Nvidia Unveils Powerful New RTX 2070 and 2080 Graphics Cards (polygon.com)

During a pre-Gamescom 2018 livestream from Cologne, Germany, Nvidia on Monday unveiled new GeForce RTX 2070, RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti high-end graphics cards. These new 20-series cards will succeed Nvidia's current top-of-the-line GPUs, the GeForce GTX 1070, GTX 1080 and GTX 1080 Ti. While the company usually waits to launch the more powerful Ti version of a GPU, this time around, it's releasing the RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti at once. Polygon adds: They won't come cheap. The Nvidia-manufactured Founders Edition versions will cost $599 for the RTX 2070, $799 for the RTX 2080 and $1,199 for the RTX 2080 Ti. The latter two cards are expected to ship "on or around" Sept. 20, while there is no estimated release date for the RTX 2070. Pre-orders are currently available for the RTX 2080 and 2080 Ti. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced different "starting at" prices during the keynote presentation. Huang's presentation said the RTX 2070 will start at $499, the RTX 2080 at $699 and the RTX 2080 Ti at $999. Asked for clarification, an Nvidia representative told Polygon that these amounts reflect retail prices for third-party manufacturers' cards.

The RTX 2070, 2080 and 2080 Ti will be the first consumer-level graphics cards based on Nvidia's next-generation Turing architecture, which the company announced earlier this month at the SIGGRAPH computing conference. At that time, Nvidia also revealed its first Turing-based products: three GPUs in the company's Quadro line, which is geared toward professional applications. All three of the new RTX cards will feature built-in support for real-time ray tracing, a rendering and lighting technique for photorealistic graphics that gaming companies are starting to introduce this year

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AMD

[MachineShedFred]

AMD: your market share is going to be rising with these prices.

Holy shit. Seriously, Nvidia?

Re:AMD

[Tough Love]

AMD's strategy makes sense, they are now concentrating resources on exploiting their Ryzen advantage while starting to develop their brand new Epyc server market. On the GPU side they just continue to bang out parts on the mature 14nm process which gets cheaper the longer they run it. RX 560/570/580 cards remain highly respectable products, giving AMD the luxury of either fattening their gross profit clawing back more market share. They seem to be steering a middle course, with retail prices slowly coming down and market share slowly coming up. The stage is set for a showdown at 7nm in late 2019.

Personally, AMD vs NVidia is a no brainer because:
1) the open source AMD drivers are awesome
2) Vulkan/DX12 are taking over, I don't care about obsolete 3D engines running a bit slower
3) fuck NVidia.

Re:AMD

[Tough Love]

AMD card prices aren't exactly bargains either.

Getting there. RX 560 cards are running $130-140 now and RX 580 around $225. When 580 gets down to $200 it's definitely a bargain, and even as it is, it's hard to complain.

Nvidia must be drunk off that crypto wine

[JoeyRox]

Now that GPU sales demand for cryptomining has all but disappeared they're looking for a honey pot to replace it with. Good luck.

Without open source drivers, not for me

[ffkom]

Pay $$$$ for a gfx-card that I can trash as soon nVidia loses interest in releasing their proprietary closed-source driver? No, thank you. Even if the GPUs from Intel and AMD are slower, I know I will be able to compile a contemporary kernel with a driver for them, also tomorrow.