When do the next generation GPUs drop?

Woolen_Horde · 2018-09-21T11:37:56.994Z

Not for another year or two.

CPU design is a process that literally takes years. These things now contain billions of billions of transistors. And Intel was (and is still) having nightmares with getting to 10nm even before Spectre and Meltdown reared their heads.

AWS260 · 2018-09-21T13:03:02.058Z

There’s a chart showing hardware vs software mitigation in this article:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13301/spectre-and-meltdown-in-hardware-intel-clarifies-whiskey-lake-and-amber-lake

Papageno · 2018-09-21T17:37:11.719Z

Those 3-fan cards are crazy long, aren’t they?

lordkosc · 2018-09-21T17:54:09.976Z

11.5 inches usually.

Papageno · 2018-09-21T18:29:48.394Z

lordkosc:

11.5 inches usually.

Ugh. And sometimes on top of that, the geniuses put the auxiliary power connectors off the end of the card (I hope that’s not the case with this one).

Giles_Habibula · 2018-09-22T01:22:16.716Z

Papageno:

And sometimes on top of that, the geniuses put the auxiliary power connectors off the end of the card

Heh. On my last rig, I actually had to shop specifically for a card that had the connectors come off the end of the card, as I had room for them there.

The standard design, where the connectors are on the side, were too close to the side panel, and when I’d close the panel, they’d get jammed against it, making me worry that the wires coming off the connectors would eventually start to break.

lordkosc · 2018-09-22T02:39:55.654Z

I chatted with an Amazon rep on the status of my card being delivered on Monday, they said it was not guaranteed, but pretty sure stock will be in for delivery sometime next week. :(

Tempted to cancel my pre-order now that the entire 2080 release seems like a clusterfrack.

Nesrie · 2018-09-22T02:48:53.189Z

It still performs okay from everything I’ve read. The question is whether it’s worth the cost, and that’s always a question right? This is also founders so it’s higher anyway. I guess the question is, if you got it next week, would you be unhappy?

lordkosc · 2018-09-22T03:56:52.676Z

No I am sure I’d be happy with the 30% performance bump. Just irritated with how its all being handled.

Soma · 2018-09-22T04:44:35.207Z

Now that the reviews are out, I am kind of moved by 2080. Ti is even more expensive and powerful but 2080 is about the threshold I am willing to pay as down payment for future. Without raytracing it already handily beat 1080.

Since my money isn’t burning a hole in my pocket, I am inclined to wait and see what 2070 can bring, what AMD can offer, and more real world application of new features of the new cards.

Papageno · 2018-09-22T21:03:24.264Z

I’m happy standing pat with my 1080 for at least a year longer. It handles 1440p G-Sync gaming with aplomb.

Otagan · 2018-09-22T21:34:32.566Z

Make that two of us. My 1080 is perfectly functional at 1440p and still routinely clocks over 60 FPS, so until it starts to struggle I’m in no rush to swap it out.

lordkosc · 2018-09-24T01:31:51.569Z

RTX 2080 should be here Monday or Tuesday, Amazon said its enroute.

Also seems the Trump Tariffs kick in tomorrow, card prices will be going up for some manufacturers.

Wccftech – 23 Sep 18

Exclusive: Here's How Much NVIDIA RTX MSRP Will Be Affected By Tariffs

So we have an update on how much the cost of NVIDIA graphics cards is going to go up in the near future due to the impact of the tariffs imposed on $200 billion of goods manufactured in China. We have discussed this topic in a lot of detail before...

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Papageno · 2018-09-24T02:45:12.957Z

I know this is the wrong forum but EFF THOSE TARIFFS IN THE EAR.

J_Thomas · 2018-09-24T05:09:22.371Z

That’s just to encourage us to buy all those American-made graphics cards instead!

BennyProfane · 2018-09-24T13:43:59.231Z

You mean one of these?

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lordkosc · 2018-09-24T14:33:17.818Z

I see jaggies, obviously no AA is being used.

stusser · 2018-09-24T15:08:15.581Z

Clearly it would benefit from deep learning temporal antialiasing, where a super-intelligent AI projects a super-sampled 8k image then predicts the future to determine which way the player will etch his or her sketch.

KallDrexx · 2018-09-24T17:17:50.648Z

stusser:

Clearly it would benefit from deep learning temporal antialiasing, where a super-intelligent AI projects a super-sampled 8k image then predicts the future to determine which way the player will etch his or her sketch.

You joke but check out this video:

lordkosc · 2018-09-24T21:49:20.412Z

Whoa, I wasn’t aware the 2070 series will not support SLI.