So those of you who tried RTX - how much performance hit when Ray Tracing enabled?

No idea also, I thought Shadow of Tomb Raider is available - not updated to Ray Tracing enabled yet ah?

Not even kan cheong to get any RTX to my lab. LOL.

Felt like a huge waste of time to test it only for FPS then they key feature are the RTX technologies.

I got a feeling some units will eventually come over even before games have the features properly enabled.

Recently saw people saying Windows 10 got update for RTX stuff, I thought that's the one they're waiting for. LOL.

Good technology but to me it's so "out of place" that I didn't even bother to follow the news.

Yes, like wise.

Ray Tracing demo by Nvidia is stupid. LOL. I mean the BF V demo.

Do take note that 1070 Ti and 1080 are being phased out.

Probably due to mining?

Plus RMA issues could be due to matters beyond the card itself, for example RMA because of fan failure.

I've come to a point that I am in doubt whether even a 5Ghz 8700K / 9700K is providing sufficient juice to cards like RTX 2080 / RTX 2080 Ti, let alone them in SLI configuration, though one can argue SLI config would be running on 4K or higher and has less dependency on CPU.

However I still see performance difference on RTX 2070 when paired with i7-8700K vs i7-9700K.

One of the view.

6c/12t vs 8c/8c (core and HT), and also their clocks being slightly different.

That's correct, but some people don't seem to believe that.

Oh well.

Ugly reflections when DXR not enabled.

Because I have never seen it la, because I don't play BF1.

So far I heard it's January, don't know how true.

I play at Full HD - with Ray Tracing on also still 70 - 80 fps.

I'm wondering how it's like on RTX 2060.

RTX 2080 Ti.

It's not about the VRAM, at that GPU performance level it can't do 4K properly in the first place.

Even for RTX 2080 cards, 4K is just playable but not magnificent experience, there is a difference.

Also not all games uses a lot of VRAM even when on higher reso but the thing about RTX 2070 is that you KNOW that you're capped at 6GB, some games can go beyond that.

It's not that narrow actually. Depends on which benchmark and which article / video you are referring to.

It can reach 20% difference but for RTX 2070 you're paying for more than just performance, you get additional VRAM and other stuff like CUDA / Tensor cores.

Not only that, average framerate might be 10% but you have to know how average framerates come to be, 80 vs 88 fps might seem like "oh just 10% gain" but at the background there's actually higher peak (max) fps and higher minimum fps as well. If minimum FPS is at the same level then the max is even greater.

Where you get 67% increment in pricing?

If you go with

RTX 2060 at RM 1799 (cheapest?)
vs
RTX 2070 at RM 2299 (Cheapest, Galax model)

1799 to 2299 is only 27% increment in price. (Even if I use RM 1699 for the RTX 2060 price the increment to reach RM 2299 is only 35%)

It is not uncommon to have the higher end card with weaker price to performance ratio but as what I mentioned, it's not all about fps per $$$ spent.

With that additional 27% you pay you also get 33% extra VRAM and overall more other CUDA / Tensor cores.

LOL I was thinking that.

DMC to even past to present, is never in my set of benchmark utilities simply because those titles are weak. I feel pointless to test games that reach few hundred fps with ease even on low end graphics card.

I never discuss based on RRP because it's not relevant to us.

Price for RTX 2060 models from AIB is known for quite some time already, some already leaked it too, typically around RM 1.7 to 1.8k range for those at lower price point.