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the plastic is still on here so r-tx pre-orders are apparently going gangbusters and I get it some of you out there have had literally two years to save your pennies and frankly not a lot of exciting PC hardware to buy in the interim but come on giving away your money without seeing any performance data is a bad way to make purchase decisions besides making matters worse is that the marquee feature of the RT x-series real-time ray-tracing it's basically a my a today so all we're left with is how much the geforce 20 series improves performance over last gen in traditionally rendered games and some discussion about invidious generally bass-ackwards approach to this launch speaking of bass-ackwards not using a VPN do you have private internet access VPN yet if not go get it at the link below and if you do well go get it anyway makes a great gift give the gift of internet security so before we start there's a term that you need to understand rasterization without getting too deep into it your graphics card uses this technique to turn a three-dimensional scene into a flat 2d plane of pixel similar to a photo many times per second since the days of wireframe and flat polygons we've added lighting textures post-processing and more to the pipeline but they all still only apply to the screen space versus the whole scenes world space TLDR rendering a game today isn't fundamentally different from how Star Fox was rendered on the Super Nintendo in 1993 ray tracing meanwhile is fundamentally different so it's a simulation of light interacting with the world space acting sort of like an eyeball in Reverse so instead of rays of light coming in rays are actually cast out from the camera position where your screen is and then everything is calculated from there the more rays you have and the more times those rays are allowed to interact or bounce around the scene the more detail you get and it's a superior method in every way to rasterization except for one speed up until now ray tracing has only been available in rendering software that can take hours or even over a day to complete a single frame on a high-end workstation so how the heck Ben is Nvidia pumping out many frames per second using this tech well the new enthusiasts tear turing architecture cards the 20 80 and the 20 80 TI include what they're calling arti cores which for RTX enabled games render a simplified ray traced scene in parallel with the standard CUDA cores raster rendering so the result is a traditionally rendered scene with ray traced lighting occlusion and reflections so that high rendering as nvidia calls it gives you a lot of the benefits of ray tracing without the massive computational cost and without game developers needing to completely re-engineer their game engines and there's more the Titan V's tensor cores are back as well for GeForce these are being leveraged for invidious new deep learning super sample anti aliasing which Nvidia claims can achieve near 64 X super sampling with less performance impact than traditional AAA which they've achieved by pre training data sets for each supported game and then pushing those results out via driver updates there is a catch though just like our TX real-time ray tracing it has to be supported on a game-by-game basis so now you know but knowing is only half of the battle we also need to see it which unfortunately is easier said than done because we could have the most epic test benches in the world like this one I have here in front of me right now that you're stuck ow anyway there are no actual are TX games to test so we can't very well measure its performance versus not our TX then can we well we'll get back to that in a minute first let's have a look at some normal gaming results and you know what they are pretty good all across the board the twenty atti average is in the high 50s or higher and remember guys this is at 4k Ultra with the 20/80 seeming to be content with the traditional let's meet the performance of the previous generation TI card level of performance frankly all of this is a massive relief given in videos refusal to talk about traditional gaming performance in their keynote as for productivity well we were a little disappointed when blender refused to run on the new cards compute capability 7.5 doesn't have a kernel yet but if the rest of these results are anything to go by it's gonna be good because these numbers just crush the 1000 series cards and the 2080 even to match AMD's vega 64 in lux raised OpenCL rendering that was a huge gap to bridge so turing GPUs are gonna make really good workstation cards I can't wait to get my hands on the quadrille versions of these guys so overall then the 2080 performs kind of like a 1080 TI cool and the 2080 ti performs kind of like a Titan v a much more expensive niche product also cool well it's sort of cool all this performance comes at a cost and I'm not just talking about the much higher price tags than last gen now the manufacturing process has shrunk 25% from 16 nanometer to 12 nanometer but with over 50% more transistors so that means massive dies with higher overall power draw and thermals hence the overbuilt not to mention extremely like shockingly heavy twin fan vapor chamber cooler and the beefy power delivery on the founders edition designs this time around you guys should let us know by the way if you want us to dive into overclocking these cards in a future video in the comments below speaking of future video surprisingly n bank and DNC got an update so text is now more readable and there's less blocking than the 1080 TI to be bought perfectly honest to us it looks very similar to if not better than x264 on the fast preset so it looks like game streamers or anyone else who relies on high quality stream capture no longer needs to choose between quality and speed and there's other cool features baked onboard as well like the new VR link connector that handles both power and high resolution video over a single USB type-c cable for VR headsets alright then so what about DL SS and where are the r-tx on r-tx off comparisons well that's actually a really good question so battlefield 5 was delayed until late November shadow of the Tomb Raider which is out and is an RT X title is apparently getting the functionality added in a post release but that's that that's it then right wrong we weren't gonna give up on you guys that easy so we reached out to a developer directly with a game in the works that supports both technologies and they graciously agreed to come over and show off their beta exclusively for you guys originally they did anyway so this is we're showing off our shiny new hardware ends and the criticism begins so they were forced to bail they couldn't give us any details but if you want to know what I think I think it's that Nvidia and more accurately r-tx isn't ready yet I mean to put the rushed last-minute nature of this launch in perspective we got our card and it's driver at around noon on Friday the 14th of September this video goes up early in the morning on the 19th that is at best 2.7 working days to evaluate the biggest graphics card launch in two years and other publications that we've spoken with have confirmed that they were in a similar boat so like why are they doing is this someone high up in the chain having an executive moment is this them not wanting us to spend much time digging into these things what purpose is served by rushing this launch I mean the thing to to consider is that it's not like AMD has anything to compete with the 1080 Ti let alone its successor so I guess this is open letter to Nvidia time guys people ordered this thing on a promise and yeah it's it's early days maybe things aren't quite polished yet I get it but you're clearly not ready to deliver and frankly this is the kind of shit that gives PC gaming a bad name shiny badges on the sides of boxes that at best are supported by a small handful of games or at worst flat-out don't do anything and that's what our TX is today it doesn't do anything so that's that's what I have to say guys I can't benchmark goals I can't review future potential I mean honestly given your track record RTX will probably be pretty cool but this whole situation is a ridiculous cell phone here like outside of hopeless fanboys when they buy something people expect it to actually do what it says on the tin or they expect to at least be able to get a glimpse of what they're getting that hasn't been run through your own PR department as it stands right now the only tangible things that we can show our viewers which are your customers are then very much curated in video special DL SS build of the Final Fantasy 15 benchmark and then a couple of ray-tracing demos that tell us nothing about the real world before and after performance impact I mean we can stare at them which is like wow such excite so like it looks like it works and maybe maybe this is what these features will look like in actual games but who can say for sure when we can only test in a tightly controlled environment so you're letting us run benchmarks but you're still making it really hard to recommend this thing for the function that is right in the name of the product because nobody without that speak about it and will cut off your balls NDA actually knows how well RTX works so bottom line for you the viewer then these cards are strong performers and that's really good both for them and for the upcoming lower Entering cards that won't have our tea or tensor course but we can't draw a real conclusion because this review is incomplete just like the RT x 2006 but you know what's not in complete thermal takes 20th anniversary it's like complete which is why they're celebrating with their level 20 case series they've got 4k styles to choose from the VT the XT the GT and an updated version of their triple chambered full tower case they got a sleek modern design with rounded front corners and 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