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The RTX 2080 is both a better value than the RTX 2080 Ti and a less appealing GPU overall. The best we can say for it is this: The additional price premium it commands over the GTX 1080 Ti is roughly twice as much as the additional performance it offers over and above that GPU. This is objectively a bad deal, but it's no worse than the typical scaling you get from luxury GPUs in the $700+ price range -- and that means we can understand why someone might opt to pick up an RTX 2080 instead of a GTX 1080 Ti. The ray tracing and DLSS capabilities the RTX 2080 offers could be seen as justifying the

The RTX 2080 Ti does offer impressive performance and absolutely moves the bar forward. But it does so with a mammoth cost increase that is completely unjustifiable. If money is no object, the 2080 Ti is a great GPU. But given that just 1.49 percent of Steam users own a GTX 1080 Ti -- and that GPU is $500 less than the RTX 2080 Ti -- it's clear that money is an object for the vast majority of gamers. And that changes things. The GTX 1080 Ti is 1.3x faster than the GTX 1080 at 4K and costs 1.5x more. The RTX 2080 Ti is 1.36x faster than the GTX 1080 Ti and costs 1.7x more. High end of the marke

This article is one of the longest pieces I've ever written for ExtremeTech and the longest single piece of work I've written in years. But I'll acknowledge I'm taking a dimmer view of Turing than my colleagues in the review community. I wanted to lay out why. If the RTX 2080 had come in at GeForce 1080 pricing and the RTX 2080 Ti had slapped $100 - $150 on the GTX 1080 Ti, I still wouldn't be telling anyone to buy these cards expecting to dance the ray-traced mamba across the proverbial dance floor for the next decade. But there would at least be a weak argument for some real-world performanc

One way AMD and Nvidia both try to allay fears about weak feature support from developers is by lining up devs to promise feature adoption from Day 1. AMD did this with its Mantle launch, Nvidia is doing it now with RTX and DLSS. But for most people, lists like this are worth much less than the sum of their parts. Here's Nvidia's list:   Of the games confirmed to use just RTX, only Battlefield V and Metro Exodus have major brand presence. The DLSS list is larger and more interesting with five well-known titles (Ark, FFXV, Hitman, PUBG, We Happy Few), but DLSS also lacks some of the visual punc