G-Sync actually keeps a full frame buffer in memory which allows it to do additional things like reduce ghosting. Freesync just allows for variable refresh rates. Which if implemented well is probably all you really need.
I have been hoping this would come to pass and posted about it a few times before but it’s great to finally see it. I just bought my first G-Sync monitor so it’s kinda irritating but I console myself with the knowledge G-Sync is technically better and I buy nvidia anyways. I try not to think about how I would certainly fail a double blind test between the two.
Yeah, these are the reasons I was fine with spending a $200 premium on my primary monitor. I mean, I don’t replace those very often anyway, so $200 is something I can live with.
Once I started looking at upgrading to a 4K display, that’s where I started running into issues. $500 for the Gsync module on top of monitors that are already sitting near the $1000 was just too much.
It looks to be a decent value, at least when compared to the dismal values of the rest of the RTX range. And it’ll murder the Vega 56 and particularly 64. It makes the 2070 look like a really bad deal, too. Remember, the 1070ti was really close to a 1080, and thus the 2060 is really close to the 2070. And it’s $150 cheaper.
Do Nvidia and HP think a lot of people are going to buy those $5000 HDR displays? It looks wonderful, but my god. Are they supposed to replace the TV in a house as well?
This is exactly how the 10-series was priced, and how it performed versus the 9-series. Hopefully that helps illustrate what an audacious moneygrab the 20-series really is, how its rasterizing performance was downright gutted to make space for ray-tracing silicon.
At initial release yes, that and the Founder’s Edition garbage.
Actually it launched at $599 standard, $699 FE. Then they dropped it by $100 when the 1080ti released. Since the 20-series x80ti launched at the same time as the x80, you basically need to choose which pricing to use. If you use the later one the x80ti looks like a lot more reasonable.
There are a lot of rich single dudes who like games in the developed world. I don’t know what their volume projections are, but they could probably sell 5-10k of them. If they’re thinking this is a huge mainstream product, they’re gonna have a bad time, though.
970 launched at $329, incidentally. Compared to the 1070 at $379 and the 2070 at $499. Shows how Nvidia’s price gouging progressed over the past five years.
A part of me wonders why they couldn’t have gone the route of having a dedicated RTX card, and then properly advanced the GTX line with far better performance numbers.
Sorta like when people were using a 2nd video card just for PhysX.
I think that would make it DOA due to lack of market penetration. By bundling it with the GPU they are kind of forcing it down their customers’ throats and expanding the installbase for the tech. I think it’s a longterm play for them, and they’re getting away with it because AMD isn’t in a position to punish them.
