that the sticker might've screwed my chances of that.
That said tho, it seems currently the step up program only offers the standard XC, and not the XC Ultra. Do you guys think they'll offer the XC Ultra in the step up program within the next 79 days? I guess I could just do the regular XC but that'd result in higher temps, wouldn't it?
Got my 2080 Ti today. I'm looking forward to putting it through its paces this weekend with Assassin's Creed.
I reinstalled V and will be installing all the high res texture packs for all assets.
Why do you care about IV? I don't recall any issues with it.
What? No. They're the same card but the Ultra is a slightly higher factory overclock because it bins higher. In other words EVGA runs some tests on the cards and whichever has a highest stable OC gets the Ultra label - a difference that will be negligible in actual real world performance. By negligible I mean literally like 1-3fps, if that. I have no idea whether the Ultra will be offered in step up but it doesn't matter - get the XC and be done with it.
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This is not correct at all. The XC Ultra has a completely different 3 slot cooler.
Pretty sure Ultra gets a considerably larger cooler. A negative in my book.
You're right man, good call - the Ultra is a 2.75. I thought XC and XC Ultra were the same and Black Edition and blower were the only 2 slot.
Still, both cards are 2 fans and as I mentioned the performance will be essentially the same.
Again, you've misunderstood. At no point was I talking about game performance, I was talking about temperature. The XC Ultra has a significantly larger heatsink than the XC, so it runs cooler. I've heard 10-15c cooler by some.
No I understand you weren't talking about game performance. I was the one tying cooler difference to how it translates to performance.
I personally would never believe that disparity in temps though. When you're talking about differences in the teens you're comparing air to either hybrid or more likely a custom loop.
Played some AC Odyssey full blown. Max at 4k with HDR. The combination of it all does produce a great looking picture, but my CPU is getting ate up. Luckily I have 6c/12t, but I'm curious how 4c/8t CPUs will handle this.
Also if you plan to play in HDR, be sure to disable RTSS. It looked really off until they told me in the Perf thread, but now it looks great.
Also if you plan to play in HDR, be sure to disable RTSS. It looked really off until they told me in the Perf thread, but now it looks great.
Got my msi trio 2080 ti in tonight. I haven't pushed my card to the very limit yet, but I've got +115 core and +900 memory, and seems plenty stable. This produces about 2010 mhz core.
This is a 17.5 TF card essentially.
Hits about 70c using my fan curve, 77c if set to auto.
Replacing sli 980 TIs, it's great to be able to use taa again in everything. It's pretty damn fast in a random assortment of games I've tried. I play 1440p and 144hz, very interesting to see many of my games completely cpu bound now (even with 6700k at 4.4ghz).
This is a 17.5 TF card essentially.
Hits about 70c using my fan curve, 77c if set to auto.
Replacing sli 980 TIs, it's great to be able to use taa again in everything. It's pretty damn fast in a random assortment of games I've tried. I play 1440p and 144hz, very interesting to see many of my games completely cpu bound now (even with 6700k at 4.4ghz).
Maybe a dumb question, but does being used as an eGPU have an effect on the OC capabilities of a card?
I got a EVGA 2080ti ultra, but I can't overclock memory more than 500 or benchmarks and games start to hang, and the core no more than 98. So did I just lose the silicon lottery or will it likely overclock better when used with a full system?
I got a EVGA 2080ti ultra, but I can't overclock memory more than 500 or benchmarks and games start to hang, and the core no more than 98. So did I just lose the silicon lottery or will it likely overclock better when used with a full system?
He could be having power problems, it may not just be the lottery. What is the PSU there?
I'm using the Razor Core X which has a 650w PSU, so I don't think it's a power issue as the PSU only powers the GPU and 100w for the laptop.
Temps on the GPU are around 65-70 when load is maximal, and speed doesn't go above 1950mhz on the core. This is with fans maxed out. The automated 'scan'tuning software in Precision X1 gave a +98mhz as recommendation, power is at 130% and voltage doesn't seem to really matter to what value I set it, but I set it to 100.
Don't know if I'd want to go that far, but would it be a valid reason to return the card? It's the first GPU I bought in 10 years so I don't know what I should expect.
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That was weird. Installed my RTX 2080, replacing my 970.
Windows boots up, acts like it can't detect the GPU, so I uninstall the drivers using DDU. After checking geforce experience etc.
