Looking over the Radeon 7 stuff that was put out, are more games really needing more than 8gb of memory on a constant basis? They use the Battlefield series as an example, but I’ve been running BF5 fine at 4k. with a few settings turned down.
Anyway it will be interesting to see what this does for pricing of the RTX 2080. Once we see side by side performance numbers. Also if the GTX1180 turns out to be true, and performs on par with the Radeon 7 at say $100 less price. The Radeon card might be DOA.
Thinking more on the GTX1180 it seems like Nvidia would be hurting its own RTX adoption numbers if its on par with the RTX2080 minus the RTX DLSS features.
It looks like a lot of notebooks that previously maxed out with 1070 “Max Q” parts are being updated with 2080 versions this cycle, which sounds like a pretty big generational update.
The Razer Blade has enough quality-of-life fixes coming on top of the performance boost that I’m probably going to sell my current-gen model this weekend in preparation. I may even have to reconsider which brand to go with – lots of interesting models popped up at CES.
I’m with you there, Alistair. I just don’t see it making business sense for Nvidia, especially after AMD has publicly stated they have raytracing in development as well.
I could see an 11-series card targeted at the previous 1050/1050ti range. But performance that rivals the 2080, at presumably a reduced cost? That just seems to undercut their entire strategy this generation. I mean, I’d be all over it, but…
I do have to say that upgrading from a 970 to the 1070ti has been very worthwhile. Pretty much every GPU related hitch or slowdown I had before has gone away, and the card just handles things very well on my modest-spec system. And the 970 went to my wife to replace her 670, so she’s happy too. Win/win.
Mine is quieter than my old card, but the old card was a Zotac and the new one is an EVGA, so that may have something to do with it. And, um, I always play with headphones, so I probably couldn’t hear it anyhow.
Just tested it with the Nvidia Pendulum demo with my 1080 and my LG 27" 4k monitors, both successfully removed tearing after enabling even with it not being “G-Sync Compatible”.
No black flashing here, everything seems normal when I dropped it to 20 fps
The demo is funky. One time it completely flipped out and the pendulum was jutting back and forth for some reason. I then closed it and reopened it and it started working normally and I couldn’t reproduce it.
Yeah, I"m pretty happy with these LGs (even without this). I’m assuming the reason it wasn’t marked as compatible was mostly because the Freesync range is only 48hz-60hz.
