Dayaks
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I'm going to agree with you on the "Nvidia is officially Greedy AF!!!" aspect of your post, as they have been riding the top as to the gaming GPU market with no real competition in sight for quite some time now, and as such, get to set prices to whatever they want.
Add to that they have also been riding the crypto-mining wave that blew up demand to insane levels letting the GPU market go completely bonkers when it came to GPU pricing over the last couple of years. Hopefully that wave has crested... and with AMD lining up some fairly promising parts early next year as to competition, it may rock the boat a bit concerning the mid-range gaming card market (a substantial chunk of where PC GPUs are sold), which may trigger a small slide in prices back down to at least semi-reasonable levels again.
However, your post did leave out some stuff which I feel you've overlooked. Your statement about the Titan RTX only having performance "very slightly marginally faster than the 2080 Ti" sounds a bit off because of this.
From what we know thus far, besides the massive VRAM increase, the Titan RTX is also going to have:
This is all going to add up. The higher TDP will also likely provide a bit more capacity as to overclocking - especially if water cooled.
- A wider memory bus (384-bit vs 352-bit), resulting in better memory throughput (672GB/sec vs 616GB/sec)
- A higher GPU boost clock (1770MHz vs 1635MHz)
- A better base as to power with a TDP of 280W vs 260W
- A larger L2 Cache (6MB vs 5.5MB)
- Better Single Precision performance (16.3 TFLOPS vs 14.2 TFLOPS)
- Massively better Tensor Core performance (130 TFLOPS vs 57 TFLOPS) - Which should really help with DLSS and raytracing performance (when it fully materializes for gaming)
Is it going to be massive? No. But, I see all of the above resulting in a solid 10% to 15% gain in overall performance over the RTX 2080Ti.
We seem to have a a slight difference of opinion as to what constitutes "very slightly marginally faster" here. I'd go so far as to drop the "very slightly marginally" bit as a double digit increase is nothing to sneeze at.
That price though, ya, it's bonkers for a gaming card. But then again, I'm getting old and have the means... I might just pick one up to play with as I don't see anything faster arriving for a good while.
So why is the 2080ti only 57 TFLOPS now? At launch it was shown as 110TFLOPS. What is this bullshittery?
Also I’d go with a FTW 2080ti or a GALAX that can do 373 to 380W. 280W and the shitty cooler will substantially hold back a large Turing chip. Nevermind be loud. OR waterblock and shunt mod the Titan. But that’s a gaming oriented perspective.
I am more wondering what fuckery is going on with nVidia and the tensor cores.