Reboot, still no luck, I retry Geforce Experience and get this:
Anyway, I download the manual drivers, but before the drivers even finish downloading the monitor flickers and the problem seemingly has sorted itself? Haha
Windows boots up, acts like it can't detect the GPU, so I uninstall the drivers using DDU. After checking geforce experience etc.
Reboot, still no luck, I retry Geforce Experience and get this:
Anyway, I download the manual drivers, but before the drivers even finish downloading the monitor flickers and the problem seemingly has sorted itself? Haha
Your display driver likely crashed. It's pretty normal with a new gpu until you get the driver situation sorted out.That was weird. Installed my RTX 2080, replacing my 970.
Windows boots up, acts like it can't detect the GPU, so I uninstall the drivers using DDU. After checking geforce experience etc.
Reboot, still no luck, I retry Geforce Experience and get this:
Anyway, I download the manual drivers, but before the drivers even finish downloading the monitor flickers and the problem seemingly has sorted itself? Haha
I'm curious, Nvidia's talked about how they can use RTAA for 'perfect' AA that will auto detect things like fine-wires and such that MSAA/FXAA/TAA and such are bad at. Apparently it can smartly limit only a small percentage of the screen to use the RT with edge detection and such, and use simple FXAA or TAA for the rest of the image.
Has there been any talk of a solution like this for reflections? It would be neat to see a solution that used SSR as a baseline but 'fell back' to RT whenever the reflection data was invalid due to occlusions and such. I could see this still being problematic / less accurate for specular highlights and such within the reflections but I wonder if it would be a lot faster since far fewer pixels would need to be ray traced.
Has there been any talk of a solution like this for reflections? It would be neat to see a solution that used SSR as a baseline but 'fell back' to RT whenever the reflection data was invalid due to occlusions and such. I could see this still being problematic / less accurate for specular highlights and such within the reflections but I wonder if it would be a lot faster since far fewer pixels would need to be ray traced.
I am, yes. Nier Automata continues to stutter when panning inside the city.
So, I get back from my trip and the only 2080Tis I can find are $2k+. And the 1080Tis I was looking at got more expensive. Thank you tariffs for murdering supply and cost. So, I said screw it, ordered a 2080. Unsurprisingly it's not gonna arrive until Wednesday. Hoping drivers make it better over time.
I have a 2080, what settings would you like to see? Stock or mods?
Can't do it tonight but tomorrow it's all coming together
Damn son.
I have that same mobo! You have a 7700k on it too?Can't do it tonight but tomorrow it's all coming together
From the results on games that use this well, it does indeed, appear that Nvidia have improved this significantly over Pascal. I do not have a card myself to test anything mind.
1950 is fine honestly. People who win the lottery only get like 2050 which is only going to improve actual game performance by a couple %
It sounds fine to me, certainly wouldn't want to return something because it didn't exceed the manufacturer's specs by enough..
I'm intrigued by the eGPU.. do you have a way to compare to a similar enough system with internal GPU that you could estimate the Thunderbolt performance penalty?
Ok I guess that's alright then, it's just the memory clock then. I see a lot of people with +800/+1000 where I can't set it above 500mhz. Don't know how much of a performance difference that gives though. I guess I hoped that all cards in the Ultra version would be relatively similar.
Not to a similar system, but I tested it in 3DMark TimeSpy the regular version and got around 12.800 when combined with with my MacbookPro I9. I saw some people online report 13800-14200, so I guess that leaves around a 10% performance cost. The i9 has some problems with thermal throttling under Windows with Bootcamp on Mac so I had to limit its power usage and Turbo Boost but after that it's pretty much perfect for gaming. It's really surprisingly plug-and-play. Tested Forza Horizon and it is playable at 3440 x 1440 with a mix of High, Ultra and Extreme at 60 FPS.
Then when I need to go I just shut it down, take out the single cable and its a normal laptop again.
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combined its probably 5-6% faster than yours in best case scenarios. i wouldnt worry about it. if youre getting 60 fps they may get 63.
Nice. I love ASUS Maximus mobos, haven't used anything else in a long time. And yeah it's a 7700k @ 5Ghz.
eGPU bandwidth (TB 3 i guess) is considerably lower than 16x PCiE 3.0, that will also affect peak GPU performance of you system.
Yes but that's ok, it's a stop gap until I built a new system sometime next year. And if it's really just the 10% difference it's perfectly fine, it still outperformed every internal 1080ti when I checked the Timespy rankings.