You don’t get nothing. You get, apparently, 2080 raster performance and 16GB of VRAM for $699. That’s not nothing, particularly considering early benchmarks of the 2080 are showing you “get ray tracing”, but at a performance hit significant enough that most gamers are either not going to use it, or will be limited as to where they actually can. I don’t consider ray tracing in this generation of Nvidia cards as something that would make me want to go out and make a purchase given how terrible it’s performing.
So it"s bad for NVIDIA to launch 1080Ti performance at 700% with DLSS and RTX, but it's good for AMD to do the same but with 16GB of VRAM? Get off your hypocritical horse.
DLSS gives you free fps at minimal cost to IQ, it"s of tremendous value. DXR gives you unprecedented IQ enhancements. Never before seen in gaming. Vega VII will be massively limited in the future as it has no DXR whatsoever.LOL! Man, you sure do love your Nvidia. DLSS is of no value on the hardware that exists, unless you have no issue running your games at 1080p on a $1200 card. Now, the fact that some bought this card with a promise of what might be is on them. Me? I would rather have a card that can be fully utilized on all games now and not be limited in the future. Heck, and this VII is just a refresh and improvement on what already exists, makes me look forward to the new stuff that should be out later this year. (Either that, or you got jealous that Lisa's leather jacket was better.)
Edit: Right, games that add DXR as an after thought will not run on VII cards because, reasons.........
And you must be on of the geniuses who bought a DX9 card when DX11 was released.I bet you were one of those guys who bought a stand alone PhysX card card weren't ya?
Please don't stitch together a bunch of mumbo jumpo, this has nothing to do with DX10. DXR adds tangible IQ enhancements. DX10 didn't do squat.This is DirectX10 all over again where Nvidia was first to have it but turning on DX10 shadows the games run twice as slow. Sound familiar? Then AMD released their DX10 cards but they were DX10.1 and that gave a massive performance boost to games that utilized it like Assassin's Creed, except that magically the support for DX10.1 was removed and never seen again.
This has to do with AMD being behind on everything, performance, power consumption, efficiency, features, and even price! To the point they can't support a major branch of DX!
RTX accelerates ray tracing genious, without it you cant run ray tracing with 10fps in real time!As for Ray-Tracing you don't really need DXR to do it. Hybrid Ray-Tracing is not a new thing and could be done on DX11 as show by this Japanese demo. Both the Unreal engine guys and Battlefield V said they had Ray-Tracing working without Nvidia's RTX cards. Makes one wonder if you just need a good CPU instead of wasting half a GPU to do Ray-Tracing?
This Vega 7 joke has the marks of a trash vega rehash all over again, even jim from AdoredTV thinks it's an embarrassment to AMD.