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00:00Hey, how's it going? Dave2D here. Okay, RTX 2080, RTX 2080 Ti. These are the new Nvidia
00:10cards. I've spent quite a bit of time testing games on these things, and you're probably
00:13interested in benchmarks, so here we go. Benchmarks. I'm grouping these up by pricing tier instead
00:18of just by model name. I feel like it's a more fair comparison instead of just by the
00:22naming. The RTX 20 series GPUs are fast as heck. At 1440p, they're already giving a noticeable
00:28boost over the previous generation, but at higher resolutions, it's very significant.
00:33The performance gains vary by a decent spread depending on the title, but at high resolutions,
00:39these new cards are crazy fast. The 2080 is awesome, the 2080 Ti is even more so. This
00:45card is doing stuff that I've never seen before in any graphics card. Being able to play Witcher
00:503 at almost 80 frames per second at 4K with everything turned up, playing Siege on Ultra
00:56at 4K at over 144 frames per second, it's crazy. Now, I'm using the Acer X27 display.
01:03It's a 4K 144 hertz G-Sync panel. The detail that I'm seeing in the game at 4K, and then
01:08being able to see everything run really smooth in-game, especially at that kind of resolution,
01:13is nutty. Now, I want to take a look at the cards themselves. I like the aesthetic of
01:16the previous 10 series, Founders Edition more. I always thought that they looked like Ninja
01:20Turtles. The new 20 series have a more generic look to it. I still think they look good,
01:31but they're just less visually iconic. They're black and silver, nothing really eye-catching,
01:36but I think they do look good. They're also not a blower style fan configuration like
01:41the older Founders Editions from previous generations. A lot of them were kind of a
01:44blower style. These are an open air dual fan design with vapor chambers, and it delivers
01:49really good performance. Both of these Founders Edition cards run quiet and cool, way quieter
01:54and way cooler than I expected. They're slightly overclocked out of the factory, so I think
01:59they did a good job with thermal management. There are other AIB partners available that
02:03are going to be making cards that are going to be a little bit cheaper, and obviously
02:06with different cooler styles and stuff. If you are looking for a blower style, I know
02:10that Asus is going to be making one eventually, I think soon. I'm probably going to pick up
02:14one of those because I prefer the blower style for the smaller cases that I put them in.
02:19So I'm going to focus the rest of this video on kind of a bigger question, like are these
02:23RTX 20 series cards really worth the money? Because these are very expensive. This goes
02:28for $800, this goes for $1,200 I believe US. Now these are not like the cheapest versions
02:33of the RTX series cards. These are the Founders Editions. Eventually AIB partners will put
02:38out cheaper ones, but if you want to pick up one right now, that's the price you're
02:41going to pay, and that's not cheap. The 2080 Ti is not a value-oriented product, right?
02:46It's obviously extremely expensive, but because it's the most powerful GPU on the market right
02:50now, it can have that kind of pricing. It's greedy in my opinion, but it can have that
02:54kind of pricing. The 2080, like the regular one, on paper seems fairly priced for the
03:00performance you're getting, right? It's way better than a GTX 1080, slightly better than
03:04a 1080 Ti, the tiering architecture is more efficient, you get ray tracing capabilities,
03:09you get DLSS capabilities. It seems like a pretty good option for someone who's interested
03:13in high-res, high-performance, high-frame-rate gaming. But to kind of get into this a little
03:18bit further, we have to understand what ray tracing and DLSS are. And I'm not going to
03:22go into crazy detail, but just a brief understanding. Ray tracing right now is an underdeveloped
03:28and unoptimized technology. We've seen some really impressive demos, and they look awesome,
03:33but there's a huge performance trade-off. And right now, I don't feel like that trade-off
03:36is worth it for the improved realism in shadows and lighting. Like, it's not Nvidia's fault.
03:41This hardware has to exist. This first generation of RTX has to exist in consumers' hands before
03:47developers are going to spend the time and energy and effort it takes to make ray-traced
03:52games. Like, it just has to happen for this industry to move in that direction. But that
03:57doesn't mean that this first generation of cards is the one to get. Now, there's a second
04:01technology that RTX supports that I think is way cooler. It's DLSS. So this uses machine
04:07learning to massively increase the speed and efficiency that these cards are able to
04:12output games in 4K. It's mostly done through Nvidia. Like, they just take the game in advance,
04:18they run it through their super computer, they get some data that these cards can use
04:21to basically optimize the way that they're pushing out frame rates. Now, the problem
04:27with these two technologies, RTX ray tracing and RTX DLSS, is that as a consumer, if you're
04:34buying these cards right now, you're betting on this technology to take off in the future.
04:39Like, it's not that the RTX 20 series is underwhelming or underperforming, it's just that the 10
04:44series card from the previous generation did really, really well. If anything, it's a testament
04:49as to how good the 10 series was, because it's still so good at delivering amazing performance
04:54for current titles. Now, this review of the RTX 20 series isn't comprehensive. There aren't
05:00any RTX titles for me to really test out. There's just a lot of demos of DLSS and demos
05:04of RTX, but I really want to kind of dig deeper into this whole thing as titles come out in
05:09the near future. I also want to try these things out in external GPU configurations,
05:13but my overall take on this right now is that if you're into 1080p gaming, don't look at
05:19these cards at all. 10 series all the way for 1080p. If you're into 1440p gaming, the
05:2310 series cards still do a really good job at it, but the 20 series cards start to show
05:28their advantage there. But at 4K gaming, if you want the ultimate experience in visual
05:33quality and frame rate, especially if you have one of those big TVs that support high
05:36frame rate, 20 series is phenomenal for that. But just, in my opinion, if you're picking
05:42up these cards, don't pick them up exclusively for the technologies like ray tracing and
05:48DLSS, because that stuff is still in the mix. Okay, hope you guys enjoyed this video. Thumbs
05:52if you liked it, subs if you loved it. See you guys next time.
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