Mr.Vic20

Love the price, the form factor, and the direction. That said, no matter what they say it will still basically be running on a cellphone, even if a high end cellphone. The other obvious issue will be battery life. Let's hope they decide to have it link to a hip pack for the battery!

make that crack in Sony's armor a wide gap!

Xbox One/Steam controller as required by the game!

Cool. Maybe they can get us our 2080ti by then!

Yeah, they are some of the worst communicators in the industry. They smile and glad hand and admit nothing. What’s more upsetting though is how none of the gaming news outlets are calling them on this. Where are the articles people?!

Unless you paid with paypal, you order status won't change until your card is ship, so despite receiving my Oct 5th email, my order continues to sit at "order receive status, yay. I'm guessing you will get an email tomorrow, or at least I hope so! This whole launch has been a True Nvidia PR experience. The Nvidia forums though really have made it worth it! I've laughed out loud several times at some of the comments. This thread in particular can be mined for several sizable pieces of comedy gold! https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/1071605/geforce-rtx-20-series/geforce-rtx-2080-ti-availability-update/

Finally, AMD GPUs will be mildly less cost effective!

@Stepee Check you email, and make sure to look under your PROMOTIONAL tab. That's where I found my Nvidia email today! OCT 5th is the ship date with "Expedited Shipping". Whatever that means...

ALL NEW HARDWARE?! Perish the thought!

The funny thing about CPU bottle-necking is that it typically occurs at lower resolutions like 1080P, at 1440P & 4K frame rates drop and with it the typical CPU work load while in a game. That said, DICE has stated that if you want to do Ray Tracing it carries a CPU cost on top of the GPU cost and that in their initial testing they think the current sweet spot is 12 threads, so they can "lightly" distribute the work load across as many cores as possible. So i7s or some thing from AMD is likely in your future!

That's a solid plan, and hey, Nvidia might even finally have some actual cards to sell by then!

This, this is a stretch.

@stepee , joking about me having to run this place again is no laughing matter!

Then brick, my man, this might not be the card for you! Wait for next gen and hope they bring the next cards back down in price a bit.

Right, this is the aforementioned "newer tech" along side the much more widely touted Ray Tracing, which is itself a hybridized version of RT.

You are looking at a roughly 35-45% speed increase over the 1080ti. These cards are champion Overclockers compared to their Pascal equivalents so if you OC all your cards, add another 5% to the previous number. Solid performance jump, terrible price if you are not looking to be an early adopter of Nvidia's newer tech.

Have a great trip mister!

I think this is a fair & Accurate criticism but I still love what they were doing.

Hey slow is relative, some folks are still rockin' HDDs for their OS drives!

Awesome!

I would argue these would be best as a budget OS drive. I wouldn't recommend this solution for storing game or bulk media!