The GPU race continues on once again, as NVIDIA have now officially announced the GeForce RTX 2000 series of GPUs and they're launching in September.
This new series will be based on their Turing architecture and their RTX platform. These new RT Cores will "enable real-time ray tracing of objects and environments with physically accurate shadows, reflections, refractions and global illumination." which sounds rather fun.
They will start off with three models to succeed their current top of the line:
- RTX 2070 with 8GB GDDR6, available in October
- RTX 2080 with 8GB GDDR6, available in September
- RTX 2080 Ti with 11GB GDDR6, available in September
Naturally, for a brand new series they won't be cheap!
The "Founders Edition" NVIDIA are offering will be £1,099/$1,199 for the RTX 2080 Ti, £749/$799 for the RTX 2080 and £569/$599 for the RTX 2070. From what I've seen, these editions will have a higher clock boost over the normal editions.
The normal "Reference" editions will be cheaper of course, with the RTX 2080 Ti at $999, RTX 2080 at $699 and RTX 2070 at $499. Unsure on the UK prices for the normal editions, as I can't see them listed currently but you get the idea.
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NVIDIA generally have good support for new GPUs on Linux, so I'm sure a brand new driver is already on the way to be released soon.
See more on the official NVIDIA site, their announcement blog post and this post as well.
Will you be picking one up, will you be waiting for the normal edition or will you wait and see what AMD have to offer?
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Comandante Ñoñardo Aug 21, 2018
Remember when, few years ago, the prices of the HDDs increased A LOT due to a flooding in some islands and never went down?
ElectricPrism Aug 21, 2018
On LINUX -- that thing that we use, the AMD story is much better than other OS'es.
My reply to their nonsense?
<3 <3 <3 OPEN SOURCE DRIVER OR GTFO. <3 <3 <3
TheRiddick Aug 21, 2018
Anyway isn't the price increases also due to TRADE WARS related nonsense? like a %25 price increase on parts from China that is somehow going to cause prices to increase for the whole world because well the consumer regardless of where they are must pay for that BS like always right?!
Quoting: ElectricPrism<3 <3 <3 OPEN SOURCE DRIVER OR GTFO. <3 <3 <3
Vega is doing quite bad vs NVIDIA cards, around 20% slower in many cases, go read over at Phoronix about the Vega64. Open source drivers are cool and all but we are not seeing performance on par with how AMD runs under windows vs NVIDIA cards.
Last edited by TheRiddick on 21 August 2018 at 3:35 am UTC
Perkeleen_Vittupää Aug 21, 2018
TheRiddick Aug 21, 2018
Quoting: Perkeleen_VittupääBoycott Nvidia now!
Yeah except there are no other real options, at least when you go past 1060GTX performance level!!!!!
When there is no alternatives then boycotts are VERY hard to do, your asking people to accept a more expensive and MUCH slower option (Vega)!!!!
Quoting: TheRiddickVega is doing quite bad vs NVIDIA cards, around 20% slower in many cases, go read over at Phoronix about the Vega64.
Not sure what you were reading, Vega is beating Nvidia in many tests. That is Veta 56 vs GTX 1070 and Vega 64 vs GTX 1080. That is actually better than on Windows.
To match these new cards AMD will obviously need to produce something new as well.
Last edited by Shmerl on 21 August 2018 at 4:15 am UTC
Prices for 1080ti already dropped significantly (at least on Ebay), and is a hell of a good card to have, with no current rivals.
I am also somewhat tempted to wait and see AMD's counter-offer, but who knows how long will that take.
TheRiddick Aug 21, 2018
Quoting: ShmerlQuoting: TheRiddickVega is doing quite bad vs NVIDIA cards, around 20% slower in many cases, go read over at Phoronix about the Vega64.
Not sure what you were reading, Vega is beating Nvidia in many tests. That is Veta 56 vs GTX 1070 and Vega 64 vs GTX 1080. That is actually better than on Windows.
To match these new cards AMD will obviously need to produce something new as well.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia-pascal-aug18&num=1
And your source mate?
Last edited by TheRiddick on 21 August 2018 at 4:32 am UTC
Quoting: TheRiddickAnd your source mate?
Same: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=phoronix14-29-gpus
As you can see, same hardware fluctuates quite widely. Unless different cards with the same name are used each time? All that it's telling me is that AMD is on par, i.e. Nvidia has no edge in their 10xx series (except for ti models which are not matched by AMD at all).
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