Is the RTX 2080 sufficient for triple-A games?

[komet163]

Title is self-explanatory.

[sivispacem]

You're going to have to give us more to go on. What resolution are you intending to play at? Limited to 60Hz or 120, 144, 165-240Hz? Rest of your system spec? Which games specifically?

 

In general, at resolutions 1440p and below and most refresh rates up to 165Hz, assuming your system is otherwise decent then yes, an RTX2080 is more than sufficient.

[SilverRST]

2080 is almost as good as 1080Ti. But if you wanna make use of the ray tracing, get the 2080. If not, then 1080Ti is good too.

2080Ti is priced absurdly so I went for 1080Ti. 2160k60 is still not possible with the recent games on maxed settings. But 1440p is the sweet spot.

[Andreaz1]

8 hours ago, a bad day said:

Title is self-explanatory.

It really, really isn't. It depends entirely on what resolution and refresh rate you are talking about, as well as what components you plan on pairing it with.

[DEALUX]

The 2080 is in a bit of a battle with the GTX 1080 Ti. They're almost equal in terms of performance but the 1080 Ti has more memory. I almost bought a 2080 but then I saw some benchmarks where VRAM usage was a bit high in 1440p and decided that 11 GB of VRAM made more sense. I also couldn't wait the extra days to get the 2080 on pre-order (leaked benchmarks already put it next to the 1080 Ti, but at $100 more where I live).

 

It's possible that the 2080 will beat the 1080 Ti eventually with improved drivers. Maybe. I don't regret buying the latter though. Make sure you have a decent CPU to pair either with. My i7 4790K can hold my GPU back in some games but not that much.

Edited October 13, 2018 by Dealux

[SilverRST]

12 minutes ago, Dealux said:

The 2080 is in a bit of a battle with the GTX 1080 Ti. They're almost equal in terms of performance but the 1080 Ti has more memory. I almost bought a 2080 but then I saw some benchmarks where VRAM usage was a bit high in 1440p and decided that 11 GB of VRAM made more sense. I also couldn't wait the extra days to get the 2080 on pre-order (leaked benchmarks already put it next to the 1080 Ti, but at $100 more where I live).

 

It's possible that the 2080 will beat the 1080 Ti eventually with improved drivers. Maybe. I don't regret buying the latter though. Make sure you have a decent CPU to pair either with. My i7 4790K can hold my GPU back in some games but not that much.

The 2080 performance are disappointing, the performance of the 2080Ti even more disappointing. The fact that nVidia announed the Ti version immediatly was a bit sketchy and odd. The Ti usually comes out after 8-9 months. And now you pay for around 35% performance at the cost of 70% higher price. So IMHO: f*ck this generation.

 

And I have the i7 4770. Can't be arsed to upgrade to newer CPU due to absurd prices and also fixed DDR4 idiot prices.

[komet163]

11 hours ago, sivispacem said:

You're going to have to give us more to go on. What resolution are you intending to play at? Limited to 60Hz or 120, 144, 165-240Hz? Rest of your system spec? Which games specifically?

 

In general, at resolutions 1440p and below and most refresh rates up to 165Hz, assuming your system is otherwise decent then yes, an RTX2080 is more than sufficient.

1080p, 240Hz display.

 

An i7-8700K, and 32 gigs of RAM.

7 hours ago, SilverRST said:

2080 is almost as good as 1080Ti. But if you wanna make use of the ray tracing, get the 2080. If not, then 1080Ti is good too.

2080Ti is priced absurdly so I went for 1080Ti. 2160k60 is still not possible with the recent games on maxed settings. But 1440p is the sweet spot.

Yep, I wanna try the ray tracing tech.

I agree with you that the 2080Ti has a very huge price difference with the 1080 Ti.

 

I only got a 1080p monitor, along with a 240Hz refresh rate.

6 hours ago, Andreaz1 said:

It really, really isn't. It depends entirely on what resolution and refresh rate you are talking about, as well as what components you plan on pairing it with.

Oh, sorry. I'm not good at explaining so I just went with that.

You can find the refresh rate and the specs above.

1 hour ago, Dealux said:

The 2080 is in a bit of a battle with the GTX 1080 Ti. They're almost equal in terms of performance but the 1080 Ti has more memory. I almost bought a 2080 but then I saw some benchmarks where VRAM usage was a bit high in 1440p and decided that 11 GB of VRAM made more sense. I also couldn't wait the extra days to get the 2080 on pre-order (leaked benchmarks already put it next to the 1080 Ti, but at $100 more where I live).

 

It's possible that the 2080 will beat the 1080 Ti eventually with improved drivers. Maybe. I don't regret buying the latter though. Make sure you have a decent CPU to pair either with. My i7 4790K can hold my GPU back in some games but not that much.

I even thought that the 2080 will have 11 gigs or even 12 gigs of VRAM, but those were all false. It's unfair, since it has an $80 price difference (both FEs), and it doesn't have more VRAM, which is sad.

 

Yes, it really will.

I guess my i7-8700K can catch up with the 2080.

1 hour ago, SilverRST said:

The 2080 performance are disappointing, the performance of the 2080Ti even more disappointing. The fact that nVidia announed the Ti version immediatly was a bit sketchy and odd. The Ti usually comes out after 8-9 months. And now you pay for around 35% performance at the cost of 70% higher price. So IMHO: f*ck this generation.

 

And I have the i7 4770. Can't be arsed to upgrade to newer CPU due to absurd prices and also fixed DDR4 idiot prices.

Heck yeah. It's all unfair these days.

But it just depends on people if they wanna try ray tracing, but it's a huge pile of crap when it comes to framerates.

[SilverRST]

IMO you should wait for the RTX to become more mature. 1080p and barely making 60FPS is not good at all.

 I would wait when ray tracing has become more mature and also affordable. Spending $800 and above $1000 just for ray tracing with sad framerates on ray tracing... Not good and not fun.