RTX 2080 or GTX 1080 Ti...

[Hayter]

Hello I’m new to the forums, I have a RTX 2080 reference is super nice card but my concern is it future-proof enough 3-5 year gap? Here’s my understanding on RTX Is super real-time light and shadow renders, it is also taxing on current RTX cards I know nvidia build a separate unit to process Ray-Tracing, light, shadows, etc. From reviews RTX 2080 should be good enough for 4K gaming I’m planning buying a 4k monitor by the end of the year, my other concern is 8GB GDDR 6 enough for upcoming 4K games? Mostly Cyberpunk 2077. DLSS from my understanding it improves performance by quite a bit but it also kills image quality in certain areas that are being render which sometimes you can see it now people say games with DLSS and RTX might give you 60FPS in 4K RTX 2080 Ti. I won’t be posting this if I had enough money to afford a RTX 2080 Ti. I was thinking returning my RTX 2080 and get a GTX 1080 Ti for $750.00USD out the door compare to the RTX I paid $860.00USD now my question is Shadow of Tomb Raider runs mid 40s -60s FPS on current RTX and GTX they promised a patch on the game plus Microsoft is releasing new Direct X 12 taking advantage of ray-tracing is that going to increased performance and eye candy? Or increased eye-candy kill performances? I’m ok with ray-tracing, will currentupcoming RTX games going to use DLSS Ray-Tracing and play 60FPS at 4K? If not I rather upgrade to GTX and wait for next gen of nvidia video cards to be release with more mature ray tracing?

[emosun]

2 hours ago, Hayter said:

is it future-proof enough 3-5 year gap?

no computer part is future proof
well that's not totally true atx cases from 20 years ago ended up being pretty future proof but thats about it.

 

oh as for your dilemma just keep your 2080 no reason to down or upgrade the 2080 is fine.

[xg32]

2 hours ago, Hayter said:

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I wouldn't return it, the current goal of RT is 1080p 60fps, or 1440p with DLSS on. this gen is a gapbridge for sure, 2-3 years maxed, cyberpunk will hopefully comes out before the next gen lol. I'd keep the card since you already have it in hand.

[Hayter]

If that’s the case if I buy a 4K monitor I won’t be able to play DLSS Ray-Tracing 1080P or 1440P?

[monjessenstein]

2 minutes ago, Hayter said:

If that’s the case if I buy a 4K monitor I won’t be able to play DLSS Ray-Tracing 1080P or 1440P?

You will, it the game will just be displayed at 1080p/1440p or have to be upscaled to 4k. In fact even the opposite is possible, running a game in 4k on a 1080p monitor, though you're probably better of running better AA at that point.

[Zando_]

3 minutes ago, Hayter said:

If that’s the case if I buy a 4K monitor I won’t be able to play DLSS Ray-Tracing 1080P or 1440P?

4K scales perfectly with 1080p so if you have to drop to that you won't notice the difference. But AFAIK Ray-Tracing is the only thing that's incredibly hard to run, in any games that don't support it or with it disabled the 2080 should perform the same as as 1080 Ti, maybe slightly better as drivers and such are updated to take advantage of the new GPU tech.

[Hayter]

8GB of GDDR 6 enough? 4K textures?

The RTX  2080 is 0%-15% faster in some games than the GTX 1080 Ti I noticed it more in newer games like Wolfenstein Doom etc. The GTX has more vRam plus a wider memory bus

[Zeitec]

1 hour ago, Hayter said:

8GB of GDDR 6 enough? 4K textures?

The RTX  2080 is 0%-15% faster in some games than the GTX 1080 Ti I noticed it more in newer games like Wolfenstein Doom etc. The GTX has more vRam plus a wider memory bus

Yeah you'll probably be fine. I'd just hang onto the 2080. If you hadn't bought either yet that's more of a discussion, but honestly when prices are that close and you arlready have one, just keep it. 

[Princess Luna]

Since you already bought then keep it, if any thing you can do 1440pDLSS to make up for VRAM limitations.

[Ebony Falcon]

1 hour ago, Hayter said:

8GB of GDDR 6 enough? 4K textures?

The RTX  2080 is 0%-15% faster in some games than the GTX 1080 Ti I noticed it more in newer games like Wolfenstein Doom etc. The GTX has more vRam plus a wider memory bus

it has a wider bus but once u apply a decent oc on the 2080 memory 750 ish the rate is around 491 gbs which puts it ahead of a stock 1080ti memory gb/s
i know u can oc both but i got 16ghz stable on mine putting me at 511gb/s which isnt far off a 1080ti with a 500mhz oc on memory getting 528gb/s
so they kind of leap frog each other but i dont think memory gb/s is a masive factor maby a few fps if ur lucky  

[Hayter]

Paid a premium price to be forced to play at QHD due to VRAM limitations. They should of made RTX 2070 8GB RTX 2080 10GB and RTX 2080 Ti 12GB.