Initial NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Linux Benchmarks

[rekrek]

AMD will only make it back with Navi if it can deliver barely over a 1080 with less power at 299$ launch ! (like the 480 was/should (239$)).
Why doesn't AMD makes a GPU that is socketed, that you can upgrade and keep the board? That way it would make sense to use HBM+GPU that can be swapped in a few years for a cheaper price (just the chip) with +50% speed improvement in core clock and memory.


Personally, I am upgrading to a used VEGA 64. Price was barely sub 1070 TI and I have personal preference for opensource drivers, so no NVIDIA fanboy until that change. I swapped a 1060 for the Vega, used 2 years and sold it at 30% lower than bought price. I have been impressed with the current state of the AMD drivers, and at the time I couldn't find any 480/580 in stock.

The video card market is really weird theses days. I remember when Voodoo3 -> Geforce 2 MX you had huge performance gain at a lower price, and cards lost value quite fast....

[SuperTux]

Thanks for the review of the card. Admittedly I am more interested in the 2070's, and how well it will play with X-Plane 11 as I have found X-Plane 11 to be much more demanding than most commercial games, especially with 3rd party scenery.

[mrazster]

Being a "team green" user and not giving a crap about drivers being opensource or not...this is a letdown to put it mildly.
Other than mabye 3D developers, the 2080 Ti with that priceing makes absolutely no sence at all.

I'll stick to my 1080 Ti for another year or so !

[reavertm]

have been impressed with the current state of the AMD drivers, and at the time I couldn't find any 480/580 in stock

Impressed? They are slow (especially Vega) compared to their Windows counterparts for some reason. Yes, they are open source, one redeeming quality.

[RussianNeuroMancer]

Michael get the cards, so he did sign new reviewers NDA?

[Michael]

Michael get the cards, so he did sign new reviewers NDA?

I only got the RTX 2080 Ti yesterday, no other cards, at least as of yet.... I haven't signed any NDA with NVIDIA in years (I think the last one was pertaining to Tegra several years ago) nor have I even been asked to sign this supposed 5 year nasty NDA.

[RussianNeuroMancer]

I only got the RTX 2080 Ti yesterday, no other cards, at least as of yet.... I haven't signed any NDA with NVIDIA in years (I think the last one was pertaining to Tegra several years ago) nor have I even been asked to sign this supposed 5 year nasty NDA.

Thank you for detailed answer! Good to know.

[humbug]

Great card in terms of raw performance, so the engineer Have done their job. It's just that it's not worth buying cause Nvidia has priced it in another stratosphere rather than using it to replac last gen cards and moving perf/$ forward as a new gen should. Marketing it for ray tracing is also questionable because there are no applications available even on windows and even once there are it will turn this monster into a 1080p GPU.

terrible showing from AMD right now on the high end, they already had no 1080ti competitor. On Linux they don't even have a gtx 1080 competitor. And now Nvidia is launching even faster GPUs priced out of this world with no competition. RTG has really failed to deliver on the high end gaming market of late, at the same time as the CPU division is seeing the fruits of their labour. Not only is their no competition right now for high end gaming GPUs but there isn't even anything around the corner to look forward to which AMD has clearly communicated.

[edwaleni]

Wonder if this Linux driver (411) has the Threadripper bug fix in it. Nvidia just fixed it in Windows last week.

[eydee]

Performance per watt benchmark is the most important one. Vega 64 has been dethroned, 2080 Ti is now the most power hungry, power wasting GPU in the entire universe.

Numbers looks great, but if you have to pay a fortune, and have to have your own nuclear power plant to feed the thing, it's a piece of crap, regardless of benchmark results.