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here we are at crunch time the arc GX 2080 review and this GPU is coming in 800 US dollars and in Australia 1200 AUD MSRP currently you can pick up a 1080 TI cheaper than this and this is going to play a pretty important role in today's review though what Nvidia have done with this architecture named Li chirring is added tensor and ray-tracing cores and added new specs to the r-tx 2000 series they've also promised ray tracing and also deep learning super sampling in real world games and unfortunately both of these new tech have not made their way into any real-world benchmarks of games that I have here in the inventory and when I saw this I scratched my head and I checked two of the titles that were promised DL s s that is pub G and scum and I couldn't find the options anyway then I also checked with other bench markers like Steve from hardware on box and he also confirmed the options are just not there though Nvidia did provide two demonstrations where the ray-tracing was working but it wasn't working near the six times upto performance they noted as well as the fact that I couldn't even benchmark the Star Wars demo properly I actually just had to take a scene and guess work with my eyes then after that I had a Final Fantasy 15 demo with DL SS enabled a 4k benchmark and this really didn't show any improvement over the 10th series card in tandem two other benchmarks here though let's get on with those other benchmarks and tell you guys all about the RT X 2080 from gigabyte much-loved from gigabyte welcome back to tech yesterday and first off here we have far cry 5 now I tested in 1440p ultra white and also 4k as this is where these cards are really intended to be pushed in my opinion 1440p ultra wide the r-tx 28 he scored a little loss and a 4k it ultimately balanced out with the 1080 TI though keep in mind that both these cards are pre factory OC models and we will have to talk about overclocks a little later we also have the 1070 TI in the mix because now we have a range of gddr5 first 5x burst GD r 6 which is new vram on the RT x mm though the 2080 does have a 256-bit memory bus verse the 1080 t is mind-boggling 352 bit memory bus now moving on to pop G this is where the RT X 2080 spread its legs a little and scored a victory both at 1440 p21 by 9 and also for K we did use the same driver which was yet to be released driver on all three cards as well so pub G a victory for the 2080 but things took a sudden turn when we moved over to the mysterious and video card demanding scum which saw the 10 a DCI score a victory at 1440p ultra wide and also another thing to note with all these benchmarks - especially scum I did keep them as apples-to-apples as possible using the high preset in this particular benchmark move over to 4k then saw the gap closed ever so slightly but the 1080 TI was still letting out a roar of confidence at this point however that confidence was soon to be short-lived when we switched over to an old but gold title Crysis 3 and 1440p ultra wide saw a victory for the 2080 but not by a whole lot though that question still lingered out there of canít run Crysis at 4k maximum settings and while the answer for the RT X 2080 unfortunately is no though this is maximum settings keep in mind maybe the 20 atti can do it and knowing my luck the review sample that is in the mail will probably get here sometime next year though moving on to the latest expansion on world of warcraft Battle of Azeroth some interesting things coming out here the first battle scene is very intense lots of NPCs lots of effects so I decided to benchmark here and with complete maximum settings eight times MSAA saw the cpu still being limited at 1440p ultra wide across all three cards and DirectX 12 did not change this one bit completely useless implementation of the API in this game though I usually find it's useless in practically every game I've tried with the x12 though I really wanted to stress these graphics cards so we stepped it up to a simulated 28 ATP ultra wide never heard of this setting before but it was great to stress the GPUs which is a ridiculous amount of pixels we now have at our disposal near 20 million we saw the GPUs finally being maxed at a hundred percent and here we got some interesting results and that is virtually a tie or a TI between the 2080 and the 1080 Ti and this result with world of warcraft really pretty much sums up the two cards going against each other in a nutshell they're pretty much neck-and-neck at different resolutions and in different games destiny saw the trend continued however with 1440p being virtually the same but at 4k giving an ever so slight edge to the 2080 and the last of the performance benchmarks we had was 3d mark firestrike the GPU score the 1080 TI pulled ahead here both on default and overclocked settings power consumption was in favor of the 2080 though I think the 2080 TI will juice more than the 1080 TI just the gut feeling however it wasn't as efficient as what we are used to seeing in the past especially with regards to the 980 TI verse the 1080 though that about sums up the results in a nutshell I'm pretty much calling it a draw they traded blows and the power consumption is a little better on the RT x 2080 though again as I said in the intro pretty disappointed that I didn't get to see any of these new effects in real world gaming and I think perhaps the launch should have been delayed as ultimately I can really only test what's in front of me here today and base my recommendations off that and basically what we have here is a card that costs a little bit more is a little bit more efficient has less vram even though it's faster vram gr 6 versus 5x we've got a gigabytes here on this card and 11 gigabytes on the 1080 Ti and that's about it really two years in the making I mean I really hope we see the ray-tracing and also the tentacles being utilized and really soon as that is I think where the value is going to come out of these cards but again I've only seen this in demonstrations and it really hasn't impressed me one bit whatsoever so what about the gigabyte card itself this is honestly one of their nicest looking cards they have released to date it's a 2.5 slot cooler so if you want to get two of them you will seriously have to consider some extra space on your motherboard and inside your case this card takes 8 plus 6 pin PCI connections and has 382 MILF fans that do a phenomenal job of cooling looking at the noise verse fan speed levels however we can see that 60% is the sweet spot for this card also the over clocks work quite low I could only get an extra 74 megahertz on the core with afterburner and also about 200 megahertz on the memory itself though this does stayed on the box that it is a pre OSI model I have nothing to compare it to here so I guess I'll just take gigabytes word for it there is a backplate that is simple in nature and on the rear of that card you'll be created by three display ports one HDMI 2.0 and one USB type-c out the graphics card itself also supports envy link which is a replacement for SLI and a new bridging connection type which is located in the same area of the card itself there is also an RGB controllable gigabyte logo on the side of the card and that can be changed via a software and in Australia gigabyte offer an impressive four year warranty with their card so they have really stepped up their game especially compared to the previous generation of cards which were quite let's face it ugly and that's about it really when it comes to the r-tx 2000 series at least currently stay tuned because I will be having some more benchmarks coming in the next few weeks especially with the 2080 Ti so stay tuned for that but really in a nutshell with the conclusion I will say that in terms of raw value for money and raw performance increases we haven't quite got what we got in the past especially when it came to the 1080 versus the 980ti that was more power efficient and we got a sizable increase in performance over the 980ti but keep in mind the 20 atti I'm sure will perform much faster than the 1080 Ti but that will also cost a lot more money at least from the pre-order figures that I've seen so far but if you enjoyed this video then be sure to that like button and let me know in the comment section below what you think of the new r-tx series gravis cards love reading your thoughts and opinions as always and I'll catch in the next Tech video very soon peace out for now bye